MARIE AND ROSETTA Submission - Various Producers Auditions

MARIE AND ROSETTA - NYC Appointments

Various Producers

APPOINTMENTS

NYC auditions to be held October 24, BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep LORT B. $887/week min

SEEKING

2 roles available. Seeking great actors who are amazing singers to play these complicated and dynamic women. See breakdown.


Seeking submissions from AEA members. AEA members must submit themselves directly in order to be considered via this posting (no agent or third-party submissions).

INSTRUCTIONS

For consideration, email or mail picture and resume ASAP.

SUBMIT TO

klappercasting@gmail.com

Stephanie Klapper Casting

39 West 19th Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10014

PERSONNEL

Cleveland Play House Artistic Director: Laura Kepley
Cincinnati Playhouse Artistic Director: Blake Robison
Director: Neil Pepe
Music Director: TBD
Playwright: George Brant
Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting

OTHER DATES

Cleveland Playhouse Dates:
1st rehearsal: 12/26/17
1st Preview: 1/20/18
Opening: 1/26/18
Closing: 2/11/18

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Dates:
1st rehearsal: 2/25/18
1st Preview: 3/3/18
Opening: 3/8/18
Closing: 3/31/18

OTHER

This is a co-production of the Cleveland Playhouse (Cleveland OH) and the Cincinnati Playhouse (Cincinnati OH)

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.

BREAKDOWN

Celebrated for her fierce guitar playing and swinging gospel music, singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe became a veritable legend. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Sister Rosetta performed gospel in the morning and swing music at the Cotton Club at night, to inevitably become a major influence on rock 'n’ roll’s earliest icons. This “play with music” chronicles her first rehearsal with a young protégée, Marie Knight, as they prepare for a tour that would establish them as one of the great duet teams in musical history. MARIE AND ROSETTA’S COMPELLING LIFE STORIES COMBINED WITH ROOF-RAISING, HEART-RENDING GOSPEL SONGS SET THE STAGE FOR AN INSPIRING EVENING AT THE THEATRE.

SEEKING ACTORS WHO WILL COMMIT TO BOTH PRODUCTIONS OF THIS SHOW.

SEEKING:

Great actors who are amazing singers to play these complicated and dynamic women.

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
Female, African-American, early 30s – early 50s. Pretty, vivacious, an irrepressible spirit. She has a bluesy voice (and in real life played a mean guitar). A diva who can take over a room vocally and with her personality. Plays spirituals that swing. MUST SING WELL AND IDEALLY HAVE SOME FAMILIARITY WITH PLAYING GUITAR, THOUGH NOT REQUIRED.

MARIE KNIGHT
Female, African-American, early 20s. A more traditional alto gospel singer (who in real life played staid piano). Gorgeous, youthful, on her way to becoming a spiritual star. Has to have a strong voice, a buoyancy of spirit, a sense of comedy one moment and then go to the other side. MUST HAVE A GOSPEL VOICE AND IDEALLY HAVE SOME FAMILIARITY WITH PLAYING PIANO, THOUGH NOT REQUIRED.

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.