Everyone auditioning should be prepared to sing a song. If someone is not singing a selection from the show, please bring sheet music. An accompanist will be provided.
A strong ensemble cast is required for "Sweeney Todd." One young girl, teens and adults are needed. Three principal roles are available for women, and six major roles are available for men.
Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's "Sweeney Todd" tells the tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to London seeking revenge against the judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful owner of the pie shop downstairs soon has people lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe.
Anthony Hope: A young man who returns to London and falls in love with Johanna, Todd's daughter. (Tenor)
Beggar Woman: A deranged and schizophrenic woman with a secret. (Alto)
Johanna: Judge Turpin's young, lovely ward and Todd's long-lost daughter. (Soprano)
Judge Turpin: A corrupt and lecherous official who hides in the guise of sanctimonious honor. (Baritone)
Mrs. Lovett: An entrepreneurial shop owner with a diabolical passion for pies and Sweeney Todd. (Alto)
Pirelli: A flamboyant charlatan and rival barber with a fake Italian accent and a secret past. (Tenor)
Sweeney Todd: A talented barber with a bloodthirsty need for revenge. (Baritone/Bass)
The Beadle: A pompous public official who is loyal to Judge Turpin. (Tenor)
Tobias Ragg: A teen/small, young man who is an apprentice to Pirelli, but finds a strange, surrogate family in Todd and Mrs. Lovett. (Tenor)
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The Opera House Players, located in Broad Brook (i.e. East Windsor) are pleased to be the first group in Connecticut to present this important, challenging work.
BARE deals with homosexuality, the Catholic Church, teen pregnancy, drugs, and other important issues and has an ending that is sure not to leave a dry eye in the house. All of the above is sung to a gorgeous score that includes pop, rock, ballads, gospel, and rap.
The show will be directed by Philip D. Vetro with musical direction by Angela Klimaytis and choreography by Todd SantaMaria.
We are seeking a multi-racial cast of singers/actors ages 18-early 30's. There are two additional roles for women (one of whom must be African-American) and an additional man. The age range for these roles are late 30's and up.
Show dates are Sept. 9-26, and rehearsals will begin in early June.
This is a non-Equity show, and performers are not paid.
For more information, contact the director at pthespian@sbcglobal.net. Enthusiastic audiences at The American Theatre of Actors prompted an extension of the show when it played a test run Off-Broadway in 2004. It ran March 25-May 27, 2004, at the same space that housed Urinetown just before its Broadway move. Bare was shepherded at the time by the powerful producers Dodger Stage Holding and Jack Grossbart/Marc Schwartz, and had a Broadway-caliber design team. The mostly sung-through show seemed to come out of nowhere, though it did win awards and fans in a Los Angeles run. Its collaborators were twentysomethings new to the American musical theatre scene. The original show they created in Bare might be thought of as a merging of Rent and "Dead Poets Society," but set in a Catholic boarding school. Sex, sexuality, self expression, guilt, jealously and religion all play into the plot, which overflows with the kind of urgency and intensity associated with being 17.
Here's how Bare was billed at the time: "Bare explores the pains and pleasures of five high school seniors at a co-ed Catholic boarding school as they struggle to grow up in these complicated, conflicted, contemporary times. Each of them question where they are in their lives. Answers are sought in the church confessional and in less formal venues including a stage, a rave, and a well-locked dorm room." To hear the music check out barethealbum.com
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