FLYING and BLITHE SPIRIT - Greene NY EPA
Chenango River Theatre
AUDITION DATE
Mar 26, 2017
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm (EST)
APPOINTMENTS
For an appointment, email info@chenangorivertheatre.org, or call 607-656-8778. Equity actors are welcome to show up with or without an appointment. Non-equity actors seen as time permits.
CONTRACT
SPT SPT Level 1 ($236) except first two rehearsal weeks are paid at $290/week (pending Equity approval). Housing and transportation provided per AEA contract. CRT is not able to negotiate contracts above the stated salary level.
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the following two productions:
FLYING (World Premiere)
and
BLITHE SPIRIT
See breakdown
PREPARATION
Two-minute contemporary monologue (1920 or later). Sides will be posted on our website prior to auditions (www.chenangorivertheatre.org). Bring a picture and one page resume.
LOCATION
Chenango River Theatre
991 State Hwy 12
Greene, NY 13778-2211
(near Binghamton, about 3.5 hours from NYC)
PERSONNEL
Bill Lelbach, Artistic & Managing Director
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this 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
FLYING
(world premiere), by Sheila Cowley.
Rehearses May 8-25, runs May 26-June 18.
SETTING & TIME: 1945. Susan's office at a small Texas airfield, with a hall leading to the hangar.
ROLES AVAILABLE
SUSAN:
mid 30’s to early 40’s, pilot. Susan grew up in this small Texas town. She’s as skilled at roasting chickens as she is at flying, and manages to stick to her guns with the airfield despite having to keep house for her father and keep up with the expectations everyone around her has of what a woman like her should be doing. Susan is capable and courageous, but stays behind the scenes. She hides her grief and disappointment and just keeps on working, taking care of all the dirty work and details. But the truth is, she loves flying with all her heart.
FISHER:
30’s-early 40’s, WWII veteran. Fisher’s from the city, drafted during WWII as a gunner in the bomber Susan’s husband piloted. A big reader and a natural athlete, he was at ease in every sport and enjoyed coaching high school teams. But Fisher was wounded in the war and just spent a year in hospitals. Now he has an artificial leg that he’s still getting used to. On the same side of his body, his hand doesn't fully function. Suddenly, Fisher can’t trust his own body and every move he makes rages against his instincts and his image of himself.
LAURA:
late 40’s-50’s, aviatrix. Laura is elegant and confident, a woman who’s been flying planes since airplanes were invented. She’s traveled everywhere, tried everything, loved everybody. Laura is sexy, calm and sensual, irreverent and not afraid to be different.
LUCY:
20’s-early 30’s, pilot. Lucy loves to fly, loves adventure, risk and death-defying derring-do. She’s as comfortable in a nice dress and heels as she is with a socket wrench. Lucy’s terrific at flying and airplane mechanics, but feels pressure to marry and fit in. Despite her bravado, she is veering toward settling down.
DOC:
60’s-70, Susan's father. The one doctor in this Texas town. Unflappable and unconsciously hilarious, a Texas gentleman who embodies the town’s expectations and morals. Doc firmly believes he’s always treated Susan well, and doesn’t realize he’s never actually listened to her.
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BLITHE SPIRIT
by Noel Coward.
Rehearses July 31 – Aug. 17, runs Aug. 18 – Sept. 10.
ROLES AVAILABLE
Charles Condomine
40’s, a novelist. Charles is bright, sophisticated, articulate, and debonair but somewhat at the mercy of his wives, past and present. His interest in spiritualism as a subject for a novel leads Charles to ask Madame Arcati to dinner and a séance. He is skeptical but becomes a believer when the ghost of his first wife appears - and stays. From then on, poor Charles is a shuttlecock between the women battling for his affections: Ruth, his living wife, and Elvira, his dead one. Charles prefers Elvira.
Ruth Condomine
Charles’s second wife, 30’s. Like her husband, Ruth is witty, sophisticated, smart looking, and she is quite the society matron. Ruth is a bit stuffy and a little predictable. She is convinced that Charles has lost his mind when Elvira appears. While being jealous of Elvira, Ruth also acts as a concerned wife, trying to restore Charles to normalcy.
Elvira
20’s, the ghost of Charles’s first wife. Only Charles can see or hear her. In life, Elvira was spirited, outgoing, wild, and carefree. In death, she is no different - she socializes with Genghis Khan. She does love Charles, if somewhat casually, and is jealous of Ruth.
Madame Arcati
middle aged spiritualist and medium, late 40’s – 50’s, striking appearance. Madame Arcati is no fraud. She truly is in contact with the other world and inadvertently is the “medium” through which Elvira is called back to this one. Eccentric, effusive, boisterous and maybe a little barbaric.
Dr. George Bradman
late 40’s-50’s, a good friend of the Condomines who is invited to dinner and the séance. He is entirely skeptical of anything to do with the occult but tries his utmost to go along with the proceedings for the sake of Charles’ research.
Violet Bradman
Dr. Bradman’s wife, 40’s to early 50’s. Simple and naïve, she is quite excited about being in the presence of the medium, whom she finds fascinating.
Edith
the Condomine’s new maid, 20’s. She is nervous and tears around at breakneck speed trying to do things right and make a good impression. Turns out to be a central character as Edith has the extrasensory powers that called Elvira back from the dead, and only Edith can make Elvira return to the dead.
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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