Last Dance Musical LLC
New York, NY

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

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

AND

Thursday, January 15, 2026

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

Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

CONTRACT

Touring Agreement

$995 weekly minimum (Level 6)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in the touring production of DIRTY DANCING (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare a short song of your choice and bring your picture and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Wed. 1/14:

Ripley-Grier Studios (520)

520 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6507

Holding room - Studio 17R

Thurs. 1/15:

Ripley-Grier Studios (500)

500 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6504

Holding room - Studio 414

PERSONNEL

Producers: Path Entertainment Group and Lionsgate Global Products & Experiences

Original Screenplay and Book by: Eleanor Bergstein

Director: Lonny Price

Associate Director: Matt Cowart

Choreographer: Darrell Grand Moultrie

Music Supervisor & Arranger: Joseph Joubert

General Manager: Alchemy Production Group

Casting Director: The TRC Company/Claire Burke, CSA & Peter Van Dam, CSA

Expected to attend:

Casting Director(s): Claire Burke, CSA or Peter Van Dam, CSA

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: on or about 6/30/26

1st Performance: on or about 8/7/26

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

DIRTY DANCING (Tour)

SEEKING:

BABY – Female Presenting, 20s. Smart, eager, appetitive for knowledge, passionately fair minded. Her mind and determination make her life happen. She doesn't have a mirror in her bedroom. A "fight harder" girl. We're first aware of her spirit, rather than her appearance. In the course of our story, she finds her sensuality -- and before our eyes becomes as beautiful as Penny. We don't wonder that Johnny falls in love with her. A very strong dancer.

JOHNNY – Male Presenting, 20s. Young, charismatic, brilliant dancer, guarded quality. (Not a "love me" boy like John Travolta's Tony Manero) Adored by women, charming when required, whip smart but keeps his thoughts to himself, except for Penny, whom he protects.

JAKE – Male Presenting, Mid 40s – 50s. A masculine and charismatic doctor whom everyone looks up to, from his family to his patients, to Johnny. Only later do we learn (and recognize) that he grew up a "street kid" like Johnny and they are, in many ways, alike. (Jerry Orbach in movie a good model).

PENNY – Female Presenting, 20s. Tall blonde, beautiful, brilliant dancer. A working-class princess. Trusting, kind, and vulnerable -- but with a wry understanding of the way the real world works.

ELIZABETH – Female Presenting, 20s. Black. Beautiful, young singer, invites everyone into the world of the show at the top. Caught between two worlds -- collecting money from guests giving money for Freedom Riders, and dirty dancing in the staff room with her white boyfriend. Her parents want her away from the new winds of radical thought and to become a children's librarian.

BILLY – Male Presenting, 20s. Johnny's cousin. Wants more than anything else to be Johnny, tries to walk like him, talk like him. Never quite works. Eager to protect Johnny and Penny who are his family. Throughout the show he tries to win the affection of the beautiful young singer Elizabeth. They sing together and he finally wins her at the finale.

TITO – Male Presenting, 40s – 60s. Black. Suave talented bandleader, everyone's moral compass. A second father to Neil, best friend to Max. Wants Neil to stay safe, not go freedom riding down South. Though a gifted tap dancer and splendid musician, he never left the protected space of Kellermans to test himself in the world of say, Duke Ellington. Doesn't want young brilliantly talented Johnny to make the same mistake out of fear. Strong mover.

MARJORIE – Female Presenting, Mid 40s – 50s. Lovely and smart. Trying to keep the family together despite Baby's disregard for her. She and Jake are a great couple, still in love, still sexually present. (Kelly Bishop in movie a good model).

MAX – Male Presenting, 50s – 60s. King of the Catskills. He is not only the BOSS, but the HOST to Presidents and movie stars and Ambassadors and Leaders of the UN. The local postage stamp says "Kellermans's New York." He hugely admires Jake, his doctor, is secretly fond of Johnny’s defiantly independent spirit (to whom he gives his own cabin), is devastated when he needs to fire Johnny. Tito is his closest friend – they were boys together at Kellermans when Tito wandered up as a kid from the South.

NEIL – Male Presenting, 20s. Max's grandson. Orphaned young boy brought up at Kellermans's by Max and Tito. In a hard place. Wants to become the boss like his admired Grandfather (can't get the "benevolent boss" tone right), wants to be "one of the guys" but the staff boys mock him, wants to go Freedom Marching down South. He can't do them all. Baby seems his kind of girl, but when he tries to woo her in the gazebo "I love to watch your hair blowing in the breeze" - she has short hair and there's no breeze. When he senses her with Johnny and is horrified, he loses control of his tone and his dignity. A nice boy having a terrible summer.

SALARY

Touring Agreement $995 weekly minimum (Level 6)

UNION

AEA