SETA
LES MISERABLES – Equity Principal Auditions
Short Engagement Touring Agreement Cat. 1; $855/week minimum
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg
Book: Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg
Lyrics: Alan Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer
Directors: James Powell & Laurence Connor
Associate Director: Anthony Lyn
Musical Supervisor: David Caddick
Musical Director: Bob Billing
Casting: Tara Rubin Casting
Equity Principal Auditions
Monday, January 9, 2012 (new date) at Pearl Studios “519”
10 AM – 5:30 PM 519 Eighth Avenue
Lunch from 1:30 - 2. New York, NY (studios D and F)
Prepare brief contemporary pop or contemporary theatre music song. Opera, jazz, rhythm-and-blues and rock are not the proper styles. Bring sheet music in correct key; accompanist provided but may not transpose.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
LES MISERABLES IS CAST ENTIRELY INTERRACIALLY.
For possible future replacements in the currently running tour:
Jean Valjean:
35-40s. Sings to B (high lyric baritone or tenor with strong low notes). A poor peasant who rises to affluence, he has great natural nobility and dignity. A powerful figure, ideally a large man with a character of operatic size and passion. The voice needs to have a pop/rock sound or a classical sound of extraordinary textual clarity.
Javert:
Baritone, sings to G. Policeman who relentlessly hunts Valjean. Ideally a large man. The ultimate “law and order” figure. Obsessed, to the point of irrationality, with a rigid and merciless moral code. He too is a character of operatic size and passion. Both belt voice and classical can suit this role but must have a darker quality than Jean Valjean.
Thenardier:
Late 30s-40s. Strong comic character role. A crooked innkeeper, later a petty, amoral thief. Greedy, irreverent, selfish, boorish, vulgar. Baritone, sings to F sharp.
Marius:
20s. High baritone (sings to A) with a strong bottom (to A). A member of the revolutionary student movement. Attractive and romantic but in a sensitive, 19th century “byronic” way.
Enjolras:
20s-early 30s. High baritone (to G sharp/A) very strong singer. Charismatic
political figure. Leader of the revolutionary movement.
Fantine:
Late 20s, early 30s. Belt up to C, sings to E flat. Poor factory girl, struggling to support her fatherless daughter. Later is a pauper, a prostitute, a consumptive and a ghost. Earthy and poignant. Although is finally defeated by circumstances she should appear to be strong and a survivor. She puts up a valiant fight against the horrors of her life.
Cosette:
18-25 (the younger the better). Fantine’s daughter (first seen as and played by a child) delicate, elegant, vulnerable and beautiful. Falls in love with and later marries Marius. Soprano (to high C) but a light, young “floating” sound, without heavy vibrato.
Eponine:
An enormous and beautiful belt voice, to C in belt (sings to E flat). Daughter of the Thenardiers but in no way behaves like them. Fired by an unrequited love for Marius. Small, gamine, waif-like. Hasn’t learned to disguise her emotions; wears her heart on her sleeve.
Madame Thenardier:
30s-early 40s. Tough, sharp, coarse, boorish, vulgar. Strong character comedienne role. Belter.
Gavroche:
Boy, age 7 - 11. 52” tall or less. Spunky street urchin. Lots of personality. Sings very well.
Young Cosette and Young Eponine:
Girls, age 7 - 11. 50” tall or less. Sweet innocent waifs. Pretty soprano voice.
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