Lyric Stage Company
Boston, MA

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
NEAT
$602 weekly minimum (Category 6) until Sept. 1, 2024
$638 weekly minimum (Category 6) after Sept. 2, 2024

AUDITION DATE
Sunday, May 5, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Monday, May 6, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS
For Equity members only to schedule an audition appointment please go to: https://www.signupgenius.com/g... . Once you have secured your audition appointment you should fill out the following audition form: https://forms.gle/KNZ8RX9VBbeT... . Equity members must fill in an email address and phone number, and be prepared on the day of the audition to show their Equity membership card.

LOCATION
Lyric Stage
140 Clarendon St
Boston, MA 02116-5169
2nd Floor.

PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Courtney O’Connor, Producing Artistic Director
Alexandra Smith, Community and Artistic Programs Manager
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES
No accompanist for May 5th, 2024

See breakdown for production specific dates

OTHER
Scripts will be available for review at our box office (140 Clarendon Street, 2nd floor) from 12-5 Tuesdays - Fridays. To arrange a different time, please contact us at [email protected].

For questions, please contact [email protected] or 617.585.5684.

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

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 Lyric Stage Company's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).

The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is committed to the hiring of local actors. Local Boston actors are encouraged to audition. Please reach out to [email protected] before making travel accommodations.

BIPOC actors are encouraged to audition.

All roles are available for inclusive casting, unless otherwise specified.

PREPARATION
Audition slots are FIVE (5) minutes long. Each actor has TWO (2) minutes to perform. Please prepare appropriate material (monologue, song, selections from the scripts) of your choosing, which may be from one or more of the season’s shows. Scripts and a reader will be provided at both auditions. If using a selection from one of the scripts that you have chosen, please be prepared to state your starting and stopping places. You may audition for one or more roles in the season. If singing, please bring sheet music. The accompanist will only be provided on Monday, May 6th. No Accompanist will be present on Sunday, May 5th. Please bring a headshot and resume.

BREAKDOWN

Lyric Stage Company 2024-25 Season
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston shall conduct all auditions/interviews in a manner that continues to promote fair consideration to everyone. The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we ask auditioners to please read the Lyric Stage’s Anti-Racism and Inclusion Plan.

We recognize that many characters are written on the binary; we invite gender nonconforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with.

For pre-cast roles, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.

URINETOWN
Music by Mark Hollman
Lyrics by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman
Director: Courtney O’Connor
Music Director: Dan Rodriguez
First Rehearsal: August 26, 2024
First Preview: September 20, 2024
Closing: October 27, 2024

SEEKING:
OFFICER LOCKSTOCK - CAST - Age: 30-55 Voice Type: Baritone (A2-A4) The tongue-in-cheek narrator of our story. Bold, brash, and larger than life in many ways.

PENELOPE PENNYWISE - Age: 30 to 45 Voice Type: Soprano (A3-C6) The tough, jaded warden of the poorest, filthiest town urinal. She is Cladwell's one-time lover and mother to Hope who eventually softens her temper.

BOBBY STRONG - Age: 20 to 30 Voice Type: Tenor (A2-C5) The dashing, rebellious everyman who works for Miss Pennywise at the poorest, filthiest town urinal. He becomes an unsuspecting protagonist and romantic hero when he starts a revolution and falls in love with Hope Cladwell.

LITTLE SALLY - Age: 20 to 40 Voice Type: Mezzo Soprano (A3-E5) A precocious and irreverent street urchin. She serves as a quasi-narrator who often questions Lockstock and the play's logic.

SENATOR FIPP - Age: 40 to 55 Voice Type: Tenor/Mezzo Soprano (C#3-F4) A greedy politician in Cladwell's pocket. A bumbling coward.

OFFICER BARREL - Age: 30 to 50 Voice Type: Baritone/Bass (G2-F4) Lockstock's patrol partner. A thuggish and aggressive policeman.

HOPE CLADWELL - Age: 20 to 30 Voice Type: Soprano (A3-A5) Cladwell's ravishingly beautiful daughter, torn between her father and her new love for Bobby. She begins as an innocent, naive angel but becomes vengeful and determined after being exposed to her father's evil.

TINY TOM - Age: 30 to 50 Voice Type: Baritone/Alto (D3-A3) One of the Poor, he is an idiotic manchild.

SOUPY SUE - (Mezzo-Soprano/Alto) Age: 25 to 40 Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano/Alto (Bb3 B4) One of the Poor, she is excitable and easily panicked. Doubling as CALDWELL'S SECRETARY.

LITTLE BECKY TWO SHOES - Age: 20 to 40 Voice Type: Soprano (Bb3-F5) One of the Poor. She is foul-mouthed, impulsive, and accusatory. Optional Doubling as MRS. MILLENIUM.

CLADWELL B. CALDWELL - CAST - (Baritone/Bass) Age: 50 to 65 Voice Type: Baritone/Bass (A2-G4) The evil president and owner of the Urine Good Company. He is a miserly money-grubber who gleefully exploits the poor.

JOSEPHINE STRONG - (Mezzo-Soprano/Alto) Age: 55 to 65 Voice Type: Mezzo-Soprano/Alto (Bb3-D5) Bobby's mother and Joseph's wife. A strong-willed woman with a bite, able to withstand the hard hand life has dealt her.

HOT BLADES HARRY - (Baritone) Age: 45 to 60 Voice Type: Baritone (A2-F4) One of the Poor, he is a psychopathic and can become a violent loose cannon.

DR. BILLEAUX - (Baritone/Alto) Age: 30 to 50 Voice Type: Baritone/Alto (E3-A3) Head of Research and Development at UGC.

MR. MCQUEEN - (Baritone/Alto) Age: 30 to 45 Voice Type: Baritone/Alto (B2-E4) Cladwell's sycophantic lackey. A servile assistant.

OLD MAN STRONG - Age: 50 to 65 Bobby's rebellious father. His refusal to pay the fee sends him to Urinetown, ultimately launching the revolution.

NOISES OFF
Director: Ilyse Robbins
First Rehearsal: October 22, 2024
First Preview: November 15, 2024
Closing: December 22, 2024

SEEKING:
DOTTY OTLEY / MRS. CLACKETT: (Off Stage Character: Dotty): A middle-aged actress who is also one of the play's principal investors. Means well and tries her best. A bit forgetful. (On Stage Character: Mrs. Clackett): A Cockney Housekeeper for the Brent's home in England. Hospitable, though she is a slow-witted and slow-moving chatterbox.

BROOKE ASHTON / VICKI: (Off Stage Character: Brooke) An inexperienced actress who seems as though she isn't fully "here" sometimes – somewhere else inside her head. She will execute her blocking and lines the way she was told. One-third of a Lloyd–Poppy–Brooke love triangle. (On Stage Character: Vicki): An English woman who works for Inland Revenue and is trying to woo Roger.

BELINDA BLAIR / FLAVIA BRENT: (Off stage Character: Belinda): Cheerful and sensible. One of the only reliable actors in the company. She may have feelings for Freddy. (On Stage Character: Flavia Brent): Phillip Brent's English wife. She is dependable, though not one for household duties.

POPPY NORTON-TAYLOR: STAGE MANAGER: Emotional and over-sensitive, and envious of Brooke, whom she understudies. One-third of a Lloyd-Poppy-Brooke love triangle.

LLOYD DALLAS: The director of the play, Nothing On. A seasoned thespian working with "amateurs". His patience draws thin to the point where he mutters out loud internal thoughts. One third of a Lloyd–Poppy–Brooke love triangle.

GARRY LEJEUNE / ROGER: (Off stage Character: Garry): The play's leading man, a solid actor who is completely incapable of finishing a sentence unless it is dialogue. Means well but is a little pretentious. (On Stage Character: Roger): An English Real estate agent who is attempting to rent Flavia's and Phillip's home but uses it for his own personal benefit.

FREDERICK FELLOWS /PHILLIP BRENT / SHEIKH: (Off stage Character: Freddy) A bit skittish and afraid of violence. Well-meaning, but lacks some self-confidence and is rather dim-witted. Often questions the meaning of his lines and moves. Blames himself often for things going wrong. (On Stage Character: Phillip Brent): An Englishman who lives out of the country with his wife Flavia to avoid paying taxes. He enters the country knowing that if he is caught by Inland Revenue, he will lose most of the year's income. (On Stage Character: Sheikh): A Middle-Eastern man interested in renting Flavia's and Phillip's home and is the spitting image of Phillip.

SELSDON MOWBRAY / BURGLAR: (Off Stage Character: Selsdon Mowbray): An elderly alcoholic Englishman who may or may not have had a successful acting career at one point. He hides his bottles cleverly onstage. He is hard of hearing... when he wants to be. (On Stage Character: Burglar): Old Cockney man in his seventies, breaking into the Brent's home.

TIMOTHY ALLGOOD: The overworked and easily flustered Stage Manager who wears too many hats in this production.

CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY
By Lynn Nottage
Director: TBA
First Rehearsal: December 17, 2024
First Preview: January 10, 2025
Closing: Feb 2, 2025

SEEKING:
ERNESTINE CRUMP (17, Black). Ernestine is intelligent, introspective, and a (grounded) dreamer. A cinephile.

ERMINA CRUMP (15 years old, Black) Bold and defiant in a way that only a 15-year-old can be. In fight vs. flight scenarios, she fights.

GODFREY CRUMP (mid-30s, Black) Godfrey believes in the importance of respectability and outward appearances, seeks solutions outside of himself.

LILY ANN GREEN (mid-30s, Black) Extroverted, craves much more beyond what 1950 America can offer her race and gender.

GERTE SHULTE (30s, white). Gerte is an honest and direct German woman with an uncompromising perspective on all things (as opposed to nuanced/ambiguous).

ART
By Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
Director: Courtney O’Connor
First Rehearsal: January 28, 2025
First Preview: February 21, 2025
Closing: March 16, 2025

SEEKING:
MARC: An engineer and an intellectual; a self-proclaimed aesthete who has trouble seeing the meaning in much of modern art.

YVAN: Mild-mannered, sensitive, stressed; works at a stationery company that belongs to his fiancée’s uncle; drawn into the argument as a kind of referee/peacemaker

SERGE: A well-to-do dermatologist who is divorced; has relied for years on his close friendship with Marc and, to a lesser degree, Yvan, to provide him with company and comfort.

THE GREAT REVEAL
By Dave Valdes
Director: TBA
First Rehearsal: March 11, 2025
First Preview: April 4, 2025
Closing: April 27, 2025

SEEKING:
LEXI (43, Cis woman) almost seven months pregnant, a planner, a celebrator, a worrier.

LINUS (42, Trans man) her brother, aspiring future dad, emotionally inept.

DOSIA (30s, Transfemme) LINUS’s partner, sometimes can’t believe these people.

CHRISTOPHER (mid-30s, Cis man) a bro trying to grow, scared shitless by his future.

HELLO DOLLY
Book by Michael Stewart
Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based on the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
Director: Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Music Director: Dan Rodriguez
First Rehearsal: April 22, 2025
First Preview: May 16, 2025
Closing: June 22, 2025

SEEKING:
DOLLY LEVI: Matchmaker, widow, meddler, opportunist, life-loving, commanding, strong stage presence. Vocal range: alto-soprano. Dance ability: some.

HORACE VANDERGELDER: Well-known half-a-millionaire, widower, owns the Feed Store, gruff, set in his ways, authoritative. Vocal range: baritone. Dance ability: some.

CORNELIUS HACKL: Head clerk at the Feed Store, energetic, enthusiastic, and adventurous. Age: 30-35. Vocal range: baritone-tenor. Dance ability: some

BARNABY TUCKER: Assistant to Cornelius at the Feed Store, naïve, energized, follower. Age: 17-20. Vocal range: baritone. Dance ability: some

IRENE MOLLOY: Owns the Hat Shop, widow, beautiful, smart, fun-loving. Age: 30-35. Vocal range: soprano. Dance ability: strong.

MINNIE FAY: Irene’s assistant, naïve, straight-laced, fresh, follower. Age: 17-20. Vocal range: mezzo-soprano. Dance ability: strong.

AMBROSE KEMPER: Struggling artist, good-natured, accommodating, wants to marry Ermengarde. Age: 19-23. Vocal range: tenor. Dance ability: moderate

ERMENGARDE: Horace’s niece, high-strung, wants to marry Ambrose. Age: 17-20. Vocal range: any. Dance ability: strong.

ERNESTINA: Accommodating, good-time girl. Age: 30-45. Vocal range: any. Dance ability: some

RUDY: Maitre’d of the Harmonia Gardens, proper, commanding. Age: 40-60. Vocal range: bass. Dance ability: some.

MRS. ROSE: Street vendor: Alto/Soprano Dance ability: Some

JUDGE: Strong with presence. Baritone. No Dance

CLERK: Good comedic timing. Tenor. Some Dance ability plus

Male Chorus: Vocal range: even split of tenors/basses. Dance ability: some

Female Chorus: Vocal range: even split of sopranos and altos. Dance ability: some

SALARY

NEAT (See Above)

UNION

AEA