LERNER AND LOEWE’S MY FAIR LADY Equity Principal Auditions - Lincoln Center Theater Auditions

LERNER AND LOEWE’S MY FAIR LADY (Broadway) - NYC EPA

Lincoln Center Theater

AUDITION DATES

May 16, 2017

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Lunch 1:30 to 2:30

May 17, 2017

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Lunch 1:30 to 2:30

May 19, 2017**

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Lunch 1:30 to 2:30

CONTRACT

Production (League) Contract pending; $1974 current minimum

SEEKING

Equity actor/singers for various roles in the upcoming Broadway production at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center Theater

PREPARATION

Please prepare a brief musical theatre song in the style of the show. Must show range and legit voice. Bring sheet music for your song; a piano accompanist will be provided. Bring a photo/resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Ripley-Grier Studios (520)

520 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6507

17th floor

**May 19th Location

Pearl Studios NYC (500)

500 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018-6504

PERSONNEL

Producer: Lincoln Center Theater, Producing Artistic Director: Andre Bishop
Associate Producer of Musical Theater for Lincoln Center Theater: Ira Weitzman
Director: Bartlett Sher
Music: Frederick Loewe
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Book: Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Director: Ted Sperling
Choreographer: Chris Gattelli
Casting: Telsey + Company

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: O/A February 1, 2018
First Preview: O/A March 22, 2018
Opening Night: O/A April 19, 2018

OTHER

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Play and Gabriel Pascal’s Motion Picture “PYGMALION”

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity monitor will be provided.

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 attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

[HENRY HIGGINS]
Male, late 30’s-50’s any ethnicity. A middle-aged confirmed bachelor, a professor of phonetics and an expert elocutionist. He is an unconventional man who goes in the opposite direction from the rest of society in most matters. He is impatient with high society, forgetful in his public graces, and inconsiderate of normal social niceties. He has no desire to have romance of any kind in his life. PRINCIPAL.

[ELIZA DOOLITTLE]
Female, 20’s-30’s any ethnicity. A poor girl who dreams of working in a flower shop while she sells flowers in England's Covent Garden. She employs Henry Higgins to help her with her speech and begins to transform herself into a regal figure fit to consort with nobility. In the end, she not only passes for a duchess, but becomes an independent woman. PRINCIPAL.

[COLONAL PICKERING]
Male, 40’s-60’s any ethnicity. A kindly, middle-aged man who shares Higgins' passion for phonetics. Pickering is always considerate and a genuine gentleman who helps in the Eliza experiment by making a wager of it, saying he will cover the costs if Higgins does indeed make a convincing duchess of Eliza. It is Pickering's thoughtful treatment towards Eliza that teaches her to respect herself. PRINCIPAL.

[ALFRED DOOLITTLE]
Male, 50’s-60’s. Eliza's father any ethnicity. A dustman, or trash collector, who has a very unique 'morality', in that he is very happy to be a freeloader. When he learns that his daughter has entered the home of Henry Higgins, he quickly follows to see if he can get some money out of the circumstance. His unique brand of rhetoric, unembarrassed, non-hypocritical advocacy of drink and pleasure (at other people's expense), is amusing to Higgins. PRINCIPAL.

[FREDDY EYNSFORD-HILL]
Male, 20’s-30’s any ethnicity. An aristocrat, although he has no income of his own. He becomes lovesick for Eliza, and courts her with letters. A romantic. PRINCIPAL.

[MRS. HIGGINS]
Female, 60’s-80’s any ethnicity. Professor Higgins' mother; a very refined lady of the upper-middle class. She sees the Eliza Doolittle experiment as idiocy and is the first and only character to have any qualms about the whole affair. When her worries prove true, it is to her that all the characters turn. Because no woman can match up to his mother, Higgins claims, he has no interest in dallying with them. PRINCIPAL.

[PROFESSOR ZOLTAN KARPATHY]
Male, 30’s-40’s any ethnicity. A Hungarian and a former student of Higgins. He is also a rival phonetics expert, in his own mind if not in Higgins', and quite proud of his linguistic accomplishments. He hires out his services to the queen of Transylvania. PRINCIPAL.

[MRS. PEARCE]
Female, 50’s any ethnicity. Higgins' housekeeper who helps to care for the well being of Eliza Doolittle. She is an observer of this experiment and watches to make sure that Eliza is kept safe. PRINCIPAL

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 audition.