Tada Theater and Dance Alliance Inc.
CONTRACT
Mini $580 weekly minimum + pension and welfare
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in MRS. MCTHING (see breakdown).
Principals must have strong comic flair and voices.
Auditioners must be vaccinated.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare an up-tune and a ballad in the Broadway tradition of Jerry Herman, Harold Arlen, or George Gershwin. You may use a song of your own or use the accompaniment provided at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sNAFUBC1D23xHvcJrKajjKRJpi8hTPFV?usp=sharing. Please send resumé and video. Prefer link to YouTube clip (old or new); or send via We Transfer.
Deadline: Wed, Oct 6, 2021
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Director: Karen L. Carpenter (viewing auditions)
Libretto & Lyrics: Michael Colby (viewing auditions)
Music: Jack Urbont (viewing auditions)
Musical Director: Michael Lavine (viewing auditions)
General Manager: Geoffrey Cohen
OTHER DATES
October 26-30 rehearsals
October 31st two performances of stage reading at 2 pm and 7 pm (approximately 2 hours
each)
OTHER
Musical version of hit play by Mary Chase (Pulitzer Prize winner for HARVEY). Whimsical fantasy taking place during 1930s in Anytown USA.
MRS. McTHING will be presented on October
31st at 2 pm and 7 pm as two staged readings to benefit TADA! Youth Theater, 15 W 28th St, NYC. Rehearsals begin on October
26, 2021.
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
MRS. HOWARD V. LARUE III: 35-50; soprano with strong belt (A-flat below middle C, possibly through high C); dizzy, jaded millionaires; a cross between Bernadette Peters and Madeline Kahn; a highly attractive widow with warmth and pluck.
POISON EDDIE SCHELLENBACH: 35-50; high baritone to tenor (C below middle C through A-flat above middle C); blustery chief gangster among a gang of would-be mobsters; a cross between James Cagney, Seth Rogen, and Ben Stiller.
HOWAY / STICK BOY: 12-15; “Oliver!” range (B below middle C through F below high C); must double as Howay, Mrs. Larue’s son, and his exact facsimile, the Stick Boy; Howay is a tough brat with the tinge of sweetness, à la the young Macaulay Culkin; the Stick Boy is an abominably well-behaved, stiff lad with the aura of “the bad seed.”
MIMI: 12-15; “Annie” range (B below middle C through F below high C); a strange, totally ingenuous waif, reminiscent of Charles Addams’ Wednesday, Rudy Huxtable, or Charles Dickens’ Little Nell; a beautiful human child adopted by a witch; pushy, even a bit brassy in her quest for human friendship.
EVVA LEWIS / MRS. McTHING: 35-50; mezzo-soprano (good G below middle C through good G below high C); must double as the social prig, Evva Lewis, and the mysterious witch, Mrs. McThing; Evva Lewis is a gregarious, leeching windbag and fair weather friend; Mrs. McThing is a glamorously manic Talllulah Bankhead or Eartha Kitt type, an ubiquitous witch who can shift from terrifying to tender at the drop of a broom.
CHEF (ELLSWORTH): 35-45; bass to basso profundo (down to low E-flat if possible); imposing gangsters who make a living as a fussy chef; Chuck Cooper or Ving Rhames type.
STINKER: 30-45; tenor (low B-flat through high B-flat); a ludicrous bully and sidekick to Poison Eddie; Leo Gorcey/Jonah Hill type gangster.
VIRGIL: 30-40; high baritone (low A-flat through G above middle C); lanky, goofy waiter- gangster; possibly plays piano; Huntz Hall/Art Carney type.
CARRIE: 25-35; bluesy mezzo-soprano or contralto with. High range (G below middle C to G below high C); knowing, mystical confident/head of household; must double in other roles; Charlayne Woodard type with a Nina Simone voice.
NELSON: 20-40: baritone; MRS. LaRUE’s chauffeur.
ENSEMBLE: 25-35; ethnically mixed, who dance and sing well; will play a variety of small roles.
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.
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