Duluth Broadway LLC
CONTRACT
Production (League) $2323 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for chorus parts in GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a brief song sung with either live or recorded accompaniment (not a cappella) or you may use the accompaniment at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZmeZ8cr2LZqGBCl-H6KINJ2QLRDI47nw . Please note this is the key that this material will be sung in the show. Submit at https://airtable.com/shrYxC9GViahkObYF . Deadline: Friday, March 25 at 5:30pm EDT.
Deadline: Fri, Mar 25, 2022
PERSONNEL
Written and Directed by Conor McPherson
Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan
Viewing auditions:
Jordan Thaler, Director of Casting
Heidi Griffiths, Director of Casting
Chalin Tulyathan, Casting Associate
Marco Paguia, Music Director
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal on or about: 4/4/22
1st Performance on or about: Mid- to late-April TBA
Closing: TBA
OTHER
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
BREAKDOWN
SYNOPSIS: In the Winter of 1934 in Nick Laine’s soon-to-be foreclosed guesthouse in Duluth, MN, the Great Depression has left its mark on the struggling residents, all of whom are one piece of bad luck removed from disaster. With little to be thankful for except for the kindness (and sometimes the deceit) of strangers, they gather as a group of survivors for their last Thanksgiving together before scattering to whatever is next for them.
SEEKING:
PLEASE NOTE: The entire company functions as an ensemble, both creating the world of the boarding house and singing as a group and are onstage almost all the time.
OFFSTAGE MALE SWING: Late 20's 30's years old, Black male. Strong singer with a large range to cover both baritone and tenor solos. Will understudy roles including: JOE SCOTT: A Boxer. Physically fit and strong looking. He is making his way to Chicago where he is looking for a fresh start after serving time. Although prison interrupted a career as a fighter, he still has the quickness and ferocity that will put him on top in a physical confrontation. He is forthright and piercingly clear about what he wants but there is still something enigmatic about his past. He just might be Nick’s adopted daughter’s ticket out of town. ENSEMBLE: Member of a four-person ensemble who are onstage for much of the show with both ensemble and featured singing as well as covering principal roles Joe Scott. Will cover both baritone and tenor solos. Strong singer who is able to learn and retain multiple tracks quickly.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST:
ELIZABETH LAINE: 50’s. Nick’s wife. A complicated and contentious woman at the best of times she is now struggling through the haze of progressively worsening dementia. She had, long ago, fallen out of love with her husband but the two are now forever tied together by the needs of her caretaking. She is still more than capable of showing flashes of the woman she used to be. Tough, acerbic and a ferocious defender of her two kids.
MARIANNE LAINE: Early 20’s. Black. Nick and Elizabeth’s daughter. Abandoned by boarders who left her in a bag at the guesthouse as a baby, she has been raised by Nick and Elizabeth. She is pregnant but who the father of her child is remains a mystery. Her world is small and she yearns to blow it open. She has a lot of her father’s strength as well as his restlessness. A chance encounter with a penniless drifter gives her one shot at getting out and starting a new life.
MR. BURKE: 50’s. A onetime factory owner. A man’s man who relished his power and the fraternal combat involved in business. He now carries an air of defeat, although he doesn’t know it. The combination of his family tribulations and the depression have knocked the wind out of his sails.
ELIAS BURKE: Early 30’s. His son. A grown man with the developmental capabilities of a four year old child. Although he has a sweet and benign spirit, he has a physical strength that he doesn’t understand or know how to control.
JOE SCOTT: Late 20’s –Early 30’s. Black. A boxer. He is making his way to Chicago where he is looking for a fresh start after serving time. Although prison interrupted a career as a fighter he still has the quickness and ferocity that will put him on top in a physical confrontation. He is forthright and piercingly clear about what he wants but there is still something enigmatic about his past. He just might be Marianne’s ticket out of town.
REV. MARLOWE: 50’s. A bible salesman and a weasel. He hides behind the semi-respectability of selling God’s word but in reality he’ll pull any con to survive.
MR. PERRY: 60’s. A shoe mender. Although he is over forty years her senior he is Nick’s best bet for a husband for Marianne. He is a decent and kind man with his own business and house. A widower, he is lonely and afraid of his rapidly approaching old age.
NICK LAINE: 50’s. The proprietor of the guesthouse. An unconventional leading man with edge and sexual vitality. A restless man who seems younger than his years and yet he still wears something that is broken. He is all heart, taking in the waifs and strays who knock on his door, but has no head for business. The bank is about to repossess the house, which has been in the family for generations. He takes care of his wife who is slowly succumbing to dementia. Knowing that the world is about to crash down around him he struggles to find security for his family.
GENE LAINE: 20’s. Nick and Elizabeth’s son. Aspires to be a writer, with perhaps the soul of a poet but looks more like a farmhand. Something rough-hewn about him already despite his years. Smart and appealing, he has a way with words. Already something of a lost and yearning soul. He sits in the bars in town in search of inspiration but mostly what he finds is the bottom of the bottle. Alcohol fuels his sense of rage at the disappointments life has already dealt him. If he could only get to New York surely the great American novel would pour out of him.
MRS. BURKE: Late 40’s – early 50’s. Elias’ mother. She has devoted herself to caring for her son at the expense of her own happiness and fulfillment, with little or no help from her husband. Was attractive and is now trying to hold on to something that is slipping away along with the best years of her life. She numbs the pain with an addiction to morphine.
DR. WALKER: Late 40’s – early 60’s. A physician. A storyteller. A likeable man with a warm spirit and speaking voice. Although a frequent visitor to Nick’s house, he is something of an outsider amongst the others, a characteristic which suits him perfectly as the narrator of the story. He knows everything about the intimacies of his patient’s lives but his own life is an enigma to them and perhaps to himself. An acute observer of other people’s pain, he eventually succumbs to the unbearableness of his own loneliness. Actors of color are encouraged to submit for this role.
KATE DRAPER: 20’s. Gene’s ex-girlfriend. She is beautiful and bright with a life ahead full of possibilities. Unable to embrace Gene’s darkness and complication she has moved on with her own life. In a town this small, she will always be the one who got away.
ENSEMBLE WOMAN: 20’s. Black. Will cover principal roles to include Marianne.
ENSEMBLE WOMAN: 40’s. White. Will cover principal roles to include Elizabeth, Mrs. Neilsen and Mrs. Burke.
ENSEMBLE MAN: Late 20’s-Early 30’s. Black. Will cover principal roles to include Joe. Covers both baritone and tenor solos.
ENSEMBLE MAN: 40’s -50’s. White. Will cover principal roles to include Nick and Mr. Burke.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
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