Audition Notice
Andrew Lippa’s ‘The Wild Party’
Performances: April 26 - May 4th, 2024
UPDATE: Audition slots are full, but we still want to see you in a video submission!
Please read the rehearsal/performance information below to make sure it works for you. If so, then please prepare up to 1 minute of music in a style similar to the show or that features your vocal range and capabilities and email your submission to RooftopAuditions@gmail.com along with THIS AUDITION FORM by latest JANUARY 11TH.
If you are being considered for any role, you will be asked to participate in a call back with a dance call on Sunday, January 14 from 12-1pm and may be asked to stay from 1-4pm to read/sing for various roles.
We will notify you on Friday, January 12 if you will be needed for the callback process, and will provide materials at that time.
Thank you!
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Casting for All Roles! This is a non-union show, non-paid production.
Andrew Lippa's Wild Party: A steamy prohibition tale, steamrolling and roaring its way across the stage, Andrew Lippa's Wild Party was an Off-Broadway gem that garnered an array of industry accolades, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. Based on Joseph Moncure March's 1928 narrative poem of the same name, this darkly brilliant show features one of the most exciting, pulse-racing scores ever written.
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. After the colorful arrival of a slew of guests living life on the edge, Queenie's wandering eyes land on a striking man named Black. As the decadence is reaching a climax, so is Burrs' jealousy, which erupts and sends him into a violent rage. Gun in hand and inhibitions abandoned, Burrs turns on Queenie and Black. The gun gets fired, but who's been shot?
PLEASE NOTE:
The subject matter of this show is dark and the production will include simulated physical violence, sexual violence, and sexual intimacy. Please audition only if you are comfortable participating.
All rehearsals, tech week, and performances will take place in NYC.
Director: Emily Spencer Munson, Music Director: Evan Swanson
Associate Director: Andrew Childers, Stage Manager: Maxwel Martinez
Rooftop Musical Society is a company of resident performers creating high-caliber, intimate theatrical experiences that bring the audience closer to the story.
REHEARSAL/PERFORMANCE DATES & LOCATION:
Rehearsals, in Manhattan
Weekday rehearsals: Monday and Wednesday nights starting January 24, 7-10 PM
Select Sunday rehearsals: March 10, 17, 24, 31, and April 7, 14, 12-3 PM
Tech week: April 21-25
Performances
April 26, 27 (matinee & evening)
May 2, 3, 4 (matinee & evening)
Performance Location
A unique loft space in the Lower East Side of Manhattan
CAST BREAKDOWN:
(You can specify which character you resonate with, but we will consider you for all parts. As this show has immersive elements, improv or immersive experience is helpful but not required.)
Queenie - Lead - Soprano; F3-F5; Belting, Jazz, Legit
Queenie is a blonde, beautiful, sexy Vaudeville Dancer. She is young, in her 20s, but tired looking. She is in love with Burrs, but their relationship is toxic; she seems afraid of being alone. She wants to get away from Burrs but doesn’t know how so she decides to throw a party to make him jealous and put a little bit of excitement into her life. At the party, she falls in love with Mr. Black and her life starts spiraling out of control.
Burrs - Lead - Tenor; G3-A5; Belting, Jazz, Legit
A Vaudeville clown who is dangerous but sexy. He is addicted to Queenie in a passionate, frightening, seductive way. He has a very fiery temper, is sexually ravenous and is quick to jealousy, so when he suspects that Queenie and Black are interested in each other, he starts to go a little crazy, until finally losing it completely when he discovers them in bed together at the show’s end.
Black - Lead - Baritone; F3-G5; Belting, Jazz, Legit
Strong, handsome, and poised without being posed. An enigmatic loner. Protective. No-nonsense kind of guy who cannot understand Queenie's attraction to Burrs. African-American.
Kate - Lead - Mezzo-Soprano; F3-E5; Belting, Jazz
Kate is a ‘friend’ and enemy of Queenie’s and is in love with Burrs. She comes to the party so that she can distract Queenie with Mr. Black and she can finally have her way with Burrs. She is a high-class whore and a cocaine addict, and things don’t work out quite the way she had hoped.
Madelaine True - Featured - Mezzo-Soprano; A3-E5; Belting, Jazz
A sexually hungry lesbian friend of Queenie and Burrs. She spends the party trying to find a lover but doesn’t seem to be having much luck. She sings ‘An Old-Fashioned Love Story’.
Eddie - Featured - Baritone; A3-A5; Jazz, Legit
Mae’s husband. He is very dim-witted and can go quickly from being a lovable teddy bear who adores his wife, to being a violent brute. He drinks a lot of beer during the party and at one point tries to fight Burrs.
Mae - Featured - Mezzo-Soprano; D3-D5; Belting
Eddie’s wife. She is very little and cute and not very bright. She loves her husband, dotes on him and thinks that he is the ‘cat’s meow’.
Phil D’Armano - Featured - Baritone; C2-A5; Belting; Jazz
One half of The Brothers D’Armano. A composer and an entertainer. He looks like his brother’s twin and is just as flamboyant. They are writing a musical about the Garden of Eden (with Queenie in mind) which they give a preview of at the party in the number ‘A Wild, Wild Party’.
Oscar D’Armano - Featured - Tenor; A3-B5; Belting, Jazz
One half of The Brothers D’Armano. A composer and entertainer. He looks like his brother’s twin and is just as flamboyant. He and his brother are writing a musical about the Garden of Eden (with Queenie in mind) which they give a preview of at the party in the number ‘A Wild, Wild, Party’.
Jackie - Featured - Dancer
Jackie is Queenie and Burrs dancer friend who is a mute. He blends in with the rest of the party-goers until the Second Act when he awakens after ‘Come With Me’ to find the entire party passed out and has his own silent dance number (‘Jackie’s Last Dance’). He only expresses himself through dance.
Max - Ensemble - Tenor; A3-B5; Belting, Jazz
Max is one of the party-goers. He has a couple of solos, playing ‘God’ at the beginning of ‘A Wild, Wild Party’ and he is the ‘orgasmic man’. Sometimes asked to jazz scat.
Delores - Ensemble - Alto; A3-A5; Jazz, Legit
A hooker who has her eyes on Sam (the producer) the whole party. Very sexy with a sultry voice.
Nadine - Ensemble - Mezzo-Soprano; A3-A5, Belting, Jazz
The only minor at the party. She is very naive and trying to keep up with everything that’s going on around her. She is sought after by Madelaine True and Burrs and doesn’t quite know how to handle their attention.
Sam Himmelsteen - Ensemble - Baritone; A3-A5; Belting, Jazz
A busy New York Producer that loves attention. He is being pursued by Dolores and seems reluctant until the party becomes sexual; he then seems to change his tune.
Ensemble - ALL PARTS