The Gallery Players will hold auditions for its upcoming AEA showcase (approval pending) production of Like You Like It, book and lyrics by Sammy Buck, music by Daniel S. Acquisto.
Director: Igor Goldin, Musical Director: Jeffrey Campos, Choreographer: Keith Andrews, Producer: Heather Siobhan Curran, Associate Producer: Marissa Rosenblum.
OPEN CALL (AEA and non-AEA)
Friday Sept. 5th from 7-9 pm (sign in begins at 6:30 pm AEA priority)
Callbacks
Monday Sept. 8th (evening)
Rehearses: Sept. 20th -Oct. 17th 2008 evenings and weekends
Performs: Oct. 18th -Nov. 9th 2008 (16 perfs)
Seeking 9 women/9 men. All roles open. For high school age characters, seeking actors who play the age range not actual students.
TO PREPARE: 16 bars of your best rock/pop song from 1980’s preferred. Please bring sheet music in your key (no lead sheets). Please have second song choice available. You will sing with an accompanist. Dance audition will take place at callbacks.
All play high school age range except the two adult characters (Jackie and Eddie) as noted.
ROSALIND DUKE - RANGE F# below Middle C - Top space E (and should have a little bottom to the quality.) Mezzo Soprano. A high school senior - studious always plays everything safe until she dresses as a frat dude named “Corey.” She transforms from scared to invincible, then ultimately to honest and open. She is smart and funny – and can quickly change back and forth between being a guy and a girl.
CELIA DUKE - RANGE F# below Middle C to G above staff. Soprano/Mezzo Soprano. Rosalind’s cousin and best friend. Also a high school senior, she is feisty and clever, if not too book smart. She knows she’s adorable and uses it. She has to play an alter ego at the mall, a Madonna-wannabe named LaDonna. Has a saucy edge.
ORLANDO BATEMAN - RANGE 2 Bs below Middle C - A above middle C (Falsetto) Tenor. A senior varsity wrestler with the soul of a poet. Think Troy Bolton or Jake Ryan.
OLIVER BATEMAN - RANGE E below middle C - E above Middle C. Tenor/Baritone. Orlando’s resentful 19-year—old brother. and truancy officer at the high school. Villain of the piece who gets a makeover and becomes beautiful both inside and out.
TOUCHTONE - RANGE B below middle C to E (F#) above middle C. Tenor/Baritone. The very horny high school geek. Think Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles.
AUDREY SHEPHERD - RANGE A below middle C - E above middle C. Mezzo Soprano/Alto. Senior. The Queen Bee. Gorgeous. Full of herself. Insufferable rich bully. Secretly more vulnerable than anyone else in the story.
PHIL LIPSCHITZ - RANGE C below Middle C - G above middle C. Tenor. A senior, a work-study employee at “Hot Dog on a Stick,” very sweet and naïve. Realizes he’s gay.
SYLVIE FELDMAN – RANGE G below middle C - E above middle C. Mezzo Soprano/Alto. Phil’s best friend, a senior, also work-study at “Hot Dog on a Stick,” desperately in love with Phil. Comedienne who can play heartbreak.
JACKIE WEST - RANGE F# below Middle C - top line F. Plays 30’s-40’s. Mezzo Soprano. The befuddled narrator and lead singer of “The Seven Stages of Man,” the onstage band. She is one of two adults in the show – Rocks out. Needs excellent comic timing. Combination Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper and Megan Mullally.
EDDIE VAN BEETHOVEN - RANGE E below Middle C - B below middle C. Tenor. Jackie’s lead guitarist who keeps her on track. The other adult in the show – plays 20s – 40s. Surfer dude.
FEMALE CHORUS (All play high school age range) seeking all vocal ranges
Girl in neckbrace
2 cheerleader types
Goth girl
MALE CHORUS (All play high school age range) seeking all vocal ranges
Foreign Exchange Student
Vulnerable Freshman
2 jocks
All ethnicities are encouraged to audition. Equity/Non-Equity. No Pay. (AEA members receive travel stipend) The Gallery Players, 199 14th St. Brooklyn, NY 11215 between 4th and 5th aves. Take the R train to 9th St. in Brooklyn or the F train to 4th Ave. in Brooklyn. The “R” can be accessed easily at the Pacific/Atlantic station in Brooklyn which is served by the 2,3,4,5,N,B,D and Q trains from Manhattan
