AUDITION NOTICE

The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

Equity Principal Auditions by Appointment SPT Category 2

Director: Lucinda Merry-Browne
Music Director: James Fitzpatrick

First Rehearsal:	11/10/08
Opens:	12/12/08
Closes:	1/24/09

Regular Performance Dates: Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, Sunday afternoons

Audition Dates:
Saturday, September 20, 2008
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
5 :00 p.m. – 10::00 p.m.

The Bay Theatre Company
275 West Street 275 West Street
Annapolis, MD

Equity and Non-Equity actors welcome. Bring your headshot and resume, stapled together. You will be given a side from the script. Auditions will be cold readings and singing. Please come prepared to do 24-32 measures of a song of your own choosing. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring your own music. Actors with a visual impairment, please notify audition coordinator to receive sides in advance. All roles paid.

Synopsis:

This musical allegory concerns two parents who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love. The beauty of the music and the poetry of its dialogue carried this play through 17,162 performances Off Broadway. As a rose has thorns, this tender, sometimes prickly, and very funny musical will appeal to all ages, for those who try to remember as well as those who are just beginning.

Seeking:

El Gallo: 25-45 The rapscallion narrator.

The Girl: 18-25 Innocent and beautiful

The Boy: 18-25 Naïve and daring

The Boy’s Parent: 40-60 Funny and wise (man or woman)

The Girl’s Parent: 40-60 Funny and wise too (man or woman)

The Actor 30-50: Adventuresome (man or woman)

Mortimer 40-60: Old and theatrical

The Mute 25-55: We are seeking an actor who also plays the piano for this part.

To schedule an audition, please leave a message on the theater audition line (410) 268-1333 option 4. You may also email info@baytheatre.org. Please specific preferred audition date and location. Your audition request will be confirmed by phone or email.

Contacts:

Ariel Brickman or Lucinda Merry-Browne

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The Bay Theatre Company is a professional non-profit repertory theatre company located at 275 West Street in Annapolis, Maryland. It was founded in 2002 with a threefold mission: (1) to produce plays of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures; (2) to promote theatre education for students of all ages, and (3) to provide working opportunities for theatre artists. To fulfill this mission, the Bay Theatre Company produces four to five professional productions each year, employing experienced theatre artists and Actors’ Equity professionals, as well as recent theatre school graduates. In addition, the Company offers workshops and performance opportunities for students of all ages, both independently and in association with Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.