New York City Center Inc.
New York, NY
US

DESCRIPTION

AUDITION DATE

Monday, July 15, 2024

2:00 PM (E)

CONTRACT

Special Agreement

$2063 weekly minimum

SEEKING

Equity chorus singers (Male characters) for New York City Center Gala Production of RAGTIME (See breakdown).

All Equity Stage Managerial positions are filled.

PREPARATION

Please prepare 16-bars of a musical theatre song in the style of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, showing range. Please bring sheet music for the piano accompanist provided.

Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Ripley-Grier Studios (520)

520 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6507

Holding room - Studio 10D

PERSONNEL

Book: Terrence McNally

Music: Stephen Flaherty

Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens

Director: Lear deBessonet

Choreographer: Ellenore Scott

Music Director: James Moore

New York City Center VP & Producer of Musical Theater: Jenny Gersten

Casting: The Telsey Office/Craig Burns, Alex Cortinas

Expected to attend:

Music Director: James Moore

OTHER DATES

Rehearsals: October 15, 2024 — October 29, 2024

Performances: October 30, 2024 — November 10, 2024

OTHER

ECC 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

RAGTIME

SEEKING:

[BOOKER T. WASHINGTON] Character is male (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 45–55, Black. Brilliant Black social activist. He is an eloquent and articulate gentleman with no patience for Black Americans leading less than exemplary lives. D3—Eb4.

[WILLIE CONKLIN] Character is male (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 30–45, Caucasian. Irish-American fire chief who is racist and takes out his anger on Coalhouse. Baritenor-Tenor.

[SARAH’S FRIEND] Character is female (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 20–30s, Black. Wry, passionate, soulful, sings the gospel number for Sarah's funeral. Low G to stratospheric scat top note—Gospel Lyric Soprano or Alto.

[GRANDFATHER] Character is male (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 70s, Caucasian. Mother's patrician father. He is a retired professor, and easily irritated by nearly everything.

[ENSEMBLE] Characters are male and female (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 20s– 60s, all ethnicities. Excellent musical theatre voices. Movement ability. To play a variety of characters and possibly understudy principal roles.

SALARY

Special Agreement $2063 weekly minimum

UNION

AEA