PRODUCTION
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES – Equity Principal Auditions
Broadway/Production Contract $1,653/week minimum.
Producers: Sonia Friedman, David Babani for the Menier Chocolate Factory, Fran and Barry Weissler
Music/Lyrics: Jerry Herman
Book: Harvey Fierstein
Based upon the eponymous play by Jean Poiret.
Director: Terry Johnson
Choreographer: Lynne Page
Musical Supervisor: Jason Carr
Music Director: Todd Ellison
Casting Director: Duncan Stewart, National Artists Management Co.
Associate Casting Director: Benton Whitley
Equity Principal Auditions
Thursday, March 24, 2011 at Pearl Studios
10 AM – 6 PM 500 Eighth Avenue, 12th Floor
Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. New York City
Please prepare a brief, standard, up-tempo Broadway song (no pop or rock). Bring sheet music; accompanist provided
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
Seeking possible future replacements in the Broadway production:
Seeking:
Jean-Michel:
Man, early 20s. Son of Georges (due to a short-lived affair 20 years prior). Good-looking, and knows it. Slightly cocky, slightly gauche. A loving heart but a fearful attitude. Begins in a confusion of youthful selfishness but, due to events unfolding, matures a few years in a matter of hours. Requires a good dancer and strong actor/singer.
Anne Dindon:
Woman, early 20s or younger. Jean-Michel’s fianc
ée. Gorgeous, sprightly and attractive. Superficially a product of her strict and religious background, but a sexy and strong-willed girl underneath. Performer must be an excellent dancer.
Jacob:
Any ethnicity, man, 20s. Butler (or housemaid) and Albin’s personal assistant. High camp. As louche as he can be, but with a spiky wit and acid tongue. The epitome of wasp-ish camp. Needs to sing and dance.
Monsieur Dindon / Monsieur Renaud:
One actor plays both men, late 40s – 50s. Track requires a good singer. Dindon: Anne’s father and leader of the Tradition, Family and Morality Party. Ramrod religious bigot. Self-made man, well-turned-out and as stiff as a board. Genuinely dislikeable, and judgmental. Renaud: Amiable café owner. Possibly avuncular. All-around pleasant guy.
Madame Dindon / Madame Renaud:
One actress plays both women, late 40s – mid 50s. Track requires a good singer. Mme. Dindon: M. Dindon’s wife and Anne’s mother. Slightly subservient. A good heart pummeled into submission over the years by her husband’s demanding middle-class standards – values she shares at face value, but her heart disagrees. Somewhat birdlike and bewildered. Mme. Renaud: Chirpy, pleasant café owner.
Jaqueline:
Woman, 40s. Albin’s dear friend, and owner of one of the most exclusive restaurants on the coast – “Chez Jaqueline”. Self-made woman who has presumably used all her charms uninhibitedly to get where she’s got. A solid veneer of respectability hides a scarlet past. Strong, demanding and unafraid of Albin or anyone else. A celebrity collector. Sings.
Francis:
Man, early - mid 30s. Stage manager at La Cage aux Folles. Attractive, authoritative gay man. Dominant in the wings, but submissive between the sheets.
Georges:
Man, late 40s - mid 50s. Albin’s partner and owner/emcee of a Saint-Tropez nightclub - La Cage aux Folles. An urbane, upright homosexual. Loving and demonstrative. A little world-weary, dealing with the nightclub (and Albin) all these years. Role requires an exceptionally strong singer with good comedic timing.
Albin:
Man, late 40s - mid 50s. Lavish, self-indulgent, passionate, loving and talented drag queen. The featured star (ZaZa) of La Cage. She’s direct, devastating, honest and sincere. Extremely dedicated and devoted to Georges.
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