CALIFORNIA STAGE PRESENTS
ITALIAN OPERA BY LESLIE LEWINTER SUSKIND
DIRECTED BY RAY TATAR
Auditions Saturday, December 6 & Saturday, December 13
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
THE CALIFORNIA STAGE THEATER
2509 R Street Sacramento, CA 95818
This hilarious musical set in 1930’s Italy lampoons Italian Opera. The production will play Feb 20th-March 22nd Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.
Roles are available for 2 men and 2 women ages 25-50 and
1 woman of any age. All actors must have the ability to play a comical farce and sing and speak with a plausible Italian accent.—The men’s voices are in the Tenor range and the women are Sopranos.
AT THE AUDITION
1. Bring a Resume and photo.
2. Bring a piece of music you would like to sing.
NB Some of the songs in the musical are sung in operatic style
Some of the songs are sung in Italian.
3. There will be cold readings from the script.
3. Italian accent are welcome.
4. Sides are available upon request—look at the character descriptions below and then call to discuss.
(AEA) Actors Equity Artists may call for special audition times.
Ray Tatar
Artistic Director
916-600-9536
Calstage@Gmail.Com
ZERBINETTA: Doubles as the Scarpolettos’ maid, the Polliones’ maid, a Priest, and an angel: a woman of any age.
A “maid” in name only, Zerbinetta serves only herself. Smarter and wilier than even Lucrezia, she is always working toward a bigger part in a bigger play. She is the only one on stage conscious of the fact that she is in a play, and thus undaunted by the twists and turns of the plot she moves swiftly to manipulate them in her favor. Unless, of course, she had been the one to instigate them. If we don’t love her, we will respect her.
LUCREZIA SCARPOLETTO: A woman, 25-50 years old.
An "abandoned" bourgeouis lady, Lucrezia is, in fact, strong and rather domineering. We do not feel sorry for her. After three years of being starved of affection by her impotent husband Mario, she gives in to Nemorino, who impregnates her immediately. But in her desperate attempt to save her marriage, not to mention her own skin, she ends up receiving far more affection than she bargained for.
NEMORINO POLLIONE A man, 25-50 years old.
A charming, quick-thinking Cassanova, Nemorino finds himself stuck between his business partner Mario and Mario’s abandoned wife Lucrezia. He too is intent upon saving his skin, his marriage, and his job with Mario, but the thought that this may require him to forego his philandering ways does not occur to him.
VESTALINA POLLIONE: A woman, 25-50 years old.
Pure and virtuous in her own mind, with a hint of serious sass, Vestalina may lament leaving the convent but probably less from piety than wanting a rest from the continuous pregnancies she and Nemorino cannot seem to stem. Yet when they do, she ends up being the one feeling abandoned.
MARIO SCARPOLETTO: A man, 25-50 years old.
Poor Mario, we know him well. Under his gruff, rough exterior is, well, a gruff, rough interior expressed in practically uncontrollable rage, contrariness, paranoia, and eventually passion. He blames Lucrezia for his impotence, and generally sees betrayal and conspiracy everywhere he looks. In the end, under those two layers of gruff and rough, we discover warm, mushy minestrone. Overcooked. He is the one we feel most sorry for.
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