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Breakdown
Audition Location:
The Pasadena Playhouse
39 S El Molino Ave
Pasadena, CA 91101
**Location Note: Auditions will be in the Carrie Hamilton Theatre. Check-in at the Library. When facing the front of the theater, take the outdoor stairs on your right to the second floor. Walk down the breezeway. The Library is the first door on the left.
2015-16 Season Shows:
REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES:
by Josefina Lopez
Directed by Seema Sueko
1st rehearsal: August 11, 2015
Performances: September 8, 2015 - October 4, 2015
seeking:
ANA 18, Mexican American, plump and pretty, sister of Estela, daughter of Carmen. She is a recent high school graduate and a young feminist.
ESTELA 24, Mexican American, plump, plain-looking, owner of the Garcia Sewing Factory
CARMEN 48, Mexican American, a large woman, mother of Ana and Estela. She has a talent for storytelling.
PANCHA 32, Mexican American, a huge woman who is very mellow in her ways, but quick with her tongue.
ROSALI 29, Mexican American, only a bit plump in comparison to the rest of the women. She is sweet and easy going
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BREAKING THROUGH
Book by Kirsten Guenther, Music & Lyrics by Cliff Downs and Katie Kahaovitz
Directed by Sheldon Epps
1st rehearsal: September 29, 2015
Performances: October 27, 2015 - Novemeber 22, 2015
seeking:
CHARLIE JANE - Female (mid to late 20's/strong singer/actress). An ambitious and driven singer/songwriter. Both a fighter and a dreamer. Must have a distinctive and dazzling pop sound.
GWYN - Female (25/Any ethnicity/quirky/very funny). Charlie Jane's best friend. Down to earth and practical. Vocal range: Belt up to D flat.
ALEX - Male (25-27ish/Any ethnicity/warm but strong young leading man, great sense of humor, but has a deep emotional well. Vocal range: Baritone up to F.
PETER - Male (Late 40s). Clearly troubled and complicated. Great anger at the loss of his wife to her musical career. Vocal range: Musical theatre voice with pop overtones, sings soaring ballad.
SCORPIO - Male (22-25ish/any ethnicity) Pop Sensation. A rock star. Strong, sexy, but also charming and funny. Vocal range: Rock bari-tenor up to a strong A flat.
LIZ - Female (early-mid 30s/any ethnicity/strong female/sexy/business woman)
KARINA - Female (late 20s-early 30s/any ethnicity/ supermodel turned pop star - spacy). A good singer gone wrong by the demands of the business, and taking the wrong advice.
AMANDA - Female (earl 40s/any ethnicity/Rita Wilson type. Strong stylish female). A tough woman in the strong male music business world. Vocal range: open. Strong singer.
JED BARNES - Male (40s/any ethnicity/Clive Davis type. Strong male.)
ENSEMBLE - Male and Female. Very strong singers at home with pop/rock sound. They play Charlie Jane's band members, Music Execs, Fans, Stylist, Co-Workers, etc.
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FLY
by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan
Directed by Ricardo Khan, Produced in Association with Crossroads Theatre Company
1st rehearsal: December 28, 2015
Performances: January 26, 2016 - February 21, 2016
Possible Extenstion: February 22, 2016 - March 6, 2016
seeking:
CHET SIMPKINS - a timid African-American young man.
OSCAR - African-American Tuskegee Airman and no-nonsense race man.
J. ALLEN - Bahamian Airman, very British and very proud.
W.W. - Street-wise African-American zoot-suiter from Chicago.
CAPT. O’HURLEY - White Bostonian with a chip on his shoulder.
BOMBER PILOT REYNOLDS - White Midwesterner. He also plays an Instructor and Col. Snopes in the Tuskegee scenes.
BOMBER CO-PILOT SHAW - White Southerner. He also plays the Staff Sergeant, an Instructor and the Barman in the Tuskegee scenes.
THE TAP GRIOT - African-American tap dancer living out the inner lives of the various players through dance. He taps emotions, good and bad, emotions that the soldiers were not permitted by the times or circumstances to express easily.
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CASA VALENTINA:
by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by David Lee
1st rehearsal: February 9, 2016
Performances: March 15, 2016 - April 10, 2016
Possible Extension: April 11, 2016 - April 17, 2016
seeking:
RITA - female, fifties. (Ten years older than GEORGE). A resigned, determined, but worn earth mother. Her love of the girls barely covers her inner sadness.
JONATHON/MIRANDA - male, masculine, thirty. Shy and bookish. Overly polite and cautious as a male. As a female she is ebullient. (Appears in and out of drag)
ALBERT/BESSIE - male, fifties, chubby. Willie Loman by day, Ethel Mertz at night. Quick witted and friendly. Unaffectedly feminine. (Appears in drag only)
GEORGE/VALENTINA - male, forties. Married to RITA. An insurance salesman type as a man. Assured and charming. (Appears in and out of drag)
CHARLOTTE/ISADORE - male, fifties. The ultimate wasp. A buttoned down strict disciplinarian. Not your favorite aunt. (Appears in drag only)
MICHAEL/GLORIA - male, thirties. A very handsome and sexually charged chap who is accustomed to compliments whether dressed as a male or female. (Appears in drag only)
THEODORE/TERRY - male, seventies. Sweet and gentle and slightly silly like a favorite old auntie. (Appears in drag only)
THE JUDGE/AMY - male, seventy. Large, distinguished, powerful and imposing as a man, and a clunky sort of Tug-boat Annie woman. (Appears in and out of drag)
ELEANOR - female, fifty. The Judge's daughter. Brittle, cold and damaged.
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR'S CHOICE (TBD):
1st rehearsal: May 3, 2016
Performances: May 21, 2016 - June 26, 2016
Possible Extension: June 29, 2016 - July 3, 2016
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