Lakewood Theatre Company will be having open auditions for GODSPELL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2017. Sign up online to secure an audition appointment at this link: https://www.lakewood-center.org/pages/auditions-Godspell or call 503-635-3901 if you need assistance with sign up.
Godspell is directed and choreographed by Michael Snider. The musical director is Cyndy Ramsey-Rier.
The director is casting 12 actors (age range 18-35). These include 2 featured characters plus an ensemble of 10 who play various roles, sing, and dance. All ethnicities are encouraged to audition. All roles are open for audition and all receive remuneration. For a breakdown of roles, please click here.
Call backs, if needed, will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 20 and 21 at 6:30 PM.
Audition Location: Lakewood Theatre Company at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.
Materials Needed: Please secure an audition appointment online and list all conflicts between March 12 - June 1. At your appointment bring a resume, and a current head shot. Please prepare an uptempo Broadway song (not from Godspell). You MAY be asked to sing a ballad as well. Please make sure your song is in the correct key for your voice (no contemporary, pop, rock, Andrew Lloyd Webber or Sondheim). An accompanist will be provided. Please, no recorded music or a cappella singing. And also note: you may be asked to sing from the score at the audition.
Performance Schedule: Godspell opens April 28 and continues through June 11, 2017. Performances are Thurs-Sat at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:00 and 7:00 PM and two Wednesday evening performances at 7:30 PM. Lakewood Theatre Company features an intimate 220-seat theatre located at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.
About the Musical Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John-Michael Tebelak. The structure of the musical is that of a series of parables, mostly based on the Gospel of Matthew. The parables are interspersed with a variety of modern music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ treated briefly near the end of the performance. It started as a college project performed by students at Carnegie Mellon University and moved to La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in Greenwich Village. It was then re-scored for an off-Broadway production, which became a long-running success.
The original cast defined the personalities of each character as the show was developed. Most of the character names are simply the first name of the actor, so the characters are more easily identified by the song they sing. The only two named roles are Jesus, and John the Baptist, who doubles in the show as Judas Iscariot. The stage version applies the names and traits to the main group of characters who act out the parables and sing
It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival, which played on Broadway from October 13, 2011, to June 24, 2012. Several cast albums have been released over the years and one of its songs, Day by Day from the original cast album, reached #13 on the Billboard pop singles chart in the summer of 1972.
