AUDITIONS
MUSCIAL AUDITIONS!
Lizzie (The Lizzie Borden Rock Musical),
Directed Kell Christie.
Audition dates are May 12 and 13, 2018
At TheatreWorks, 2085 Monroe Ave.
Select your audition time!
MUSCIAL AUDITIONS!
Lizzie (The Lizzie Borden Rock Musical),
Directed Kell Christie.
Audition dates are May 12 and 13, 2018
At TheatreWorks, 2085 Monroe Ave.
Select your audition time!
Pertinent Information:
Audition Dates: May 12 & 13, 2018. Saturday at starting at 1:00, Sunday starting at 5:30
Audition time slot selection link
Callbacks if needed will be Sunday May 13 at 8:00
Location: Theatreworks, 2085 Monroe Ave.
Directed by: Kell Christie
Audition Material: Prepare approximately 18 bars of a rock ballad style song. Bring sheet music with you.
Needed: 4 women of various ages. Lizzie 25 – 35, Alice 25 – 40, Bridget 20 – 45, Emma 30 – 45. Character descriptions below.
ALL ROLES ARE AVAILABLE
Rehearsals begin: Early September
Production Dates: Oct. 12 – 28, 2018
More info: 901-484-3467
Synopsis: On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New England city, a prominent businessman and his wife were brutally axed to death in their home. Their daughter Lizzie Borden was the prime suspect. Lizzie’s trial was a coast-to-coast media sensation, and her story has become an American legend.
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one....
LIZZIE is four women fronting a rock band. LIZZIE is rage, sex, betrayal, and bloody murder. LIZZIE is American mythology set to a blistering rock score. LIZZIE is a new American musical with a sound owing less to Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber than to Bikini Kill, the Runaways, and Heart.
Character descriptions:
Lizzie Borden (high belt: F#3-F#5, belt to A5 if possible) is damaged, twisted. She can turn on a dime from fragile, broken, meek and obedient to conniving, sinister, furious and terrifying. She is a wounded animal backed into a corner, terrified but enraged. We find her at the moment she realizes she has nothing to lose. She is transformed through an act of unspeakable transgression, turning her own historical infamy into an ascension to legend.
Emma Borden (alto/mezzo belt: F#3-D5) is the older sister, eclipsed by the younger. She must content herself by playing a motherly Lady Macbeth to Lizzie, dripping her own hatreds into Lizzie’s ears over the years, stoking the fires of Lizzie’s rage, disappearing when the deeds must be done, and suffering with guilt afterwards. Emma is a woman who has come to see that every opportunity for happiness has passed her by. She's furious, but she's also desperately sad.
Bridget Sullivan/Maggie (contralto/low alto: F3 with E3 pick-up/ghost-notes in one number) – Eb5 (E5 opt. in one ad lib.) is the Borden’s Irish maid. She may be a Banshee, called to wail at the Borden’s door. She always seems to know what is going to happen, does things one step before anyone else. She’s put upon, angry, and as resentful of the Borden sisters as she is of the parents. Bridget is the Sex Pistols rock and roll nihilist; ready to fuck things up because she knows that’s the only way anything is ever going to get better.
Alice Russell (high mezzo lyric/mix/belt: G3 with F#3 pick-up/ghost-notes in one number- A5 legit soprano) is the Borden’s next door neighbor. She is a luscious pear, the sensuous mother-sister-lover which is sorely lacking in Lizzie’s life. She appears to Lizzie in her greatest moments of need and attempts to lead her away from a path of destruction and toward one of love, truth, and affection. Lizzie may have true feelings of affection for her, or she may be using Alice’s feelings to build an alibi.
Audition Dates: May 12 & 13, 2018. Saturday at starting at 1:00, Sunday starting at 5:30
Audition time slot selection link
Callbacks if needed will be Sunday May 13 at 8:00
Location: Theatreworks, 2085 Monroe Ave.
Directed by: Kell Christie
Audition Material: Prepare approximately 18 bars of a rock ballad style song. Bring sheet music with you.
Needed: 4 women of various ages. Lizzie 25 – 35, Alice 25 – 40, Bridget 20 – 45, Emma 30 – 45. Character descriptions below.
ALL ROLES ARE AVAILABLE
Rehearsals begin: Early September
Production Dates: Oct. 12 – 28, 2018
More info: 901-484-3467
Synopsis: On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New England city, a prominent businessman and his wife were brutally axed to death in their home. Their daughter Lizzie Borden was the prime suspect. Lizzie’s trial was a coast-to-coast media sensation, and her story has become an American legend.
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one....
LIZZIE is four women fronting a rock band. LIZZIE is rage, sex, betrayal, and bloody murder. LIZZIE is American mythology set to a blistering rock score. LIZZIE is a new American musical with a sound owing less to Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber than to Bikini Kill, the Runaways, and Heart.
Character descriptions:
Lizzie Borden (high belt: F#3-F#5, belt to A5 if possible) is damaged, twisted. She can turn on a dime from fragile, broken, meek and obedient to conniving, sinister, furious and terrifying. She is a wounded animal backed into a corner, terrified but enraged. We find her at the moment she realizes she has nothing to lose. She is transformed through an act of unspeakable transgression, turning her own historical infamy into an ascension to legend.
Emma Borden (alto/mezzo belt: F#3-D5) is the older sister, eclipsed by the younger. She must content herself by playing a motherly Lady Macbeth to Lizzie, dripping her own hatreds into Lizzie’s ears over the years, stoking the fires of Lizzie’s rage, disappearing when the deeds must be done, and suffering with guilt afterwards. Emma is a woman who has come to see that every opportunity for happiness has passed her by. She's furious, but she's also desperately sad.
Bridget Sullivan/Maggie (contralto/low alto: F3 with E3 pick-up/ghost-notes in one number) – Eb5 (E5 opt. in one ad lib.) is the Borden’s Irish maid. She may be a Banshee, called to wail at the Borden’s door. She always seems to know what is going to happen, does things one step before anyone else. She’s put upon, angry, and as resentful of the Borden sisters as she is of the parents. Bridget is the Sex Pistols rock and roll nihilist; ready to fuck things up because she knows that’s the only way anything is ever going to get better.
Alice Russell (high mezzo lyric/mix/belt: G3 with F#3 pick-up/ghost-notes in one number- A5 legit soprano) is the Borden’s next door neighbor. She is a luscious pear, the sensuous mother-sister-lover which is sorely lacking in Lizzie’s life. She appears to Lizzie in her greatest moments of need and attempts to lead her away from a path of destruction and toward one of love, truth, and affection. Lizzie may have true feelings of affection for her, or she may be using Alice’s feelings to build an alibi.
