IONESCOPADE Equity Principal Auditions - York Theatre Company Auditions

IONESCOPADE – Equity Principal Auditions

York Theatre Company ANTC $428/week minimum. Theatre states that it will pay $500.

Producing Artistic Dir: James Morgan

Book/Music/Lyrics: Mildred Kayden

Dir/Choreo: Bill Castellino

Casting: Carol Hanzel Casting

1st reh: 1/2/12. Runs 1/25 – 2/26/12.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Thursday, November 10, 2011 Pearl Studios NYC “500”

10 AM - 6 PM 500 Eighth Avenue, 12th Floor

Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. New York City

Man #4 only: Prepare a brief (2 minutes or less), silent pantomime/movement monologue, acting out a nursery rhyme of your choice.

All others: Please prepare two brief songs (there may be time to perform only one). The style of the music is Jacques Brel or Kurt Weill in feel. Think French art songs. Bring sheet music; an accompanist is provided, but may not transpose.

All: Please bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back.

Seeking (all tracks are available):

Casting notes: The multi-cultural cast of this musical has four men and women. With the exception of Man #4, all must be excellent singers and skilled actors, with very strong comic timing. The cast must move well (several dance), and all must have basic tap dancing skills. Experience with complex language is essential.

Man #1:

Track age: 35-45. Track for a character actor; strong baritone. Delivers a long, absurd monologue, plays the Rhinoceros, an authoritarian politician and others.

Man #2:

Track age: 30-40. Track for a handsome leading man; sweet tenor; dancer with partnering experience. Great comic timing needed. Plays an apache dancer, a vaudevillian, a bureaucrat and others.

Man #3:

Track age: 25-35. Track for a young male with a pop/rock voice. Plays a transvestite, a vaudevillian, a politician and others.

Man #4:

30-50. The “little man”. Non-speaking /non-singing role; requires great pantomime and movement skills. This actor plays the mute “narrator” (a stand-in for Mr. Ionesco), using a physical vocabulary that combines “silent-movie” pantomime, magic, dance and clowning.

Woman #1:

Track age: 25-35. Track for a beautiful ingénue; soprano. Plays the Bald Soprano, a beauty queen and others.

Woman #2:

Track age: 30-45. Track for a woman with chest voice (very sexy torch singer); great dancer. Plays an apache dancer, the three-nosed bride and others.

Woman #3:

Track age: 35-45. Track for a character woman with chest voice. Regal and poised. Plays a former ballerina, a charismatic leader, an earth mother and others.