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Call Type
Equity Principal
Date of Audition
3/25/2012
Location
Moonlight Amphitheatre
1200 Vale Terrace
Vista, CA 92084
Onstage and backstage in the Amphitheatre, located in Brengle Terrace Park
Time(s)
Sunday, March 25th from 3:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
And
Monday, March 26th from 5:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
And
Tuesday, March 27th from 5:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
? A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Calls will be taken Monday March 19-23 between 9a.m. and 3p.m.; see website for e-mail appointment information.
Or call (760) 726-1340 Ext. 1524
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Contract
LOA
Salary TBD (LOA/COST)
Seeking
Please see breakdown.
The City of Vista is currently in negotiations with AEA. Past summer seasons included 2 AEA contracts per show, plus 2 floating actor contracts. Past weekly salary was $568. per week; five-week contract.
Preparation
Prepare a 1-2 minute vocal audition; bring 5 resumes and five non-returnable headshots.
Audition Forms may be completed and printed in advance by going to:
www.moonlightstage.com/work/audtions.cfm
Bring sheet music in the correct key; no tape recorders may be used; no a cappella singing
Other Dates
LEGALLY BLONDE: Callbacks: Sun. and Monday April 15 and 16, 2012
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF callbacks: Mon. and Tues., April 9 and 10, 2012
ANYTHING GOES callbacks: Sun. and Mon., April 15 and 16
SWEENEY TODD callbacks: Mon. and Tues. April 23 and 24
Other
www.moonlightstage.com
Accompanists will be Elan McMahan and Dr. Terry O'Donnell
Personnel
Kathy Brombacher, Producing Artistic Director
BLONDE: Director/Choreo John Vaughan
FIDDLER: Director K Brombacher
ANYTHING GOES: Director/Choreo Jon Engstrom
SWEENEY: Director Steve Glaudini
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Breakdown
FOUR MUSICALS IN THE OUTDOOR MUSICAL THEATRE VENUE (THE MOONLIGHT AMPHITHEATRE) VISTA, CA. CASTING: "Legally Blonde, the Musical", (AEA rehearsal begins June 11; Performances June 27-July 14, 2012); "Fiddler on the Roof", (AEA rehearsal begins July 9; Performances are July 25-August 11, 2012); "Anything Goes", (AEA rehearsal begins August 6; performances August 22-September 8, 2012); "Sweeney Todd", (AEA rehearsal begins September 3; performances September 19-October 6. Season rehearses and performs in Vista, CAlifornia.
LEGALLY BLONDE: Elle Woods; soprano belt to play 22-25; the quintessential Valley Girl with more than a pretty face; dynamic energy with irresistible charm and presence--major star power; must sing, dance and act--a true "triple threat"; Emmett Forrest: Tenor to play 25-30; a smart and sensitive law student with quirky charm and appeal; excellent actor/singer; Professor Callahan: Baritone, 35-50; a pompous and manipulative law professor at Harvard. Excellent actor/singer; Paulette: Soprano belt, 35-45: a brash and funny hair stylist who is friends with Elle and longs to find a man for herself; excellent actress/belter/mover; Warner Huntington III: tenor to play 22-25; a good-looking but pompous guy who breaks Elle's heart--cocky yet annoyingly charming. Excellent actor/singer; Vivienne Kensington: soprano belt to play 22-25; a smart and savvy law student who initially dismisses Elle, but grows to be her friend. Excellent singer/actress/dancer; Brooke Windham/Shandi: alto or soprano, 30-40. An exercise video star and former sorority girl--great physique capable of a "star turn". Excellent actress/singer/dancer; Serena, Margot and Pilar: soprano belt to play 22-25; Pretty and funny California sorority girls---Greek Chorus trio. Excellent singer/dancer/actresses; Enid Hoopes: soprano belt to play 22-25; An intellectual, activist, law student. Excellent actress/singer/dancer. Grandmaster Chad/Dewey/Kyle to play 25-40; A great-looking, in-shape employee of the United Postal Service. Excellent actor/some singing. Ensemble: 5-7 male and 4-7 female excellent singer/dancer/actors who play sorority girls/students/Defense Team/adults, etc.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: Tevye: THIS ROLE HAS BEEN CAST (with an offered AEA contract).; Golde: mezzo-soprano to play 40-50. Tevye's strong-willed wife; biting wit and great comic timing; strong acting/vocals; Tzeitel: mezzo-soprano, to play 19; Tevye's eldest daughter; quick wit; romantic attachment to Motel; strong belt and movement; Hodel: mezzo-soprano to play 18; Tevye's second eldest daughter; opinionated; strong leading vocals; moves well; Chava, mezzo-soprano to play 16; Tevye's middle daughter; dances well; strong leading vocals; shy, loves books; Motel: tenor to play 20-30; a poor tailor/in love with Tzeitel; has a great tenor voice and high energy; joyful and passionate; Perchik: baritone to play 22-30; Educated, radical student with revolutionary opinions; moves well with strong vocals; Fyedka; open range but prefer tenor to play 20-30; young Russian soldier with learning and compassion who dances and sings well; Yente: alto to play 50-60; beloved matchmaker who gossips and meddles; strong actress who sings;
Lazar Wolf: baritone to play 40-60; a butcher who wants to marry Tzeitel; vibrant, argumentative personality with strong voice; Constable to play 40-60; Russian authority figure who befriends Tevye, he does not need to sing; Shprintze and Bielke to play 10-12, Tevye's youngest daughters, sweet and energetic, sing and move well; The Fiddler to play 20-30; must be able to dance while holding a fiddle; Male Character Villagers, age 35-60: 4 actors to play The Rabbi, Mordcha (innkeeper), Avram (bookseller) and Nachum (beggar); Male Russian Dancers, age 20-30's: 4 actors including Fyedka to play Sasha, Boris and Yuri; must dance well; Female Character Villagers ages 35-60: 4 actors to play Fruma-Sarah/Rivka, Grandma Tzeitel/Mirala, Shaindel and Surcha; strong singers/actors; Male Villagers: age ranges 20-30: 5 actors to play Mendel (Rabbi's son), Yussel (the hatter), Hershel, Chaim and Yitzuk. All will be bottle dancers; Children, ages 10-15: 4 girls and 2 boys; children who can execute simple stage movement and be part of vocal numbers and scenes.
ANYTHING GOES: Reno Sweeney, mezzo-soprano to play late '20's--early '30's: a sexy evangelist turned nightclub singers, excellent singer and excellent dancer including tap; Billy Crockett, tenor to play late 20's-early 30's: Whitney's brash young assistant; best friends with Reno Sweeney but in love with Hope Harcourt; handsome, charming; excellent singer and dancer with strong comedic skills; Moonface Martin, tenor to play 30's-60's: Public Enemy #13--a hapless gangster--character role with great comedic and improvisational skills; Hope Harcourt, mezzo-soprano to play 20's: a beautiful debutante, excellent singer and lyrical dancer; Erma, Alto to play 20's: a gangster's very sexy moll, curvaceous, attractive yet fickle, strong dancer and singer; Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, baritone to play 30's to 40's; attractive and very wealthy English gentleman, eccentric with a hidden passionate side, excellent singer who moves well with great comic timing; Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt to play 50's to 60's : Hope's mother, an attractive widow, desperate to see that her daughter marries well; singing and moving well is a plus; Elisha J. Whitney, baritone to play late 50's-60's: a blustery New York tycoon and Yale man with a big ego who never lacks for confidence; enjoys a drink or three; Captain, baritone to play 50's-60's: a bit pompous, showing off his authority, ability to move well and have tap skills is a plus; Purser, tenor to play 30's-40's: takes his job seriously with pride in being efficient to help the Captain. Ability to move well and tap is a plus.
Ensemble: all ranges of voices to play young adults to early 40's: 16 cast members, probably 8 females and 8 males; all must sing and move well and have some degree of tap and jazz skills from Intermediate to Advanced; include the following roles: Fred, the bartender, Reno's four "Angels", Reverend Henry T. Dobson; Luke and John (Rev. Dobson's two Chinese converts); Reporter, Photographer; Crew; Passengers; FBI agents.
SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET: Sweeney Todd, baritone to play late 30's to late 40's: a happy family man sent away on a false charge, he returns a murderous barber; finds vengeance in his blades by slitting the throats of all his enemies. Mrs. Nellie Lovett, mezzo-soprano to play late 30's to late 40's:(Cast pending) worn down owner of a pie shop on Fleet Street; hard-edged but with a savvy sense of humor; she aides Sweeney in his massacre by making meat pies out of his victims, needs Cockney accent; Judge Turpin, bass to play 40's to early 50's: Contemporary of Sweeney's and the man responsible for his downfall, pompous, self-centered and powerful, he plans to wed his charge Johanna; Anthony Hope, tenor to play 20's: young, modern romantic, a sailor who meets and helps Sweeney on his return to London--he falls in love with Johanna;
Johanna, lyric soprano to play 20's: young, ingenue, Sweeney's daughter. Young, innocent, romantic and beautiful, she becomes the ward of the Judge who wants to make her his wife; Tobias Ragg, tenor in 20's to play under 20: young and vulnerable, assistant to Pirelli, he is an abused orphan. He comes to view Mrs. Lovett as a surrogate mother figure, needs Cockney accent; Beggar Woman, mezzo-soprano to play 30's-40's: once glamorous, she's a mentally unstable homeless woman and prostitute; this role is highly physical, needs operatic mezzo with strong theatre belt; Beadle Bamford, tenor to play 30's-40's: sleazy, menacing henchman of the Judge, can be terrifying or outright threatening yet fastidious and fussy. Classically-trained high baritone/tenor with flexible falsetto; Adolfo Pirelli, tenor to play mid-30's: tall, thin charlatan Italian barber (actually Irish). Over the top opportunist bent on blackmail. Must be adept at physical comedy; Ensemble: all ranges of vocals, ages open: seeking all voice types from low bass to high soprano, extremely legit voices, though the women should be able to belt as well.
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