LORT THEATRES COMBINED Equity Principal Audition - Walnut Street Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company Auditions
Walnut Street Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company
LORT
LORT Theatres: Walnut Street Theatre, Wilma Theater, Delaware Theatre Company
- Equity Principal Auditions
(various locations) LORT * see individual theatre’s breakdowns for salary info.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at the Actors' Equity Audition Center
9:30 AM — 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor
Lunch from 1 - 2. New York, NY
Prepare either:
1) a brief monologue, OR 2) a brief song, OR 3) a one-minute monologue and 16 bars of a song. If singing, bring sheet music in correct key; accompanist provided but may not transpose.
Bring THREE (3) copies of your picture and resume, each stapled together.
WALNUT STREET THEATRE – 2011-12 SEASON BREAKDOWN
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia PA)
LORT A and D; $882, $566/week minimums
Producing Artistic Director: Bernard Havard
Casting Director: Kate Galvin
ASPECTS OF LOVE
Dir: Bruce Lumpkin. Choreo: Michelle Gaudette
1st Reh: 8/16/11. Runs: 9/6 – 10/23/11
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart
All roles available, except for George Dillingham.
Seeking excellent singer/actors with an interesting look.
THE KING AND I
Dir/Choreo: Marc Robin
1st Reh: 10/18/11. Runs: 11/8/11 – 1/8/12
Music by Richard Rodgers, Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
All roles available.
THE MOUSETRAP
Dir: Malcolm Black
1st Reh: 12/26/11. Runs: 1/17 3/4/12
By Agatha Christie
All roles available, except Mollie Ralston and Christopher Wren.
Seeking strong actors with an excellent British accent.
GOD OF CARNAGE
Dir: Bernard Havard
1st Reh: 2/21/12. Runs: 3/13 – 4/29/12
By Yasmina Reza
Seeking the role of Veronica. All other roles have been cast.
BUDDY
Director TBD
1st Reh: 4/24/12. Runs: 5/15 – 7/22/12
Book by Alan Janes and Rob Bettison, Music by Buddy Holly and various artists
All roles available, except Buddy Holly.
Seeking singer/musicians for all roles, including Buddy Holly cover.
Actors will also be considered for The Independence Studio Season will include 4 plays and 1 musical TBA.
Theatre address: 825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. WILMA THEATER – 2011-12 SEASON BREAKDOWN
Wilma Theatre (Philadelphia PA)
LORT D
Artistic Director: Blanka Zizka
Managing Director: James Haskins
Casting Director: David Stradley
OUR CLASS
Playwright: Tadeusz Slobodzianek
English Version: Ryan Craig
Dir: Blanka Zizka
1st reh: 9/6/11. Runs: 10/12/11 – TBD
Notes: Most characters age in the play from elementary school through old age. The play begins in Jedwabne, Poland in the 1920s and follows its characters through Soviet and Nazi invasions and across three continents through the early 21st Century.
Seeking:
Heniek: Ages from 5 to 82. Catholic. Wants to be a fireman as a child. A follower in youth, he becomes a priest after the war and becomes community leader and fervent defender of town's reputation. Must be good with narrative speech.
Wladek: Ages from 5 to 82. Catholic. Also wants to be a wagon driver. Peasant. Attracted to Rachelka from early age. Essentially a follower, but twice saves Rachelka's life, and becomes vocal advocate for telling the truth about the pogrom late in life. Must be good with narrative speech. CAST.
Abram: Ages from 5 to 83. Jewish. As a child, wants to be a shoemaker like his father. Sent to America in 1935 and becomes a rabbi. Very sensitive. Must be excellent with narrative speech.
The following roles have been CAST. Actors may be considered for possible replacements if needed.
Dora: Ages from 5 to 21. Jewish. Wants to be a movie star as a child. Must be good with narrative speech. CAST.
Zocha: Ages from 5 to 66. Catholic. Wants to be a seamstress as a child. A little shy, with low self-esteem as a child, her experiences during and after the war embitter her. Must be good with narrative speech. CAST.
Rachelka (later Marianna): Ages from 5 to 82. Jewish, converts to Catholicism during war. Smart and from the highest economic level of the town. Wants to be a doctor as a child. Is saved by Wladek during war and marries him, although the marriage is very unhappy. CAST.
Jakub Katz: Ages from 5 to 22. Jewish. Intellectual; natural leader. Wants to be a teacher as a child. Must be good with narrative speech. CAST.
Rysiek: Ages from 5 to 23. Catholic. Charismatic and self-confident; wants to be a pilot as a child. Attracted to Dora from childhood. Becomes leader of anti-Soviet nationalist group. After pogrom, becomes dominated by Zygmunt. CAST.
Menachem: Ages from 5 to 56. Jewish. Also intellectual, and a film buff when young. Womanizer involved with both Dora and Zocha. Wants to be a wagon driver as a child. After surviving the war, he gets involved first with the Communist secret police and then Israeli Army. Must be good with narrative speech. CAST.
Zygmunt: Ages from 7 to 59. Catholic. Wants to be a soldier as a child. Becomes Soviet informer to save his skin, then brutish Nazi collaborator, winds up pillar of society in Communist Poland. Must be good with narrative speech. CAST.
BODY AWARENESS
Playwright: Annie Baker
Dir: Anne Kaufman
1st Reh: 12/6 – 1/3/12. Runs: 1/4 – 2/5/12
Joyce: 55, lesbian who came out 3 years ago. Mother of Jared. Teaches high school Cultural Studies. Tries very hard to be PC and non-judgmental.
Jared: 21. Joyce's son. Still lives at home. Smart, obsessed with etymology but has a lot of trouble dealing with people.
Phyllis: 45. Joyce's partner. College psychology professor. Lesbian"since kindergarten" Very PC.
Frank Bonitatibus: 59. Divorced. Photographs naked women of all ages. Must play recorder. Huge life force. Un-PC but with mystical side.
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
Playwright: Sam Shepard
Dir: Richard Hamburger
1st reh: 2/7 – 3/6/12. Runs: 3/7 – 4/8/12
Wesley: Early 20s, not terribly bright, pretends not to give a damn but is idealistic about the vanishing frontier. Must be able to handle long descriptive passages.
Emma: Young, just entering puberty (but played by actress in 20s), rebellious, very smart with Beat-inspired dreams of the future. Must be able to handle long descriptive passages.
Ella: Wesley & Emma's mother. Late 40s-early 50s. Disappointed by her life and wishing for more glamour, adventure and romance.
Weston: Mid-50s. Father of Wesley & Emma. World War Two bomber pilot turned avocado farmer whose dreams haven't come true. Now a drunk, deep in debt.
Taylor: Middle-aged. Slick real estate lawyer who sees himself as the Future.
Ellis: Late 30s-middle age. Big man -"not a hard man but strong as a bull calf." Tattooed in the 1970s. Owner of the Alibi Club saloon.
Malcolm: California Highway Patrolman. Just doing his job.
Emerson: Small, psychopathic “enforcer” in a suit.
Slater: Emerson's taller and equally psychotic sidekick. Likes explosives.
ANGELS IN AMERICA: Part One – Millennium Approaches
Playwright: Tony Kushner
Dir: Blanka Zizka
1st reh: 4/24 – 5/22/12. Runs: 5/23 – 7/1/12
Important Note: The Wilma will be presenting Angels in America: Part Two – Perestroika in the fall of 2012. Actors will be required for both parts one and two.
Roy M. Cohn: 50s-60s. Successful New York lawyer and unofficial power broker. Closeted gay man who is dying of AIDS. Also plays Prior 2, the ghost of a 17th Century Prior (British accent).
Joe Pitt: 20s-30s. Mormon Republican. Chief clerk for Justice Theodore Wilson of the Federal Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Cohn’s protégé. Struggling with his sexuality, he leaves wife Harper for Louis. Also plays Prior 1, the ghost of a 13th Century Prior (Yorkshire accent), and the Eskimo.
Harper Pitt: 20s-30s. Joe’s wife, an agoraphobic with a mild Valium addiction. Mormon. Also plays Reagan flackman Martin Heller
Louis Ironson:
20s-30s. A word processor working for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Jewish liberal. Opinionated. Struggling with Prior’s diagnosis, he leaves for Joe.
Prior Walter: 20s-30s. Louis’s boyfriend. Occasionally works as a club designer or caterer, otherwise lives very modestly but with great style off a small trust fund. Diagnosed with AIDS. Also plays The Man in the Park.
Hannah Pitt:
40s-50s. Joe’s mother who moves from Salt Lake City to New York City as her son’s marriage crumbles. Lives off her deceased husband’s army pension. Also plays Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz, Roy’s doctor Henry and Ethel Rosenberg.
Belize: 20s-30s. African-American character, former drag queen and former lover of Prior’s. Currently an RN. ‘Belize’ is a drag name that stuck. Also plays Mr. Lies, Harper’s imaginary travel agent.
The Angel: 40s-50s. Manifests as the Continental Principality of America. Crash lands into Prior’s apartment as Part One ends. Also plays The Voice, nurse Emily, Salt Lake real-estate agent Sister Ella Chapter, and Woman in the South Bronx.
The Wilma Theater, 265 South Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19107. DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY– 2011-12 SEASON BREAKDOWN
Delaware Theatre Company (Wilmington, DE)
LORT D; $566/week minimum
Director of Production: Eric Schaeffer
Casting Director: David Stradley
ALL MY SONS
By Arthur Miller
1st reh: 9/27/11. Runs: 10/22 – 11/3/12
Joe Keller: Male, 40-60. A heavy man of stolid mind and build, a business man
Kate Keller: Female, 40-60. Joe Keller's wife and Chris Keller's mom, Her motherliness is one of her defining characteristics
Chris Keller: Male, 22-30. Like his father, solidly built, a listener. A man capable of immense affection and loyalty
Ann Deever: Female, 21-29. Former neighbor of the Kellers. She's young, but she knows what she wants
Dr. Jim Bayliss: Male, 40-60. A world-weary doctor. He lives with his wife, Sue, next door to the Kellers
Sue Bayliss: Female, 40-60. Jim Bayliss's wife. Sue is cynical and pragmatic
George Deever: Male, 21-30. The brother of Ann. He grew up as the Kellers' neighbor
Lydia Lubbey: Female, 25-38. The Kellers' neighbor, and the wife of Frank Lubbey
Frank Lubey: Male, 28-40, Set up a nice house for Lydia and their three kids. An interest in horoscopes
A CAPELLA HUMANA
by Kevin Ramsey
1st reh: 11/8/11. Runs: 12/3 – 12/18/11
Actor 1: Male - Bass (human beat box abilities a plus)
Actor 2: Male - Baritone (human beat box abilities a plus)
Actor 3: Male - Tenor (human beat box abilities a plus)
Actor 4: Female - Alto
Actor 5: Female - Mezzo-Soprano
Actor 6: Female - Soprano
TIME STANDS STILL
By Donald Margulies
1st reh: 12/27/11. runs: 1/21 – 2/5/12
Sarah Goodwin: Female, late 30s-early 40s. A professional photjournalist
James Dodd: Male, late 30s-early40s. A free-lance journalist
Richard Ehlrich: Male, 55. A photo editor
Mandy Bloom: Female, 25. An event planner
CROWNS
by Regina Taylor
1st reh: 3/20/12. Runs: 4/11 – 4/29/12
Woman One / Wanda / (Oshun- Orisha of the rivers and water - gold and yellow): Is the most ladylike woman of the group
Woman Two / Jeanette / (Ymaya - Orisha of seas - blue): Is flirtatious, brassy, fun loving and full of the joy of spirituality
Woman Three / Velma / (Oya- Orsha of storms - purple): She is tougher than she looks
Woman Four / Yolanda / (…. Green and gold): Is the youngest of the group, the outsider who resists the other women in their attempts to welcome her into their family
Woman Five / Mother Shaw / (Obatala- Orisha of wisdom - creativity): Is Yolanda's grandmother and the matriarch in this world
Woman Six / Mabel / Shango- Orisha of fire- red and white): A minister's wife with a sharp and sassy tell-it-like-it-is attitude
Man / (Elegba- Orisha of crossroads - red and black): Appears in different roles throughout the play
Theatre address: 200 Water Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
www.walnutstreettheatre.org
www.wilmatheater.org
