Elision Productions
CONTRACT
SPT $300 weekly minimum (SPT 1)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in 2022-23 season (see breakdown).
Actors of all ages, gender, abilities, races and ethnicities are welcome and encouraged to audition.
Local Twin Cities actors encouraged to submit.
All productions were scheduled pre-COVID and postponed. Roles were cast via previous auditions. Roles listed are open due to conflicts of previously cast actors. Also seeking possible replacements for other roles as well as possible understudies.
Sea Cabinet - seeking ensemble role
Ghost Quartet - seeking Dave role
First Lady Suite - seeking Marian Anderson role
Ruthless - fully cast
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a one-minute song of your choice. You may use the accompaniment provided at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zoorx4GbUgAXcGPxiyv6t_VQir_ePppU. For SEA CABINET and GHOST QUARTET, please highlight whether you play guitar, mandolin, ukulele, violin, or cello. When you send your auditions, please include a resume and headshot.
Deadline: Tue, Jul 19, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Lindsay Fitzgerald - Director
Harrison Wade - Music Director
Christine Wade - Vocal Director
Cindy Polich - Producer
OTHER DATES
SEA CABINET
First rehearsal: 9/6/22
Opening night: 9/29/22
Closing: 10/8/22 (8 performances)
GHOST QUARTET
First rehearsal: 1/16/23
Opening night: 2/9/23
Closing: 2/18/23 (8 performances)
FIRST LADY SUITE
First rehearsal: 4/3/23
Opening night: 4/27/23
Closing: 5/6/23 (8 performances)
RUTHLESS
First rehearsal: 6/19/23
Opening night: 7/13/23
Closing: 7/23/23 (8 performances)
OTHER
REHEARSALS AND PRODUCTIONS IN CRYSTAL, MINNESOTA (Twin Cities Metropolitan Area).
Video submissions are requested in lieu of in-person auditions. All submissions will be fully viewed by casting decision makers.
ACTORS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY WORKED WITH THEATRE ELISION ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SUBMIT FOR THESE AUDITIONS, BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED, PLEASE EMAIL 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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
SEA CABINET
Music and Lyrics by Gwyneth Herbert; Book by Heidi James
A woman walks the beach alone, obsessively collecting every discarded and washed up object she finds. She takes them home to catalogue each one with the care and rigor of a scientist. Each item sings with the memory of a secret sea-set story.
An ensemble of four women play the items. Music has a folk vibe and has been described as blending “Weimar cabaret and English music-hall stylings with disquieting touches of avant-garde jazz.”
Three of four ensemble members have been cast. Seeking one additional ensemble member, as well as possible replacement positions and understudies.
GHOST QUARTET
Book, lyrics, and music by Dave Malloy
A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a treehouse astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk. Cast members present the story and music as a concept album and accompany themselves on keyboard, violin, ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and percussion.
Seeking actor to play the Dave role, as well as possible replacement positions and understudies for other roles.
Seeking:
Dave (male): plays multiple roles including Monk, The Astronomer, Edgar, The Driver
Brent (male) - CAST: to play multiple roles including Shah Zaman, Bear, The Fool, The Pusher
Brittain (Female)- CAST: plays multiple roles including Dunyazad, Rose Red, Starchild, Roxie, The Photographer, Rose
Gelsey (Female) - CAST: plays multiple roles including Scheherazade, Pearl White, Soldier, Lady Usher, The Victim, Pearl
FIRST LADY SUITE
Book, lyrics and music by Michael John LaChiusa
First Lady Suite examines 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. Where’s Mamie? is a time-travel fantasy as Mamie, melancholic and alone on her birthday, is paid a visit by the celebrated opera star Marian Anderson. Olio presents first daughter Margaret Truman singing at a recital but constantly upstaged by First Lady Bess. 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.
Seeking actor to play Marian Anderson. and seeking possible replacement positions and understudies for other roles.
Female #6: Marian Anderson
Female #1 (CAST): Mary Gallagher – Jackie Kennedy’s Secretary; Amelia Earhart
Female #2 (CAST): Evelyn Lincoln – President Kennedy’s Secretary; Margaret Truman
Female #3 (CAST): Jackie Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt
Female #4 (CAST): Mamie Eisenhower
Female #5 (CAST): Bess Truman and Lorena Hickok
Male #1 (CAST): Dwight Eisenhower
RUTHLESS
Music by Marvin Laird and Book and Lyrics by Joel Paley
The story of Tina, a precocious eight-year-old who knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking in her school play, and will do anything to get the part, including murdering the leading lady.
ALL ROLES ARE CAST. Seeking possible replacement positions and understudies.
Tina: a young “triple threat”, loaded with talent and manipulative to the core, she is sickeningly sweet but underneath, is a remorseless psychopath. Has a strong belt. F# below middle C to E one octave above middle C
Judy/Ginger: Tina’s mother, a simple June Cleaver-type housewife (with similarities to Ellen Greene in Little Shop of Horrors), who is transformed into Ginger, a Norma Desmond-type Broadway diva. F below middle C to B Flat one octave above middle C
Sylvia St. Croix: The stereotypical “in-your-face” talent manager, who is obsessed with making Tina a star. Middle C to E one octave above middle C.
Miss Thorn: A wannabe actress who had to settle for teaching third grade, she is the director of the school play. Her integrity in casting is questionable. E below middle C to B above middle C
Louise Lerman: The student who beats out Tina for the lead in the school play, she has limited talent. Middle C to B Flat above middle C
Lita Encore: Judy’s adoptive mother, a theatre critic with a poison pen, who hates musicals. An Ethel Merman-type with a strong belt. E below middle C to D one octave above middle C
Eve: Efficient personal assistant to Broadway star, Ginger. She wants Ginger’s life and copies her every mannerism. F# below middle C to C above middle C
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 submit.
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