ENCORES OFF-CENTER 2015 SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Encores! Off-Center Auditions

Encores Off-Center 2015 Season - EPA
Encores! Off-Center | New York, NY

Date of Audition:
2/24/2015

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015
10:00 am-6:00 pm
(lunch 1:30-2:30 pm) Contract
Special Agreement
$1,234/week

Location
Pearl Studios NYC 500
500 Eighth Avenue
(35th/36th Streets)
New York, NY
4th Floor

Seeking
Equity actors who sing, men and women, for roles in the Encores Off-Center Series 2015 Season. See breakdown for more information.

Preparation
Please prepare 32 bars of a musical theater song in the style of one of the season's three shows.

Bring picture and resume, stapled.

Other Dates
See breakdown for first rehearsal, opening, and closing dates for each show.

Personnel
Jeanine Tesori, Artistic Director
Carrie Gardner & Stephen Kopel, Casting

See breakdown for creative staff for each show.

ï EPA Rules are in effect.

ï A monitor will be provided.

Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.

Breakdown

Show 1: A New Brain

1st Rehearsal: June 12th, 2015
Opens: June 24th, 2015
Closes: June 27th, 2014

Music & Lyrics: William Finn
Book: William Finn & James Lapine
Director: James Lapine
Musical Director: Chris Fenwick

PRINCIPALS

CAST
GORDON SCHWINN – Jonathan Groff
MR. BUNGEE – TBA
RHODA – TBA
MIMI SCHWINN - TBA

SEEKING ACTORS OF ALL ETHNICITIES
RICHARD – Male. A kind and compassionate nurse, always nice. Eating himself up alive.
WAITRESS/NANCY D. - Female. An overenthusiastic waitress. Also a mean nurse who is unsympathetic towards Gordon's predicament.
DR. JAFAR BERENSTEINER – Male. An unsympathetic doctor.
MINISTER – Male. A somewhat clueless man of the cloth at the hospital.
LISA – Female. A homeless lady.
ROGER DELLI-BOVI – Male. Gordon's charming and affectionate lover.


Show 2: Little Shop of Horrors

1st Rehearsal: June 19th, 2015
Opens: July 1st, 2015
Closes: July 2nd, 2015

Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Howard Ashman
Book: Howard Ashman
Director: Dick Scanlan
Choreographer: Patricia Wilcox
Musical Director: Chris Fenwick

PRINCIPALS

CAST
AUDREY – Ellen Greene
URCHIN – Tracy Nicole Chapman
URCHIN – Marva Hicks
URCHIN – Ramona Keller
ORIN SCRIVELLO – TBA
VOICE OF THE PLANT – TBA

SEEKING ACTORS OF ALL ETHNICITIES

SEYMOUR KRELBORN – Male, 25 – 35 yrs old. An insecure, put-upon florist's clerk and eventual hero. He is a genuine, well-meaning man who is taken for granted because of his clumsy ways and poor social skills. A2 - G4

MR. MUSHNIK – Male, 55 – 65 yrs old. The seasoned owner of the failing East Side flower shop and Seymour's boss. He is a profit-driven, greedy, and manipulative man. G2 – F4.


Show 3: Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party

1st Rehearsal: July 2nd, 2015
Opens: July 15th, 2015
Closes: July 18th, 2015

Music, Lyrics & Book: Andrew Lippa
Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March
Director: Leigh Silverman
Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh
Musical Director: Chris Fenwick

PRINCIPALS

CAST
QUEENIE – Sutton Foster
BLACK – Joshua Henry
KATE – TBA

SEEKING ACTORS OF ALL ETHNICITIES

BURRS – Male, 30-40 yrs old. Handsome, a professional clown. Dangerous and charming all at once. Sexually ravenous and drawn to Queenie like a moth to the flame. Hurts somewhere deep inside, and slowly descends into jealous insanity. G3 – A5.