SYRACUSE STAGE 2012-13 SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Syracuse Stage Auditions

Syracuse Stage – Equity Principal Auditions

(Syracuse, NY) LORT C; $710/week

Artistic Director --- Timothy Bond

Equity Principal Auditions:

Monday, April 9, 2012 at the Actors' Equity Audition Center

9:30 AM — 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Lunch from 1 - 2.

Prepare either: 1) one brief monologue under 2 minutes; OR 2) two contrasting 1-minute monologues. If interested in MOBY DICK, also be prepared to sing 8 bars of a sea shanty a cappella.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together.

MOBY DICK (adapted from Melville's novel by Julian Rad)

Director: Peter Amster

First Rehearsal: September 11, 2012. Runs: October 12 - November 4, 2012

Note: High probability of doubling. Possibilities include Stubb/Capt.Gardiner; Starbuck/Landlord; Mr.Peleg/Carpenter/Capt. Boomer, Elijah/Perth. No doubling for Ishmael, Ahab, Queequeg

Note: All actors need to be able to be physically vigorous and must be able to sing sea shanties.

Ishmael:

20s. Juvenile lead. Pleasant, attractive, great language skills, can talk to audience and give them access to his thinking process and emotional landscape. Strong singer.

Ahab

Captain of the Pequod: 40-60: a “grand, ungodly, god-like man,” monomaniacal, hypnotic in his intensity, physically imposing, with a huge voice and a wooden leg.

Starbuck

the First Mate: 40-50, tall, a sincere leader of men, a Quaker, a family man. One who has the guts to stand up to Ahab. His moral dilemma and deep faith resonate in all he does.

Landlord:

40-50, loquacious, merry, loves a good joke.

Queequeg:

28-40, A man of color (Polynesian), physically imposing, dangerous, edgy, but attractive.

Mr. Peleg:

50, an old seaman, brown, brawny, full of insular prejudices, distrustful, but with surprising energy.

Elijah:

40-60, beggarlike, scarred by smallpox, a mad prophet, with unnerving energy.

Perth

the blacksmith: 60, a sentimental , melodramatic ex-drunk who lost everything, including some toes to frostbite.

Stubb

the Second Mate: 30-45 carefree, foolish, laughing, drunken, wise. Would do anything for a laugh. Can be insensitive and deceitful

Flask

the Third Mate: 30-50: Short, stumpy, pugnacious.

Carpenter:

30-45, lives by his hands. A man of many skills and no personality to speak of. His dullness Ahab finds annoying.

Captain Boomer:

60, an Englishman, darkly-tanned, burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, with a detachable artificial arm.

Captain Gardiner:

40-50, a strong, good man diminished by grief. A friend of Ahab, astonished to be denied help or succor in his plight.

TWO TRAINS RUNNING

Director: Timothy Bond

First Rehearsal January 1, 2013. Runs: February 1 - February 17, 2013

Memphis:

Black man, 50s. Owner of the diner where the action of the play is set. “Memphis is a self-made man whose values of hard work, diligence, persistence and honesty have been consistently challenged by the circumstances of his life. His greatest asset is his impeccable logic.”

Holloway:

Black man, 60s. “Holloway is a man who all his life has voiced his outrage at injustice with little effect. His belief in the supernatural has enabled him to accept his inability to effect change and continue to pursue life with zest and vigor.

Sterling:

Black man, 30. When we first meet Sterling, he “wears a suit and a dress shirt without a tie, along with a straw hat that is out of style. He has been out of the penitentiary for one week and the suit is his prison issue. Sterling appears at times to be unbalanced, but it is a combination of his unorthodox logic and straightforward manner that makes him appear so.

Risa:

Black woman, 30s. Risa “is a young woman who, in an attempt to define herself in terms other than her genitalia, has scarred her legs with a razor.”

Wolf:

Black man, 30s. Wolf “is a man who enjoys his notoriety and popularity as the community’s numbers runner. While he manages to keep money in his pocket and a decent pair of shoes on his feet, his inability to find secure female companionship is the single failure that marks his life.”

West:

Black man, 60s. The undertaker. “He is dressed all in black, except for a white shirt. He wears a pair of black gloves. Since his wife’s deather he has allowed his love of money to overshadow the other possibilities of life.”

Hambone:

Black man, late 40s. Hambone is “self-contained and in a world of his own. His mental condition has deteriorated to such a point that he can only say two phrases and he repeats them idiotically over and over.

GOOD PEOPLE

Dates TBD

Please note that GOOD PEOPLE (by David Lindsay Abaire) will originate at Cleveland Playhouse and be cast by Cleveland Playhouse. Watch for their auditions.

AN ILLIAD

Dates TBD

This is a one character play and has been CAST.