Opera Notre Dame: Auditions for SWEENEY TODD
Opera Notre Dame announces auditions for their 2011-2012 production, “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler.
Performance dates are 26, 27, 28, 29 (mat) April 2012 in the Decio Mainstage Theater of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. This full production will be Opera Notre Dame’s first musical, and will display the same musical and dramatic values seen in last spring’s “Le nozze di Figaro.”
Auditions are open to the entire campus and South Bend community. They will be held from 4-8 PM on Tuesday 20 September and Wednesday 21 September at Washington Hall on the Notre Dame campus. Auditions slots can be reserved in-person application at the Department of Music office, 105 Crowley Hall.
Audition requirements:
1) Chorus: one “classical” song in any language.
2) Principal: one classical or standard musical theater song in English, one song in a foreign language.
Call-back auditions may take place the following week if needed. Casting will be announced by 1 October. Double casts and non-tradional/cross-gender casting for some roles (Pirelli, Tobias, Beadle) will be considered.
Rehearsals begin 17 January 2012. Rehearsal times are Tuesday 2.00-3.15 (principals only) and 8.00-10.00, Wednesday 8.00-10.00, Thursday 2.00-3.15 (principals only), Saturdays 11.00-4.00. Production week rehearsals will be evenings on 22, 23, 24,and 25 April.
For more information contact Mark Beudert (mbeudert@nd.edu) or visit opera.nd.edu.
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Cast size: |
Flexible
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Cast Type: |
Children in Cast, Ensemble Cast - Many featured roles, Older Role(s), Showcases trained singers, Star Vehicle - Female, Star Vehicle - Male, Strong/Large Chorus, Teenage Roles
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Dance requirement: |
None/minimal
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Casting notes: |
6 Male, 3 Female, Featured ensemble 4+
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Character Breakdown |
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ANTHONY HOPE |
A young man who returns to London and sets his heart on Johanna, Todd's daughter. C3 - F#4 Tenor
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BEGGAR WOMAN |
A deranged and schizophrenic woman with a secret. A3 - F#5 Alto
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ENSEMBLE |
Townspeople, Lords, Ladies, Policemen, Lunatics, etc |
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JOHANNA |
Judge Turpin's young, lovely ward and Todd's long-lost daughter. Innocent and aching to free herself from Turpin's grasp. C4 - Bb5 Soprano
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JONAS FOGG |
The owner of Fogg's sanitarium.
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JUDGE TURPIN |
A corrupt and lecherous official who hides in the guise of sanctimonious honor. B2 - F4 Baritenor
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MRS. LOVETT |
An entrepreneurial shop owner with a diabolical passion for pies... and Todd. F#3 - E5 Alto
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PIRELLI |
A flamboyant Italian with a secret past. A charlatan and rival barber. G#2 - F#4 Tenor
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SWEENEY TODD |
A talented barber with a bloodthirsty need for revenge. Ab2 - F4 Baritone or Bass
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THE BEADLE |
A pompous public official whose real loyalty is only to the corrupt Turpin. Bb2 - F4 Tenor
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TOBIAS RAGG |
A young boy who is apprenticed to Pirelli, but finds a strange, surrogate family in Todd and Mrs. Lovett. B2 - G4 Tenor |
