Theatre Elision Days 2019-20 - Crystal EPA
Elision Productions
AUDITION DATES
Sat, Jun 01, 2019
10:00 am - 4:00 pm (CDT)
Break From 12:30 - 1:00 PM
Mon, Jun 03, 2019
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (CDT)
Callbacks will be held Wednesday, June 5th from 6-9 pm
APPOINTMENTS
Schedule your audition time online via this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090544A4AA22AAFE3-20192020
CONTRACT
SPT STP 1 $263 PER WEEK MINIMUM
SEEKING
Theatre Elision is seeking Equity actor/singers for our 2019-2020 season. The season will include five productions requiring a wide variety of acting and singing styles. Strong vocal skills and parts singing are required for all shows.
PREPARATION
Bring headshot, resume and sheet music. Please prepare one 16 to 32-bar cut of a song. Have a second contrasting cut prepared if requested. Accompanist will be provided. Please highlight any musical instruments you can play proficiently on your resume.
LOCATION
Elision Playhouse
6105 42nd Avenue North
Crystal, MN 55422
PERSONNEL
Director - Lindsay Redman
Music Director - Harrison Wade
OTHER DATES
Season will run September 2019-May 2020.
OTHER
Theatre Elision will make best efforts to make appointments available at a mutually agreeable time for any Actors’ Equity member who is unavailable to be seen during these scheduled auditions.
EPA Procedures are in effect for audition.
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 2019-2020 season includes:
If the Spirit Moves
Book and Lyrics by Germaine Shames;
Music by Erin Murray Quinlan
Performances in late September
Rehearsals begin in late August
A disillusioned expat Dadaist artist returns after World War I. Needing to earn a living, she sets out to impersonate a spirit medium—only to discover that she is the real deal. A shell-shocked war hero, a charity matron mourning her daughter, and a young war widow flock to the reluctant medium and are spontaneously healed. A wealthy male client falls in love with her. When her former love comes courting in the form of a directionless Dada poet, she must choose, not only between two men, but two radically different outlooks on life. If the Spirit Moves is a tender tale of recovery and healing in which rich and poor, living and dead, transcend their differences through laughter, tears, and hope for a brighter tomorrow.
Seeking 4 women / 2 men
Daphne: young artist - 20s, Desiree: emotionally scarred actress - 20s.
Mrs. Barnes: young widow - 20s (legit soprano).
Lady Aspen: bereaved society matron - 40s – 60s (legit soprano).
Kurt: disillusioned Dadaist - 20.
Edward: wealthy, shell-shocked ex-soldier - 20s.
Ghost Quartet
Book, lyrics and music by Dave Malloy
Performances in late October
Rehearsals begin early October
A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a tree house astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk. The story draws from several fairy tales and ghost stories, including Snow White and Rose Red, Edgar Allen Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, and One Thousand and One Nights (commonly known as Arabian Nights). Cast members present the story and music as a concept album and accompany themselves on keyboard, violin, ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and percussion.
Seeking 2 women / 2 men.
Available cast members from last year’s production will be offered their roles, but we are auditioning for possible replacements.
Please highlight whether you play guitar, mandolin, ukulele, cello and/or percussion.
A Flight of Short Musicals
Performances for one weekend in late January
Rehearsals begin early January
We’ll present an evening of 5-6 ten to twenty-minute musicals.
Seeking 2 women / 2 men with versatile voices (contemporary MT to operatic) to rotate through the musicals.
First Lady Suite
Words and Music by Michael John LaChiusa
Performances in Mid-March
Rehearsals begin Mid-February
First Lady Suite is an enthralling look into the lives of some of history’s most neglected figures, the wives of U.S. presidents. The musical is presented in four vignettes. The first piece, Over Texas, takes place aboard Air Force One on November 22nd, 1963. Mary Gallagher, the First Lady’s personal secretary, and Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary to the President, are trying to relax as they fly into Dallas. While napping, Mary’s dreams become portentous nightmares as they are haunted by a ghostly Jackie and an eerie Lady Bird. Where’s Mamie? takes place in Ike and Mamie’s bedroom at the White House, yet quickly turns into a time-travel fantasy as Mamie, melancholic and alone on her birthday, is paid a visit by the celebrated opera star Marian Anderson. Marian whisks Mamie off to Algiers to confront Ike about an affair and warn him of the racial strife he’ll face later as President. Olio presents first daughter Margaret Truman at a recital trying her best to sing as she’s constantly upstaged by First Lady Bess. The final piece of the Suite, Eleanor Sleeps Here, is a heart-rending examination of the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok as they’re flown over Washington by Amelia Earhart.
Seeing 4 to 6 women / 1 man to play multiple characters across the four vignettes.
Over Texas: Mary Gallagher, Evelyn Lincoln, Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Aide
Where’s Mamie: Mamie Eisenhower, Marian Anderson, Kay Summersby, Dwight Eisenhower/Aide
Olio: Margaret Truman, Bess Truman
Eleanor Sleeps Here: Eleanor Roosevelt, Lorena Hickok, Amelia Earhart
Anne and Will
Book by Sandra Hochman and Cindy Polich,
Lyrics by Sandra Hochman,
Music by Galt MacDermot and Gary William Friedman
Performances in Mid-May
Rehearsals in April
A staged reading of a new musical by Pulitzer-prize nominated poet Sandra Hochman and local playwright Cindy Polich, with new music by Grammy-winning composer of Hair, Galt MacDermot, and Tony-nominated composer Gary William Friedman. Much has been written about William Shakespeare and his illustrious career. Less is known about the women in his life. This musical imagines that four women were instrumental in putting Shakespeare on the path to literary greatness – his mother, his wife, Queen Elizabeth, and a plucky barmaid who may have saved his life in a treacherous London.
Seeking 2 women / 2 men
Anne Shakespeare.
Will Shakespeare.
Mother/Queen Elizabeth/Barmaid.
Marlowe/King James/Scribe.
Actors of all ages, gender, abilities, races and ethnicities are welcome and encouraged to audition. REHEARSALS AND PRODUCTIONS IN CRYSTAL, MINNESOTA (Twin Cities Metropolitan Area).
LOCAL ACTORS PREFERRED.
Note to AEA Actors: If on-line audition slots are full, please email us at TheatreElision@gmail.com to schedule an audition time. If you are unable to attend these auditions, you are welcome to submit your headshot, resume, and a video audition for our consideration.
ACTORS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY WORKED WITH THEATRE ELISION ARE WELCOME BUT NOT REQUIRED TO ATTEND OUR SEASON AUDITIONS. PLEASE EMAIL US AT theatreelision@gmail.com IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR CALLBACKS. LET US KNOW IF ANY SHOWS ARE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST AND PLEASE INCLUDE AN UPDATED RESUME AND HEADSHOT.
Casting updates will be posted on our website: www.elisionproductions.com
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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