MUSICALS IN MUFTI **Updated** Equity Principal Auditions - York Theatre Company Auditions

Musicals in Mufti – Equity Principal Auditions

York Theatre Company Special Agreement ref ANTC $365/week minimum.

Producing Artistic Dir: James Morgan

Managing Dir: Geoff Cohen

CD: Geoff Josselson

Equity Principal Auditions:

Thursday, March 1, 2012 York Theatre Company

Friday, March 2, 2012 619 Lexington Ave

10 AM - 6 PM both days. New York City

Lunch from 1 – 2. (Enter via St. Peter's church on the south side of 54th

St, just east of Lexington; go past the reception desk;

take elevator to the theatre level “L”.)

Please prepare a short musical theatre song that shows off range and personality. Bring sheet music in the correct key; accompanist is provided, but may not transpose.

Please bring a picture and resume, stapled back-to-back.

Musicals in Mufti Series presents revivals of rarely seen musicals in a book-in-hand, full-staged reading format, each rehearsed and presented over the course of one week. This season focuses on the work of librettist/lyricist Tom Jones.

All roles are available unless otherwise specified. For pre-cast roles, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.

THE SHOW GOES ON Music: Harvey Schmidt. Book/Lyrics: Tom Jones. Dir: Pamela Hunt.

Mus Dir: Michael Rice. 1st reh: 3/12/12. Perfs 3/16, 3/17 @ 8; 3/17, 3/18 @ 2:30; 3/18 @ 7:30.

Musical revue in which Tom Jones takes us through his portfolio of theatre songs written with long-time collaborator Harvey Schmidt, featuring music from classics such as The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade, I Do! I Do!, Celebration and many more.

Note: All actors must be able to handle a wide range of style and humor.

Man:

40s-50s. Role for a leading man with bravura and comedic abilities. Baritone.

Young Woman:

20s-30s. Role for an attractive ingénue, sweet but also sensual. Soprano and chest voice.

Narrator/Tom Jones:

CAST. Male, 50s-60s Role for a witty, wise character man. Also sings.

Mature Woman:

CAST. 40s-60s. Role for a versatile leading lady with humor. Soprano.

ROADSIDE Music: Harvey Schmidt. Book/Lyrics: Tom Jones. Based on the play by Lynn Riggs. Dir: David Glenn Armstrong. Mus Dir TBA. 1st reh: 3/26/12. Perfs 3/30, 3/31 @ 8; 3/31, 4/1 @ 2:30; 4/1 @ 7:30.

Country western musical based on a play by the author of “Green Grow the Lilacs”, the source for “Oklahoma!”. Southwestern love story of mythic proportions about two kissin’, punchin’, cussin’, larger-than-life characters who refuse to settle down and be “house-broke” by the arrival of fences and laws.

Pap:

Man, 50s-70s. Fierce, independent, grizzly old pioneer who lives his life roaming the prairie in a covered wagon. Has a soft spot for the wife he lost. A real man of the old South. Country-western baritone.

Buzzey:

Man, 30s-40s. Role for a comic character man. Buzzey is a persnickety farmer. Hopelessly and desperately in love with Hannie, and will go to great lengths to pursue her. A bit uptight and fearful of being on the wrong side of the law. Baritenor.

Black Ike / Miz Smith / Neb / Right Horse / Roustabout:

Multi-character track (30s) for one male actor. Track requires a country-western, comic song-and-dance man who can play multiple characters (including female characters). Baritenor, with legit soprano or incredibly strong falsetto to sing female characters.

Hannie:

Update, posted 2.29: Role previously listed as available is now CAST. Woman, 20s-30s. Strong, independent, pioneer woman who is just realizing that she might be ready to stop roaming and settle down with a man. Beautiful and vivacious. High, strong country-western belt.

Texas:

Update, posted 2.29: Role previously listed as available is now CAST. Man, 30s. Impossibly handsome and virile cowboy who likes his whiskey. The last of his breed, larger than life, both in stature and attitude. Country-western baritenor.

Marshal:

Update, posted 2.29: Role previously listed as available is now CAST. Man, 40s-60s. Lawman of a small western town. Stern, authoritative, intolerant. Takes his job seriously, and tries to keep order in town. Baritone.

Red Ike / Miz Foster / Left Horse / Roustabout:

CAST. Multi-character track (30s) for one male actor. Track requires a country-western, comic song-and-dance man who can play multiple characters (including female characters). Baritenor, with legit soprano or incredibly strong falsetto to sing female characters.

HAROLD AND MAUDE Music / Mus Dir: Joseph Thalken. Book/Lyrics: Tom Jones. Based on the screenplay by Colin Higgins. Dir: Carl Andress. 1st reh: 4/9/12. Perfs 4/13, 4/14 @ 8; 4/14, 4/15 @ 2:30; 4/15 @ 7:30.

Based on the 1971 cult-classic film. Centers on the May-December relationship between a detached, young death-obsessed loner and a freewheeling 79-year-old woman who is making the most of her remaining days.

Harold:

Early 20s. Lonely. Obsessed with death. Constantly planning morbid stunts and false suicides to get his mother’s attention. Sad, confused loner; feels misunderstood by the world until he meets Maude. Must have a strong tenor voice and an off-beat, absurd sense of humor.

Maude:

Update, posted 2.29: Role previously listed as available is now CAST. Female, 79. Free spirited, with warmth and wisdom. Concentration camp survivor and countess; has really lived – and chooses to live life to the fullest. Vivacious. Great depth and a powerful lust for life. Must have a strong voice and earthy sense of humor.

Woman:

Update, posted 2.29: Role previously listed as available is now CAST. Multi-character track (late 20s - 30s). Seeking strong comic actress with big, versatile voice. Must be adept at creating multiple characters; plays a wide range of characters, including Harold’s outrageous dates.

Man:

Update, posted 2.29: Role previously listed as available is now CAST. Multi-character track (40s-50s). Seeking strong comic actor with big, versatile voice. Must be adept at creating multiple characters; plays a wide range of characters, including Harold’s war-loving uncle, his priest and his Freudian therapist.

Mrs. Chasen:

CAST. Late 30s - early 40s. Harold’s superficial, emotionally-detached mother. Preoccupied with social mores and setting Harold up with a suitable wife; has little patience for his “suicides”. Strong sense of glamour and hauteur. Role for a strong comic actress with big, versatile voice.

COLETTE COLLAGE Music: Harvey Schmidt. Book/Lyrics: Tom Jones. Dir: Michael Montel. 1st reh: 4/23/12. Perfs 4/27, 4/28 @ 8; 4/28, 4/29 @ 2:30; 4/29 @ 7:30.

Explores the joys, fears and loves of the celebrated French writer Colette over 60 years. Sensual, witty and entirely unconventional, this intimate, highly theatrical musical captures the essence of one of the most liberated women of all time.

Sido:

Late 50s. Colette’s beloved mother. Grounding, maternal force of life, ever understanding. Soprano.

Willy:

40s. Rotund in size and spirit. Intelligent, elegant rogue. Charming and magnetic. Celebrated French author who does none of his own writing. Cavalier, and a manipulative bully, but we still see why Colette fell in love with him. Baritone.

Maurice:

Mid 20s. Dazzling, handsome. Attractive to, and attracted by an older woman (Colette). Despite his playboy looks, he is a good man who truly loves and is devoted her. Tenor.

Jacques:

50s-70s. Wise jester, devoted to the theatrical, but with a deep understanding of the world. Has seen a lot in his lifetime. Music hall performer who becomes Colette’s closest confidant. Baritenor.

Henri de Jouvenal / Ensemble:

Late 30s. Tall, handsome, strong. Sharp-witted, commanding magazine editor. Colette’s 2nd husband. Holds his own opposite the now-confident Colette, and then some. Actor also plays other characters. Strong singer.

Capt. Colette / Ensemble:

50s. Colette's father. Understanding. Can live comfortably with strong women. Actor also plays other characters. Strong singer.

German Officer / Ensemble:

Male, late 20s-30s. Officer: Proud, cynical Nazi. Actor also plays other characters. Strong singer.

Colette de Jouvenal / Ensemble:

Track age: Early 20s. Actress plays Colette’s neglected 13-year-old daughter. Also plays a Newspaper Reporter and other characters. Strong singer.

Missy / Ensemble:

30s - early 40s. Missy: Intensely commanding and seductive performer Lesbian. Actress also plays Nita (one of Willy’s mistresses) and other characters. Strong singer.

Pauline / Ensemble:

40s. Colette's servant. Caring and concerned. Actress also plays other characters. Strong singer.

Colette:

Update, posted 2.29: Role previously listed as available is now CAST. Ages from 17 to 77 throughout the show (average age: early 40s-50s). Earthy yet elegant, capable of direct simplicity and elegant theatricality, a natural wisdom. Beautiful and sensual. Ages from a naïve young bride and accidental ghostwriter for her husband to a strong, fiercely independent, celebrated author in her own right. Soprano.

THE GAME OF LOVE Music: Jacques Offenbach. Book/Lyrics: Tom Jones. Arrangements/Additional Music/Mus Dir: Nancy Ford. Based on plays by Arthur Schnitzler. Dir: West Hyler. 1st reh: 5/7/12. Perfs 5/11, 5/12 @ 8; 5/12, 5/13 @ 2:30; 5/13 @ 7:30.

This deliciously romantic musical about the frivolities and foibles of love takes place in 19th-Century Vienna. At the center of the piece is Anatol, a playful Lothario, whose rendezvous with five unique women unfold over the course of this sensuous, melodic romp.

Anatol:

Late 20s - early 40s. Viennese man about town. Casanova who"loves to be in love". Seeks the divine in all the women he loves. Baritone.

Max:

30s-40s. Narrator of the show. Anatol's best friend and confidant. Supportive and kind, friendly and advisory. Well-dressed and worldly. Baritone.

Cora:

Late 20s. Sexually experienced. Coy, confident, sensual. Sings a coloratura soprano song under hypnosis.

Annie:

20s. Guileless music-hall singer giving up the love of her life: oysters. Lower-class. Fancies herself an “artiste”. Wide-eyed gamine. Plays a scene in her underwear. Soprano.

Gabrielle:

30s. Upper-class, married, with regrets. Staggeringly beautiful and emotionally reserved, with a scene full of subtext and history. Requires a very strong actress who sings. Mezzo.

Illona:

Late 30s-40. Famous actress. Diva virago. Intimidating and melodramatic, but can also be sweet and sexy when it suits her purposes. Mezzo.

Annette:

Early 20s. Young, beautiful girl. Innocent, but also desires to explore her blossoming sexuality. Soprano.

Fritz / Flieder / Others:

Multi-character track (male, 20s). Fritz: Music-hall singer. Flieder: Young lover. Actor plays other characters, too. Strong baritenor.

Franz / Baron von Diebel / Others:

Multi-character track (male, 40s). Franz: Antatol’s butler. Baron: A rival Casanova whose vice is his love of menáges á trois. Actor also plays a Headwaiter at a fancy restaurant and other characters. Baritone.