THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CURSE OF COUNT DRACULA - Jupiter, FL OPEN Auditions
Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Mon, Mar 25, 2019
9:00 am (EDT)
APPOINTMENTS
For an appointment, please contact Kristen Kesonen, Company Manager/Producing Assistant: seasonauditions@jupitertheatre.org
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep ($556.80 for one week) Casting Representative: Gordon Greenberg, Steve Rosen, and Andrew
SEEKING
Actors for various roles. Local Jupiter area actors are strongly encouraged to audition.
All roles require great physically comedic ability, expert facility with various British, German and Russian dialects - and a great capacity for fearless razor sharp melodramatic comedy in the style of ’39 Steps.’
PREPARATION
Please prepare a comedic, three-minute monologue. Sides will be provided. Callbacks will be held in the afternoon.
Please bring your picture/resume.
LOCATION
Maltz Jupiter Theatre
1001 E Indiantown Rd
Jupiter, FL 33477-5110
PERSONNEL
Casting Representative: Gordon Greenberg, Steve Rosen, and Andrew Kato, Producing Artistic Director/Chief Executive
OTHER DATES
Must be available for rehearsal and presentation dates: Monday, April 29 – Saturday, May 4, 2019.
OTHER
Please see our website for more detailed information, including a character breakdown: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/77196797e2036a500b87fde5f/files/86a6c194-162f-4cc5-865a-c3ab0efd7e69/ARC_DRACULAAuditionsWeb.pdf
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of 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
All roles require great physically comedic ability, expert facility with various British, German and Russian dialects - and a great capacity for fearless razor sharp melodramatic comedy in the style of ’39 Steps.’
ACTOR 1: Male, 30s, leading man type, Any ethnicity: plays JONATHAN HARKER (RP British dialect), prim and proper (and somewhat obsessive compulsive) real estate agent. Engaged to his childhood crush Lucy Westfeldt. She wishes he would loosen up a little. Once bitten he loosens up…a lot. THREE SUITORS (various dialects): Lord Cavendish, Lord Windsor and Lord Havemercy, played simultaneously with the help of a puppet on either side of his head. BOSUN (Irish dialect): A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm. GRAVEDIGGER (cockney dialect): A drunk gravedigger with a secret.
ACTOR 2: Female, 30s-50s. Any ethnicity. Plays all male roles, including DR. WESTFELDT (RP British dialect), Lucy and Mina’s Father, a blowhard; self-important and given to proclamations. A doctor caring for the criminally insane, he has recently lost his wife to consumption. RENFIELD (cockney dialect): insane patient of Dr. Westfeldt who lives to serve and loves to eat bugs. In a word, the dude is nuts. CAPTAIN (sea captain dialect): The scurvy salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.
ACTOR 3: Female, 20s-30s. Any ethnicity. Ingenue role. Plays LUCY WESTFELDT (RP dialect): Brilliant earth scientist daughter of Dr. Westfeldt. Is often underestimated because of her beauty. Engaged to Jonathan, but when Dracula moves to Whitby, she is curious about his strange ways and impressed by their similar interests. When her sister is overcome and perishes at the hands of a vampire, she courageously joins the cause. KITTY (cockney dialect): A dotty kleptomaniac patient of Dr. Westfeldt’s, she serves as a maid in his house. Think Mrs. Lovett without a purpose. DRIVER (thick Eastern European or Russian dialect): The male, Transylvanian driver of the carriage carrying Jonathan to Dracula’s castle and tries to warn him.
ACTOR 4: Male, 20s-50s. Any ethnicity. Plays all female roles including MINA WESTFELDT (RP dialect), the less attractive, less intelligent Westfeldt daughter, she lives in her sister Lucy’ shadow and is desperate for attention. Immediately receptive to Dracula’s charms and attention, she jumps a little too willingly at the chance for love, gets infected and eventually succumbs to Dracula’s curse. JEAN VAN HELSING (German dialect): Brilliant vampire hunting doctor from the University of Shmutz. Underestimated because she is a woman, she comes to aid Dr. Westfeldt and track down the perpetrator of Mina’s demise.
ACTOR 5. Male 30s-50s. Any Ethnicity. Plays COUNT DRACULA (Transylvanian dialect). Handsome, charming, sexy and hugely compelling. He also loves to bake. He falls in love with a picture of Lucy Westfeldt when Jonathan comes to sell him real estate and travels to Whitby to find her and make her his bride for eternity.
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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