THE PRODUCERS - Philadelphia PA EPA
Bucks County Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
AUDITION DATES
Sun, Mar 10, 2019
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
No scheduled break
Sun, Mar 17, 2019
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
No scheduled break
APPOINTMENTS
AEA members may request an appointment by calling 215-297-8540 Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. AEA members without appointments seen as time permits on day of.
CONTRACT
SPT SPT 6; $479 current min. (Equity to negotiate a new fee after June, 2019)
SEEKING
Equity actor/singer/dancers for various roles. see breakdown.
PREPARATION
Music to sing, dance clothes to dance, bring resume and headshot
LOCATION
Walnut Street Theatre
825 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5107
PERSONNEL
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music & Lyrics by Mell Brooks
In attendance:
Director Dann Dunn
Choreographer Dan Dunn
Artistic Director Howard Perloff
Music Director Tom Fosnocht
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal -- 8/22/2019
Performance Dates -- 8/7/2019-8/18/2019
Performances at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of audition.
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
The role of Max Bialystock has been CAST.
Seeking
Leopold Leo Bloom -- is a timid, shy and mild-mannered accountant, prone to panic attacks and who keeps a fragment of his childhood blue blanket in his pocket to calm himself. Towards the end of the film, when Leo tries to turn himself in and use his accountant books as evidence, Max stops Leo on the way out the door and steals Leo's books, causing Leo to lose his temper and attack Max in a fit of rage, demanding the books back and repeatedly calling him fat fatty. Nevertheless, it is Leo who has the idea of how to make money from a failed play.
Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson Bloom -- is a young Swedish woman who becomes Max's secretary. In the 1968 film, Ulla is introduced as a toy that Max found in the local library, and is a symbol of his new found affluence. She can speak little English, but is a jiggly dancer, and can dance better than she can type. She also constantly says God dag på dig, which means good day to you in Swedish (with a faux-Swedish accent), and provides a sexier counterpoint to Max's older girlfriends. [In the musical adapted from the film, Ulla introduces herself as a Swedish actress looking for a part in Max and Leo's production Springtime for Hitler. She is a stereotypical Swedish woman: tall and beautiful with lovely blonde hair. She performs a song she wrote called When You Got It, Flaunt It. She decided to audition when a crazy man (Max) yelled at her the previous day. While the casting isn't to start for quite a while, Max and Leo hire her as their secretary/receptionist. Following the unwanted success of the musical, she and Leo flee to Rio de Janeiro where they marry. Her maiden name is never mentioned, but by the end of the play she is Ulla Inga Hansen-Bensen-Yanson-Tallen-Hallen-Svaden-Swanson Bloom.]
Roger Elizabeth De -- Bris is a flamboyantly gay theatre director, described by Max Bialystock as the worst director to have ever lived, and was chosen by Bialystock in an attempt to ensure that Springtime for Hitler would flop. He lives with his equally flamboyant partner Carmen Ghia and his production crew in a house described as an Upper East Side town house in New York. While the musical and the 2005 film clarify his sexuality, it was only implied in the original.
Carmen Ghia -- is the partner of Roger De Bris. He is played by Andreas Voutsinas in the 1967 film. In the 2001 Broadway show The Producers he was played by Roger Bart, and the 2005 musical film The Producers also by Roger Bart. [The character is named after the Karmann Ghia, marketed from 1955 to 1974 by Volkswagen. Carmen Ghia is Roger De Bris' common-law assistant. They are both flamboyantly gay and they love to flounce around their Upper East Side town house. Voutsinas was a friend of Brooks' wife Anne Bancroft, who performed with him at The Actors Studio. She recommended him for the role of Carmen Ghia feeling his natural Greek accent would contribute to the role's comedy. According to Voutsinas, who did Ghia's own make-up, Brooks instructed him to look like Rasputin and behave like Marilyn Monroe.]
Franz Liebkind -- (Liebkind being a humorous calque into German of the English idiom love child) is a former Nazi who has penned an admiring musical tribute to Adolf Hitler, titled Springtime for Hitler. The two protagonists, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, purchase and produce this worst play ever written as part of a plot to defraud investors by overselling and staging a sure-fire flop. [The part was originally cast for Dustin Hoffman, but Mel Brooks allowed him to audition for the film adaptation of The Graduate before shooting began for his own film in anticipation that he would be rejected. Instead, Hoffman was cast as the lead of the film directed by Mike Nichols and Brooks thus had to recast the Liebkind role. Liebkind is portrayed as easily angered and emotionally unstable. The only background to his character is that he is a Nazi, carrier pigeon keeper (he named his favorite pigeon Adolf), and playwright who continues to worship Hitler. In the 2005 film he is seen sending one of his pigeons with a message to Argentina. In an early draft of the script, he was portrayed as Hitler's former butler. Liebkind is shown to be nervous about his past catching up with him. When Bialystock and Bloom go up to his roof to ask about acquiring the rights to Springtime for Hitler, Liebkind thinks they are from the US government and says 'I vos only following orders, I didn't even know there vos a vor on. We lived in the back near Switzerland.' While in court for bombing the theater, he hums American music to try to convince authorities that he's not an immigrant.]
Lorenzo St. DuBois -- also known by his initials L.S.D., is a charismatic but only semi-coherent, flower power hippie who can barely remember his own name. L.S.D. is cast as Hitler after he had wandered into the wrong theatre by mistake during the casting call. In the opening performance of Springtime for Hitler, the audience is initially horrified by the tasteless musical play and begins to leave, but L.S.D.'s beatnik-like portrayal of Hitler (and misunderstanding of the story) is found to be hilarious, causing the audience to misinterpret the production as a satire. As a result, Springtime for Hitler is declared a smash-hit.
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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