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Auditions for FANTASTICKS-Reno, NV - Casting ID # 1356346
Project Type Live Event Submission Type Open Call
Market Reno, NV Union Non-union
Location Los Altos, CA 94022 Release Date 05-13-13
Rate/Pay $300.00 per event Submission deadline 05-27-13
Audition Date 05-28-13 Casting Category Theatre - Non-Equity
Auditions for our first show of next season, The Fantasticks will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Interested parties should please send your current headshot/resume. No calls please. Actors selected for an audition timeslot will be asked to prepare an appropriate monologue no longer than 1 minute in length and your best 16 bars of a song well-suited for the role you are interested in playing. Callbacks will be held on Saturday June 1 beginning at 10AM.

This non-traditional production of the Fantasticks will have a contemporary setting, but will be heavily influenced by and the sights and sounds of the 20’s and 30’s, as its ‘troupe of travelling players’ revisit its songs and scenes within the framework of vintage carnivals and tent revivals. Incorporating retro musical sounds and instrumentation of Bands like Mumford & Sons and the Decemberists, and merging hipster design elements and the use of aerial choreography, we will work to find a new simplicity, darkness, and rootedness in the feel of the piece. Performers with unique special abilities, circus or aerial skills, or proficiency with musical instruments are of particular interest.

With music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones, this much-loved show tells a funny and romantic tale of a boy, a girl, two fathers, and a wall. Under the sway of the puckish narrator, El Gallo, the boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart, and, in the end, find their way back to each other after realizing the truth in the words that “without a hurt, the heart is hollow.” The Fantasticks will open on September 6 and runs through September 29, 2013. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays are 8PM shows. Sundays are 3PM matinees. Rehearsals will begin in late July. All performers in the production will receive a stipend of $300 (flat) for the run of the show. (Travel stipends available for those travelling great distances.) *At this point we are unable to work with equity performers. point we are unable to work with equity
Role # 1 El Gallo
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

(Male, High Baritone, 25-45) As the narrator of the piece, he is the liaison between the audience and the action onstage. He is warm, cordial, and inviting to the audience, yet with darker moments. His attitude toward the rest of the cast reveals a decidedly mysterious side. Above all he must command attention.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 25 to 45
Role # 2 Matt
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

(Male, Baritone, 16-30)

As a young lover, he is deeply in love, particularly with the idea of being in love. He lacks experience in the world so, while not stupid, he is naive and perhaps even foolish at times. His image of a young man in love is one of a gallant protector, meaning that he approaches some decisions with a falsified bravery that is little more than bravado.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 16 to 30
Role # 3 Luisa
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

(Female, traditionally a Legit Soprano – though we are open to other unique voice types, 16-30)

As a young lover, she is in love. She is in love with love, the idea of love, the idea of being in love and indeed everything remotely romantic. Her dreams are more fanciful than those of Matt. Because of her particular vision of romance, she deals with the world on a particularly naive level. Some experience with or openness to aerial-dance work is desirable!

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Female
Age: from 16 to 30
Role # 4 Hucklebee
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

(Traditionally: Males, Baritone, 30-60 – open to alternative gender casting). Duo and team. Strong comedic timing a must. Fathers of Matt and Luisa. Always arguing and bickering, but secretly plotting together for the marriage of their children.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 60
Role # 5 Bellomy
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

(Traditionally: Males, Baritone, 30-60 – open to alternative gender casting) Duo and team. Strong comedic timing a must. Fathers of Matt and Luisa. Always arguing and bickering, but secretly plotting together for the marriage of their children.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 60
Role # 6 Henry
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

(Traditionally: Males, 30-60 – open to alternative gender casting) Foolish comic actor who move the action while not seeming to contribute anything of substance. As performers their day has long past. Henry can play grand characters and recite Shakespeare, but with very little success these days. May be asked to speak in an English accent. Mortimer’s specialty is dying on stage in the manner of great adventures and melodramas. May be asked to speak in a cockney accent. Henry and Mortimer function as a unit and rarely appear apart from each other. They are entirely theatrical and theirs is the world of the stage.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 60
Role # 7 Mortimer
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

(Traditionally: Males, 30-60 – open to alternative gender casting) Foolish comic actor who move the action while not seeming to contribute anything of substance. As performers their day has long past. Henry can play grand characters and recite Shakespeare, but with very little success these days. May be asked to speak in an English accent. Mortimer’s specialty is dying on stage in the manner of great adventures and melodramas. May be asked to speak in a cockney accent. Henry and Mortimer function as a unit and rarely appear apart from each other. They are entirely theatrical and theirs is the world of the stage.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 60
Role # 8 The Mute
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The Mute serves many functions—setting props as characters need them, assisting El Gallo, and becoming the wall separating the families. While omnipresent the character must also have the ability to fade into the background. This is a functional character that sometimes interacts with the others. Aerial/dance ability/experience is a huge bonus!

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Female
Age: from 16 to 30