THE CRADLE WILL ROCK - NYC EPA
Classic Stage Company
AUDITION DATES
Mon, Nov 19, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
Tue, Nov 20, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $725 per week
SEEKING
Equity actor/singers for various roles. See breakdown.
One SM and one ASM will be needed for this production. Positions are still available. See separate SM notice on Casting Call for submission details.
PREPARATION
Prepare a brief traditional musical theater showing off your voice. Bring sheet music; a piano accompanist will be provided. Bring a photo/resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Director: John Doyle
Composer: Marc Blitzstein
Music Director: TBA
Casting: Telsey + Company/Rebecca Scholl, CSA
In the Room: Rebecca Scholl (Casting Director)
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: February 12, 2019
First Preview: March 19, 2019
Opening: April 3, 2019
Closing: May 19, 2019
Venue: Classic Stage Company
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
THE CRADLE WILL ROCK is billed as a “play with music” and is almost entirely sung through. Actors of all ethnicities, gender identities, ages and abilities are encouraged to attend.
SEEKING:
Moll (age 20s-30s) a good-hearted amateur prostitute, tender, streetwise. She’s downtrodden but optimistic. She’s arrested for refusing her services to a policeman who helps her out of a fight with a stingy client; mezzo-soprano.
Harry Druggist (age 40s-50s) a former drugstore owner who is now continually arrested for vagrancy. A drunk, old shadow of a man. He is sweet but melancholy, hardened by his rough life and the death of his son; baritone.
Larry Foreman (age 30s-40s) labor union organizer, a voice of the people, idealistic young union organizer out to slay dragons, charismatic, fearless and outspoken, has a confident and engaging manner; baritone.
Mr. Mister (age 50s) the Big Boss, a corrupt, greedy steel tycoon who owns the town’s factories, controls the press and the church, a hypochondriac, of a nervous and hostile disposition, a nemesis to the average worker, dominating magnate and bully; bass/baritone.
Mrs. Mister (age 50s) Mr. Mister's haughty, artist-sponsoring wife, a society woman who has manipulative charm, knows how to get what she wants, convincing, shrewd, and forthright; mezzo-soprano.
Junior Mister (age 20s) son of Mr. Mister, never done a days work in his life, a privileged and frivolous idiot who enjoys women and cars, fancies himself a bit of a playboy, self-obsessed, baritone.
Sister Mister (age 20s) daughter of Mr. Mister, a privileged wild child, dresses like the sex symbol Jean Harlow, the famous blonde bombshell, determined to be cool and make unconventional (and highly intentional) choices, mezzo-soprano.
Dauber (age 30-49) sycophantic painter, Sister Mister's art instructor, dotes on Mrs. Mister for her patronage, smarmy, rude, hypocritical, likes to perform the artiste, character singers; baritone.
Yasha (age 30-49) sycophantic violinist, pompous, proud, educated, enjoys luxury, lewd and rude, character singer; baritone.
Editor Daily (age 30-49) editor of the local newspaper, tenor.
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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