Open Auditions for "Threepenny Opera"
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Mar 6, 2013, 8:54:59 AM3/6/13
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Open Auditions for The Threepenny Opera
by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
The Wilbury Group announces open auditions for their spring production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s masterpiece, The Threepenny Opera. Auditions will be heldSunday March 10 and Monday March 11 from 6pm-10pm in the Trinity Theater at the Southside Cultural Center, 393 Broad Street, Providence.
Actors should prepare a 2-3 minute comedic monologue (contemporary or classical) and 16-32 bars of a contemporary song. Auditioners are encouraged to accompany themselves on their own instruments or sing a cappella. There will not be an accompanist provided.
Please bring a resume & headshot (if available) to the audition.
To schedule an audition, please email jo...@thewilburygroup.org with your preferred audition day and time.
The Threepenny Opera performances will May 16-June 3 in Providence. Rehearsals start in April.
Actors of all ages, ethnicity, & backgrounds are encouraged to attend, actors who feel they are not "singers" or cannot sing are also encouraged to attend.
Roles Available:
Macheath (“Mackie Messer”/”Mack the Knife”), London’s greatest and most notorious criminal
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, The “Beggar’s Friend”. Controller of all the beggars in London, he conspires to have Mack hanged
Celia Peachum – Peachum’s wife, who helps him run the business -
Polly Peachum – The Peachums’ daughter. After knowing Mack for only five days, she agrees to marry him
Jackie “Tiger” Brown – Police Chief of London and Mack’s best friend from their army days
Lucy Brown – Tiger Brown’s daughter. Also claims to be married to Mack
Jenny (“Ginny Jenny” or “Low-Dive Jenny”), A prostitute who was romantically involved with Macheath in the past. She is bribed to turn Mack in to the police.
Filch – The misfit young man who approaches the Peachums in hopes of beggar-training
The Street Singer – sings ‘The Ballad of Mack the Knife’ in the opening scene.
Various men and women to play beggars, thieves and prostitutes.
About The Threepenny Opera
“Threepenny Opera” is a biting satire of the post-war rise of capitalism, wrapped up in Weill’s jazzy score and the tale of Macheath (Mack the Knife), a debonair crime lord on the verge of turning his illegal empire into a legitimate business. When Macheath marries Polly Peachum, her father, Jonathan Peachum, is greatly angered. Jonathan Peachum controls the beggars of London, and he strives to get Macheath hanged. However the chief of police, Tiger Brown, is an old friend of Macheath. Nevertheless, Peachum exerts considerable political influence, and eventually Macheath is arrested and imprisoned, escapes, then imprisoned once more. At the point of execution, in an unrestrained parody of a happy ending, a hard-riding messenger from the Queen dramatically arrives at the last minute, and Macheath is pardoned and given a baronetcy.
About The Wilbury Group
The Wilbury Group is an ever-evolving collaboration of Rhode Island-tied artists committed to creating the highest quality professional theatre. The Wilburys believe that theatre should be an affordable and accessible means of enrichment to the community; we strive to create work that will simultaneously engage, inspire, and provoke-thought among our audiences.
The Wilbury Theatre Group is a registered 501(c)3 arts organization.
Actors should prepare a 2-3 minute comedic monologue (contemporary or classical) and 16-32 bars of a contemporary song. Auditioners are encouraged to accompany themselves on their own instruments or sing a cappella. There will not be an accompanist provided.
Please bring a resume & headshot (if available) to the audition.
To schedule an audition, please email jo...@thewilburygroup.org with your preferred audition day and time.
The Threepenny Opera performances will May 16-June 3 in Providence. Rehearsals start in April.
Actors of all ages, ethnicity, & backgrounds are encouraged to attend, actors who feel they are not "singers" or cannot sing are also encouraged to attend.
Roles Available:
Macheath (“Mackie Messer”/”Mack the Knife”), London’s greatest and most notorious criminal
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, The “Beggar’s Friend”. Controller of all the beggars in London, he conspires to have Mack hanged
Celia Peachum – Peachum’s wife, who helps him run the business -
Polly Peachum – The Peachums’ daughter. After knowing Mack for only five days, she agrees to marry him
Jackie “Tiger” Brown – Police Chief of London and Mack’s best friend from their army days
Lucy Brown – Tiger Brown’s daughter. Also claims to be married to Mack
Jenny (“Ginny Jenny” or “Low-Dive Jenny”), A prostitute who was romantically involved with Macheath in the past. She is bribed to turn Mack in to the police.
Filch – The misfit young man who approaches the Peachums in hopes of beggar-training
The Street Singer – sings ‘The Ballad of Mack the Knife’ in the opening scene.
Various men and women to play beggars, thieves and prostitutes.
About The Threepenny Opera
“Threepenny Opera” is a biting satire of the post-war rise of capitalism, wrapped up in Weill’s jazzy score and the tale of Macheath (Mack the Knife), a debonair crime lord on the verge of turning his illegal empire into a legitimate business. When Macheath marries Polly Peachum, her father, Jonathan Peachum, is greatly angered. Jonathan Peachum controls the beggars of London, and he strives to get Macheath hanged. However the chief of police, Tiger Brown, is an old friend of Macheath. Nevertheless, Peachum exerts considerable political influence, and eventually Macheath is arrested and imprisoned, escapes, then imprisoned once more. At the point of execution, in an unrestrained parody of a happy ending, a hard-riding messenger from the Queen dramatically arrives at the last minute, and Macheath is pardoned and given a baronetcy.
About The Wilbury Group
The Wilbury Group is an ever-evolving collaboration of Rhode Island-tied artists committed to creating the highest quality professional theatre. The Wilburys believe that theatre should be an affordable and accessible means of enrichment to the community; we strive to create work that will simultaneously engage, inspire, and provoke-thought among our audiences.
The Wilbury Theatre Group is a registered 501(c)3 arts organization.
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