White Plains Performing Arts Center 2010-11 Season Equity Principal Audition - White Plains Performing Arts Center Auditions
White Plains Performing Arts Center
White Plains Performing Arts Center
– Equity Principal AuditionsWhite Plains NY LOA $300 - $400/week minimum (depending on number of perfs/week).
Artistic Dir: Annette Jolles
Equity Principal Auditions:
Friday, October 15, 2010 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor
Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City
Please prepare EITHER a) A brief musical theatre song showcasing vocal and acting ability (for THAT TIME OF THE YEAR, comedy is suggested; for ENCHANTED APRIL, classical musical theatre (not rock) is suggested) OR b) A brief monologue showcasing acting ability OR c) 16 bars of a song and a one-minute monologue. If singing, bring sheet music; accompanist provided.
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled together.
Equity Principal Auditions were held separately for the production WALLENBERG. Information on the remainder of the 2010-11 season follows. All roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted) unless otherwise specified.
That Time of the Year by Felicia Needleman, Laurence Holzman, Kyle Rosen, Brad Ross, Donald Oliver, Wendy Wilf, Sanford Cohen, Nick Levin and Mark Wherry. Dir: Annette Jolles. 1st reh: 11/15/10. Runs (Th-Su) 12/2-12/19.
Contemporary holiday musical revue.
www.thattimeoftheyear.com
Two Men and Three Women:
All play characters in their 20s-30s. Must be strong actor-singers. Must be able to do broad comedy and move well.
Enchanted April by Richard B. Evans, Charles Leipart. Based on Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel. Dir: Annette Jolles. 1st reh: 5/9/11. Runs (Th-Su) 6/2-6/19.
Musical. Four discontented London ladies travel to the castle of their dreams in Italy and, in one magical month, rediscover love and the joy of living.
Lottie Wilkins:
30s. Modest housewife from a suburb near London, England. Soprano.
Thomas Briggs:
Mid 20s - early 30s. Composer of romantic art songs. Owner of a medieval castle for hire. Bachelor. Tenor.
Mellersh Wilkins:
Man, mid - late 30s. Serious-minded, ambitious solicitor. Baritone.
Rose Arbuthnot:
Mid 30s - 40s. Library official and pulp novelist. Committed to the welfare of her homestead parish’s poor. Soprano/mezzo.
Frederick Arbuthnot:
Mid 30s – late 40s. Senior Librarian at the British Museum. Enjoyed a successful career as the pseudonymous “Ferdinand Arundel”, author of popular pulp historical fiction. Baritone.
Lady Caroline:
Mid - late 20s. Member of London’s fast and sophisticated aristocratic “bright young things” set. Soprano/mezzo.
Mrs. Fisher:
60s-70s. Widow, proud survivor of the Great Victorian Age. Alto/contralto.
The Passion of the Hausfrau by Bess Welden, Annette Jolles & Nicole Chaison. Dir: Annette Jolles. 1st reh: 1/24/11. Runs (Fr-Su) 2/3-2/13. One-woman play. Role is cast.
Renovations by Andrew Gerle. Based on the book by John Marchese. Dir TBA. 1st reh: 2/28/11. Runs (Th-Su) 3/17-4/3.
Play. Burned-out magazine writer attempts to reconnect with his construction-worker father by renovating a house near his hometown of Scranton, PA.
John Marchese:
40s. Equal measures urbane and self-deprecating, self-aware and blissfully not, intellectual. And successful … more the result of a quirk of nature than drive or ambition. Former journalist.
Tully Marchese:
Man, 60s-70s. Former construction worker. Speaks in short outbursts, colored by a gravelly Scranton accent.
Male Multi-Role Track:
Actor plays multiple roles including Grandfather (old, Italian, doting); John Marchese’s Journalism Colleagues; Various Scranton Townsfolk.
Female Multi-Role Track:
Actress plays multiple roles including a cosmopolitan Journalist; John’s Mother; Real Estate Agent.
Theatre’s statement: “Non-traditional casting is encouraged. The participation in auditions of performers of both genders, all ethnicities, all (adult) ages and all levels of ability and disability is actively solicited.”
