A Funny Thing Happened... - Burbank EPA
Garry Marshall Theatre
AUDITION DATE
Tue, Aug 15, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (PDT)
Lunch: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
APPOINTMENTS
EPA rules in effect. In-person sign-up begins at 9:00AM on 8/15/17.
CONTRACT
SPT Minimum - $461/wk. Transitional SPT Agreement
SEEKING
Seeking actors and Understudies age 18 and over, local hires preferred for A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities encouraged. Intended for an adult audience, contains adult language and situations. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please prepare an 16-32 bar selection of an uptempo musical theatre song. Those auditioning for Hero and Philia should also prepare 16-bars of a musical theatre ballad. Accompanist provided. No a cappella please. Bring sheet music in your key.
LOCATION
Garry Marshall Theatre (Formerly The Falcon Theatre)
4252 W Riverside Dr
Burbank, CA 91505-4145
Parking available in lot beside theatre from alley behind theatre
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director and Director Joseph Leo Bwarie
Artistic Director Dimitri Toscas
Casting Director Jami Rudofsky
OTHER DATES
See breakdown.
OTHER
Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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
Broadway's big, fat roman musical is back, with a new spin on Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Sondheim's raucous comedy that pays tribute to the original funny man himself, Plautus. Ancient Rome is turned on its ear in this bawdy romp of mistaken identity and twisting plots, where secrets hide behind every toga.
First rehearsal Tue. Oct. 17, 2017
First preview Nov. 15
Opening Night Nov. 17
Closing Dec. 31, 2017 7pm show
Performance schedule Thu & Fri at 8pm, Sat. at 2pm & 8pm, and Sun. at 3pm & 7pm.
Dark on Thanksgiving Nov. 23 with added 8pm Wed. Nov. 22.
Dark on Sun. Dec. 24 with added 8pm Wed. Dec. 27, and only one show on Sun. Dec. 31 at 7pm.
Actively seeking a cast of diverse ethnicities. Bonus: actors who also play an instrument: guitar, wind, brass, percussion, strings.
SENEX: MALE, AGE: 45-65, BARITONE (Vocal Range: top G4 – bottom B2) An older man, but one still attracted to wine, women, and song; the perennially henpecked husband; must be able to sing and move, and have great comic timing.
DOMINA: FEMALE (or Male as Woman), AGE: 45-55, MEZZO-SOPRANO (Vocal Range: top F5 – bottom B3) Strong, overbearing wife to Senex. A fiery broad who was once a beauty, but she does not realize that time has since passed. Must be able to sing and move, and have great comic timing.
HYSTERIUM: MALE, AGE: 35-45 BARITONE, (Vocal Range: top G5 – bottom D4) Slave to Senex and Domina - frantic and frenetic, tightly wound and paranoid. Pseudolus cons him into helping him in his plots, including dressing Hysterium up as the corpse of Philia. He is the “Ethel Mertz” to Pseudolus’ “Lucy Ricardo.” Must be able to sing and move, and have great comic timing.
PSEUDOLUS: MALE, AGE: 35-50, BARITONE (Vocal Range: top A4 – bottom A2) Slave to Hero - sly, conniving, and willing to do anything for his freedom. A larger than life guide through this farcical romp. A puppet master and leader of what is posed as a band of merry actors. Must be able to sing and move, and have great comic timing.
HERO: MALE, AGE: 18-25, TENOR (Vocal Range: top G4 – bottom B2) The handsome young Roman son of Senex and Domina, Hero is a lovesick juvenile who schemes with Pseudolus how he can win the hand (and body) of Philia – practical, privileged, romantic; must sing.
LYCUS/ERRONIUS: MALE, AGE: 45-75, BARITONE (Vocal Range: top F5 – bottom A3) To play Lycus and Erronius. Lycus is the owner of the brothel - snaky, slimy, lecherous procurer of courtesans; Erronius is the befuddled old father to his long lost children partially blind and always confused. Must sing (as Lycus) and have excellent comic timing.
PHILIA: FEMALE, AGE: 18-25, SOPRANO A virginal girl. An archetypal ingénue. She’s beautiful and young, devoted, pretty - but not by any means stupid.
MILES GLORIOSUS: MALE, late 20s-30, BASS (Vocal Range: top F5 – bottom B3) A handsome Roman warrior. Manly and Boastful. Vain and proud and pompous. Must be able to sing and move, have great command, strength and comic timing.
COURTESANS: FEMALE, AGE: 25-40. Various Vocal Ranges. A trio of women to act as a Greek chorus of sorts. A combination of 3 women to play the sexy and smart Gymnasia (a beautiful Amazon of a woman), Tintinabula, Panacea, Vibrata, The Geminae, Roman soldiers and others; all three dynamic actors who can sing, dance, have a great grasp of physical comedy, and willing to do a bit of a burlesque bump and grind (no nudity).
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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