THE BAND'S VISIT (Tour) - NYC EPA
Producing Org TBD
AUDITION DATES
Mon, Nov 12, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30-2:30 pm
Tue, Nov 13, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30-2:30 pm
Wed, Nov 14, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30-2:30 pm
CONTRACT
Short Engagement Touring $1,012 current weekly minimum (Category 1)
SEEKING
Equity actors who are good singers for roles in tour production of THE BAND'S VISIT (see breakdown).
PREPARATION
Please bring sheet music for a song you sing well. An accompanist will be provided.
Please bring a headshot and resume STAPLED.
LOCATION
Pearl Studios NYC (519)
519 8th Ave
12th Fl
New York, NY 10018
Studio F (holding ), Studio G (auditions)
PERSONNEL
Based on a film by Eran Kolirin
Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek
Book by Itamar Moses
David Cromer, Director
Andrea Grody, Music Director
Orin Wolf, John Styles, John Hart, Producers
Tara Rubin Casting, casting
Foresight Theatrical / Gentry & Associates – General Management
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: May 13th, 2019 in NYC
1st Performance: June 25th, 2019 in Providence, RI
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
Dina (30’s-40's) owner of a café, beautiful, world-weary, passionate, with a dry wit. Primary vocal range: D3-C5.
Tewfiq (50s) Egyptian - Leader of the Egyptian Ceremonial Police Orchestra - a shy, formal man, carrying a buried burden of sadness. Primary vocal range: B2-C4.
Haled (20s) Egyptian – Trumpet player in the Orchestra - handsome, smooth, a bit of a flirt, loves jazz. (Trumpet skills are a plus but NOT required.) Primary vocal range: D3-F#4.
Papi (20s) disheveled, works at café, nervous around girls. Primary vocal range: D3-Ab4.
Telephone Guy (20s), man who waits by a phone, very romantic. Primary vocal range: C3-Bb4.
Simon (40s) Egyptian - The assistant conductor and clarinetist in the Orchestra - once wanted to be a composer. (Clarinet skills are a plus but NOT required.) Primary vocal range: D3-D4.
Camal (20s-30s) Egyptian – Violinist in the Orchestra – paranoid, wants to go home. (Violin skills a HUGE plus.) Primary vocal range: A2-E4.
Itzik (late 20s - 30s) married to Iris, a dreamer, currently unemployed. Primary vocal range: C3-G4.
Iris (late 20s – 30s) married to Itzik, a nurse, tough, hard-working, close to the end of her rope. Primary vocal range: G3-E5.
Avrum (50s) Iris’s father, warm and a bit gruff, a widower. Primary vocal range: D3-Eb4.
Zelger (20s) brash, charismatic, friend of Papi, fun-loving. Primary vocal range: B2-Eb4.
Julia (20s) Papi’s blind date, gloomy and shy. Primary vocal range: G3-E5.
Anna (20s) Julia’s cousin, sexy and extroverted. Primary vocal range: G3-G5.
Sammy (30s) a married man and sometime-lover of Dina. Primary vocal range: C3-Bb4.
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 audition.
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