PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Equity Principal Audition - New York Theatre Workshop Auditions

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

– Equity Principal Auditions

New York Theatre Workshop Off-Broadway Currently $539/week minimum.

Author: Rick Elice

Dirs: Roger Rees and Alex Timbers

CD: Jack Doulin

Casting Assoc: Jenn Haltman

1st reh: 1/10/11. Runs 2/18-4/3.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 New York Theatre Workshop

10 AM - 6 PM 83 East 4th Street, 3rd Floor (between Bowery and 2nd Ave)

Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. New York City

Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue.

Please bring a resume & a picture (of yourself), stapled back-to-back.

Based on the best-selling novel. Explores the origin of Peter Pan.

Seeking (all roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted) unless otherwise specified):

Notes from casting personnel: “All roles are truly ensemble roles and everyone will not only play their own character but also help create scenery, atmosphere, as well as playing a host of other characters. While there will be singing in the show, this is not a musical and the actors do not need to be incredibly strong singers. Strong physicality required.”

Lord Leonard Aster:

AVAILABLE. Caucasian man, 35-45. The very model of an English gentleman. Loyal subject to the Queen. Molly’s devoted father. Also, and not irrelevant to our story, Lord Aster is a Starcatcher, a person dedicated to protecting the earth and all who dwell thereon from the awesome power of Starstuff and the awful machinations of those who seek to find Starstuff and use its power for personal gain, global domination or both.

Mrs. Bumbrake / Others:

AVAILABLE. Female characters, 30-45, any ethnicity. PLAYED BY A MAN. Mrs. Bumbrake: Hired by Lord Aster as governess to Molly. British through and through. Not afraid of anything. No-nonsense, good-hearted, salt-of-the-earth type, with enough of her girlish charm intact to turn a sailor’s head and spice up his dreams. Stiff in the lip, loose in the hip, fun on a ship. Actor also plays Queen Victoria and Teacher.

Slank / Hawking Clam:

AVAILABLE. Male characters, 25-35, any ethnicity. Slank: An orphan himself, but hardened by the seaman’s life into a violent taker of lives and liberties (other people’s) and a vicious would-be captain without the skill or quality to lead anyone but himself, and always into disaster. Would sell his own mother for a ship to command, would kill his best friend for a leg-up from the stinking hold that is his home. Certainly has no compunction whatever about wiping out any orphan boy who might stand between him and the Starstuff.

Smee:

AVAILABLE. Man, 30-45, any ethnicity. Black Stache’s first mate. Simple-minded, but single-mindedly dedicated to his captain’s every whim.

Captain Bryan Scott:

AVAILABLE. Man, 35-45. Leonard Aster’s dear friend and school chum. Commander of the fastest ship in Victoria’s fleet, the “Wasp”. Probably gay, but if you don’t ask, he won’t tell about his schoolboy crush on Lord Aster.

Alf:

AVAILABLE. Man, 25-35, any ethnicity. Honest, seafaring type, with a love for the ladies. An old seadog. A white knight in search of a damsel, any damsel. Something about him appeals to the feminine sensibility. Salt of the earth, loyal.

The following six roles are cast (i.e. offer accepted). Auditioning performers will be considered as possible replacements, should any become necessary.

Peter:

CAST. 13-year-old male character, any ethnicity (played by an actor 18+). Peter is an orphan. A boy who doesn’t miss much. Afraid of his own shadow at the beginning of the play, and a hero by the end. Defensive, anxious to prove his leadership skills, the boy the others will come to look up to, expected to have the answers because he generally does. And if he doesn’t, he’ll never let on. Lonely, brave, smart; a survivor. Feral, wiry.

Molly:

CAST. 13-year-old Caucasian female character (played by an actress 18+). A natural leader, at a time when girls are mostly followers. Fearless, passionate, devoted to her father, her country and her Queen. Willing to risk everything for the sake of Doing Right. Curious, intelligent. Beginning to feel things she doesn't yet understand – romantic longings that revert to childish tantrums under pressure – because, for the moment, she's still a thirteen-year-old kid.

Black Stache:

CAST. Man, 30-40, any ethnicity. Long after most everyone else had gotten out of the pirate business, The Black Stache continues to terrorize the seven seas. Ruthless, peerless, heartless and hirsute, suspiciously well-read, partial to the poetical and theatrical, and married to his piratical career with a ferocity from which no good shall ever spring.

Prentiss:

CAST. Male character, any ethnicity; a bit younger than Peter (played by an actor 18+). Prentiss is also an orphan. Ambitious, hyper-articulate, logical. Yearns to be the leader of the boys, even as he knows he never will be on account of the fact that boys wouldn’t follow him no matter what, and also just the teeny-tiniest touch of cowardice. The blowhard of the boys. Envies Peter, and tests his authority relentlessly.

Ted:

CAST. 11-year-old male character (played by an actor 18+). Ted is an orphan. Obsessed with food. The most talented of the boys, a natural actor, an easy wit with a sardonic sense of humor. Logical, and resigned to hardships. Called Tubby by the other boys, though not necessarily because of his girth.

Fighting Prawn:

CAST. Man, 25-35, any ethnicity. King of the Mollusk natives. Kidnapped by British sailors, he served as sous-chef below stairs in a stately English manor house in Derbyshire, where, for no good reason, he specialized in Italian cuisine. Since returning to his island kingdom, he has happily murdered any English with the temerity to land on his Mollusk Isle domain.