QUEEN OF THE STARDUST BALLROOM Equity Principal Dancer Audition - Staged Reading Auditions

QUEEN OF THE STARDUST BALLROOM

– Equity Principal Dancer (Partnering) Auditions

Prods: Michael Filerman and Barry Brown Special Agreement Staged Reading Contract $550/week minimum.

Music: Billy Goldenberg

Additional Music: Marvin Hamlisch

Lyrics: Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

Book: Jerome Kass

Dir/Choreo: Jerry Mitchell

Mus Dirs: John McDaniel and Todd Ellison

Casting: Telsey + Company/Justin Huff

Reading dates: 11/8 – 11/19/10.

Equity Principal Dancer (Partnering) Auditions (Equity Chorus Call procedures):

Thursday, October 14, 2010 Pearl Studios NYC

10 AM – Equity male AND female dancers who sing 500 Eighth Avenue, 4th Floor

New York City

Equity Chorus Call procedures are in effect for Equity Principal Dancer Auditions. A sign-up sheet will be posted at the Equity Audition Center (165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC) from 9:30 AM on Thursday, October 7 through 5 PM on Wednesday, October 13. If you have signed the sheet, arrive at the audition’s holding room at least ½-hour before the call begins; the Equity Auditions Monitor will read out the names on the sign-up sheet at that time. If you miss hearing your name called from the sheet and wish to be guaranteed an audition opportunity, you must check in with the Monitor to get a numbered audition card no later than the start time of the call.

Please be warmed up and ready to dance when the call begins. All: Character shoes and leather shoes. Women: Heels. Men: Pants and dance attire. Women: Skirt and dance attire. Some may be asked to stay and sing after all have danced. Please prepare a brief, traditional musical theater song, and bring your book of sheet music. Accompanist provided.

Please bring a resume and a picture (of yourself), stapled together. Bring your current, paid-up Equity Card.

Based on the 1978 musical BALLROOM, which was produced and directed by Michael Bennett.

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

Lucille:

Caucasian, 30s-40s. In the same neighborhood, Lucille owns a dress store and designs many of the dresses she sells. Her clients include many of the Stardust regulars. Her dresses have a distinctive Bronx look and style. Lucille has a gripe against all men. Must also sing well and dance. Featured ensemble character.

Evelyn:

50s-60s, any ethnicity. The cosmetician in the neighborhood; sells make-up and does the faces of many Stardust regulars. Works for Dolores, who thinks Evelyn knows so much about make-up that she belongs in Hollywood. Evelyn has had a heart attack and recovered. Refuses to stop dancing. Considers it her life’s blood. She and Moe are an item at the Stardust. Must also sing well and dance. Featured ensemble character.

Martha:

African American, late 50s-60s. Angie’s friend, and a regular at the Stardust. The most distinctive dresser at the ballroom. Composes highly original outfits for herself from vintage clothing. Has been married and divorced three or four times and produced four children, all of them professionals. One of them, her youngest and favorite, is gay. Of the four, he’s the only one who interests her. She is in a hot relationship with Petey, her dance partner at the ballroom. When they dance together, they sizzle. Must also dance and sing well. Featured ensemble character.

Johnny:

Italian, 30s-40s. Young, married hot jitterbug. Angie’s partner on and off the dance floor, until he gets his wife pregnant and stops coming to the Stardust. Must sing and dance well. Featured ensemble character.

Petey:

African American, late 50s-60s. Stardust regular. Martha’s partner; very hot for her although he, too, probably has a wife at home. Sells appliances – wholesale – to Stardust regulars. Must sing and dance well. Featured ensemble character.

Lana:

Latina, 50s-70s. Lana is one of the youngest dancers at the Stardust. She and Bob take ballroom dance lessons and so consider themselves expert dancers. They are always dressed to the nines. They never skip a dance. They sail across the dance floor elegantly, and maybe a little arrogantly. They are very much in love. Must dance very well. Latin ballroom experience is a HUGE plus. Singing is a plus. Featured ensemble character.

Bob:

Latino, 50s-70s. See description for Lana, above. Must dance very well. Latin ballroom experience is a HUGE plus. Singing is a plus. Featured ensemble character.

Fernando:

Latino, 30s-40s. The Stardust bartender; when he mixes drinks, it’s like a dance. Young, handsome, hot. Attracted to older women – Angie in particular; admires everything about her, especially her humor. Must also dance and sing well. Featured ensemble character.

Gretchen:

Caucasian teen. Sexy; looks like Marilyn Monroe. Reluctantly looking for her first job, under pressure from her mother. Excels at being seductive. Must dance also, and sing well. Featured ensemble character.

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

Dolores:

CAST. Caucasian, 40s. Owns a beauty salon, in the neighborhood of Bea’s shop. Dolores is the famous hairdresser in the neighborhood. Does the hair of many of the Stardust regulars, and is considered by them to be a genius. Has never been married, and regrets it deeply. Must sing and dance well. Featured ensemble character.

Phil:

CAST. Caucasian, 50s. Once a friend of Maury’s, still an acquaintance of Helen and Jack’s. Phil is all about sex. It’s all he thinks about. It’s the reason he comes to the Stardust. He is known for his dirty jokes and comments. Bea is surprised to find him at the Stardust when she first gets there; even more surprised when he comes on to her. His aggressive sexuality turns Bea off him permanently. Must sing and dance well. Featured ensemble character.

Moe:

CAST. Caucasian, late 50s-60s. Shoe salesman who sells his shoes wholesale to Stardust regulars. His dancing shoes are always popular. Moe is mad about Evelyn. Must sing and dance well. Featured ensemble character.

Harry:

CAST. Caucasian, 50s. Retired dentist. Slightly demented. Loves to dance – alone – and watch himself in the mirror. When he dances, he has the look and grace of a flamingo. Must dance well and sing. Featured ensemble character.

Note from Equity:

Equity Principal Auditions for singer-actor positions will be held at Telsey + Company on October 13. See separate notice.