Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center announces auditions for Carousel. Open auditions for equity and non-equity actors of all ages will take place on January 19-21, 2022.
The Audition:
Please arrive a minimum of 10 minutes before your scheduled audition time to check in and fill out any necessary paperwork including all known conflicts.
SEEKING: EXCEPTIONAL DANCERS AND SINGERS TO TELL THIS TIMELESS TALE OF LOVE, LOSS, AND FORGIVENESS.
Vocal Audition:
· Vocal auditions will take place on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, from 4:00-9:00pm
· Please enter through the 10th Street Entrance to check in with the COVID Compliance Officer and then Stage Management.
· Please prepare two contrasting 16 bar cuts of Golden Age musical theatre songs. Rodger and Hammerstein encouraged. Songs from the show are not discouraged.
· Please bring sheet music in the correct key for the provided accompanist.
· Please bring a current headshot and resume to audition.
· Anyone who does not attend the dance call on Thursday, January 20, 2022 will not be considered for casting.
The Dance Call:
· The Dance Call will take place on Thursday, January 20, 2022, from 4:00-7:00pm in the Rehearsal Hall.
· Please enter through the Artist Entrance on 9th Street to check in with the COVID Compliance Officer and then Stage Management.
· There will be one ballet and one jazz combination.
· You must attend the vocal audition to be considered for casting.
· Appropriate dance apparel includes: Leotard or solid color fitted shirt, skin-colored tights, black tights, or jazz pants (a ballet or swing skirt over leotard and tights is also acceptable). You will need ballet shoes and character shoes (jazz shoes if you don't have character).
· Please have your hair pulled back away from your face.
Callbacks:
· Callbacks scheduled by invitation only on Friday, January 21, 2022, from 4:00-9:00pm in the Rehearsal Studio.
· Please enter through the 10th Street Entrance to check in with the COVID Compliance Officer and then Stage Management.
Important COVID-19 Safety Information:
· Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center has contracted a COVID-19 Compliance Officer to advise them on best practices to ensure the safety of everyone involved in this production. You will receive a letter from them outlining all Audition and Rehearsal procedures.
· For contract tracing purposes, we will inquire as to your vaccination status when signing up for your audition
· Anyone who has not received their final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by May 27, 2022, will need to remain masked at all times, including during performances.
To sign up for an audition time slot, please complete the online form:
https://forms.gle/bF12raTjg8GWr5sX8
** You will receive a confirmation email with your time after completing the form.
Synopsis:
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.
Character Breakdown:
JULIE JORDAN - A real New England village girl, but 'deeper', quieter, and more complex than her friends. Her infatuation for Billy turns to a love which is proof against his fatal character weaknesses and lives on many years after the tragedy.
BILLY BIGELOW - An earthy anti-hero with a reputation for being a lay-about and a ladies' man. He is a deeply troubled character ultimately redeemed by the love he could not communicate to his wife and unborn child.
CARRIE PIPPERIDGE - As the stage direction says, 'a naive, direct and normal young woman of the period'. Julie's friend, her horizon is no further than domestic bliss with be-whiskered Mr. Snow.
MRS. MULLIN - The carousel owner; a middle-aged woman who believes that Billy is not only her employee, but her property.
ENOCH SNOW - Dour, respectable, and ambitious in a small-town sort of way, he is an affectionate family-type too.
JIGGER CRAIGIN - A real 'bad lot' who plays on Billy's weaknesses, and deserts him when things go horribly wrong.
NETTIE FOWLER - The motherly soul of the village.
MR. BASCOMBE - The self-important millionaire and richest man around.
STARKEEPER /DR. SELDON - Billy's guides and mentors, who tell him the home-truths he really needs and speaker at commencement
1ST HEAVELY FRIEND JOSHUA - assistant to the star keeper
2nd HEAVENLY FRIEND - assistant to the star keeper
LOUISE - Billy and Julie’s teenage daughter. An exceptional dancer. Tries to understand how to live in the negative shadow of her father
ENSEMBLE -Townspeople, Amusement Park Carnies, Youngsters, Seafaring Men.
Schedule:
Rehearsal
Run Thru (Mandatory)
Tech Rehearsals (Mandatory)
Performances (Mandatory)
Seeking strong singers and dancers; all genders, types, and ethnicities encouraged to audition.
Performers of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, gender identities and expressions, and performers living with disabilities are encouraged to audition.
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