SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES Submission - McCarter Theatre Auditions

LORT

SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES – Photo / Resume Request

McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NJ) LORT B; $750/week minimum

Artistic Director: Emily Mann

Director: Rebecca Taichman

Book: Rachel Sheinkin

Music: Brendan Milburn

Lyrics: Valerie Vigoda

Choreographer: Doug Varone

1^st rehearsal: 3/28/11. Runs: 4/29 – 6/5/11 (Possible Extension through June 19, 2011)

NYC auditions will be held January 27 – February 4, 2011, by appointment only.

Seeking submissions from Actors' Equity Members only for these particular auditions.

For consideration, email picture and resume to:

sleepingbeautywakescast@gmail.com

Please indicate in the subject line: Attn Audra / AEA self submit

Deadline for submissions: January 14, 2011

Note: SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES is a new musical by Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda (Striking 12). All of the performers in this company are principals. They must all be great pop/rock singers with serious range, great musicianship and an ability to hold very tight harmonies and blend extremely well. All performers must have great comic timing and a terrific sense of fun. Every person in the show is idiosyncratic, eccentric and unique. And tired.

Seeking:

Rls (Restless Leg Syndrome):

(late 40s to early 50s) Female. Any Ethnicity. RLS is a mother of five children under 12. She’s always had a sense of humor about herself. Her husband doesn’t get it in particular, but she has a sense of humor about that too. She is a good, attentive mother, she gets her kids to Church every Sunday in dresses and suits - none of them expensive but clean and pressed. RLS has never quite lost her pregnancy weight - but then she was always sturdy—never hyper-feminine, never the most beautiful girl in the room, always attractive and always okay with that. She figured she developed a good personality as compensation. RLS married her high school boyfriend. Her husband now sleeps on the couch, because her restless legs keep him up if they share a bed. It used to be a small tic, now it’s a torture. She would say she has a happy life, no complaints, except she just has this horrible thing where her legs drive her crazy and make her nearly want to cut them off. She’s exhausted, she wants sleep more than anything.

Sleepwalker:

(30s, 40s, flexible) Male. Any Ethnicity. An immigrant to United States, has been in country about seven years (country of origin undetermined). Sleepwalking has been a life-long problem for him. Even when he was little he would sometimes get out of bed and raid the icebox in his sleep. He would have no memory of this in the morning, though sometimes he would wake to a sandwich by his bed. As an adult he has created an alarm system for his own refrigerator, though he feels sheepish when it wakes his wife. He has always been surrounded by good, protective women, a fact he appreciates. It makes him feel a little bad that he cheats on his wife from time to time, but compared to how often he has the impulse he feels he’s doing well. He is a professional in homeland, but works lower-wage jobs in U.S. He loves soccer (football), his adopted country, sex, fixing things.

Night Terrors:

(20s – early 30s) Female. Any Ethnicity. Army Specialist, recently on active duty, who was deployed twice in combat zones. Now separated from army and awaiting decision on her discharge. Tough and working class, she enlisted as a Private after a 2 year community college program, and received rank promotions over the course of her service. Recently returned from second tour of duty, which for some reason hit her harder than the first. Her entire unit was called back before they were expecting it; and she had a surprising amount of psychological difficulty with this. In second deployment half of her unit was killed in roadside explosion. In her night terrors she senses presences that are not there—how real they feel freaks her out even more than images of horrors that replay or are reinvented in her dreams. It has made her not want to sleep. She does not have much of an appetite, though she forces herself to eat three meals a day. Of course in the clinic she makes her own bed with tight hospital corners. Must be a terrific actress capable of bringing the horror of war and night into a theatre with honesty, compassion and subtlety.