MY PARSIFAL CONDUCTOR - NYC EPA
Directors Company, The
**Updated Personnel**
AUDITION DATES
Mon, Jun 25, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
Tue, Jun 26, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
Wed, Jun 27, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $610/week
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles.
PREPARATION
Actors will read from sides, provided at the auditions. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Director: Robert Kaflin
Author: Allan Leicht
Casting Director: McCorkle Casting
The Directors Company: Michael Parva,
Artistic Director; Leah Michalos, Producing Director
Expected at the EPA:
Representative(s) from McCorkle Casting TBD
Other creative personnel TBD may attend.
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 8/28/18
First Preview: 9/25/18 Opeing 10/10/18, Close: 11/3/18
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
COSIMA WAGNER
Female. 40s-50s. French-Hungarian-born now German widow of Richard Wagner. Cosima begins the play at prayer, on her deathbed, in fear that she will be denied a place in heaven because she has not sufficiently atoned for her anti-Semitism. She is equally wracked with guilt for having caused the heart attack that killed her husband. The actress will also play Cosima in her own memory, much younger, and verile. This role requires a versatile actress with strong comedic chops.
RICHARD WAGNER
Male. 60s-70s. Philosopher-composer, volcanic, athletic, irresistible genius, “always on the brink of tears or dance, seldom in between. A 70-year-old child.” Magnetic charm enables Wagner to get away with having no regard for anyone’s feelings but his own. This role requires a versatile actor with charm and comedic chops.
HERMANN LEVI
Male. 40s-50s. German Jew. A conductor, puckish, Chaplinesque miracle musician, descendant of a rabbinic dynasty, he is the Wagners’ dear friend, ”but suddenly their urgent crisis: a Jew conducting sacred Christian Parsifal!” Rumblings of romance between Levi and Cosima are of course absurd, ridiculous yet ridiculously plausible. Through it all Levi remains the jaunty house clown of Villa Wahnfried whose unflappable dignity survives even Wagner drenching him in water in a spontaneous botched baptism. This role requires and actor with charm, depth, and humor.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Male. Mid-30s. “Once dearest of our friends, most brilliant of us all, and totally insane.” “Fritz” is hopelessly in love with Cosima, he is her “Dionysus”, an “apparition of an atheist” whom Cosima tries to hide from her Angel-judges. A passionate, compulsive, adolescent, profoundly magnificent mad mind. Handsome and charming.
LUDWIG II
Male. Mid 30s. King of Bavaria, for whom everything Wagnerian is holy. Under Wagner’s spell since he was a boy, the poetic, noble, vulnerable young bachelor-king is now in trouble with his Royal Cabinet who have had enough of his unBavarian behavior – sneaking out to field boys, stable boys, peasant boys, and most of all his emptying the royal treasury on Wagner.
DORA
Female. 30s-50s. Cosima’s maid, instantly appears whenever called. Devoted to Madame, Dora worships Meister Wagner and his memory while icily respectful of Herr Levi, wondering quite sincerely, “Do Jews have souls, Frau Wagner?”
SOPHIE/CARRIE PRINGLE
Female. 20s. SOPHIE: Dora’s assistant housemaid, too eager to please, overly inquisitive, but not a quick-learner. Sophie is in awe of Dora’s past relationship with the Meister Wagner, and she quakes before the Widow. CARRIE PRINGLE, a Scottish soprano, has the required undulations of a Flower Maiden and sings, as Levi puts it, “like the woman who does my laundry”. No matter, Wagner summons Carrie Pringle and her excruciating voice to Venice to “audition” for the role of Isolde, which leads to the demise of an era of Western culture.
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 audition.
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