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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Performer Auditions by APPOINTMENT
Saturday, March 30, 2013
1 PM to 5 PM and
Thursday, April 4, 2013
5 PM to 9 PM
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Contract
NEAT
$364/week AEA Minimum
Location
Memorial Hall / Lowell Hall Complex
45 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
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Seeking
Equity performers (m/f).
See breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare 32 bars of an up-tempo contemporary song and a ballad. Okay to sing something from the show.
Bring picture and resume stapled together
Other Dates
First Rehearsal is 6/2/13. Opening 6/20/13 and closes 7/14/13 running 4 weeks
Personnel
By Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik
Dir: Eric C. Engel
Music Dir: Catherine Stornetta
Managing Director: J. Andrew Burgreen.
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
For an appointment: Call: Monday - Friday only between 12 pm - 4 pm at (978) 281-4433
AEA members without appointments will be seen as time permits
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
All characters (with the exception of the Adult Male and Adult Female role) are Boys and Girls, all approximately 17 years old. All sing extensively and are involved in several group numbers. All must be able to participate in physically demanding choreography. All actors must be comfortable with explicit material regarding sexuality and sex.
Melchior Gabor:
A smart, liberal, intellectual who is unashamed of his sexuality. He is a romantic and a humanist. He idolizes love and the value of love-making until he discovers a darker side of himself. Actor must be comfortable with a love-making scene that includes exposing buttocks, intimate physical contact with female actor.
Moritz Stiefel:
A genuine, warm, smart but not intellectual, sheltered young man who is overwhelmed by the distractions of adolescence and the demands of school. Marches to the beat of a different drummer. Becomes increasing defeated and depressed over the course of the play.
Ernst Robel:
Somewhat effeminate and awkward. Actor must be comfortable with prolonged stage kiss with another male actor. (Note, same actor plays Reinhold, a hard-edged boy in a reformatory. Actor must be comfortable simulating a group masturbation scene.)
Hanschen Rillow:
Smart and confident. Makes the system work for him. Actor must be comfortable with simulating a solo masturbation scene as well as a prolonged stage kiss with another male actor. (Same actor plays Rupert, a hard-edged boy in a reformatory. Actor must be comfortable simulating a group masturbation scene.)
Georg Zirschwitz:
Tends to melt down. In love with his piano teacher. (Same actor plays Dieter, a hard-edged boy in a reformatory. Actor must be comfortable simulating a group masturbation scene.)
Otto Lammamier: Anxious, nervous. (Same actor plays Ulbrecht, a hard-edged boy in a reformatory. Actor must be comfortable simulating a group masturbation scene.)
Wendla Bergman:
A girl who longs to know about the world of love and procreation. Desperate to empathize with her friend, Martha, who has suffered abuse at the hands of her father. She falls in love with Melchior and makes love to him without knowing she could get pregnant. Actor must be comfortable with a love-making scene that includes intimate contact with the actor playing Melchior. Actor must also be comfortable with stage choreography/combat that depicts her being beaten with a stick.
Martha Bessel:
Likes Moritz. Her father beats her and has sexually abused her.
Ilse Neumann:
A girl who has been thrown out of her own home and has managed to survive amongst bohemians. Has seen more of the tough side of life than any of her childhood friends. She is a survivor who longs for the innocence of her own childhood.
Thea:
Longs to marry Melchior.
Anna:
One of Wendla's friends.
Adult Male who play all of the following:
• Herr Sonnenstich- An abrasive, firm Latin teacher. Hits Melchior with teachers cane.
• Herr Knochenbruch - The school headmaster; more interested in the welfare of the school than of the individual students. Manipulative.
• Herr Rilow- Appears briefly. Hanschen's father.
• Herr Neumann- Ilse's father. Appears momentarily. Sexually abusive.
• Father Kaulbach- A minister.
• Herr Steifel- Moritz's father. Is unable to accept Moritz's failing out of school. Temperamental and judgemental. Hits Moritz.
• Dr. Von Brausepulver- A Doctor who diagnoses Wendla's pregnancy.
• Herr Gabor - Melchior's father. Loving but firm. Needs to convince his wife that their son should be placed in a reformatory.
• Schmidt- An abortionist.
Adult Female who plays all of the following:
• Frau Bergman- Wendla's strict, repressive mother.
• Fraulein Knuppeldick- A teacher; more interested in the welfare of the school than of the individual students. Manipulative.
• Fraulein Grossebustenhalter- A piano teacher. Subject of Georg's sexual fantasies.
• Frau Gabor- Melchior's mother. Loving, more open-minded than Frau Bergmann.
• Frau Bessell-Martha's mother. Appears momentarily. Chooses to ignore that her daughter is being abused.
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