THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD Equity Principal Audition - Luna Stage Company Auditions

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THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD

– Equity Principal Auditions

Luna Stage Company (West Orange, NJ) SPT Tier 2; $230/week minimum

Artistic Director: Jane Mandel

Director: Troy Miller

1^st rehearsal: 3/22/11. Runs: 4/14/11 - 5/15/11

Equity Principal Auditions

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at the Actors' Equity Audition Center

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

Lunch from 1 - 2. New York, NY

Prepare a contemporary monologue no longer than 2 (two) minutes.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together.

Seeking:

Gino:

A man in his mid 30s/mid 40s. An engineer. Second generation Italian-American from New York City. Smart and charismatic, he is spearheading/overseeing the World Trade Center Towers project for the Port Authority.

Yama:

A man in his 40s/50s. An architect. Second generation Japanese-American from the Pacific Northwest. Eccentric and sometimes combative, he is designing the World Trade Center Towers.

Lee:

A man in his 20s/30s. A structural engineer/research physicist from Chicago. Socially inept and brilliant, he is the principal structural engineer for the World Trade Center Towers.

Woman 1:

30s-40s. Plays the following roles:

• The Chrysler Building: the Tallest Building in the World for one year in 1930.
• Joy: Yama’s secretary and an aspiring actress from Detroit. A young woman of the early 1960s
• Mrs. Safran: Head of Public Relations for the Port Authority from New York City. A middle-aged woman of the mid-1960s.

Man 1:

50s-60s. Plays the following roles:

• The Manhattan Company Building: the Tallest Building in the World for one month in 1930.
• Kravitz: A Jewish-American owner of an electronics store in New York City. He protests the World Trade Center project because threatens his business.
• Weiss: The owner of the Empire State Building, who is vocal in speaking out against the building of the World Trade Center.