Performers Needed for Theatre Audition "Grand Hotel"
Directors are calling for male and female performers for the "Grand Hotel" play. Please, see the details below. About the project: GRAND HOTEL, THE MUSICAL is set in 1928 Berlin during the Weimar Republic, midway between the World Wars and at a time when Berlin was regarded as one of the world’s great centers of high life. The city is a hotbed of art, politics, entertainment and fast and loose living, attracting entertainers, avant-garde artists, businessmen, writers and musicians of the age, bringing issues of life and death, financial ruin, love and murder with them as they come and go through the revolving door to the lobby of the Grand Hotel. The hotel staff keeps the journey flowing, on one level the environment represents a grand place, but what is really being depicted is a society on the point of collapse—the stock market crash is just around the corner and Hitler will seize power in only five years. This story is a haunting one—a bleak world amongst the grandeur, where all the characters are dysfunctional at some level and the Grand Hotel is a microcosm of a society being drip-fed the poison of a money-obsessed culture. Rate: There is pay. Additional information: First Performance Date 5/30/25 Last Performance Date 6/15/25 Number of Performances: 13 Fri & Sat evening and Sun matinee 5/30, 5/31, 6/1 Thur, Fri evening, Sat matinee & Sat evening and Sun matinee 6/5, 6/6, 6/7, 6/8 Thur, Fri evening, Sat matinee & Sat evening and Sun matinee 6/12, 6/13, 6/14, 6/15 The ALCHEMY THEATRE will be presenting all performances of GRAND HOTEL, THE MUSICAL at The Whisenhunt at ZACH. Rehearsals will begin April 1 with Tech Week scheduled for May 23 to May 29, 2025. Exact rehearsal dates and times during April and May will be determined by cast availability, but primarily rehearsals will be held on weeknights and weekend days. Please note there will be a required, heavier commitment to our Tech Week dates. Please submit by the deadline of Monday, January 20, 2025. Both your headshot and resume should be in pdf format and as attachments along with your video. Requests should be sent to the above address with a valid email address included for the purpose of return correspondence. When applying, send the following: Your headshot and resume; The role (s) you are interested in; Self-tape video of a vocal selection – 32 bars of a song of your choice – one that best shows your vocal capabilities.
16 roles
A main character within the ensemble, and the story’s narrator. Male-Identifying. Strong Singer. Vocal range top: Bb3. Vocal range bottom: C5. One of the thousands of war cripples and psychologically scarred soldiers that returned home after WWI and who haunted Germany throughout the Weimar years. A regular at the Grand Hotel. Missing half of his face and walks with difficulty, his leg in a brace.
A main character within the ensemble. Male-Identifying. Strong singer. Vocal range top: F5. Vocal range bottom: C4. Strong dancer. The young, head front desk clerk who is a nervous father-to-be. Eager to start a family and deeply in love with his wife, this is his first child. He is intelligent, ambitious and a hard worker—now desperately torn between the strict hotel policy keeping him at his job or being at the hospital with his wife who is going through a difficult labor.
A main character within the ensemble. Male-Identifying. Strong singer. Vocal range top: G5. Vocal range bottom: B3. Dancer. The General Director of the Saxonia Cotton Company, a large textile mill. A solid member of the wealthy, German bourgeoisie blinded by riches and terrified of losing their lifestyle. A successful businessman gone bad. Callous and greedy, he uses lies and money to get what he wants—all with a strong conscious.
A main character within the ensemble. Male-Identifying. Strong singer. Vocal range top: A5. Vocal range bottom: C4. Strong dancer. An ailing, downtrodden bookkeeper with a few weeks to live. Arrives in Berlin to squeeze as much life as he can out of his final days. Afraid of life, yet also afraid of missing it. Comic and pitiful appearance, squinting with very clear eyes from behind old reading glasses.
A main character within the ensemble. Female-Identifying. Strong singer. Vocal range top: E5. Vocal range bottom: E2. Strong Dancer. A typist-for-hire and part of the burgeoning class of independent women: big-city girls with bobbed hair, plucked eyebrows, a dab of red lipstick in the center of their lips and small hats. Has a weakness for cocaine and adultery. Not a complaining person, optimism is the element she lives in.
A main character within the ensemble. Male-Identifying. Strong singer. Vocal range top: A5. Vocal range bottom: B3. Strong dancer. A handsome thief with a heart of gold—dashing but morally compromised. Expensive taste but no money of his own. Extremely well-dressed, and a step as “elastic as a cat’s, or a tennis champion’s.” Smells of lavender and expensive cigarettes. He is quick to follow girls in the street and go home with them. An engaging Apollo.
A main character within the ensemble. Female-Identifying. Strong singer. Vocal range top: B4. Vocal range bottom: F3. Dancer. Longtime, loyal—sometimes too loyal—assistant, secretary, confidante and dresser to Elizaveta Grushinskaya. Italian. Hardworking, dependable, economical and smart. Has a sturdy, masculine view of the world. Secretly in love with Grushinskaya and wants desperately to protect her always. 3
A main character within the ensemble. Female-Identifying. Strong singer. Vocal range top: C5. Vocal range bottom: G3. Strong Dancer with moderate to strong ballet. A “fading” Russian prima ballerina—older but still a supreme diva demanding attention. Now plays to half-empty houses and to audiences that have grown tired of ballet. Suddenly success is ice-cold and lonely. Her legs are tired and heavy.
Ensemble. Male-identifying. Strong singer. Vocal Range: Open to various vocal ranges. Strong dancer: Jazz, Tap. Ability to switch from playing a privileged and wealthy, world renowned club entertainer from America to a near-impoverished, under-paid (German) kitchen employee working in the underbelly of an elite hotel.
Ensemble. Male-identifying. Strong singer. Vocal Range: Open to various vocal ranges. Strong dancer: Jazz, Tap. Ability to switch from playing a privileged and wealthy, world renowned club entertainer from America to an under-appreciated (German) hotel bellman, to a wealthy corporate stockholder.
Ensemble. Male-identifying. Strong singer. Vocal Range: Open to various vocal ranges. Strong dancer: including Ballroom. Ability to switch from playing slick and sophisticated, to tough thug, to an angry, under-paid kitchen worker at the hotel.
Male-identifying. Strong singer. Vocal Range: Open to various vocal ranges. Dancer. To play a subservient long-time and dedicated hotel employee, to a disillusioned kitchen worker, to an elitist, middle-class, well-to-do stockholder.
Ensemble. Female-identifying. Strong singer. Vocal Range: Open to various vocal ranges. Strong dancer: including Ballroom. Ability to switch from playing slick and sophisticated, to subservient employee, to eye-catching denizen of the Grand Hotel.
Ensemble. Male-identifying. Strong singer. Vocal Range: Open to various vocal ranges. Dancer. Belongs to the same social sphere as the Baron but works as the Grand Hotel’s dedicated and fussy General Manager. Demands strict adherence to rules and quickly doles out punishment for failing to follow them. Married, but has an eye for the “quality of fineness” in other men – especially those whom he has control over.
Ensemble. Male-identifying. Strong singer. Vocal Range: Open to various vocal ranges. Dancer. A grand, Hungarian theatre impresario who is now the focused and dedicated Company Manager of Grushinskaya’s ballet troupe. Also plays a kitchen worker at the hotel and the (German) wealthy, smart and detail-focused attorney to Herr Preysing.
Ensemble. Female-identifying. Strong singer. Vocal Range: Open to various vocal ranges. Dancer. The lowly, lavatory assistant at the hotel who has been in the same job for years with no advancement—smart and attentive to what’s going on around her. Also plays one half of a wealthy and privileged couple breezing through the hotel, a flirty “flapper” on the make, and a dutiful telephone operator.
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