Job Details
Title Annual EPA
Category Performer
Description Broadway, First National Tour, and Chicago
AEA Production Contract, $1422 minimum
Producers: Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, and David Stone
Director: Joe Mantello
Musical Staging: Wayne Cilento
Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
Book: Winnie Holzman
Music Director: Stephen Oremus
General Manager: 321 Theatrical Management
Casting: Bernard Telsey Casting
Productions: Broadway Gershwin Theatre; First National Tour; Chicago Ford Center for the Performing Arts/Oriental Theatre
SEEKING:
GLINDA: Female, 20 - 35. The "good" witch. Pretty, charming, entrancing, ambitious, perky, vain, very popular, but also vulnerable and sympathetic. Needs excellent comic chops and star power. Needs a glorious singing voice with high soprano and belt capability. STARRING
ELPHABA: Female, 20 - 35. The "wicked" witch. Born with emerald-green skin, she has had a rough childhood and is an outcast from the beginning. Smart, fiery, sensitive, passionate, misunderstood, sincere, has potent inner beauty, rallies for the underdog, has great talent for sorcery. Needs star power and a powerhouse, high pop/rock belt singing voice. STARRING
THE WIZARD OF OZ: Male, 50s - 70s. Needs a strong, distinctive, engaging, sweet character actor with powerful presence. Must sing. PRINCIPAL
MADAME MORRIBLE: Female, 40s 60s, any ethnicity. Headmistress of Shiz University. Dignified, powerful, haughty, has a dark side. Takes Elphaba under her wing, training her in sorcery. Needs a strong, comical character actress with formidable presence. Must sing. PRINCIPAL
FIYERO: Male, 20 35, any ethnicity. The Winkie prince, a wealthy party boy. Very handsome with striking presence. Not really shallow and self-absorbed as he initially seems. Glinda pursues him, but he is much more intrigued by Elphaba. Needs a strong, high pop/rock singing voice. PRINCIPAL
NESSAROSE: Female, 20 30. Elphabas lonely, compassionate, attractive younger sister, she was favored by their father. Has spent her life crippled in a wheelchair. Becomes involved with Boq and becomes the Wicked Witch of the East. Needs a commanding actress with a strong singing voice. PRINCIPAL
BOQ: Male, 20 30, any ethnicity, height of 58" or shorter. A helpless, quirky munchkin. Enamored with Glinda, who pays him no mind. Reluctantly, he becomes involved with Nessarose. Needs a comical actor with a strong, high singing voice. PRINCIPAL
DOCTOR DILLAMOND: Male, 30s - 50s, any ethnicity. A distinguished and well-liked professor at Shiz University. He is a goat and the sole animal on the faculty. He becomes a victim to the animal discrimination occurring in Oz. Needs a strong actor with a sense of gravity, authority, and comic skill. Must sing. PRINCIPAL
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Union Information
Salary $1422/week min
Company Wicked
Address New York, NY -
US
Contact -
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Audition Information When: Friday, July 29, 2005
10am - 6pm
Where: Chelsea Studios
151 West 26th Street, 6th Fl
New York City
Notes/What to bring: Please prepare a brief contemporary musical theater song showing range. Please bring sheet music and a photo/resume stapled together. A piano accompanist will be provided.
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