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DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

REVISED

2/9: Description of DANNY KANTROWITZ

updated. Role of LILLIAN is now CAST. 2/10:

Breakdown updated.

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

AND

Thursday, February 19, 2026

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

AND

Friday, February 20, 2026

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

BREAKS: 1:30PM - 2:30PM

CONTRACT

Off Broadway

$1583 weekly minimum (Off-Broadway cat. E)

SEEKING

NOTE: Due to a scheduled system upgrade, signups for this audition will begin earlier than usual. You will not be able to cancel appointments via Casting Call while the upgrade is in process. Should you need to cancel, please make sure to return to Casting Call to complete your cancelation when the upgrades are complete.

Equity actors for roles in A WALK ON THE MOON (see breakdown).

All Stage Managerial positions are currently filled.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a short song or cut of either a 1960s/1970s pop/rock song, or a contemporary musical theater song. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Pearl Studios (500)

500 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6504

2/18 and 2/19: Studio #1201 (Audition Room) / Studio #1206 (Holding Room)

2/20: Studio #315 (Audition Room) / Studio #306 (Holding Room)

PERSONNEL

Producer: Hendel Productions

Director: Sheryl Kaller

Choreographer: Josh Prince

Book & Additional Lyrics: Pamela Gray

Co-Composer & Additional Lyrics: Ann Marie Milazzo

Music Supervisor: Andy Einhorn

Music Director: Jillian Zack

Commercial General Management: Roy Gabay

Casting Director: The TRC Company / Merri Sugarman, CSA

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Merri Sugarman (Casting Director)

and an Accompanist

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: o/a May 11, 2026

1st Performance: June 15, 2026

Closing: August 30, 2026

OTHER

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.

BREAKDOWN

A Walk On The Moon, set in a Borscht Belt bungalow colony the summer of 1969, tells the story of Pearl Kantrowitz (early 30’s), a Brooklyn housewife and mother who starts to question her life in the face of her teenage daughter’s judgments of her, the upcoming historic moon landing, and the rapidly changing times. An affair with a “hippie” blouse salesman helps Pearl evolve, leads her to the Woodstock Music Festival, and threatens to destroy her family. The musical is an adaptation of the critically acclaimed 1999 film of the same name.

SEEKING:

A Walk On The Moon, set in a Borscht Belt bungalow colony the summer of 1969, tells the story of Pearl Kantrowitz (early 30s), a Brooklyn housewife and mother who starts to question her life in the face of her teenage daughter’s judgments of her, the upcoming historic moon landing, and the rapidly changing times. An affair with a “hippie” blouse salesman helps Pearl evolve, leads her to the Woodstock Music Festival, and threatens to destroy her family. The musical is an adaptation of the critically acclaimed 1999 film of the same name.

SEEKING:

[DANNY KANTROWITZ]: Male-Presenting; 6-years-old; Character is Jewish. A delightful little boy who thinks the Catskills bungalow colony is paradise. Loves frogs, salamanders, and his cowboy guns. He laughs at dirty words and all the silly things that 6-year-old boys laugh at. His Dad is his Hero. He likes to fight with his big sister ALISON, but secretly wishes she’d pay more attention to him. Must be able to sing pop/rock style well enough to carry a tune.

[RHODA]: Female-Presenting; 20s/30s; Character is Jewish; Rhoda is one of Pearl’s group of friends at the bungalow colony where they all spend their summers in the Catskills. These are working-class women, mothers, wives, daughters. They play mah-jongg, they flirt with the staff, they’re smart and strong, funny and fiercely protective. Their 1960s is not the hippie, Woodstock, moon landing, civil rights world. They are pretty sheltered from all that – until they’re NOT. Pop vocals (with style sensibility from the 50s-70s, as well as contemporary musical theater). Mezzo with a high belt. This track will cover the lead role of – [PEARL]: Female-Presenting; 20s/30s; A beautiful, intelligent, nice Jewish girl from Flatbush, who got pregnant at 16 on her first date and became a wife and mother overnight. When her daughter ALISON suddenly transforms into a fiery teenager bringing the voice of 1969 into the family, PEARL feels trapped in the 1950s and yearns for the adolescence she’s never experienced. Stuck in a rut with her husband, feeling lonely and misunderstood, when PEARL meets WALKER, the chemistry between the two of them awakens in her all that’s been untried and unexpressed, and their passionate affair ensues. Though she knows she’s doing the wrong thing, she’s intoxicated by WALKER and her chance to come of age in the summer of Woodstock. Extremely strong singer fluent in folk/pop/rock styles. Vocal range: G3-E5.

[MALE-PRESENTING OFFSTAGE UNDERSTUDY]: 20s/30s; Must have comedic ability; Actors will cover the Jewish husbands (3 roles) at the Bungalow Colony, friends of MARTY – working-class men who are good providers, good husbands and fathers, and embrace life with a sense of humor. They bust their balls all week and live for those weekends “in the country” where they get to relax, have sex with their wives, play pinochle and softball with the guys, and have quality time with their families. Pop vocals (with style sensibility from the 50s-70s, as well as contemporary musical theater). Tenor with a high belt up to a B.

[FEMALE-PRESENTING OFFSTAGE UNDERSTUDY]: 20s/30s; Must have comedic ability; Actors will cover the Jewish wives (3 roles), friends of PEARL, at the Bungalow Colony, where they all spend their summers in the Catskills. These are working-class women, mothers, wives, daughters. They play mah-jongg, they flirt with the staff, they’re smart and strong, funny and fiercely protective. Their 1960s is not the hippie, Woodstock, moon landing, civil rights world. They are pretty sheltered from all that – until they’re NOT. Pop vocals (with style sensibility from the 50s-70s, as well as contemporary musical theater). Mezzo or soprano with a high belt.

THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST:

[WALKER JEROME]: Male-Presenting; Age 20s/30s; The Sexiest Man Alive. Heroic; Tall, and Beautiful; WALKER is a free spirit, a Sixties hippie but not a cliché – he’s a good-hearted guy of substance. A dreamer who’s never left the small Catskills town he grew up in, he hopes to earn enough money so he can finally head out to California. When a travelling Jewish salesman retires, Walker takes over as “The Blouse Man,” and spends the summer selling blouses to women at the local bungalow colonies. Perceptive and Insightful, he senses right away that PEARL is different from the other women and that she too is a dreamer yearning to break free from the constraints of her life. When Walker falls in love with PEARL, he carefully straddles the line between their hot affair and his respect for her marriage and situation – Despite his own heartbreak, he understands and accepts Pearl’s need to end their romance at the end of the summer. Extremely strong singer fluent in folk/pop/rock styles. Vocal Range: Bb2-A4. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[PEARL]: Female-Presenting; 20s/30s; A beautiful, intelligent, nice Jewish girl from Flatbush, who got pregnant at 16 on her first date and became a wife and mother overnight. When her daughter ALISON suddenly transforms into a fiery teenager bringing the voice of 1969 into the family, PEARL feels trapped in the 1950’s and yearns for the adolescence she’s never experienced. Stuck in a rut with her husband, feeling lonely and misunderstood, when PEARL meets WALKER, the chemistry between the two of them awakens in her all that’s been untried and unexpressed, and their passionate affair ensues. Though she knows she’s doing the wrong thing, she’s intoxicated by WALKER and her chance to come of age in the summer of Woodstock. Extremely strong singer fluent in folk/pop/rock styles. Vocal range: G3-E5. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[MARTY]: Male-Presenting; 20s/30s; Handsome, warm, smart and funny; Jewish man who is the son of Jewish immigrants, living the American Dream in Flatbush with his beautiful wife Pearl and their 2 kids, Alison and Danny. While Marty once had bigger dreams, his attention now is focused on being a good provider and a strong, loving husband and father. He works at a TV Repair shop in Flatbush and lives for his summer weekends up at the Bungalow Colony, where he can leave the stress behind and be with his wife again as if they were newlyweds, play softball and pinochle with his buddies and ENJOY. What he is NOT, is a political animal – so the 1960s for him is not about Woodstock or Vietnam – although he’s as excited as everyone else is about the impending moon landing. Must be able to sing Pop/Rock Style. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[ALISON]: Female-Presenting; 18 or older to play 15; A 15-year-old Nice Jewish Girl from Brooklyn who wants to be living the life of a 17-year-old Hippie who can march in anti-war rallies, go to concerts at the Fillmore, and be free of her parents – especially her mother. Bright; Attractive; On the precipice of independence -- literally and figuratively coming of age – she’s furious that her parents are blocking her access to 1969, especially that summer. Her record player is her lifeline, and being trapped at a bungalow colony is her idea of hell. Extremely strong singer fluent in folk/pop/rock styles with strong upper range; A3-Eb5. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[LILLIAN]: Female-Presenting; 50s; MARTY’S Mother. Lives in Brooklyn with MARTY, PEARL and the kids. Humorous and wise with a great heart. Not a typical Jewish grandmother. She uses a little Yiddish but she is first-generation American. Treasures her two grandchildren, and is especially close to ALISON. Reads tea leaves and tarot cards, and has a sixth sense which makes her always right – “a curse,” as she calls it. Acerbic and overbearing at times, she gives advice indirectly – it’s more effective to get what she wants by telling a story, rather than just telling someone what to do. Like PEARL, she got married and had a child at a young age; Abandoned by her husband, she became a fiercely protective single mother. She cares about PEARL – even understands her, but insists that PEARL repair the damage she’s done to the family. Must be able to sing in a 1960s folk/pop style. Alto. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[ROSS]: Male-Presenting; 18 or older to play 16; A nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn who’d like to play guitar like Clapton or Hendrix or sing like Roger Daltry. Must be able to play guitar. A Hip Awkward Kid. Has a mad crush on ALISON but she scares him a bit; He’s less complicated, not angry; has a simpler, more idealistic understanding of politics and actually thinks the bungalow colony life in the Catskills is kind of cool. A sensitive poet at heart, inspired by ALISON to question things and to be more of a risk taker, he strives to be cooler for her. ROSS just might be the only 16-year-old boy in the summer of Woodstock who would turn down the chance to “go all the way,” but he’s mature enough to know that he & ALISON aren’t really ready for that step. Strong tenor, must play guitar, B2-Bb4. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[NEIL]: Male-Presenting; Age 20s/30s; Must Have Comedic Ability; Friend of MARTY – Working-class guy who is a good provider, good husband and father, and embraces life with a sense of humor; Neil and the other husbands bust their balls all week and live for these weekends “in the country” where they get to relax, have sex with their wives, play pinochle and softball with the guys, and have quality time with their families. Must be able to sing pop-rock style. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[STAN]: Male-Presenting; Age 20s/30s; Must Have Comedic Ability; Friend of MARTY – Workingclass guy who is a good provider, good husband and father, and embraces life with a sense of humor; Neil and the other husbands bust their balls all week and live for these weekends “in the country” where they get to relax, have sex with their wives, play pinochle and softball with the guys, and have quality time with their families. Must be able to sing pop-rock style. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[IRV]: Male-Presenting; Age 20s/30s; Must Have Comedic Ability; Friend of MARTY – Working-class guy who is a good provider, good husband and father, and embraces life with a sense of humor; Neil and the other husbands bust their balls all week and live for these weekends “in the country” where they get to relax, have sex with their wives, play pinochle and softball with the guys, and have quality time with their families. Must be able to sing pop-rock style. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[BUNNY]: Female-Presenting; 20s/30s; Character is Jewish; One of Pearl’s group of friends at the bungalow colony where they all spend their summers in the Catskills. These are working-class women, mothers, wives, daughters. They play mah-jongg, they flirt with the staff, they’re smart and strong, funny and fiercely protective. Their 1960s is not the hippie, Woodstock, moon landing, civil rights world. They are pretty sheltered from all that – until they’re NOT. Pop vocals (with style sensibility from the 50s-70s, as well as contemporary musical theater). Mezzo with a high belt. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

[ELEANOR]: Female-Presenting; 20s/30s; Character is Jewish; One of Pearl’s group of friends at the bungalow colony where they all spend their summers in the Catskills. These are working-class women, mothers, wives, daughters. They play mah-jongg, they flirt with the staff, they’re smart and strong, funny and fiercely protective. Their 1960s is not the hippie, Woodstock, moon landing, civil rights world. They are pretty sheltered from all that – until they’re NOT. Pop vocals (with style sensibility from the 50s-70s, as well as contemporary musical theater). Mezzo with a high belt. THIS ROLE IS CAST.

SALARY

Off Broadway $1583 weekly minimum (Off-Broadway cat. E)

UNION

AEA