NEW LINE SEEKS MULTI-RACIAL CAST
OF WOMEN ONLY FOR NINE
AUDITIONS JUNE 13 and 20, 2022
New Line Theatre will hold open auditions on two Monday nights, June 13 and 20, 2022, for the multi-award winning musical NINE. The auditions will start at 7:00 p.m. both nights, at the Marcelle Theater, 3310 Samuel Shepard Drive (63103), just three blocks east of Grand in the Grand Center Arts District. Performers need to come to only one of the dates. No appointment is necessary.
NINE will run twelve performances over four weeks at the Marcelle, March 2-25, 2023, no Sundays and no matinees.
NINE will have a cast of 16 women (the role of Guido has been cast). New Line is looking for a multi-racial cast of intelligent, fearless, singing actors. We do not cast anyone under 17. We are very eager to cast actors of color, and we are open to cross-gender casting. Performers are asked to bring a prepared contemporary theatre song, with printed piano music for our pianist (no karaoke tracks and no a cappella). Performers may also be asked to sing from the score. There will not be a dance audition.
The other two shows in New Line's 2022-2023 season have been cast already, before and during the pandemic. More info can be found on the
Auditions page of New Line's website. For more information, call us at 314-773-6526 or
email us.
We are proud to be part of a diverse community, and our stage will represent that inclusivity. To read New Line's Diversity Statement,
click here.
REHEARSALS
New Line rehearses on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m., plus every night the week the show opens. Rehearsals are at First Congregational Church of St. Louis, in Clayton, and at the Big Muddy Dance Studio on Washington.
Rehearsals for NINE begin the first week of January 2023.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Based on filmmaking legend Federico Fellini’s legendary (semi-)autobiographical film 8 1/2, NINE is a psychoanalytical roller coaster ride through the brain of a troubled, self-doubting genius. Underneath, it's a story about creation and creators, the sacrifices and compromises and demons, and the mysterious, delicate process of making great art.
Nine follows Fellini avatar Guido Contini who suffers a monumental breakdown, just as he turns forty and cameras are ready to roll on his next film, which Guido hasn’t even written yet. The entire show unfolds inside Guido’s frantic, chaotic mind as the many women in his life begin to rebel against his casual use and abuse of them, and as he examines the many relationships in his life. Finally, Guido has to learn the hardest lesson of all for an artist – he has to grow up.
Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times, “In Nine, his most ambitious show, director Tommy Tune provides the strongest evidence yet that he is one of or theater’s most inventive directors – a man who could create rainbows in a desert. Songwriter Maury Yeston, a newcomer to Broadway, has an imagination that, at its best, is almost Mr. Tune’s match. His score, giddily orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick, is a literate mixture of showbiz and operatic musical genres that contains some of the season’s most novel and beautiful songs. Together, Mr. Yeston and Mr. Tune give Nine more than a few sequences that are at once hallucinatory and entertaining – dreams that play like showstoppers.” Rich went on to say, “There’s so much rich icing on Nine that anyone who cares about the progress of the Broadway musical will have to see it.”
ABOUT NEW LINE THEATRE
New Line Theatre is a professional company dedicated to involving the people of the St. Louis region in the exploration and creation of daring, provocative, socially and politically relevant works of musical theatre. New Line was created back in 1991 at the vanguard of a new wave of nonprofit musical theatre just starting to take hold across the country. New Line has given birth to several world premiere musicals over the years and has brought back to life several shows that were not well served by their original New York productions. Altogether, New Line has produced 92 musicals since 1991, and the company has been given its own entry in the Cambridge Guide to American Theatre and the annual Theater World. New Line receives funding from the Regional Arts Commission and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
For other information, visit New Line Theatre’s full-service website at
www.newlinetheatre.com. All programs are subject to change. New Line’s current season closes with Urinetown throughout June 2022. For tickets,
click here.
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