Singing Audition for "Anastasia" Play

Lead role. Star Vehicle. Female Presenting Vocal Range: G3-F5, mixed-belt to D5. Dance Requirement: Strong mover, some dancing. Anya has spent years finding out who she is. Suffering from amnesia, all Anya knows is that something awaits for her in Paris. She is fiery, driven, but deeply insecure, with a great capacity for love.

Lead role Male Presenting Range: A2-A4. Dance Requirement: Strong mover, some dancing. Dmitry is a street orphan turned conman. He can charm his way out of any situation, both good and bad. Under his harsh exterior is a kind and considerate man, trying to overcome his current circumstances and survive.

Supporting Lead role Male Presenting Range: A2-F4. Dance Requirement: Strong mover, some dancing. If there's a room full of important people, Vlad either knows them or can convince them he does. Wildly unserious, with a heart of gold, Vlad sees the potential in Anya.

Supporting Lead role Male Presenting Range: A2-Gb4. A product of the Revolution, Gleb sees the world in black and white. That is, until he meets Anya and must decide what is more important: What he has been taught to believe, or what he feels deep inside.

Playing age: 60s-80s Supporting role Range: F3-Bb4. The Dowager Empress was once strongwilled and compassionate, but after the murder of her family she has grown harsh and cold. She wants to believe Anastasia is still alive, but that hope is fading.

Supporting role Range: G3-C5 Dance Requirement: Strong Dancer Lily is loud, boisterous and always the life of the party. But that doesn’t prevent her from doing her duty as one of the Dowager Empress’ last ladies-in-waiting. She once had a love affair with Vlad.

Featured role Male Presenting The Tsar of all Russia and father to Anastasia. A loving father, but not the strongest leader. He was killed in the Bolshevik Revolution and exists in the show mainly as a ghost/distant memory to Anya. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured role Female Presenting Wife to Tsar Nicholas and mother to Anastasia. She’s strict and firm, and has a strong distaste for her Mother-in-Law, the Dowager Empress. She was killed in the Bolshevik Revolution and exists in the show mainly as a ghost/distant memory to Anya. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured role Female Presenting One of the girls auditioning to be the next Anastasia. She’s “not really an actress” and the leader of the group. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured role Female Presenting One of the girls auditioning to be the next Anastasia. Of the group, she has the biggest attitude. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured role Female Presenting One of the girls auditioning to be the next Anastasia. Moral backbone of the group. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured role Male Presenting Range: Bb2 - Eb4 Meets Anya, Vlad and Dmitry at the Train Station. He’s an aristocrat and an intellectual. “A dead man on both accounts.” Fleeing Russia to save himself, but will not make it. Deeply sentimental, but tortured. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured role Male Presenting Range: F3-Eb4 Gleb’s superior. Orders Gleb to bring Anya back to Russia, dead or alive. Harsh and ruthless. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured role Male Presenting Range: F3-Db4 Leopold is like a viper, ready to drain the Dowager Empress of the Romanov fortune (he’s next in line after all). He’s a garish fop, and larger than life. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured Role Male Presenting An escaped aristocrat from Russia. He is a frequent visitor of the Neva Club and a connoisseur of the ballet, as long as it has “real Russian music.” Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured role Female Presenting Wife to Count Gregory, she enjoys the same material possessions as her husband. Regal, refined, and always looking for a chance to improve her status. Will also double in the ensemble.

Featured Role Male Presenting Doorman for the Neva Club. Always willing to help a fellow comrade out. Will also double in the ensemble.

Will play various roles: Petersburg Citizens, Russian Servants, Ballet Guests, Parisians, Train Car Passengers, etc.

Will play the Romanov sisters (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Teen Anastasia), Russian Cadets, Swan Lake Ballet Dancers (Odette, Cygnets, Von Rathbart, Prince Siegfried) , members of the Neva Club Staff and Parisians. The dancer playing Odetter will need to be able to dance en pointe.