Sunday, May 4th, 2008
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Call Backs to be announced.
Auditions will be held at the Gloucester Stage
267 East Main St., Gloucester, MA
Directions and Parking info
For an appointment call:
John Sarrouf, Production Manager or Kelley Johnston
Monday-Friday from 9 AM-3 PM
at (978) 281-4099.
If you get voice-mail, please leave the following
information:
- name and phone number
- Equity status
- preferred audition day
- the 5-minute slot most convenient
and
- the role(s) for which you would
like to be considered
Walk-ins will be seen, time permitting.
Gloucester Stage operates under a NEAT AEA contract.
Actors should prepare one two minute monologue or are welcome
to prepare material from the shows, which will be available at Gloucester
Stage
and the StageSource office at 88 Tremont Street, Suite 714, Boston.
***Please bring two copies of a
stapled 8 ˝” x 11” headshot and résumé.
Billy Bishop Goes To War
A play with music
By John Gray and Eric Peterson
Directed by: TBA
Musical Directed by: TBA
Set to music, this journey follows a heroic World War I fighter pilot down
in the trenches, up to the skies, through the halls of Buckingham Palace,
and inside the human spirit as he attempts to reconcile his love of flying
with the horrors of war.
Character Breakdown:
Billy Bishop
(and various other characters): A young man from Owen Sound
Ontario. Must be a very good singer.
Other Role is pre-cast.
***Rehearsals begin: May 20 Show Runs: June 5 - June 22
Enigma Variations
By Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Translated by Jeremy Sams
Directed by GSC Artistic Associate David Zoffoli
Journalist Erik Larsen is offered an unprecedented interview with Abel
Znorko, the lager than life author and winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature. This beautifully wrought psychological drama is sometimes a dual
and sometimes a duet, but never what it appears to be.
Character Breakdown:
Erik Larsen:
A man between 30 and 40 who still has a quality of youth. Something lively
and gentle about him. A Norwegian journalist.
Other Role is pre-cast.
***Rehearsals begin: June 10 Show Runs: June 26 - July 13
Going to St. Ives
By Lee Blessing
Directed by Eric Engel
The lives of two powerful women, an affluent English doctor and the mother
of an African dictator, become irrevocably intertwined in this captivating
juxtaposition of black and white, order and chaos, heroism and hell.
Character Breakdown:
Both roles are pre-cast
Rehearsals begin: July 1 Show Runs: July 17 - August 3
Doubt, A Parable
By Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Eric Engel
This is a riveting morality play about events that may or may not have taken
place in a 1964 Bronx convent and refectory.
Character Breakdown:
Sister James*:
a nun in her twenties, of the Order of Sisters of Charity.
Mrs. Muller*:
A black woman of about 38.
* one of these two roles will be cast non-AEA.
All other roles are pre-cast
***Rehearsals begin: July 22 Show Runs: August 7 - August 24
The Woman in Black
A ghost play
By Stephen Malatratt based on the novel by Susan Hill
Directed by Karen McDonald of the American Repertory Theatre
A lawyer harboring a wrenching fear and an actor hired to help him exorcise
his tale take you on a journey to the secret-filled marshes of Nine Lives
Causeway.
Character Breakdown:
Non union actor for non-speaking role of Woman in
Black. Age 25-35
All other roles are pre-cast.
***Rehearsals begin: August 12 Show Runs: August 28 - September 14
