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Theatre Casting Call for 2023-2024 Season Show

Boston, MA, United States
ID: 260989Exp: 5/5/2024
$638/week
Description:

The company is holding auditions for 2023-2024 season show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: URINETOWN First Rehearsal: August 26, 2024 First Preview: September 20, 2024 Closing: October 27, 2024 NOISES OFF First Rehearsal: October 22, 2024 First Preview: November 15, 2024 Closing: December 22, 2024 CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY First Rehearsal: December 17, 2024 First Preview: January 10, 2025 Closing: Feb 2, 2025 "ART" First Rehearsal: January 28, 2025 First Preview: February 21, 2025 Closing: March 16, 2025 "THE GREAT REVEAL" First Rehearsal: March 11, 2025 First Preview: April 4, 2025 Closing: April 27, 2025 "HELLO DOLLY" First Rehearsal: April 22, 2025 First Preview: May 16, 2025 Closing: June 22, 2025 Rate: CONTRACT NEAT $602 weekly minimum (Category 6) until Sept. 1, 2024 $638 weekly minimum (Category 6) after Sept. 2, 2024 Additional info: Audition slots are FIVE (5) minutes long. Each actor has TWO (2) minutes to perform. Please prepare appropriate material (monologue, song, selections from the scripts) of your choosing, which may be from one or more of the season’s shows. Scripts and a reader will be provided at both auditions. If using a selection from one of the scripts that you have chosen, please be prepared to state your starting and stopping places. You may audition for one or more roles in the season. If singing, please bring sheet music. The accompanist will only be provided on Monday, May 6th. No Accompanist will be present on Sunday, May 5th. Please bring a headshot and resume. Please apply if interested.

48 roles

PENELOPE PENNYWISEFemale30-45 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Soprano (A3-C6) The tough, jaded warden of the poorest, filthiest town urinal. She is Cladwell's one-time lover and mother to Hope who eventually softens her temper. "URINETOWN"

BOBBY STRONGMale20-30 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Tenor (A2-C5) The dashing, rebellious everyman who works for Miss Pennywise at the poorest, filthiest town urinal. He becomes an unsuspecting protagonist and romantic hero when he starts a revolution and falls in love with Hope Cladwell. "URINETOWN"

LITTLE SALLYFemale20-40 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Mezzo Soprano (A3-E5) A precocious and irreverent street urchin. She serves as a quasi-narrator who often questions Lockstock and the play's logic. "URINETOWN"

SENATOR FIPPMale40-55 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Tenor/Mezzo Soprano (C#3-F4) A greedy politician in Cladwell's pocket. A bumbling coward. "URINETOWN"

OFFICER BARRELMale30-50 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Baritone/Bass (G2-F4) Lockstock's patrol partner. A thuggish and aggressive policeman. "URINETOWN"

HOPE CLADWELLFemale20-30 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Soprano (A3-A5) Cladwell's ravishingly beautiful daughter, torn between her father and her new love for Bobby. She begins as an innocent, naive angel but becomes vengeful and determined after being exposed to her father's evil. "URINETOWN"

TINY TOMMale30-50 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Baritone/Alto (D3-A3) One of the Poor, he is an idiotic manchild. "URINETOWN"

SOUPY SUEFemale25-40 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano/Alto (Bb3 B4) One of the Poor, she is excitable and easily panicked. Doubling as CALDWELL'S SECRETARY. "URINETOWN"

LITTLE BECKY TWO SHOESFemale20-40 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Soprano (Bb3-F5) One of the Poor. She is foul-mouthed, impulsive, and accusatory. Optional Doubling as MRS. MILLENIUM. "URINETOWN"

JOSEPHINE STRONGFemale55-65 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano/Alto (Bb3-D5) Bobby's mother and Joseph's wife. A strong-willed woman with a bite, able to withstand the hard hand life has dealt her. "URINETOWN"

HOT BLADES HARRYMale45-60 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Baritone (A2-F4) One of the Poor, he is a psychopathic and can become a violent loose cannon. "URINETOWN"

DR. BILLEAUXMale30-50 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Baritone/Alto (E3-A3) Head of Research and Development at UGC. "URINETOWN"

MR. MCQUEENMale30-45 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice Type: Baritone/Alto (B2-E4) Cladwell's sycophantic lackey. A servile assistant. "URINETOWN"

OLD MAN STRONGMale50-65 y.o.All ethnicities

Bobby's rebellious father. His refusal to pay the fee sends him to Urinetown, ultimately launching the revolution. "URINETOWN"

DOTTY OTLEY / MRS. CLACKETTFemale45-56 y.o.All ethnicities

(Off Stage Character: Dotty): A middle-aged actress who is also one of the play's principal investors. Means well and tries her best. A bit forgetful. (On Stage Character: Mrs. Clackett): A Cockney Housekeeper for the Brent's home in England. Hospitable, though she is a slow-witted and slow-moving chatterbox. "NOISES OFF"

BROOKE ASHTON / VICKIFemale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

(Off Stage Character: Brooke) An inexperienced actress who seems as though she isn't fully "here" sometimes – somewhere else inside her head. She will execute her blocking and lines the way she was told. One-third of a Lloyd–Poppy–Brooke love triangle. (On Stage Character: Vicki): An English woman who works for Inland Revenue and is trying to woo Roger. "NOISES OFF"

BELINDA BLAIR / FLAVIA BRENTFemale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

(Off stage Character: Belinda): Cheerful and sensible. One of the only reliable actors in the company. She may have feelings for Freddy. (On Stage Character: Flavia Brent): Phillip Brent's English wife. She is dependable, though not one for household duties. "NOISES OFF"

POPPY NORTON-TAYLORMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

STAGE MANAGER: Emotional and over-sensitive, and envious of Brooke, whom she understudies. One-third of a Lloyd-Poppy-Brooke love triangle. "NOISES OFF"

LLOYD DALLASMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

The director of the play, Nothing On. A seasoned thespian working with "amateurs". His patience draws thin to the point where he mutters out loud internal thoughts. One third of a Lloyd–Poppy–Brooke love triangle. "NOISES OFF"

GARRY LEJEUNE / ROGERMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

(Off stage Character: Garry): The play's leading man, a solid actor who is completely incapable of finishing a sentence unless it is dialogue. Means well but is a little pretentious. (On Stage Character: Roger): An English Real estate agent who is attempting to rent Flavia's and Phillip's home but uses it for his own personal benefit. "NOISES OFF"

FREDERICK FELLOWS /PHILLIP BRENT / SHEIKHMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

(Off stage Character: Freddy) A bit skittish and afraid of violence. Well-meaning, but lacks some self-confidence and is rather dim-witted. (On Stage Character: Phillip Brent): An Englishman who lives out of the country with his wife Flavia to avoid paying taxes.(On Stage Character: Sheikh): A Middle-Eastern man interested in renting Flavia's and Phillip's home and is the spitting image of Phillip. "NOISES OFF"

SELSDON MOWBRAY / BURGLARMale50-70 y.o.All ethnicities

(Off Stage Character: Selsdon Mowbray): An elderly alcoholic Englishman who may or may not have had a successful acting career at one point. He hides his bottles cleverly onstage. He is hard of hearing... when he wants to be. (On Stage Character: Burglar): Old Cockney man in his seventies, breaking into the Brent's home. "NOISES OFF"

TIMOTHY ALLGOODMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

The overworked and easily flustered Stage Manager who wears too many hats in this production. "NOISES OFF"

GODFREY CRUMPMale33-37 y.o.African-American

Godfrey believes in the importance of respectability and outward appearances, seeks solutions outside of himself. "CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY"

LILY ANN GREENMale33-37 y.o.African-American

Extroverted, craves much more beyond what 1950 America can offer her race and gender. "CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY"

GERTE SHULTEMale30-39 y.o.White / Caucasian

Gerte is an honest and direct German woman with an uncompromising perspective on all things (as opposed to nuanced/ambiguous). "CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY"

MARCMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

An engineer and an intellectual; a self-proclaimed aesthete who has trouble seeing the meaning in much of modern art. "ART"

YVANMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Mild-mannered, sensitive, stressed; works at a stationery company that belongs to his fiancée’s uncle; drawn into the argument as a kind of referee/peacemaker. "ART"

SERGEMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A well-to-do dermatologist who is divorced; has relied for years on his close friendship with Marc and, to a lesser degree, Yvan, to provide him with company and comfort. "ART"

LEXIFemale41-45 y.o.All ethnicities

(Cis woman) almost seven months pregnant, a planner, a celebrator, a worrier. "THE GREAT REVEAL"

LINUSMale40-44 y.o.All ethnicities

(Trans man) her brother, aspiring future dad, emotionally inept. "THE GREAT REVEAL"

DOSIAMale30-39 y.o.All ethnicities

(Transfemme) LINUS’s partner, sometimes can’t believe these people. "THE GREAT REVEAL"

CHRISTOPHERMale33-37 y.o.All ethnicities

(Cis man) a bro trying to grow, scared shitless by his future. "THE GREAT REVEAL"

DOLLY LEVIFemale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Matchmaker, widow, meddler, opportunist, life-loving, commanding, strong stage presence. Vocal range: alto-soprano. Dance ability: some. "HELLO DOLLY"

HORACE VANDERGELDERMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Well-known half-a-millionaire, widower, owns the Feed Store, gruff, set in his ways, authoritative. Vocal range: baritone. Dance ability: some. "HELLO DOLLY"

CORNELIUS HACKLMale30-35 y.o.All ethnicities

Head clerk at the Feed Store, energetic, enthusiastic, and adventurous. Vocal range: baritone-tenor. Dance ability: some "HELLO DOLLY"

BARNABY TUCKERMale18-20 y.o.All ethnicities

Assistant to Cornelius at the Feed Store, naïve, energized, follower. Vocal range: baritone. Dance ability: some "HELLO DOLLY"

IRENE MOLLOYFemale30-35 y.o.All ethnicities

Owns the Hat Shop, widow, beautiful, smart, fun-loving. Vocal range: soprano. Dance ability: strong. "HELLO DOLLY"

MINNIE FAYFemale18-20 y.o.All ethnicities

Irene’s assistant, naïve, straight-laced, fresh, follower. Vocal range: mezzo-soprano. Dance ability: strong. "HELLO DOLLY"

AMBROSE KEMPERMale19-23 y.o.All ethnicities

Struggling artist, good-natured, accommodating, wants to marry Ermengarde. Vocal range: tenor. Dance ability: moderate "HELLO DOLLY"

ERMENGARDEMale18-20 y.o.All ethnicities

Horace’s niece, high-strung, wants to marry Ambrose. Vocal range: any. Dance ability: strong. "HELLO DOLLY"

ERNESTINAFemale30-45 y.o.All ethnicities

Accommodating, good-time girl. Vocal range: any. Dance ability: some "HELLO DOLLY"

RUDYMale40-60 y.o.All ethnicities

Maitre’d of the Harmonia Gardens, proper, commanding. Vocal range: bass. Dance ability: some. "HELLO DOLLY"

MRS. ROSEFemale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Street vendor: Alto/Soprano Dance ability: Some "HELLO DOLLY"

JUDGEMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Strong with presence. Baritone. No Dance "HELLO DOLLY"

CLERKMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Good comedic timing. Tenor. Some Dance ability plus "HELLO DOLLY"

Male ChorusMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Vocal range: even split of tenors/basses. Dance ability: some "HELLO DOLLY"

Female ChorusFemale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Vocal range: even split of sopranos and altos. Dance ability: some "HELLO DOLLY"