Job Details

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
Production (League)
$2638 weekly minimum

AUDITION DATE
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:30PM - 2:30PM

LOCATION
Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
Audition room: Studio 315; Holding room:
Studio 306

PERSONNEL
Producers: Dale Franzen, Mara Isaacs, Hunter Arnold, Tom Kirdahy
Book, Music, and Lyrics: Anais Mitchell
Director: Rachel Chavkin
Choreographer: David Neumann
Music Director: Liam Robinson
Casting Director: Benton Whitley, CSA and Micah Johnson-Levy of Whitley Theatrical
General Manager: RCI Theatricals

Expected to attend:
Micah Johnson-Levy (Casting Director)

OTHER DATES
Currently running

OTHER
Venue/Theater: Walter Kerr

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity Monitor will be provided.

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

SEEKING
Equity actors for future replacements in the Broadway production of HADESTOWN (See breakdown).

There are no Equity stage managerial positions currently available.

PREPARATION
Please prepare a brief non-Musical Theater song (folk, rock, jazz, gospel, etc.). An accompanist will be provided. Note: there will be no dancing at this call. Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

HADESTOWN (Broadway)

NOTE FROM CREATIVE: We welcome performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and body types. We are seeking actors with unique, vibrant singing skills. Certain roles will also require strong instrumental abilities. Actors of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds are encouraged to audition. In general, we are not looking for conventional “music-theatre style”/vibrato singers. We are seeking singers capable of pure tones and/or vibrato that feels informed by jazz/rock/gospel.

SEEKING:
ORPHEUS: THE ROLE IS CAST. High Tenor with falsetto up to G#5. (A2 – F5). 20s to 30s, male, any ethnicity. Orpheus is an optimist, an idealist, a counter-culturalist. There should be something special about his pipes. Not a conventionally handsome leading man, Orpheus should feel unique and have the sensitive soul of an artist. Plays guitar.

HADES: THE ROLE IS CAST. Bass. G1 – Eb4 (will consider G2 – Eb4). 40s-60s, male, any ethnicity. Lord of the Dead. Powerful, immortal and deeply in love with Persephone. Needs to have a major seductive power and strong authoritative presence. Tyrannical and a bit menacing.

PERSEPHONE: THE ROLE IS CAST. Alto/Mezzo. (E3 – C5). 40s to 60s, female, any ethnicity. Goddess, playful, mercurial, fun and sexy. Persephone is not too feminine and lets her sharp edges show. She is the seasons and is cut from the same cloth as Orpheus. She must have a wryness and intelligence that she uses sharply for both entertainment and as a defense mechanism.

HERMES: THE ROLE IS CAST. Tenor/baritone. (D3 – B4). 30s-80s, any ethnicity. Hermes is the narrator/guide/emcee of the story. Charismatic, often mysterious, with a trickster-ish quality.

EURYDICE: THE ROLE IS CAST. Alto/Soprano. (E3 – E5). 20s to early 30s, female, any ethnicity. A practical leading heroine with an extremely vulnerable underbelly, a haunted bird. She takes the leap to the underworld as a step towards something reliable. There is both toughness and delicacy in her being and her singing; she uses a belt for some songs, real subtlety for others.

THE THREE FATES: Powerful and dark. Operate as one of the “voices in the heads” of the other characters. All of the Fates play an instrument of some kind and are skilled with harmonies. Essential for all Fates to be good movers:

FATE 1: THE ROLE IS CAST. Soprano. (F#3 – E5). Any age, any ethnicity.

FATE 2: THE ROLE IS CAST. Alto/Mezzo/ Soprano. (G3 – E5). Any age, any ethnicity.

FATE 3: THE ROLE IS CAST. Low alto. (F3 – C5). Any age, any ethnicity

SALARY

Production (League) $2638 weekly minimum

UNION

AEA

Pay: