OKLAHOMA - NYC EPA
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
**Musical Director now in attendance and Ado Annie description revised**
AUDITION DATE
Wed, May 09, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
LORT B Contract; $914/week min (Theatre pays above LORT B minimum)
SEEKING
Equity actor/singers for various roles. See breakdown.
Note: Theatre intends to primarily cast the roles in this production as African-American.
PREPARATION
Prepare a brief song in the style of a Rogers and Hammerstein or golden age musical theater. Bring sheet music; accompanist provided. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Chris Coleman
Director: Chris Coleman
Music: Richard Rogers
Book and Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical Director: Darius Frowner (in attendance at the EPA)
Choreographer: Dominique Kelley
DCPA Casting: Grady Soapes
NYC Casting: Harriet Bass Casting
One or more of the following will be in attendance at the EPA:
Casting Director: Harriet Bass
Casting Assistant: Gama Valle and Brandy Zarle
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 07/31/18
Previews: 09/07/18 - 09/13/18
Opening: 09/14/18
Closing: 10/14/18
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this 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
NOTE: The roles in this production will primarily be cast as African American, so in terms of dialect actors are encouraged to imagine their characters (or their families) having migrated from the Deep South.
AUNT ELLER - Female, late 40’s/50’s African American. Aunt Eller carved out a successful farm as a single woman in the Oklahoma Territory. She is tough, resourceful, earthy and strong. Flinty sense of humor, and big heart. Strong singer, good mover. Voice: Mezzo (G3 to F5)
CURLY - Male, 30’s, African American. Strapping, sexy, strong with a very decent core. Curly has made his living as a rancher/cowman to date, but is getting ready to settle down. He is magnetic to women, so could easily be taken for a player, but there is something fundamentally decent about the guy. Strong baritone. Voice: Baritone (C3 to F#4)
LAUREY - Female, mid to late 20’s, African American. Attractive, feisty, with a quick wit. Laurey works on her Aunt’s farm in the Oklahoma territory. She is as comfortable milking a cow as she is baking a pie. Uncertain about where to give her heart, Laurey longs for something more exciting than the routine life of the prarie. Soprano. Voice: Soprano (C4 to A5)
WILL PARKER - Male, late 20’s, early 30’s, African American. Will works as a rancher/cowman in the Oklahoma Territory. He is a terrific horseman, and is less skillful with women. He is madly in love with Ado Annie, and spends every hour of every day is focused on winning her over. He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Baritenor. Very strong dancer. Voice: Tenor (D3 to F4)
ADO ANNIE -
Female, mid to late 20’s. Not skinny, zaftig. Ado Annie ‘rounded up’ a bit in the last year, and it’s completely changed her relationship to men. Boys never noticed her, know she seems magnetic to them, and she is intoxicated by the attention. She is funny, sweet, energetic, and rambunctious. She is also naïve, and a bit slow on the uptake. Mezzo/belt, strong mover/dancer. Voice: Soprano (C4 to F5)
JUD - Male, 30’s to early 40’s, African American. Jud runs Aunt Eller’s farm in the Oklahoma Territory. He is a skillful farmhand, but tends to stick to himself. Quiet, brooding, dangerous and sensitive. He is in love with Laurey, but doesn’t have the romantic/communication skills to win her over, so struggles with the depth of his desires. There is definitely something scary about Jud. Strong bass/baritone. Good mover. Voice: Baritone (D2 to D?4)
ALI HAKIM - Male, 30’s to 40’s, MIDDLE EASTERN (or ethnically ambigious). Ali is a peddler in the Oklahoma Territory. He travels from town to town selling hard to get items out on the prarie; from the most practical (egg beaters) to the most delicate (garters). There are advantages to being on the move, especially if you’re attractive and exotic to the ladies: Ali definitely enjoys the romantic dalliances the life affords, but commitment, marriage? Not really part of his plan. Excellent comic timing. Voice: Baritenor (D2 to F#4)
CARNES - Male, late 40’s to 50’s, African American. Ado Annie’s father. Carnes is a cantankerous s.o.b., who doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and doesn’t have much time for romance. He’s carved out a living for himself and his family in the Oklahoma Territory, and expects any man asking for his daughter’s hand to be able to do the same. Tough and pragmatic. Strong singer/good mover. Voice: Tenor (F3 to F4)
CORD ELAM - Male, late 30’s to 40’s, African American is a farmer and local Judge in this section of the Oklahoma Territory. Strong singer/dancer/mover. Voice: Baritone (G?2 to A4)
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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