TOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE 2011 SEASON Equity Principal Audition - Totem Pole Playhouse Auditions

Totem Pole Playhouse 2011

– Equity Principal Auditions

Fayetteville PA CORST $703/week minimum.

Artistic Dir: Ray Ficca

Equity Principal Auditions:

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 – Accompanist provided. Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 – Accompanist provided. 165 West 46th Street, 2nd floor

Thursday, March 3, 2011 – No accompanist. New York City

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM all three days.

Lunch from 1 – 2.

Please prepare a brief monologue and/or a musical theatre selection appropriate to the Theatre’s season. If auditioning with both a monologue and a song, please prepare a one-minute monologue and 16 bars of a song. Both musicals require many actor/musicians. Actors wishing to be considered for these roles are encouraged to play 16 bars on an appropriate instrument at the audition. NOTE: Theatre requests that performers help themselves and the directors by selecting material appropriate to Totem Pole’s programming and by keeping their audition pieces brief.

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

All dates are in 2011. Seeking actors for season’s resident acting company. All roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted) unless otherwise specified. Actors will be considered for available roles, and as possible (emergency) replacements in pre-cast roles.

Hank Williams: Lost Highway by Randal Myler and Mark Harelik. 1st reh: 5/17. Runs 5/28-6/12.

The Waitress:

20s/30s. Keeper of an all-night diner somewhere in the South. Cheerful, lonely.

Mama Lily:

50s, Hank’s mother. Marjorie Main-type – strong and somewhat overbearing.

Hoss:

Man, late 20s. Member of Hank’s band. Big, boyish man. Plays upright (“doghouse”) bass.

Jimmy (Burrhead):

30s. Member of Hank’s band. Plays lead electric guitar. From Oklahoma, especially so in his speech.

Leon (Loudmouth):

30s. Member of Hank’s band; skillful musician on many instruments, featured on the fiddle. Pleasant, taciturn.

Fred “Pap” Rose:

50s. Founder and executive of a Nashville music publishing company. From Chicago.

Audrey Willams:

20s. Hank’s wife, and later a professional widow. Blonde Alabama beauty; sweet, exuberant and sure.

Shag:

Man, 30s/40s. Pedal steel guitar player.

Hank Williams:

CAST. Late 20s. South Alabama hillbilly singer, thin and black-eyed.

Tee-Tot:

CAST. African American South Alabama street singer of indeterminate age.

Moonlight and Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson. 1st reh: 5/31. Runs 6/14-6/26.

David O. Selznick:

40s. American film producer.

Ben Hecht:

50s. American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright and novelist.

Victor Fleming:

45-50s. American film director, cinematographer and producer.

Miss Poppenghul:

20s. Selznick’s secretary.

It Could Be Any One of Us by Alan Ayckbourn. 1st reh: 6/15. Runs 6/28-7/10.

Mortimer Chalke:

40s/50s. Frustrated composer. Plays the piano.

Jocelyn Polegate:

40s. Mortimer’s sister. Rather wispy. Wants to be a mystery writer.

Brinton Chalke:

30s. Mortimer’s younger brother. Lean, nervous, restless painter.

Amy Polegate:

15-18. Jocelyn’s daughter. Bored, blank, resentful.

Norris Hollywell:

40s. Jocelyn’s boyfriend. Clumsy detective.

Wendy Winwood:

30s. Rather shy, worn lady.

Suite Surrender by Michael McKeever. 1st reh: 6/29. Runs 7/12-7/24.

Claudia McFadden:

30s/40s. America’s beloved matron of song.

Athena Sinclair:

30s/40s. Great star of stage and screen.

Murphy Stevens:

Woman, 20s/30s. Athena’s personal secretary.

Mr. Pippet:

20-40. Claudia’s personal secretary.

Dora del Rio:

20s/30s. Gossip columnist.

Mrs. Everett P. Osgood:

60s. Society matron. President of the Palm Beach Ladies for Unity.

Francis and Otis:

20s/30s. Bellhops

Bernard S. Dunlap:

CAST. 50s. General manager of the Palm Beach Royale Hotel & Spa.

Honus and Me Story by Dan Gutman. Adaptation: Steven Dietz. 1st reh: 7/13. Runs 7/26-8/7.

Joey Stoshack:

Seeking adult male to play a 10-year-old boy.

Mom / First Lady Fan:

30s/40s.

Dad / Auctioneer / Friendly Fan:

30-40.

Miss Young / Second Lady Fan:

60s/70s.

Birdie / Joey’s Teammate / Wagner Teammate / Ravens Pitcher / Tigers Pitcher:

Male, 20s/30s.

Honus Wagner:

Man, 30s.

Opposing Pitcher / Chuck / Ty Cobb / Ravens Catcher:

Male, 20s.

Coach / Mr. Mendoza / Sportswriter / The Heckler:

50s.

Southern Crossroads by Warner Crocker and Steve Przybylski. 1st reh: 7/27. Runs 8/9-8/21.

When the roaring 20s crashed into the Great Depression, our country had to find a way to endure. Inspiring story about one musical group’s struggle against impossible odds, as they find new hope through music in troubled times. Classics from the “Great American Songbook”, such as “Goodnight Irene”, “Keep On The Sunny Side” and “Midnight Special”, provide the backdrop for this uplifting musical.

Wallace:

30s/40s. Tenor, plays guitar, ukulele and bass.

Rusk:

Man, 30s. Bass, plays piano (rip-roaring ragtime a must), bass and harmonica.

Shannon:

Woman, 30s. Alto, plays piano and percussion.

Loomis:

Male, 20s. Tenor, plays percussion and bass.

Ewell:

Male, 30s/40s. Plays fiddle and mandolin.

Willis:

Male, 30s. Plays guitar, banjo and bass.

Marian:

20s. Engaged to Loomis.

Jake:

30-50. Hobo.

William Samuels:

30-50. The banker.

Matilda Samuels:

30-50. William’s wife. Villain of the piece.

Theatre’s statement: “Totem Pole Playhouse is an equal opportunity employer and supports Equity’s Non-Traditional Casting policy.”

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