Act II Playhouse 2024-25 Season - Ambler, PA EPA Act II Playhouse Ltd. | Ambler, PA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, May 27, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
To set up an audition appointment please email: casting@act2.org . Auditions will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. We will accept submissions until all appointments are filled OR May 25, 2024.
SPT
$725 weekly minimum (SPT 8)
Equity actors for roles in Act II Playhouse's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).
Actors of all races and ethnicities are encouraged to audition, regardless of gender.
If auditioning for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING or CHRISTMAS IN THE CATSKILLS II: A STAR IS BORSHT please prepare 2 short musical selections in the style of the show. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring sheet music in the key you wish to sing along with your picture and resume, stapled together. If auditioning for AN ACT OF GOD, THE OUTSIDER, CHRISTMAS IN THE CATSKILLS II: A STAR IS BORSHT, GRACE AND GLORIE, or DIAL M FOR MURDER, please prepare one monologue OR two contrasting monologues – up to 3 minutes total. Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
Act II Playhouse
56 E Butler Ave
Ambler, PA 19002-4526
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Tony Braithwaite
Production and Company Manager: Carolyn Dixon
Resident Stage Manager: Pat Sabato Accompanist: Eileen Fields
See breakdown for production specific dates.
Performance Schedule: Tuesday 7pm, Wednesday 2pm & 8pm, Thursday 2pm, Friday & Saturday 8p, Sunday 2p
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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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.
First Rehearsal: 7/16/2024
Tech: 8/2-8/4
Previews: 8/6-8/8
Opening: 8/9
Closing: 9/2
Possible Extension: to 9/8
GOD: (This role is CAST) The Almighty, taking on a human form to explain his commandments and answer your questions. Charming, emotional, and expressive. Note: This role carries 90 percent of the show's dialogue. Any ethnicity.
MICHAEL: (This role is CAST) An archangel, “the greatest advocate for humanity.” Interacts with the audience. Any ethnicity
GABRIEL: (This role is CAST) An archangel, dutiful and obedient for the most part. Guardian of the word of God. Any ethnicity
First Rehearsal: 9/17/2024
Tech: 10/4-10/6
Previews: 10/8-10/10
Opening: 10/11
Closing: 11/3
Possible Extension: 11/10
PAIGE CALDWELL (f): 20s to 40s. A professional pollster. A smart, confident woman with a professional’s view of politics: she sees it as a series of contests to be won.
DAVE RILEY (m): 30s/40s. The Chief of Staff to the new Governor. Very smart, but — despite years of experience in government — endearingly earnest and naive on the subject of politics.
LOUISE PEAKES (f): 30s to 50s. A temporary employee hired as the Governor's executive assistant. Personable, likable, impressively confident, and entirely inept. Without knowing it, she has the air of a politician about her. The friendliness of her smile, and the confident way she looks you in the eye, could make you think, I'd vote for her.”
NED NEWLEY (m): 50s/60s. The new Governor. A person of impressive ability, but a complete lack of confidence. A man waiting permission to enter a room in which he is already standing.
ARTHUR VANCE (m): 50s/60s. One of the most experienced and successful political consultants in the country. His overbearing personality, and confidence in his own opinions over the opinions of others, should make him dislikable, but his ego is more than tempered by the joy — even glee — he brings into the room. He’s a showman, but his excitement is 100% genuine, and it's contagious.
RACHEL PARSONS (f): 30s. A TV reporter. She has the looks to be an on-air correspondent — though, if television had never been invented, she still would have been a journalist. Straight-forward and honest, and inquisitive by nature. She's seen enough of life — and politics - to be cynical, but she's more apt to make a wry joke.
A. C. PETERSEN (m): 30s to 50s. A TV camera man. A working man, and — for most people — the guy you didn't notice was there. Which is fine with A. C.; he has a low tolerance for idiocy, and would rather not interact with anyone. His near-silence doesn't make him seem unfriendly, just a bit of a mystery.
First Rehearsal: 11/12/2024
Tech: 11/29-12/1
Previews: 12/3-12/5
Opening: 12/6
Closing: 12/29
Possible Extension: 1/5/2025
TONY BRAITHWAITE (m): (This role is CAST) A real Tony Braithwaite type. Amazing at impressions of all the golden age Catskill comics.
First Rehearsal: 1/7/2025
Tech: 1/24-1/26
Previews: 1/28-1/30
Opening: 1/31
Closing: 2/23
Possible Extension: 3/2
GRACE (f): (This role is CAST) A feisty 90 year-old cancer patient, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her beloved homestead cottage to die alone.
GLORIE (f): A tense, unhappy and guilt-ridden woman. Grace’s volunteer hospice worker. She is a Harvard MBA recently transplanted to this rural backwater from New York. Her only child was killed in an auto accident when she was driving.
First Rehearsal: 3/4/2025
Tech: 3/21-3/23
Previews: 3/25-3/27
Opening: 3/28
Closing: 4/19
Possible Extension: 4/26
MARGOT WENDICE (f): 30s-40s, British, Charming, Naive, Wealthy wife of Tony, has an affair with Maxine, Any Ethnicity
MAXINE HADLEY (f): 20s-40s, Female, American Murder mystery writer, has an affair with Margot, works with Tony, Any Ethnicity
TONY WENDICE (m): 30s-40s, British, married Margot for money, creates elaborate plot to murder Margot, incredibly smart Any Ethnicity
LESGATE (m): 30s-40s, British, an old schoolmate of Tony, convicted criminal, blackmailed into helping Tony with his murder plot, Any Ethnicity
INSPECTOR HUBBARD (m): 30s-40s, A British Inspector of Police, Head of investigation after murder attempt against Margot, Any Ethnicity
First Rehearsal: 5/6/2025
Tech: 5/23-5/25
Previews: 5/27-5/29
Opening: 5/30
Closing: 6/22
Possible Extension: 6/29
MARTIN (m): 30s-40s Baritone (range: Ab2-F4) A classic leading man; handsome; solos include: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and This Nearly Was Mine. Any Ethnicity.
LYNNE (f): 30s-40s Soprano (range: G3-Bb5) A classic leading lady; glamorous; solos include: Something Wonderful and It Might as Well be Spring. Any Ethnicity.
VICTORIA (f): 20s-30s Second Soprano (range:F3-Ab5) Comic ingenue; cute, pretty, full of youthful energy; solos include: I Can't Say No and If I Loved You; Any Ethnicity.
JASON (m): 20s- 30s Baritone (range: B2-G4) Comic juvenile; solos include: Surrey with the Fringe on Top and Love, Look Away; Any Ethnicity.
ALYSON (f): 20s-30s Alto Belt (range: F3 to E5) Soubrette (the funny friend); a definite plus if a dancer; solos include: A Wonderful Guy, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair, and A Hundred Million Miracles; Any Ethnicity.
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