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February 7, 2023 · 5:56 am

Unified Auditions Announced for Cincinnati Fringe Festival

CFF_Orange logo text onlySunday, February 26th from 4-6pm at Wooden Cask Brewing Company in Newport, KY, we are holding the 2023 Cincy Fringe Unified Auditions.

Click here to sign up!

In the non-traditional spirit of Fringe, this will be a non-traditional “audition.” Fringe Producers and Players (that’s you!) will engage in rounds of one-on-one speed dates. 5 minutes per session, producers will pitch their project and players will pitch themselves. Bring a monologue and/or a song, or just bring your VIBE.

This event is a proud collaboration with our pals at Falcon Theatre and the League of Cincinnati Theatres.

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February 7, 2023 · 5:55 am

Auditions Announced for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre

GHCT_logoPRIDE AND PREJUDICE

March 6 & 7 from 7-9pm

The Creative Center at the Palace
215 S 3rd St
Hamilton, OH 45011

Directed by Anna Brown

Possible callbacks on Wednesday March 8th from 7-9pm
Rehearsal Dates: Tuesdays-Thursdays from 7-9pm beginning March 9. Sundays (March 26, April 2 & 16) from 7-9pm.
Tech rehearsals April 23-27.
Show Dates: April 28-30, 2023

Please come prepared to read from the script.
A headshot/resume is not required but would be helpful.
Please be prepared to list all conflicts from March 9 – April 30.

Characters (6m, 8f)

Mr. Bennet – (40s-mid 60s) The patriarch of the Bennet family, a gentleman of modest income with five unmarried daughters. Mr. Bennet has a sarcastic, cynical sense of humor that he uses to purposefully irritate his wife. Though he loves his daughters (Elizabeth in particular), he often fails as a parent, preferring to withdraw from the never-ending marriage concerns of the women around him rather than offer help.

Mrs. Bennet – (40s-50s) Mr. Bennet’s wife, a foolish, noisy woman whose only goal in life is to see her daughters married. Because of her low breeding and often unbecoming behavior, Mrs. Bennet often repels the very suitors whom she tries to attract for her daughters.

Elizabeth Bennet – (18-21) Lizzie, as she is sometimes called, is the protagonist of the play and second eldest daughter. She has a passionate, if sometimes jumbled, relationship with Mr. Darcy.

Jane Bennet – (20-25) The eldest and most beautiful Bennet sister. Jane is more reserved and gentler than Elizabeth. The easy pleasantness with which she and Bingley interact contrasts starkly with the mutual distaste that marks the encounters between Elizabeth and Darcy.

Kitty Bennet – (16-18) The fourth Bennet sister. Like Lydia, she is girlishly enthralled with the soldiers.

Mr. Darcy – (mid 20s-early 30s) A wealthy gentleman, the master of Pemberley, and the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Though Darcy is intelligent and honest, his excess of pride causes him to look down on his social inferiors.

The following actors may double or even triple on these characters:

Female 1 (18-21):
Mary Bennet is the middle Bennet sister, not as flighty as Kitty & Lydia, but not as refined as Jane & Elizabeth. She is a bookworm.

Charlotte Lucas – Elizabeth’s dear friend. Pragmatic where Elizabeth is romantic, and also six years older than Elizabeth, Charlotte does not view love as the most vital component of a marriage. She is more interested in having a comfortable home. Thus, when Mr. Collins proposes, she accepts.

Female 2 (15-17):

Lydia Bennet – The youngest Bennet sister, she is gossipy, immature, and self-involved. Unlike Elizabeth, Lydia flings herself headlong into romance and ends up running off with Wickham.

Georgiana – Darcy’s sister. She is immensely pretty and just as shy. She has great skill at playing the pianoforte.

Male 1 (20s):

Mr. Bingley – Darcy’s considerably wealthy best friend. Bingley’s purchase of Netherfield, an estate near the Bennets, serves as the impetus for the novel. He is a genial, well-intentioned gentleman, whose easygoing nature contrasts with Darcy’s initially discourteous demeanor. He is blissfully uncaring about class differences.

Colonel Fitzwilliam – Darcy’s cousin. A kind man who forms a flirtatious relationship with Lizzie. He accidentally reveals that Darcy is responsible for separating Jane and Bingley.

Servant

Male 2 (30s-early 40s):

Sir William Lucas – A friend and neighbor of the Bennet family. He is pleasant but not overly deep or intellectual. He is obsessed with having been granted knighthood. He is father to Charlotte.

Mr. Collins – A pompous, generally idiotic clergyman who stands to inherit Mr. Bennet’s property. Mr. Collins’s own social status is nothing to brag about, but he takes great pains to let everyone and anyone know that Lady Catherine de Bourgh serves as his patroness. He is the worst combination of snobbish and obsequious.

Mr. Gardiner – Mrs. Bennet’s brother. Caring, nurturing, and full of common sense, often prove to be better parents to the Bennet daughters than Mr. Bennet and his wife.

Female 3 (mid 20s-mid 30s):

Miss Bingley – Bingley’s snobbish sister. Miss Bingley bears inordinate disdain for Elizabeth’s middle-class background. Her vain attempts to garner Darcy’s attention cause Darcy to admire Elizabeth’s self-possessed character even more.

Mrs. Gardiner – Mrs. Bennet’s sister-in-law. The Gardiners, caring, nurturing, and full of common sense, often prove to be better parents to the Bennet daughters than Mr. Bennet and his wife.

Male 3 (mid-late 20s):

George Wickham – A handsome, fortune-hunting militia officer. Wickham’s good looks and charm attract Elizabeth initially, but Darcy’s revelation about Wickham’s disreputable past clues her in to his true nature and simultaneously draws her closer to Darcy.

Male Ballguest 1

Female 4 (60s-70s):

Lady Catherine de Bourgh – A rich, bossy noblewoman; Mr. Collins’s patron and Darcy’s aunt. Lady Catherine epitomizes class snobbery, especially in her attempts to order the middle-class Elizabeth away from her well-bred nephew.

Housekeeper

Female Ballguest

Male 4 (18+)

Male Ballguest 2

Officer

Servant

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February 3, 2023 · 6:45 am

Auditions Announced for SORDID LIVES at Beavercreek Community Theatre

bctSORDID LIVES by Del Shore

Directed by Doug Lloyd

Production: April 21 – 30, 2023

Auditions: February 27 & 28 from 7-10pm

The author of Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles. When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.
Auditions will consist of readings from the script.

Character Breakdown

  • BITSY MAY HARLING – Female – Guitar playing, singing ex-con
  • TY WILLIAMSON – Male 27- A beautiful gay man on a journey
  • SISSY HICKEY – Female mid 50s – The caretaker that picked the wrong day to quit smoking
  • NOLETA MAY NETHERCOTT – Female early 40s – Angry overweight betrayed housewife
  • LATRELLE WILLIAMSON – Female early 50s – Ty’s uptight proper mother
  • LA VONDA DUPREE – Female late 40s – Latrelle’s liberal minded worldly sister
  • GW NETHERCOTT – Male late 40s – The distraught legless Vietnam vet
  • WARDELL “BUBBA” OWENS – Male late 40s – The former gay bashing remorseful bartender
  • ODELL OWENS – Male mid 40s – Wardell’s worthless story telling brother
  • DR. EVE BOLINGER – Female late 40s – the oversexed, pill popping, alcoholic therapist
  • EARL “BROTHER BOY” INGRAM – male late 40s – The Tammy Wynette obsessed cross-dresser
  • REV. BARNES – Male – The Southern Baptist Preacher (may be double cast)

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February 1, 2023 · 6:42 pm

Auditions Announced for THE MATCHMAKER at Beechmont Players

BPI_logoBeechmont Players and director Jeff Carter will be holding auditions for their spring show, THE MATCHMAKER by Thornton Wilder.

Directed by Jeff Carter
Assistant Directed by Maggie Ingram King
Produced by Narisa Williams

Synopsis:
THE MATCHMAKER is Wilder’s uproarious farce about love and money, stars the irrepressible busybody, Dolly Gallagher Levi, who inspired the Broadway musical, Hello, Dolly!  Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in 19th Century Yonkers, NY, decides to take a wife and employs a matchmaker, Mrs. Dolly Levi.  Dolly subsequently becomes involved with two of Vandergelder’s clerks, several lovely ladies, and the headwaiter at an expensive restaurant where this swift farce runs headlong into hilarious complications. After everyone gets straightened out romantically, Vandergelder finds himself affianced to the astute Dolly Levi herself.

Auditions:
Mon. Feb 13th & Wed. Feb 15th at 6:30pm

Anderson Center Theater
7850 Five Mile Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45255

Please try to arrive at the beginning of auditions. If you will be later, contact producer Narisa Williams at 859-866-8685.

Please bring a resume and conflicts from March 1st – May13th. Headshot is encouraged. Cold readings will be done from the script.

Rehearsals start in the beginning of March and will rehearse 3 days a week. Final schedule will be determined after the show is cast and conflicts have been provided.

Show Dates:
May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 at the Anderson Center Theater
*Possible performance to be added on May 11*

Characters:

  • HORACE VANDERGELDER- a Merchant of Yonkers. Male, stage age 50-70
  • MRS. DOLLY GALLAGHER LEVI- a friend of Vandergelder’s late wife. Female, stage age 40-60
  • IRENE MOLLOY- a Milliner. Female, stage age 25-40
  • MINNIE FAY- Ms. Molloy’s assistant. Female, stage age 18-25
  • CORNELIUS HACKL- a clerk in Vandergelder’s store. Male, stage age 25-40
  • BARNABY TUCKER- an apprentice in Vandergelder’s store. Male, stage age 18-25
  • ERMENGARDE- Mr. Vandergelder’s niece. Female, stage age 18-25
  • MISS FLORA VAN HUSEN- a friend of Vandergelder’s late wife. Female, stage age 55-70
  • MALACHI STACK- jobseeker Vandergelder hires. Male, indeterminate age, active and spry
  • AMBROSE KEMPER- an Artist. Male, stage age 18-25
  • GERTRUDE- Vandergelder’s Housekeeper. Female, indeterminate age but elderly, cranky and spry
  • RUDOLF/AUGUST- a Waiter. Male, stage age 25-45
  • JOE SCANLON- a Barber. Male, indeterminate age

NOTE: For the safety of our patrons, cast and crew, all participants in this show will be required to be vaccinated before the start of rehearsals.

Questions? Contact producer Narisa Williams at 859-866-8685 or narisalc79@gmail.com.

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February 1, 2023 · 6:14 pm

Video Auditions Announced for KINKY BOOTS and GUYS AND DOLLS at The Carnegie

TC_logo_newThe Carnegie is accepting video submissions for our Summer 2023 productions of KINKY BOOTS and GUYS AND DOLLS.

KINKY BOOTS
June 30 – August 19, 2023
Directed by Lindsey Augusta Mercer
Music Directed by Steve Goers

GUYS AND DOLLS
July 29 – August 18, 2023
Directed and Choreographed by Eric Byrd
Music Directed by Steve Goers 

Auditions by Video Submission.
Submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on February 28, 2023.
Performers must be 16 years of age or older to submit an audition.

What to send:

  • 32 bars of a song in the style of KINKY BOOTS
  • 32 bars of a song in the style of GUYS AND DOLLS
  • Optional: Submit a 1-2 minute video showcasing your dance/movement abilities
  • Resume
  • Headshot

Audition videos will only be accepted as links. Files requiring download will not be accepted. Please create separate videos for each song and the dance combination. You will be asked to submit them separately in the online form.

Please ensure that privacy settings are such that we are enabled to view by the link only, with no need for password or additional access request. Please film your material in a horizontal/landscape frame on a solid background or plain wall.  A ¾ shot is preferred for vocal selections.

Your headshot must be an image file and your resume must be in PDF format. Both should be labeled with you name (i.e. Gabbard_Tyler.pdf)

Please submit your audition here: https://forms.gle/Cqsc3yGwshypKXfd7

Callbacks
Callbacks will be a mix of live and digital based on the availability of the auditionee and production staff. In-person callbacks are planned for Monday, March 20.

Casting
All auditionees will be notified of casting outcomes by March 31, 2023.

The Carnegie is committed to inclusive casting. All races, ethnicities, gender identities, body types, and mobilities are encouraged to apply. Pronouns listed in the character breakdown refer to the genders of the characters only. Actors should submit for any roles they feel comfortable playing. 

Also Note:

  • All Roles are paid. Principal Roles pay $1000 per show contract, Secondary Roles and Ensemble pay $800 per show contract. If selected for a two-show contract (KINKY BOOTS and GUYS AND DOLLS), pay is $2000 for the summer and is paid bi-weekly.
  • Not AEA eligible.
  • No housing provided. 

Rehearsals and Performances
Rehearsals will take place in the evenings and on weekends. Daytime rehearsals may be added based on the availability of the cast and production staff.

Conflicts will be accepted on a limited basis. The Carnegie strives to provide flexible opportunities for artists to pursue their craft in an environment that respects work-life balance. If conflicts are too numerous, we reserve the right to retract our offer. No performance conflicts will be accepted. 

COVID-19 Policies
The Carnegie fervently encourages all auditioners to seek the Covid-19 vaccination before attending in-person callbacks. Proof of a completed initial vaccine course is required before the start of rehearsals for all company members. Rehearsals may be conducted in masks depending on virus transmission rates. Performances and audiences will not be masked.

KINKY BOOTS
Music and Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper
Book by Harvey Fierstein
Original Broadway Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerry Mitchell
Based on the Miramax motion picture of the same name, written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth

Directed by Lindsey Augusta Mercer
Choreographer TBA
Music Directed by Steve Goers

Rehearsals: June 4-29

Performances:
Friday, June 30, 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 2, 3:00 PM
Friday, July 7, 7:30 PM
Saturday, July 8, 7:30 PM
Friday, July 21, 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 6, 3:00 PM
Thursday, August 10, 7:30 PM
Saturday, August 19, 7:30 PM

KINKY BOOTS, the winner of six Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, is a huge-hearted, high-heeled hit featuring music and lyrics by pop legend Cyndi Lauper. Factory owner Charlie is struggling to save his business when he meets Lola, a drag queen with a wildly exciting idea that just might save the day. Inspired by true events, KINKY BOOTS tells the story of a mismatched pair of friends who together learn that sometimes, the best way to fit in… is to stand out!

Available Roles

Charlie Price (He/Him)
A bit confused, a bit unfocused, a hero hiding under a victim’s mantle.
Tenor (C3 -B4)

Lola/Simon (She/Her/He/Him)
A prize fighter’s physique draped in satin. A talented drag queen with a killer voice and winning ways.
Tenor (C3-B4)

Nicola (She/Her)
Charlie’s long-term girlfriend. Driven, uncompromising.
Mezzo-Soprano (B3-F5)

Lauren (She/Her)
Beautiful and strong working-class girl.
Mezzo-Soprano (B3-F5)

Don/Ensemble (He/Him)
Lola’s nemesis. Burly hypermasculine bear of a factory worker.
Baritone/Tenor (C3-F4, must have falsetto to D5 for finale)

Pat/Ensemble (She/Her)
Officious office manager who will let loose her wild side when allowed.
Mezzo-Soprano (B3-F5)

Trish/Ensemble (She/Her)
Factory worker with a husband and kids to worry over.
Mezzo-Soprano (B3-D5)

George/Ensemble (He/Him)
Factory manager keeping up traditions. Reserved.
Baritone (C3-F4)

Mr. Price/Ensemble (He/Him)
Charlie’s father. Also plays Richard Bailey, Nicola’s attractive boss.
Baritone (B2-G4)

Harry/Ensemble (He/Him)
A contemporary of Charlie’s but his opposite. Successful, self-aware and confident. Also plays Simon Sr., Simon’s unforgiving father.
Tenor (E3-C4)

The Angels (He/Him/She/Her/They/Them)
The drag performers who populate The Blue Angel Nightclub.
Baritones/Tenors (some sing to C5 and some sing to A4)

GUYS AND DOLLS
A Musical Fable of Broadway
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon

Directed and Choreographed by Eric Byrd
Music Directed by Steve Goers

GUYS AND DOLLS is musical theatre at its show-stopping best! Hailed by many as the perfect musical comedy, this colorful classic follows a rowdy bunch of gamblers and showgirls in a wild game of chance and love. Set in bustling 1950s Manhattan, GUYS AND DOLLS features some of the most memorable showtunes of all time, including “Luck Be a Lady,” “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” and the irrepressible anthem “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat.”

Rehearsals: July 2-28

Performances:
Saturday, July 29, 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 30, 3:00 PM
Friday, August 4, 7:30 PM
Saturday, August 5, 7:30 PM
Saturday, August 12, 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 13, 3:00 PM
Thursday, August 17, 7:30 PM
Friday, August 18, 7:30 PM

Available Roles

Nathan Detroit (He/Him)
A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit the bigtime. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.
Baritone (Eb4-B4)

Miss Adelaide (She/Her)
Nathan’s fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn.
Mezzo-Soprano (A3-D5)

Sky Masterson (He/Him)
A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card who surprises himself when he falls in love with the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, handsome.
Baritone (Bb3-D5)

Sarah Brown (She/Her)
A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. She fully believes in her worthy cause and wishes to convert the gambling sinners to saints. Falls unexpectedly in love with Sky along the way. She is prudish and uptight, but eventually lets go.
Soprano (Bb3-E5)

Nicely-Nicely Johnson (He/Him)
Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gambling crooks. High-spirited and a bit naïve, but sincere and genuine. Nathan’s loyal friend and lackey.
Tenor (Bb3-F5)

Benny Southstreet (He/Him)
Nathan’s right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking, but with what he thinks are Nathan’s best interest at heart.
Baritone (Bb3-E5)

Arvide Abernathy (He/Him or She/Her)
The bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band and Sarah’s loving grandparent. Wise and sweet.

Harry The Horse (He/Him)
A crook and gambler. He is a tough guy with dollar signs as his bottom line. Brings Big Jule into Nathan’s craps game and backs his cheating but is also a man of his word in the gambling community.

Lt. Brannigan/Ensemble (He/Him)
A New York police officer who is on to Nathan’s illegal craps games and is dead set on catching him. A tough, no-nonsense character.

Big Jule (He/Him)
A big time craps player from Chicago who uses a gun and his own pair of rigged dice to bully his way into never losing. Tough looking. A bit of an oaf.

General Matilda B. Cartwright (She/Her)
The regional representative of the Save-a-Soul missions. Powerful, matronly, and no-nonsense.
Mezzo-Soprano

Rusty Charlie (He/Him)

Angie the Ox (He/Him)

Hot Box Dancers/Ensemble (She/Her)
A chorus of performers who back-up Adelaide in her nightclub act. Strong dancing, singing and character performance required.

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