Peninsula Players Theatre Foundation, Inc.
AUDITION DATES
Mon, Jan 06, 2020
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (CST)
Tue, Jan 07, 2020
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (CST)
APPOINTMENTS
Members May sign up through the member portal on 12/30/19 @ 12:00pm
CONTRACT
CORST CORST Z $834.00
SEEKING
2020 Season auditions - all roles except Peter in #4 available.
PREPARATION
2 short contrasting monologues appropriate to this season. Monologues can be from the season plays but not necessary. No Shakespeare. Singing/dancing auditions for SOMETHING ROTTEN! will be scheduled later.Looking for performers who can be carried through more than one show.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
Dial 011 @ front door
PERSONNEL
Greg Vinkler - Artistic Director
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal, opening and closing dates:
6/2 - 6/16 - 7/5 - ROUNDING THIRD by Richard Dresser
6/18 - 7/8 - 7/26 - SOMETHING ROTTEN! book by Karey Kirkpatrick & John O'Farrell, music &lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick & Karey Kirkpatrick
7/10 - 7/29 - 8/16 - THE UNEXPECTED GUEST by Agatha Christie
7/31 - 8/19 - 9/6 - AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY by Ann Noble
8/21 - 9/9 - 10/18 - THE GENTLEMAN THIEF by Mark Brown
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for 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
ROUNDING THIRD:
Don - tough, blue-collar, win-at-all-costs veteran Little League coach whose son is the star pitcher.
Michael - newcomer to town and baseball, corporate executive, agrees to be Don's assistant to have a special activity with his son, who's never played baseball
SOMETHING ROTTEN!
(all need to have great comic chops, sing and dance):
Nick - 30 to 40's male. A writer. Nigel's older brother. He holds a grudge against Shakespeare. Tenor, baritone.
Nigel - 30 to early 40's male. A writer. Nick's younger brother. Sweet and a little awkward. He is in love with Portia. Tenor.
Lord Clapham - Older male. Patron of the theatre. He's flamboyant and extremely posh. Tenor, baritone.
William Shakespeare - 30 - 40's male. Over the top, cocky, a true rock star of his time. He is the Renaissance James Brown. Tenor
Thomas Nostradamus - Male, 40's to 50's. A soothsayer. He predicts that Nick and Nigel will write a musical. Tenor, baritone.
Brother Jeremiah - Male, 50's. The father of Portia. A Puritan. He despises Nick and Nigel. Tenor, baritone.
Shylock - An older Jewish man. Nicvk and Nigel are in debt to him. He becomes an investor in their musical. Baritone.
Bea - 30's female.Nigel's wife. She loves Nigel despite his past lack of success. She dresses up like a man to prove she can be an actor. Mezzo-soprano.
Portia - 20's - 30's female. A beautiful Puritan woman that Nick meets on the street. She has golden hair and loves poetry. Soprano.
Ensemble - various ages/ethnicities. Tenor, baritone, soprano, mezzo-soprano.
THE UNEXPECTED GUEST (all standard British dialect):
Laura Warwick - 30's attractive female.
Michael Starkwedder - an active, tough-looking man of about 35, not very polished, but a shrewd thinker as well as being a man of action.
Miss Bennett - 50's female, grey-haired, alert, brisk, showing marks of the ex-hospital nurse. A certain nosiness not apparent at first.
Jan Warwick - 19-year-old female with a strange rather innocent faun-like face with eyes that can be rather quick and sly on occasion, but a great sweetness in manner.
Mrs. Warwick - a tall, commanding old lady, quite alert and obviously a strong personality.
Henry Angell - About 48. Had been nurse-attendant and valet to Richard Warwick, the murdered man. Has a correct manner, but a shifty eye.
Sergeant Cadwallader - Youngish man with a soft musical voice, loves poetry.
Inspector Thomas - Middle-aged, poker face and drily sarcastic.
Julian Farrar - Handsome man of about 36 with a soldierly aspect.
AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY (all have Irish dialects):
Kathleen Donnelly - A magnificent young creature, engaged to Leo.
Leo - A sweet young man, engaged to Kathleen.
Eveline Donnelly - A plain, steadfast young woman, dreams of going to university.
Peter Donnelly - their father (CAST)
Freddy Malone - A dashing young actor.
Charlie - A tough, rude, angry young man. Leo's brother.
Moira Donnelly - Their dead mother. A ghost. Kind, loving.
THE GENTLEMAN THIEF (all American except as indicated):
Jimmy Pitt - A gentleman thief. A man of inherited wealth, impeccable manners, charm and courteousness. Think Cary Grant, William Powell.
Molly Mc Eachern - Falls in love with Jimmy but is forced to marry Lord Dreever. Think Myrna Loy, Grace Kelly. Also plays Audrey Pinfield, the heroine in the Broadway play Love, the Cracksman, and a Bowery tenement Landlady.
Actor 3 - Plays Mifflin (a young actor friend of Jimmy's who plays James Nightingale, the star of Love, the Cracksman), Lord Dreever (young British lord who likes to gamble and whose backbone has been carelessly omitted from his composition and is beaten down by his uncle), and a train conductor.
Actor 4 - Plays Sir Richfield in Love, the Cracksman, Spike (a NY burglar who's not the best but he's okay), Lady Dreever (Lord Dreever's battleax mother who represents a Maxim gun more than anything else), Hickinbottom (a British private detective), Wolff (a German con man) and all of the Shady Men.
Actor 5 - Plays Rodney Popperwell (Chief Inspector in Love, the Cracksman), Emiliano (an Italian bakery owner), Sir Thomas (small, pink, fussy, cheap and obstinate uncle of Lord Dreever) and a Newspaperman.
Actor 6 - Plays Nigel Hancock (the detective in Love, the Cracksman), McEachern (a crooked cop who wants to be in high society in England, father of Molly) and Saunders (Sir Thomas's impeccable butler).
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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