GUYS AND DOLLS - NYC ECC / Male Singers
Guthrie Theater Foundation
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Feb 21, 2019
2:00 pm (EST) Male Singers
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $1116/week min
SEEKING
Seeking Diverse, Multi-Ethnic, extremely strong dynamic, distinctive, Actor Singers and Triple Threat Actor Singer Dancers for GUYS AND DOLLS, A Musical Fable of Broadway!
PREPARATION
Please prepare a short song from a GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY MUSICAL COMEDY/TIN PAN ALLEY ONLY; ideal composer-lyricists include Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Jerome Kern and Jules Styne.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Joseph Haj
Director: Kent Gash
Music Director: Darius Smith
Choreography: Wendell Dell Howlett
Casting Directors: McCorkle Casting, LTD
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: May 21, 2019
Opening: June 28, 2019
Closing: August 25, 2019
Possible Extension: August 31, 2019
OTHER
ECC Procedures are in effect for audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
All actors should have EXCELLENT FACILITY with Language, as GUYS AND DOLLS is written in the aspirational patois of Gamblers, Gangsters, Ne'er Do wells, Dance Hall girls, Show People, First Generation Immigrants and the working class of Melting Pot New York who often speak in what they believe is refined language that aspires to class ascendancy and acceptance. They, like all New Yorkers strive to be the First, Best, and World Class versions of anything and everything they do, be they Hot Box Dancer, Mission Doll, or petty Gambler. Not unlike the DICK TRACY Comic strip characters, some of the characters should have outsize or unusual physical characteristics that would earn them their given nicknames, in order to create the world of outsiders, hustlers, misfits, first/second generation immigrants that flavor, the fast talking, sexy, energetic, surprising, sensual, unpredictable and pungent BROADWAY/RUNYONLAND/ MELTING POT that has made GUYS and DOLLS cl assic and beloved. Always working an angle or at some kind of work, these are the Men and Women of New York between the wars who aspire to the American Dream but are denied because of the way they speak, or look or where they are from so when fate, the establishment and the upper class deny them access, just like the Marx Brothers, WC FIelds, Bert Williams, the Gershwins, Ellington, Blake, Waller, Puente, Tizol and Arnaz they achieve world class renown in their arena by conning, gambling, betting, stripping, entertaining, singing and dancing... and they get a bit of their own back in the process!
FULL COMPANY WILL DO SOME DANCING!
Bravura Dance is an essential element in the world of GUYS And DOLLS!
FULL COMPANY VOCAL NEED: GUYS AND DOLLS is big voices full throttle Broadway musical where the singing as an intersection of Broadway Tin Pan Alley clarion/honk and belt, anointed luscious legit singing and the rhythmically infallible SWING of the Best Jazz music! The collective company sound moves nimbly between all three ideas.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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