Casting Call for "Harmony" Show

(“Rabbi” Josef Roman Cykowski): High Baritone-Tenor. G2-F4. Our narrator, wise, truthful, self-deprecating. A sharp wit. A peacemaker and conflict avoider. A devout Jew.

ALL MUST BE EXCEPTIONAL SINGERS AND MUSICIANS AND SUBERB WITH HARMONIES: AS WELL AS EQUALLY STRONG ACTORS WITH A STRONG COMEDIC SIDE - YOUNG RABBI: the same as Rabbi, 30 years earlier. Vocal Range: High baritone. C3-A4 (full voice).

(Harry Frommerman): the founder of The Comedian Harmonists. Vocal Range: Tenor. E3-D5 (to Ab4 full voice). Self-taught genius with an inexplicable talent with a passion and vision rare in his world, talks and thinks fast. Has a disheveled look about him and is a Jew who is completely assimilated into the fabric of German society.

(Robert Biberti): Vocal Range: Bass. F2-Eb4. The uniquely talented bass of the group. Chooses his words carefully. Shrewd. Smart. Opinionated. Sensible. A proud German who probably sees himself much as he sees his country—the victim of overpowering circumstance. On stage, he’s a true comic.

(Erich Collin): Vocal Range: Baritone/Tenor. C3-C5 (to Bb4 full voice). Well-bred, sophisticated second tenor, extremely well educated and somewhat pretentious. A man of manners but an enigma to many.

(Erwin “Chopin” Bootz): Vocal Range: Tenor. D3-D5 (to Ab4 full voice). A virtuoso pianist and singer. Devilishly handsome. A street kid who made a name for himself. Exudes sex. Earthy and direct. He tends to always choose the expedient solution.

(Ari Leshnikoff): Vocal Range: Tenor. F3-F5 (to C5 full voice). A charmingly innocent first tenor of incomparable ability and talent. Exuberant, expressive, animated, and possessing a near-childlike enthusiasm for life. He is without pretense. If he feels it, you see it. In many ways, the beating heart of the group.

SUPPORTING CAST Rabbi’s fiancée and eventual wife. She is beautiful, thoughtful and supportive but free-thinking and independent. A Gentile who marries her ultimate soulmate, who happens to be a Jew. Vocal Range: Soprano. G3-A5.

SUPPORTING CAST Alto G3-F#5 (mix/belt). A gorgeous, dark-haired Jewish woman of great passion for many causes, and equally great emotional volatility. Equally as charismatic as her eventual husband Chopin. Vocal Range

SUPPORTING CAST Vocal Range: Mix to an F. The legendary, iconic dancer, singer and comedienne. Gorgeous, courageous, funny, sensual. Black. Female identifying.

SUPPORTING CAST A colonel in the SS and a fan of the group. Sophisticated, well-educated, almost courtly. Baritone

SUPPORTING CAST Mid-rank Nazi officer, most senior officer in this story, authoritative, other roles, Baritone, dance a plus

SUPPORTING CAST Bolshevik activists, protesters, friends with Ruth, Tenor, dance a plus

SUPPORTING CAST Bolshevik activist with Titus, Sop/Belt, dance a plus

SUPPORTING CAST Bolshevik activist, Sop/Belt, dance a plus