PLEASE NOTE: If you auditioned at the Season EPAs on April 9th or 10th, there’s no need to come audition a second time for consideration for the show.
Casting Notice For:
ANGELS IN AMERICA
MILLENNIUM APPROACHES and PERESTROIKA
by Tony Kushner
Directed by Sean Murray
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
Both Millennium Approaches and Perestroika will be performed in rotating repertory.
First rehearsal: January 29th, 2019
Millennium Approaches First Preview: March 6, 2019.
Millennium Opening: March 9, 2019.
Perestroika First Preview: March 21, 2019.
Perestroika Opening: March 23, 2019.
Closing April 20, 2019.
Please note that actors hired for the project will be required to rehearse during the daytime.
EQUITY/NON-EQUITY CALL:
– Equity Actors will be working under the Small Professional Theatre contract, category 8.
– Non-union performers are paid a stipend for the rehearsal period, as well as $50 per performance.
Preparation:
Please prepare material from the source material if possible.
Audition Appointments will be held on:
Monday, April 30th (10:00-2:45)
Tuesday, May 1st(10:00-6:00)
(Callbacks tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, May 2nd)
Email audition request to auditions@cygnettheatre.com
No phone submissions please.
Please include in your submission any and all times that will work for you to be seen.
Please include a digital copy of your headshot and resume.
Submission does not guarantee an audition slot.
Auditions will be held at Cygnet’s Rehearsal Hall:
2555 State St. Suite 104
San Diego, CA 92101
**Please Note: The entrance to Suite 104 faces W Maple Street**
BREAKDOWN:
(Diversity is strongly encouraged)
Casting 3 Women, 4 Men
The role of Joseph Pitt has been cast.
LOUIS IRONSON (30s) Prior’s Jewish lover. A word processor at a court in Brooklyn. Very intelligent and politically minded, yet flawed and emotionally fragile. He is filled with immense conflict and guilt when he abandons Prior on the onset of his illness. Actor also plays the Angel Australia.
PRIOR WALTER (30s) Louis’s boyfriend who is diagnosed with AIDS at the top of the play. An aesthete from an old WASP family, he is a magnetic presence with tremendous wit and charisma. He is simultaneously deeply vulnerable and sardonic. Some nudity required. Actor also plays the Man in the Park.
BELIZE (late 20s-30s) African American. A registered nurse and former drag queen, he is Prior’s loyal best friend. Fabulous and stylish with a sharp sense of humor and a no-nonsense attitude. Actor also plays Mr. Lies, the voice of Caleb, and the Angel Oceania.
ROY M. COHN (late 50s-60s) based on the very successful and persuasive New York lawyer. Relentless and menacing in his pursuit of clout, he is a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He vehemently denies his sexuality and diagnosis of AIDS to protect himself from vulnerability. Actor also plays Prior 2 and the Angel Antarctica.
HARPER PITT (30s) Joe’s wife, an agoraphobic with a mild Valium addiction. Her crippling fears have alienated her from the world and from her husband, who she knows has demons of his own. She often escapes reality in a series of fascinating and revealing hallucinations. Some nudity required. Actress also plays Martin Heller and the Angel Africanii.
HANNAH PITT (60s – early 70s) Joe’s opinionated, practically minded mother from Salt Lake City. A devout Mormon, she moves to New York when Joe comes out to her, and her warmth and humanity is revealed when she meets and cares for Prior. Actress also plays Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz, Henry, Ethel Rosenberg, Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, and the Angel Asiatica.
THE ANGEL (late 30s – 50s) Open to all ethnicities. A divine messenger sent from above to prepare Prior for his mission as a prophet. Terrifying and powerful, she should feel animalistic. Seeking an actress from a physical theatre background with great vocal prowess. Actress also plays Emily, Sister Ella Chapter, A Homeless Woman, the voice of Orrin, and the voice of The Mother.