INTO THE WOODS Submission - Baltimore Center Stage and Westport County Playhouse Auditions

INTO THE WOODS

– Submit Photo / Resume for NYC Appointments

Co-Production with Baltimore Center Stage and Westport Country Playhouse

LORT B (at Baltimore) WCP Agreement (at Westport); $765/week minimum

Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim

Book: James Lapine

Director: Mark Lamos

Music Director: Wayne Barker

Baltimore Center Stage Artistic Director: Kwame Kwei-Armah

Westport Country Playhouse Artistic Director: Mark Lamos

Casting: Tara Rubin Casting

Dates: Baltimore Center Stage

1^st rehearsal: 2/7/12 in NYC. 2/28/12 travel to Baltimore

1^st rehearsal (in Baltimore): 2/28/12

Runs: 3/7/12 – 4/15/12

Dates: Westport Country Playhouse

1^st rehearsal (in Westport): 4/24/12. Runs: 5/1/12 – 5/27/12

NYC auditions will be held November 21-December 9, 2011, by appointment only.

Seeking submissions from Actors' Equity Members only for these auditions.

For consideration, mail picture and resume to:

TARA RUBIN CASTING

570 7th Avenue, Suite 401

New York, NY 10018

Attn: Into The Woods/AEA Self Submission

Seeking:

Narrator:

(Male, 40s to 60s): He observes and controls the story as he passes it along to the audience. He might be sinister or sweetly avuncular-- seemingly impartial but pitiless. He enjoys manipulating the other characters, sometimes making jokes, yet is completely confident and has great pride that his position is absolutely necessary.

Cinderella:

(Female, 20’s): A sweet, pretty, indecisive maiden who really does not know what she wants. Mourning her dead mother and living under the thumb of an oppressive stepmother and stepsisters, she journeys into the woods to find out who she is. She possesses a biting wit, a careful charm and a spiritual connection to her “Mother” nature.

Jack:

(Male, 20s): A young, strapping, nice-looking lad with an unknown desire to explore. He is the ‘divine innocent’ who appears in many tales, unafraid because he is too stupid—but one of those turned out to be Siegfried in a similar story. He becomes a hero. Not worldly-wise. But by making some tough, painstakingly dumb decisions and trades, Jack learns and discovers new things about this world. Light, innocent tenor-baritone.

Baker:

(Male, 30s): A gentle soul. A contemporary suburban father-to-be who somehow finds himself in a fairy tale. The local nice guy. He blames himself for a curse put on his house by a witch that renders him and his wife unable to conceive. While rather sheepish, forgetful and easily distracted, he discovers in his insecurities an enduring bravery that drives him, along with a little… or a lot of guidance from his wife, to lift the curse from their house. Role requires pathos and comedy and ultimately a sense of determination.

Baker's Wife:

(Female, 30s): An attractive woman, contemporary and from our own time, who with her sweetly nebbishy husband, finds herself mixed up in other people’s fairy tales in order to get something she dearly wants: the ability to conceive a child. She is independent and sometimes stubborn. Role requires comic abilities as well as depth of character.

Cinderella's Stepmother / Granny:

(Female, 60s): Cinderella’s stepmother is a fierce woman, with a vile heart. Careful to hide her age, she gets her kicks from attending balls on the dime of her new husband and forcing Cinderella to do the work around the house. Granny is a no nonsense kind of character. As sweet as she is ‘supposed’ to be, she is quick to take revenge on the wolf that ate her.

Florinda:

(Female, 20s): Cinderella’s stepsister. A beautiful girl, vile of heart. Obsessed with herself and her looks.

Lucinda:

(Female, 20s): Cinderella’s other stepsister. Beautiful and vile of heart. Obsessed with herself and her clothing.

Jack's Mother:

(Female, 50s to 60s): A constantly harassed single mother subsisting at the poverty level, raising Jack alone, who struggles angrily and hopelessly to keep their small family unit afloat. She loves her stupid son but constantly harangues him. A major role, sad, unsympathetic. ?Soprano.

Little Red Riding Hood: (Female, Teens): A young, bright child, forward, selfish and eager. These qualities get her into trouble, and she loses her innocence and becomes tough, rapacious, self-aware.

Witch:

(Female, 40s-60s): A role with enormous dimension. She is hideous, powerful witch, demanding and tricky. She is selfish and cruel, but even so longs to be a good mother and to protect her child from the evils of the world. During the story , she is transformed into an attractive but powerless, helpless mother. She is still selfish, but has now begun to reap consequences from her actions. Requires great vocal gifts and a wide acting range. Pathos, comedy, passion, and toughness are but a few of the qualities in the part. Sings up to F#.

Cinderella's Father / Rapunzel's Prince:

(Male, 20s to 30s): Cinderella’s Father is a blithering man who is led around by the nose by his new wife. He is oblivious to his suffering daughter and doesn’t have anything to say about it. As Rapunzel’s prince he is dazzlingly handsome. Also lost and hapless.

Cinderella's Mother / Rapunzel:

(Female, 20s): From the grave she she sings out advice to her daughter. Ghostly and controlling. Rapunzel is a beautiful but rather dim maiden who longs to see the world and to be a part of it. She is controlled by her mother. Soprano, legit.

Mysterious Man / Servant:

(Male, 40s to 60s): As the name says, “mysterious.” Socratic and enigmatic, he is a man of the forest, possibly clairvoyant while still not having any answers for anyone. He speaks in very direct riddles, and questions, guiding the inhabitants of the woods along their journeys. Annoying and gnomic.

Wolf / Cinderella's Prince:

(Male, 20s to 30s): The Wolf is a true predator. The sexy bad boy of the forest, who possesses a suave charm, luring young girls so that he can eat them. Actor needs to exude a crude sexuality and move well. Cinderella’s Prince is much the same as his brother (Rapunzel’s Prince). He agonizes over tracking down the mysterious girl at the ball and simply cannot figure out why in the world she continues to run away from him, since he is such a handsome hunk. Sings up to Gb.