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Opera Singers: Mezzo and Lyric Soprano or Soubrette Needed
Heretic Opera to pdxaudition
Two roles are available for August recording of new operatic work. We are currently accepting inquiries from mezzos, light lyric sopranos, and soubrettes.
Recording will take place over the 3rd and 4th weeks of August. Please be a fully trained opera singer with a high level of musicianship and strong interpretive skills.
Recording will be in NW Portland, some compensation is available.
Reply to: Send resumes and headshot to info@hereticopera.com.
Source: Private Submission
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The Importance of Being Ernest Auditions (Kenton neighborhood at 8130 N Denver Ave)
Ready for a low pressure audition?
We know that we sure are! Let's let the hard work come after you are cast.
The show is The Importance of Being Ernest
Run dates/times are August 19th -September 11th with performances on Friday and Saturday nights and a Sunday matinee.
Performance location is in the Kenton neighborhood at 8130 N Denver Ave. Portland OR. Close walking distance to the Max.
The audition will be simple. No monologues, just cold readings from the script. If you have a headshot/resume, we'd love to see it! If not, that's okay too! No roles have been pre-cast.
Audition date: Wednesday June 22nd.
Audition location: 8130 N Denver Ave. Portland OR. A short walking distance from the Max.
Time: 7:30pm
Compensation? Complementary tickets and lots of love! We'd love to pay you but sorry folks; we're just not there yet!
Hope to see you there!
Character List
John (Jack) Worthing: A young, eligible bachelor about town who is a seemingly responsible and respectable young man who leads a double life. In London he goes by the name Ernest, and in Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate, he is Jack, a local magistrate of the county with responsibilities. The initials after his name indicate that he is a Justice of the Peace. His family pedigree is a mystery, but his seriousness and sincerity are evident. As a baby, Jack was discovered in a handbag in the cloakroom of Victoria Station by an old man who adopted him and subsequently made Jack guardian to his granddaughter, Cecily Cardew. Jack is in love with his friend Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax. He proposes to The Honorable Gwendolen Fairfax and, though leading a double life, eventually demonstrates his conformity to the Victorian moral and social standards.
Algernon Moncrieff: The nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as Ernest. He is a languid poser of the leisure class, bored by conventions and looking for excitement. Algernon is a decorative bachelor who is charming, idle, brilliant, witty, selfish, and amoral. He, too, leads a double life, being Algernon in the city and Ernest in the country. Algernon, unlike Jack, is not serious and is generally out for his own gratification. He falls in love and proposes to Jack's ward, Cecily, while posing as Jack's wicked younger brother, Ernest.
Lady Bracknell: Algernon's snobbish, mercenary, and domineering aunt and Gwendolen's mother. The perfect symbol of Victorian earnestness with the belief that style is more important than substance and that social and class barriers are to be enforced. Lady Bracknell married well, and her primary goal in life is to see her daughter do the same. A strongly opinionated matriarch, dowager, and tyrant, she believes wealth is more important than breeding and bullies everyone in her path. Ironically, she married into the upper class from beneath it. She attempts to bully her daughter, Gwendolen. Lady Bracknell values ignorance and she is cunning, narrow-minded, authoritarian
The Honorable Gwendolen Fairfax: Algernon's cousin and Lady Bracknell's daughter, exhibiting some of the sophistication and confidence of a London socialite, believes style to be important, not sincerity. She is submissive to her mother in public but rebels in private. A model and arbiter of high fashion and society, Gwendolen speaks with unassailable authority on matters of taste and morality. She is sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and utterly pretentious. While demonstrating the absurdity of such ideals as only marrying a man named Ernest. Gwendolen is in love with Jack, whom she knows as Ernest; however, she is fixated on the name Ernest and says she will not marry a man without that name.
Cecily Cardew: Jack Worthing's ward, granddaughter of his adopted father, Sir Thomas Cardew. Cecily is probably the most realistically drawn character in the play. She is of debutante age, 18, but she is being tutored at Jack's secluded country estate by Miss Prism, her governess. She is romantic and imaginative, and feeling the repression of Prism's rules. A silly and naïve girl, she declares that she wants to meet a "wicked man." Less sophisticated than Gwendolen, she falls in love with Algernon but feels he would be more stable if named Ernest.
Miss Prism: Cecily's governess and a symbol of Victorian moral righteousness. She is educating Cecily to have no imagination or sensationalism in her life. She highly approves of Jack's presumed respectability and harshly criticizes his "unfortunate" brother. Miss Prism quotes scripture as a symbol of her Victorian morality. Despite her rigidity, Miss Prism seems to have a softer side. She speaks of having once written a novel whose manuscript was "lost" or "abandoned." Also, she entertains romantic feelings for Dr. Chasuble. She becomes the source of Jack's revelation about his parents.
Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.: The rector on Jack's estate, the initials after his name stand for "Doctor of Divinity." Like Miss Prism, he is the source of Victorian moral judgments, but under the surface he appears to be an old lecher. His sermons are interchangeable, mocking religious conventions. Like the servants, he does what Jack (the landowner) wants: performing weddings, christenings, sermons, funerals, and so on. However, beneath the religious exterior, Dr. Chasuble entertains secret romantic feelings for Miss Prism.
Lane: Algernon's manservant. Lane says soothing and comforting things to his employer but stays within the neutral guidelines of a servant. He is leading a double life, eating sandwiches and drinking champagne when his master is not present. He aids and abets the lies of Algernon.
Merriman: The butler at the Manor House, Jack's estate in the country. Merriman keeps the structure of the plot working: He announces people and happenings. Like Lane, he does not comment on his "betters," but solemnly watches their folly. His neutral facial expressions during crisis and chaos undoubtedly made the upper-class audience laugh.
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Hispanic actor/models needed for stock shoot this Wednesday (Portland)
Hispanic men & women (1 each), 26-39, needed for stock photo/video shoot this Wednesday (6/22). Must be over 26 and look under 40. Fit, attractive, out-going, acting skill a plus. Situations will be lifestyle (backyard barbecue, relaxing at home) - no nudity. Only e-mails with photos will be considered, and please don't send erotic images. Top contenders will be contacted for interview. Thank you!
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Need Performers for Cafe (East Vancouver)
Need acoustic performers to play in Cafe setting. Tips, no pay. Need to provide small PA system. Please email online links to music samples.
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Actress - Car troubles short
I am a college student putting together a short parody film. Against this influx of fetish videos that are showing up everywhere on the net of girls having car trouble I am putting together a film that begins as one of these and then changes when during shooting the girl truly does have car troubles. The actress role is 20 years in age and anyone interested will need their own vehicle. No experience needed.
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Indie Feature Film Casting (Hood River, Oregon)
Feature Length Independent Film Audition Notice
Title: "Eve and Emily"
Producer: Daniel McCabe of Prescience Films (presciencefilms.com)
Contact email: pseudo@presciencefilms.com
Auditions: July 9th 2011 and July 16th 2011
Time: 11am to 4pm
Location:
Columbia Center for the Arts
215 Cascade Street
Hood River, OR 97031
Phone: 541-387-8877
Please email with questions and to schedule an audition time slot. A script will be provided.
Audition Process:
Pre-scheduled 15 to 30 minute time slots. Auditions will consist of an interview followed by a videotaped performance of one monologue of your choice from the script. Potentially, callbacks will be requested to perform scenes with other actors.
The Film:
A chamber film, taking place over the course of 12 hours in a house in Hood River, Oregon. A middle-aged couple, Eve and John, invite a younger couple, Paul and Emily, over for dinner. Eve is the owner of a successful law firm and Paul is her new associate lawyer. She hopes to get to know Paul and his wife, Emily, better over the course of this dinner party.
Filmmakers hope to create a film in the style of Ingmar Bergman. Inspired by films such as: "The Passion of Anna(1969)," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)," and "Scenes From a Marriage(1973)".
Filming: Tentatively over the course of one week during the winter of 2011-2012. Filming will primarily occur in early to late evening. Multiple rehearsals will be required.
Compensation: This is a non-union film and a one-time $300.00 stipend will be provided.
Travel reimbursement for gas expenses.
Actors will provide own costumes. Reimbursement for costumes will be provided.
Meals will be provided at filming and rehearsals.
Roles:
Eve: Female, 45 to 65 years old. Eve is a powerful, driven, career lawyer who has built her own law firm. She is married to John.
John: Male, 45 to 65 years old. John is a lawyer who was disbarred early in his career for inappropriate actions with a client. He is married to Eve and an alcoholic.
Paul: Male, 25 to 35 years old. Paul is a recent graduate from law school. He is an associate lawyer in Eve's law firm. He is very ambitious and intelligent but is very non-confrontational by nature. He is married to Emily.
Emily: Female, 20 to 35 years old. Emily is a very smart college graduate who is married to Paul. She is the daughter of a powerful family of lawyers. She has given up having a career to follow Paul to a small town so he can pursue his career. She was raised to be materialistic and demanding but does not want to be this way.
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