LIGHTS OUT: NAT KING COLE Submission---Role of Billy - People's Light Auditions

LIGHTS OUT: NAT KING COLE (Billy) - NYC Appointments

People's Light

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep LORT D; $637/week current min

SEEKING

BILLY: 10- 12 year old. African-American male. Youthful energy. Plays eleven-year old Billy Preston. Full of pluck and enjoyment. Sings “Blueberry Hill.”

INSTRUCTIONS

Please send or e-mail submissions.

SUBMIT TO

alldaffercasting@gmail.com

Alaine Alldaffer

Attn: LIGHTS OUT
c/o Playwrights Horizons
416 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10035

PERSONNEL

Writers: Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor
Director: Patricia McGregor
Musical Director: John McDaniel
Casting Director: Alaine Alldaffer
Casting Director: Lisa Donadio

OTHER DATES

Auditions: August 4th

1st Rehearsal: September 5, 2017
1st Preview: October 11, 2017
Opens: October 18, 2017
Closing: December 3, 2017

OTHER

STORY: A new music-theatre work that will open a window into legendary vocalist and jazz pianist Nat “King” Cole’s public and private personas, and examine the 1957 demise of his groundbreaking national television series and his complex relationship with America’s civil rights movement.

Dulé Hill is cast as Nat “King” Cole
Daniel J. Watts is cast as Sammy Davis Jr.

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 submit.