Call Type
Equity Principal
Date of Audition
9/18/2011
Location
Actor's Center
501 Lawrence Way
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Time(s)
Sept 18th from 3:00-10:00pm
Sept 19th from 9:00am-3:00pm
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Please email Casting Director for an appointment:
Centerrepcasting@yahoo.com
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Contract
LOA
$220/week (LOA/LORT)
Seeking
Please see breakdown.
Preparation
Sides and music on our website:
www.centerrep.org
Other Dates
Show runs: April 19 - May 13, 2012
Other
These are combined Principal/Chorus auditions.
Personnel
Artisitc Director: Michael Butler
Casting Director: Jennifer Perry
Director: Molly Aaronson-Gelb
Music Director: Dave Moschler
Choreographer: Juliana Monin
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| Breakdown
•Wendla Bergmann: A girl who turns fourteen at the beginning of the play. She begs her mother to tell her the truth about how babies are born but is never given sufficient facts. In the middle of Act Two, Melchior and Wendla have sex in a hayloft. She conceives Melchior's child without any knowledge of reproduction. She dies after she is given abortion pills by her mother and a midwife who lives across the street from the family home.
•Melchior Gabor: A fourteen-year-old boy. Melchior is an atheist who, unlike the other children, knows about sexual reproduction. He writes his best friend Moritz an essay about sexual intercourse, which gets him expelled from school after the suicide of his friend and the discovery of the essay. His parents send him to a reformatory after his father discovers he has gotten Wendla pregnant.
•Moritz Stiefel: Melchior’s best friend and classmate, a student who is traumatized by puberty and his sexual awakenings. Moritz does not understand the "stirrings of manhood" and changes happening to him. A poor student due to his lack of concentration and constant pubertal distractions, he passes the midterm exams at the beginning of the play. However, Moritz is ultimately unable to cope with the harshness of society, and when his plea for help from Fanny Gabor (Melchior’s mother) is declined, he commits suicide.
•Ilse: A carefree and promiscuous childhood friend of Moritz, Melchior, and Wendla. She ran away from home to live a Bohemian life as a model and lover of various painters. Ilse only appears in two scenes throughout the show, and is the last person to whom Moritz speaks before he commits suicide. She finds the gun he used and hides it.
•Hanschen (Hänschen) and Ernst: Two friends and classmates of Melchior and Moritz, who discover they are gay. Towards the end of the play, they confess their love for one another. (In the English translation of the play by Jonathan Franzen, Hanschen is called Hansy, as "Hänschen" is literally the German diminutive form of the name "Hans".)
•Otto, Georg, Lämmermeier and Robert: Schoolmates of Melchior and Moritz. They laugh at Moritz and tease him when he threatens to shoot himself. Georg once had a sexual dream about his own mother, while 17-year-old Lämmermeier still does not have sexual thoughts at all.
•Thea and Martha: The schoolgirl friends of Wendla. Martha has a crush on Moritz and is physically abused by her mother and father. Thea is attracted to Melchior.
•Frau Bergmann: Wendla's mother, who seems to not want her child to grow up too quickly and refuses to tell her daughter the truth about reproduction and sexuality.
•Fanny Gabor: Melchior's mother. Liberally minded and very loving of her son, she protests sending Melchior to a reformatory as disciplinary action only until she discovers that he slept with Wendla.
•Herr Gabor: Melchior’s father.
*Sonnenstich: The cruel and oppressive school headmaster who expels Melchior from school upon learning of the essay Melchior wrote for Moritz.
•Knuppeldick, Zungenschlag, Fliegentod, Hungergurt: Teachers at Melchior’s school.
•Pastor Kahlbauch: The town’s religious leader, who leads the sermon at Moritz’s funeral.
•The Masked Man: A mysterious, fate-like stranger who appears in the final scene of the play to offer Melchior hope for redemption. Portrayed on stage by Wedekind himself when the play was first performed.
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