LES MISERABLES
– Equity Performer Auditions (Principal and Chorus)
Short Engagement Touring Agreement Cat. 1; $855/week minimum
Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg
Book: Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg
Lyrics: Alan Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
Directors: James Powell & Laurence Connor
Associate Director: Anthony Lyn
Musical Supervisor: David Caddick
Casting: Tara Rubin Casting
Combined Equity Principal/ Chorus Call Auditions
Monday, January 14, 2013 at Pearl Studios 519
10 AM – 6 PM 519 8th Ave, 12th floor Studios G and H
Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. New York, NY
NOTE: EPA PROCEDURES WILL BE IN EFFECT. Sign up begins 1 hour prior to the start of the call at the location of the audition.
Prepare a contemporary theatre music song. Opera, jazz, rhythm-and-blues and rock are not the proper styles. Bring sheet music in correct key; accompanist provided but may not transpose.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
The show is entirely sung and everyone in it must be a strong singer with a wide range. With only one or two exceptions, women must be strong belters. The men are primarily rangy high baritone, or tenors with strong low ranges.
Seeking for possible replacements in the currently running touring production:
JEAN VALJEAN
35-40s. Sings to B (high lyric baritone or tenor with strong low notes). A poor peasant who rises to affluence, he has great natural nobility and dignity. A powerful figure, ideally a large man with a character of operatic size and passion. The voice needs to have a pop/rock sound or a classical sound of extraordinary textual clarity.
JAVERT
Baritone, sings to G. Policeman who relentlessly hunts Valjean. Ideally a large man. The ultimate “law and order” figure. Obsessed, to the point of irrationality, with a rigid and merciless moral code. He too is a character of operatic size and passion. Both belt voice and classical can suit this role but must have a darker quality than Jean Valjean.
THENARDIER
Late 30s-40s. Strong comic character role. A crooked innkeeper, later a petty, amoral thief. Greedy, irreverent, selfish, boorish, vulgar. Baritone, sings to F sharp.
MARIUS
20s. High baritone (sings to A) with a strong bottom (to A). A member of the revolutionary student movement. Attractive and romantic but in a sensitive, 19th century “byronic” way.
ENJOLRAS
20s-early 30s. High baritone (to G sharp/A) very strong singer. Charismatic political figure. Leader of the revolutionary movement.
FANTINE
Late 20s, early 30s. Belt up to C, sings to E flat. Poor factory girl, struggling to support her fatherless daughter. Later is a pauper, a prostitute, a consumptive and a ghost. Earthy and poignant. Although is finally defeated by circumstances she should appear to be strong and a survivor. She puts up a valiant fight against the horrors of her life.
COSETTE
18-25 (the younger the better). Fantine’s daughter (first seen as and played by a child) delicate, elegant, vulnerable and beautiful. Falls in love with and later marries Marius. Soprano (to high C) but a light, young “floating” sound, without heavy vibrato.
EPONINE
An enormous and beautiful belt voice, to C in belt (sings to E flat). Daughter of the Thenardiers but in no way behaves like them. Fired by an unrequited love for Marius. Small, gamine, waif-like. Hasn’t learned to disguise her emotions; wears her heart on her sleeve.
MADAME THENARDIER
30s-early 40s. Tough, sharp, coarse, boorish, vulgar. Strong character comedienne role. Belter.
GAVROCHE: Boy, age 7 - 11. 52” tall or less. Spunky street urchin. Lots of personality. Sings very well.
YOUNG COSETTE and YOUNG EPONINE: Girls, age 7 - 11. 50” tall or less. Sweet innocent waifs. Pretty soprano voice.
MALE ENSEMBLE SINGERS
Male artists to form an ensemble of eleven men and eight ladies. All men sing to G and ladies belt up to C.
FEMALE ENSEMBLE SINGERS
Female artists to form an ensemble of eleven men and eight ladies. All ladies belt up to C.
Casting Director Statement: “We will be unable to see any Non-Equity actors on this day due to turn-out and time constraints.”
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