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The Lyric Stage Company 2011-2012 Season Musicals
- Equity Performer Auditions by APPOINTMENT in Boston
Boston, MA NEAT Category 6; salary pending, current minimum $333/week
Producing Artistic Director: Spiro Veloudos
Musical Director: Jonathan Goldberg
Producing Associate: Nora Long
Equity Performer (principal and chorus) Auditions by APPOINTMENT:
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
1 PM – 5 PM 140 Clarendon Street
Boston, MA 02116
To schedule an appointment, please e-mail
nora_long@lyricstage.com with the hour in which you would like to be seen and a contact phone number. You will receive an e-mail confirming your audition time. Performers without e-mail may call (617) 585-5684, Monday – Friday from 10 – 5 and leave a message with a contact phone number and the hour during which you would like to be seen. You will receive a phone call confirming your audition time.
Audition slots are FIVE (5) minutes long. Each actor has a minimum of TWO (2) minutes to perform required audition material. Prepare 32 bars of ONE (1) song in the style of the show. Songs from the show are acceptable. Also prepare ONE (1) short comedic monologue, contemporary or classical. Prepare appropriate material of your choosing, which may be from one or more of the season’s shows. During your five-minute audition appointment, you may audition for one or more roles in the season. Bring sheet music in correct key; accompanist provided but may not transpose.
Scripts are available for review at StageSource, 88 Tremont St, Suite 720, Boston, and also at the audition. A reader will also be provided at the audition.
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www.lyricstage.com to learn more about the plays.
2011-2012 Season:
At this audition, the Theatre is seeking Equity performers for all roles in the following shows.
Note: No housing is available for out-of-area performers.
BIG RIVER: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Music/Lyrics: Roger Miller
Book: William Hauptman
Adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
Director: Spiro Veloudos
1st rehearsal: August 9, 2011. Runs September 2 – October 8, 2011
Seeking:
Huckleberry Finn: Teenager, a rough around the edges, practically orphaned boy, who prefers freedom to domesticity
Tom Sawyer: Teenager, Huck’s friend, clever but often overly dramatic.
Pap Finn: Late 30s-early 50s, Huck’s alcoholic father who abandoned him as a boy. Returns to collect Huck’s trust fund.
Judge Thatcher: Mid 40s –mid 60s, a man tethered to the letter of the law.
A Young Fool: Late teens-early 20s, a young man who loves to gossip
Harvey Wilkes/Silas Phelps: Mid 40s-60s
Mark Twain/Doctor: 30s-50s
Hank, Ben Rodgers, Jo Harper: Teenagers, Tom and Huck’s Schoolmates
Alice: African-American Woman, a slave
Alice’s Daughter: African-American younger woman, a slave
3 Ensemble Women:
2 African-American women, 1 woman any ethnicity. All singers, to play a variety of smaller parts.
5 Ensemble Men:
2 African-American Men, 3 men any ethnicity. All singers, to play a variety of smaller parts.
(Some roles/parts will be doubled).
The Roles of Widow Douglas, The Duke, The King, Jim, Mary Jane Wilkes, and Miss Watson/Strange Woman have already been cast
We will be auditioning for understudies or replacements for these roles.
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
Music by Thomas “Fats” Waller
Based on an idea by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Lyrics by Various
Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: TBD. Runs: TBD
Seeking:
Andre: An unrepentant party hound.
Armelia: Voluptuous and a trifle oversexed.
Charlaine: Sweet, young and innocent.
Ken: Jovial, loud, larger than life--like Fats himself.
Nell: Confident, charming and worldly.
Auditions for the 2011-12 Season PLAYS will be held on Monday, May 23, 2011, 10am to 6pm, at the Lyric Stage Company, Boston, MA. See separate notice for information.
It is the intention of the Lyric Stage Company that auditions/interviews shall be conducted in a manner that continues to promote fair consideration to ethnic minorities, women, seniors and performers with disabilities. The Lyric Stage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Theatre’s mailing address:
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA 02116
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