Fireside Theatre
Fort Atkinson, WI
US

DESCRIPTION

AUDITION DATES

Monday, January 27, 2025

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

Dinner Theatre

$785 weekly minimum

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (See breakdown).

Performers of all ethnicities, physical types, gender identities, and ages are encouraged to audition.

All roles will be understudied.

All Equity stage managerial positions have been filled.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a contemporary monologue up to 2-minutes. Please bring your picture and resume, stapled together.

LOCATION

Open Jar Studios

1601 Broadway

11th floor main entrance

New York, NY 10019

Enter on 48th Street

PERSONNEL

Adapted by Ken Ludwig

Expected to attend:

Director: Ed Flesch

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: March 31, 2025
Runs April 17, 2025 – June 1, 2025

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

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

SEEKING:

HERCULE POIROT: Meticulous and exacting, Poirot is a keen observer of detail and an astute judge of character. Certain that the crime was committed by someone on the train, he confidently and patiently works his way to a shocking solution. Poirot is Belgian and speaks with a Belgian/French accent.

SAMUEL RATCHETT: A middle-aged American businessman, Ratchett is brusque and unforgiving, with a threatening demeanor and a whiplash of a voice. He’s made plenty of enemies.

COUNTESS ELÉNA ANDRENYI: Countess Eléna Andrenyi is out of a fairy tale. She’s in her twenties, brilliantly beautiful and always dressed to the nines in furs and diamonds. She seems too good to be true.

COLONEL ARBUTHNOT: A Scotsman in his mid-thirties, Arbuthnot is handsome and very matter of fact. He’s hopelessly in love with Mary.

MONSIEUR BOUC: A young middle-aged man of good humor, Monsieur Bouc is an old friend of Poirot’s. He appears removed from the crime, often acting as Poirot’s sounding board.

MARY DEBENHAM: An English beauty in her late twenties, Mary bears a certain sadness in her
eyes. When she first appears, she is very anxious.

PRINCESS DRAGOMIROFF: The Russian princess, now in her seventies, enters her compartment “like a galleon in full sail.” Expensively dressed and handsomely bejeweled, she certainly wouldn’t need to kill for money.

HEAD WAITER: Professional in demeanor, he is knowledgeable and a bit overconfident.

HELEN HUBBARD: An outspoken American in her fifties, well dressed with a touch of flamboyance, Mrs. Hubbard is a tough-talking broad with rough edge and a bold sense of humor.

HECTOR MacQUEEN: A nervous young American in his thirties with a strained, rather beleaguered face, Hector appears to be suppressing something.

MICHEL: A good-looking Frenchman, about forty, Michel has a quiet, almost grave sense of humor.

GRETA OHLSSON: Plain and modest, Greta has a frightened, sheep-like quality about her. There is something odd about this woman.

SALARY

Dinner Theatre $785 weekly minimum

UNION

AEA