[Capdist-auditions] Capital Repertory Theatre announces open auditions for AEA and non-union actors for the 2011-2012 season

[casting at capitalrep.org]

Capital Repertory Theatre announces open auditions for AEA and non-union
actors for the 2011-2012 season on 

 

Thursday, July 21, 2011 from 9:30AM-5:00PM at Actors Equity Association 165
W. 46th Street, NY, NY  10036 

 

AND

 

Monday, July 25, 2011 from 9:30 am - 5:30 pm at Capital Rep, 111 N. Pearl
St., Albany.  

 

The theatre is seeking actors for SUPERIOR DONUTS, MAN OF LA MANCHA, THE
SISTERS ROSENSWEIG, and GOD OF CARNAGE.  

 

Prepare a short dramatic or comic monologue of your choice and 16 bars of
Broadway-style song (or 32 bars (verse/chorus) if not doing monologue).
Please bring pic/resume stapled together.  

 

For Albany Auditions:

Appointments for Equity members are not necessary, but may be made by
calling the audition hotline: 518-462-4531 x403.  

 

Non-Union:  send pic/resume via email to:  casting at capitalrep.org.  Selected
actors will be provided with appt.

 

 

Seeking actors for SUPERIOR DONUTS, MAN OF LAMANCHA, THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG
and GOD OF CARNAGE

SUPERIOR DONUTS - Tracy Letts' rough and tumble comedy that focuses on the
off-beat friendship that grows between shop owner, Arthur Przybyszewski, a
cantankerous, white, former-hippie and Franco Wicks, an ambitious black
twenty-something with a talent for writing and a problem with debt.

 

Directed by:  Mark Fleischer

Rehearsal start:  August 23, 2011

First preview:  September 16, 2011

Press opening:  September 20, 2011

Closing performance:  October 16, 2012

 

Seeking:

Male

Arthur Przybyszewski,  59

Franco Wicks, African American 20's

Max Tarasov, 45, Russian  (must have Russian accent)

Luther Flynn: 50s Irish-American

Officer James Bayley, 43, African American

 

Female:

Officer randy Osteen, 49ish, Irish American  

 

MAN OF LAMANCHA - The inspiring Tony-Award winning musical based on the
classic Cervantes novel, Don Quixote.  Thrown into prison on trumped-up
charges, Miquel Cervantes and his sidekick find themselves among a throng of
debtors and thieves who reenact the great feats of Don Quixote, the knight
errant.  Score includes, "To Dream the Impossible Dream," "I Really Like
Him,"  "Aldonza," and "Dulcinea."  

 

This production will be performed by an ethnically diverse ensemble of 12
with all actors except Quixote and Aldonza playing multiple parts TBD.
Special skills sought - actors who play guitar, trumpet, violin, percussion.
Actors need to be physically agile.

 

Directed by:  Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill

Choreographed by:  Susan Caputo

Rehearsal start:  Oct. 18, 2011

First preview:  Nov. 11, 2011

Press opening:  November 15, 2011

Closing performance:  December 18, 2011

 

Roles of Don Quixote and Padre not open. 

 

SEEKING:

Male

Manservant/Sancho/others as cast - 30-40s

Dr. Carrasco/Duke/Knight of the Mirrors /others as cast : 50s

Innkeeper/Governor/others as cast: 40-50s

Pedro/muleteer/as cast: 20s-40s

 

Female

Aldonza - 20s-40s 

Housekeeper/as cast - 40s

Antonia/as cast - 20s

 

THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG

Wendy Wasserstein's delightful Tony-nominated play of 1993, follows three
disparate sisters from Brooklyn as they reunite in London for the birthday
of Sara, the eldest.  Over the course of a weekend, they come to terms with
their differences and love unexpectedly blooms between the sophisticated
Sara and a visiting Jewish furrier.

 

Directed by:  Michael Bush

Rehearsals start:  December 27, 2011

First Preview:  January 20, 2012

Press opening:  January 24, 2012

Closing performance:  February 19, 2012

 

Role of Gorgeous not open.

 

Seeking:

Female:

Sara Goode:  54, lovely.

Pfeni:  40ish (looks younger than her age)\

 

Male:

Geoffrey Duncan,  40s, British accent

Mervyn Kant,  58, American

Nicholas Pym, 58, British gentleman

 

 

GOD OF CARNAGE

Yasmina Reza's outrageous comedy that brings together two sets of Brooklyn
well-to-do parents for a meeting to resolve a playground altercation between
their eleven-year-olds.  As the booze flows, so do the emotions and tempers
of the adults who disintegrate into behavior better suited to their kids.
When the social veneer dissolves, the couples are left with more than their
liberal notions in tatters.

 

All roles open.

 

All actors must be physically agile.

 

Seeking:

Male

Alan, early-mid 40s

Michael, early-mid 40s

 

Female

Annette, late 30s-early 40s

Veronica, late 30s-early 40s

 

 

 

 

 

Elise Charlebois

 

Casting Office

Capital Repertory Theatre

111 North Pearl St

Albany, NY 12207

 

518.462.4531 x 403

casting at capitalrep.org

 

 

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