LYRIC STAGE COMPANY 2019-20 SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Lyric Stage Company Auditions

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LYRIC STAGE COMPANY 2019-20 SEASON - Lyric Stage Company

Lyric Stage Company 19-20 Season - Boston, MA EPA

Lyric Stage Company


AUDITION DATES

Mon, Apr 22, 2019

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Sign-up for appointment at this link for this day. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4EA8A829A7FD0-lyric12

Wed, Apr 24, 2019

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Sign up for a time slot for this day at the following link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4EA8A829A7FD0-lyric13

APPOINTMENTS

For Equity members to schedule an appointment, please visit our digital sign up sheet at: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4EA8A829A7FD0-lyric13 for Wednesday, 4/24, and select a time you would like to be seen. Equity members must fill in an email address, a contact phone number, and AEA Member Number. You can opt to receive an email confirming your audition time and you will receive an appointment reminder the day before your audition.

CONTRACT

NEAT NEAT Category 6; $442/week curren min

SEEKING

Equity actors and actor/singers for various roles.

For pre-cast roles, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary. No understudies are being cast.

All roles are available for inclusive casting, unless otherwise specified.

Please note all Equity Stage Manager positions have been filled at this time. ASM positions are available for Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine, and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. (see separate notice on casting call for submission info)

PREPARATION

Audition slots are FIVE (5) minutes long. Each actor has TWO (2) minutes to perform. Please prepare appropriate material of your choosing, which may be from one or more of the season’s shows. Scripts and a reader will be provided at both auditions. If selecting a side, please be prepared to state your starting and stopping places. You may audition for one or more roles in the season. There are no audition sides. If singing, please bring sheet music.

Please bring a headshot and resume to the audition, stapled together.

LOCATION

Lyric Stage

140 Clarendon St

Boston, MA 02116-5169

PERSONNEL

At the Auditions
Spiro Veloudos, Producing Artistic Director
Courtney O’Connor, Associate Artistic Director

OTHER DATES

Callbacks for individual productions will be announced at a later date. All shows, dates, and information are subject to change.

OTHER

Scripts will be available for review at StageSource, 15 Channel Center Street, Suite 103, Boston.

Pursuant to the terms of a concession made to this employer's agreement, the employer has agreed that any Equity member who attends this call will have an opportunity to be seen.

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of audition.

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 Lyric Stage Company of Boston 2019-2020 Season

Little Shop of Horrors
By Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
Director: Rachel Bertone
Music Director: Dan Rodriguez
First Rehearsal: August 6, 2019
Opening: August 30, 2019
Closing: October 6, 2019

SEYMOUR KRELBORN: Male identified, 20s-30s, tenor. An insecure, put-upon florist’s clerk and eventual hero. A genuine, well-meaning man who is taken for granted because of his clumsy ways and poor social skills.

AUDREY: Female identified, 20s-30s, soprano. Bleached blond, Billie-Dawn like, secret love of Seymour’s life. Has poor self worth and education, but incredible looks and a sweet and vulnerable demeanor.

AUDREY II: Offstage vocalist, baritone. An anthropomorphic cross between a venus fly trap and avocado. Has an appetite for human flesh.

CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON: Female identified, 20s-30s, mezzo-soprano. Skid Row’s street urchins and act as the show’s occasional Greek chorus. Young, hip, and smart, these girls are the only ones that have a grip of reality.

ORIN SCRIVELLO: Male identified, 20s-30s, baritone. An egotistical dentist with a passion for leather and sadistic tendencies. Audrey’s abusive boyfriend, who is targeted by Seymour.

MR. MUSHNIK: Male identified, 50s-60s, baritone. The seasoned owner of the failing East Side and Seymour’s nosy boss. A profit-driven, greedy manipulative.
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The Thanksgiving Play
By Larissa FastHorse
Director:
First Rehearsal: September 24, 2019
Opening: October 18, 2019
Closing: November 10, 2019

LOGAN: Female identified, Caucasian looking, the high school drama teacher that’s always pushing the envelope in potentially inappropriate ways. Earnest about theater and proving herself.

JAXON: Male identified, Caucasian looking, yoga practitioner/actor. Politically correct to a fault, a big one. He’s that confident guy that everyone loves, but his logical PC thinking takes weird turns.

ALICIA: Female identified, brunette Caucasian looking but has looks that would have been cast as ethnic in the 1950s movies. Without guile. Sexy and hot, but not bright.

CADEN: Male identified, Caucasian looking, the academic. Awkward elementary school history teacher with dramatic aspirations but no experience.
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Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
Adapted for the Stage by Ken Ludwig
Director: Spiro Veloudos
First Rehearsal: October 30, 2019
Opening: November 22, 2019
Closing: December 22, 2019

HERCULE POIROT: 50s-60s, Male identified. a famous Belgian detective; a Big personality; authoritative, witty, charismatic and slightly pompous; driven to find the answers, good or bad, with a strong moral sense. Very aware of his ability and his well deserved reputation.

MONSIEUR BOUC: 30-60s, Male identified, a Belgian man of good humor; playful, proud, generous; a predilection for grandeur; a whirlwind of energy.

MARY DEBENHAM: 30s-40s, Female identified, an English beauty; a governess, capable yet romantic; a sadness around her eyes and a hardness about her person.

HECTOR MACQUEEN: 30s-40s, Male identified, tightly wound, edgy and nervous; he seems to always be on the verge of falling apart or coming unwound.

MICHEL THE CONDUCTOR/HEAD WAITER: 30s-60s, Male identified, Plays two parts. Michel: a good-looking Frenchman, about 40, a quiet, almost grave sense of humor; unfailingly polite. / Marcel: a Turkish waiter, snooty, smooth.

PRINCESS DRAGOMIROFF: 60s-80s, Female identified, a Russian dowager; very formal, a sweeping, impressive presence; imperial, impatient.

GRETA OHLSSON: 20s-60s, Female identified, inherently odd, and very devout Swedish woman; a frightened, nervous quality.

COUNTESS ANDRENYI: 20s-40s, Female identified, brilliantly graceful, like something out of a fairytale; impeccably put together, with a warmth that wins over everyone she meets; her delicacy belies a steely edge; she is no wilting flower. Hungarian accent.

HELEN HUBBARD: 40s-70s, Female identified, an outspoken and flamboyant American from the Midwest; jovial, obnoxious, domineering, deliciously nosy and brash; unapologetic.

COLONEL ARBUTHNOT/RATCHETT: 40s-60s,Male identified, Samuel Ratchett: American businessman, evil at heart and frightening, brusque, unforgiving, stern demeanor. Pushy, domineering. Colonel Arbuthnot: Scotsman, handsome, very matter of fact, occasionally tender.
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The Cake
By Bekah Brunstetter
Director: Courtney O’Connor
First Rehearsal: December 10, 2019
Opening: January 10, 2020
Closing: February 9, 2020

DELLA: Female identified, 50s, pleasant and maternal. The type to bustle around and make sure everyone is happy.

TIM: Male identified, 50s, her husband, a good ol’ boy.

MACY: Female identified, African American, early 30s. Her reluctant fiancee. Hard-line activist and idealist, with a soft spot for Jen.

The role of Jen has already been cast.

Warning: This play includes nudity for the roles of Della and Tim.
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The Treasurer
By Max Posner
Director: Rebecca Bradshaw
First Rehearsal: January 28, 2020
Opening: February 21, 2020
Closing: March 22, 2020

THE SON: Male identified, bikes to work, lives in Denver, vaguely Jewish, in his sixties.

IDA: Female identified, his mother, lives in Albany, in her eighties.

MALE ACTOR: Plays JEREMY, the son’s brother, LUKE from the Albany Symphony Orchestra, STRANGER, KENNY from the Verizon Store, Bedding SALESMAN, WAITER, and GUY. Any ethnicity, early forties.

FEMALE ACTOR: Plays ALLEN, the son’s brother, RONETTE from Talbots, INTERNET BANKING VOICE, WOMAN on airplane. African American, late twenties.
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Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine
By Lynn Nottage
Director: Dawn Simmons
First Rehearsal: March 10, 2020
Opening: April 3, 2020
Closing: May 3, 2020

UNDINE: Female, mid 30s – mid 40s, African American. Born in the Walt Whitman projects of Brooklyn, she’s re-invented herself as a successful public relations professional.

FLOW / OTHERS (AS CAST): Undine’s brother, African American. A hipster with a tatty Afro and goatee, with the habit of speaking a bit too loudly. Has been writing an epic poem about Brer Rabbit for years. May also play Agent Duva, Rapper, Drug Dealer, Mover, Addict, Applicant.

MOTHER / OTHERS (AS CAST): Undine’s mother, African American. Works as a security guard at Long Island University. May also play: Allison, Rosa, Inmate #2, Addict, Applicant.

ACCOUNTANT / OTHERS (AS CAST): An elegantly-clad Caucasian man in his mid-thirties. May also play: Addict #1, Mover, Applicant, Doctor #2.

HERVÉ / GUY / OTHERS (AS CAST): Male, Latino. Hervé --Undine’s husband. An Argentinian con man with the grace of a flamenco dancer. Guy -- a recovering addict making the most of sobriety. Works as a security guard but is preparing to take the fireman’s exam. May also play: Lance.

STEPHIE / OTHERS (AS CAST): A spacy twenty-something, African American. Undine’s assistant, she later gets a job at Duane Reade, where she struggles to not become employee-of-the-month every month. May also play: Counsellor, Devora, Pregnant Woman, Applicant.

FATHER / OTHERS (AS CAST): Undine’s father, African American. Works as a security guard at Long Island University. Believes the impossible is possible. May also play: Babalawo, Gregory, Applicant.

GRANDMA / OTHERS (AS CAST): Undine’s grandmother, African American. All warmth and care, she came to New York with nothing, got her high school diploma, worked two jobs, and raised five beautiful children. Now addicted to heroin. May also play: Doctor Khdair, Inmate #1, Case Worker.
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
By Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak
Director: Spiro Veloudos
Music Director:
First Rehearsal: April 21, 2020
Opening: May 15, 2020
Closing: June 21, 2020

MONTAGUE “MONTY” NAVARRO: 20s-30s, Male identified, While he is intent on killing off the entire family tree, he is effortlessly charming, clever and charismatic. Standard British accent. High baritone with a strong top; solid low A to high A.

MISS SHINGLE: 40-60s, Female identified, Monty’s unexpected visitor. Ex housekeeper/governess to the D’ysquith family with a bone to pick. Persuasive, charming, and scheming, Shingle is the brains of the operation. Cockney accent. Mezzo soprano, G to high A.

SIBELLA HALLWARD: 20s-30s, Female identified, the woman Monty loves. Flirtatious, narcissistic, calculating, and mischievous. Tremendous wit and high style. Posh british accent. Character mezzo, low F# to high A

PHOEBE D’YSQUITH: 20s-30s, Female identified, Monty’s cousin. Idealistic and virtuous, yet with a backbone of steel. Youthful innocence mixed with sophistication. Posh british accent. Coloratura soprano up to a high sustained C# with an optional high Eb. B below middle C on the bottom. Also open to performers from a strong operatic background.

ASQUITH D’YSQUITH/LORD ADLABERT D’YSQUITH/REVEREND EZEKIEL D’YSQUITH/LORD ADLABERT D’YSQUITH SR/HENRY D’YSQUITH/LADY HYACINTH D’YSQUITH/MAJOR LORD BARTHOLOMEW D’YSQUINTH/LADY SALOME D’YSQUITH PUMPHREY/CHAUNCEY D’YSQUITH: All of Monty’s victims, played by one actor. Lots of physical comedy and farce. Multitude of british accents. Does not necessarily need to be a phenomenal singer, but must be able to carry a tune.

ENSEMBLE: Six actors who play a variety of roles. Comic, and strong singers.

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Actors of color are strongly encouraged to audition. The Lyric Stage Company of Boston shall conduct all auditions/interviews in a manner that continues to promote fair consideration to ethnic minorities, women, seniors, and performers with disabilities. The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Note: It is an essential element of our mission to support local artists, so local area actors strongly encouraged to audition. There are no New York auditions scheduled.


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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