STEEL MAGNOLIAS Submission - Everyman Theatre Auditions

STEEL MAGNOLIAS - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Everyman Theatre

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep $739 weekly minimum (LORT D)

SEEKING

All roles for STEEL MAGNOLIAS (Not including roles noted in breakdown as already cast with Resident Acting Company.)

INSTRUCTIONS

Please prepare one contemporary monologue of approximately 2-3 minutes. Please introduce yourself with your name and what you’re going to perform at the start of your video. Please submit video to: EmanCasting@everymantheatre.org. You can submit a Video of up to 10 mb, or a private video link via YouTube or Vimeo. Deadline is 5:00 pm EDT on May 24, 2021.

Deadline: Mon, May 24, 2021 (EST)

SUBMIT TO

EmanCasting@everymantheatre.org

PERSONNEL

Vincent M. Lancisi, Artistic Director
Viewing auditions:
Kyle Prue, Producing Director
and either Paige Hernandez, Associate Artistic Director or Noah Himmelstein, Associate Artistic Director

OTHER DATES

STEEL MAGNOLIAS
By Robert Harling
Director: Casey Stangl
First Rehearsal: 7/13/2021
Opening: 8/13/2021
Closing: 9/5/2021

OTHER

Everyman embraces identity conscious casting with an intentional eye on gender non binary, diversity, and ability-conscious casting. We believe in fair pay for all guest artists and will continue our transparent practice of compensating for additional commitments as these events occur. We aspire to become an artistic home that is multicultural in representation and centered on anti-racist and anti-oppression practices. Read more through our Statement of Solidarity at everymantheatre.org.

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 submit.

BREAKDOWN

The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, one of the regular clients of the salon dies. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

Character Descriptions: 6 W

Clairee Belcher (Female – 66-ish): Widow of former mayor Grand dame.

Annelle Dupuy-Desoto (Female – 19): Newly hired beauty salon assistant. Moves from unsure, to wild, to religious.

THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST WITH RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY. PERFORMERS WILL BE CONSIDERED AS POSSIBLE REPLACEMENTS SHOULD ANY BECOME NECESSARY:

Ouiser Boudreaux (Female – 66-ish): Wealthy curmudgeon. Acerbic, but lovable.

M’Lynn Eatenton (Female – 50-ish): Shelby's mother. Socially prominent career woman. Always knows what’s best.

Truvy Jones (Female – 40-ish): Owns the beauty shop. Vivacious. Dispenses advice with lots of hairspray.

Shelby Eatenton‐Latcherie (Female – 25): Prettiest girl in town.

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 submit.