ShowTown Theatricals
New York, NY

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
Off Broadway
$1383 weekly minimum (Category E)

AUDITION DATE
Thursday, October 3, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

Monday, October 7, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

Thursday, October 17, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL
Book by Ken Davenport
Music and Lyrics by AnnMarie Milazzo
Directed by Lorin Latarro
Choreographed by Josh Bergasse
Music Director: Andy Einhorn
Producers: Ken Davenport and Sandi Moran
General Management: ShowTown Theatricals

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Claire Burke (Casting Director)

OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 5/12/25
Tech: 6/9/25
Previews: 6/23/25
Opens: 7/24/25
Close: 8/17 or 8/24
Possible Extension: 8/31/25

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.

SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in JOY (see breakdown)

PREPARATION
Please prepare a short contemporary musical theatre or pop/rock song and bring sheet music. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

SEEKING:
Joy (30s, she/her): A single mom from Long Island struggling to make ends meet. Joy has a longignored passion and talent for inventing and for using her inventions to help others. Over the course of the musical, she comes into her own. And throughout, she is equal parts joy incarnate and rough around the edges. Life has not been kind to Joy, but it’s made her tough, caused her to radiate light and positivity, and prepared her to fight the battles ahead of her with optimism and ingenuity. Strong belt with head/mix.

Toots (early 60s, she/her): Joy’s mother. A recluse who hasn’t left the house in years. She appears to have no faith or interest in her daughter and her daily activities consist of watching People’s Court and buying products on QVC that get shipped to the house. A very strong singer. Strong belt with head/mix.

Rudy (early 60s, he/him): Joy’s father. A car salesmen-esque character of a man who over-promises and under delivers despite meaning well. He is crass, yet charming at the same time and spends much of the musical going at it with his ex-wife. Strong baritone/tenor range - up to G/Ab.

Tony (30s, he/him): Joy’s ex-husband. A Sinatra wannabe who starts the musical living in his exwife’s basement waiting for his career as a performer to take off. His heart is in the right place, but he doesn’t follow through, forgetting to pick his daughter up at school, not paying any of the bills, etc. He is all charm and also a mess. Strong tenor.

Christie (10, she/her): Joy and Tony’s daughter. Whip smart, especially when it comes to emotional intelligence. She is perceptive, insightful, and sometimes a little too clever for her own good, but she also has moments of vulnerability in which we are reminded that she’s just a 10 year old who needs her parents to come through for her. Christie has two numbers of her own and is present throughout most of the show. Strong belt with head/mix.

Lorraine (40s/50s, she/her): Rudy’s enigma of a new girlfriend whom he met dancing at the Havana Club. Strong alto (up to an E).

Cowboy Eddie (40s/50s, he/him): A bigoted, cunning, and cruel man who attempts to swindle Joy out of her money and take her invention away from her. Eddie is from Texas and has a very thick accent. High Rock Tenor.

SALARY

Off Broadway $1383 weekly minimum (Category E)

UNION

AEA