Auditions: "Assassins", a musical by Stephen Sondheim

The Breakthrough Theatre Company will hold auditions for the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical, "Assassins", on the following dates and times:

Saturday, January 10, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Sunday, January 11, 6-8 p.m.

SYNOPSIS: A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation's culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America's four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.

Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical "revusical" that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.


To Audition, prepare 16-32 measures of any song. There will not be a piano accompanist. Have your song on your phone, or we can pull up a YouTube video on the theater computer. You will also read from the script. If new to the Breakthrough, please bring a recent headshot, or face picture. Resumes are optional.

All roles are unpaid, but we collect tips at each performance that are divided amongst the cast.

REHEARSALS:
January 20, 21, 22 (7-10 p.m.)
January 27, 28 (8:30-10 p.m.)
February 2, 3, 4, 5 (7-10 p.m.)
TECH WEEK: February 9, 10, 11, 12 (7 p.m.-???)

SHOW DATES AND TIMES:
February 13-March 2
Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays at 8 p.m.
Sundays at 3 p.m.

CHARACTERS (ages are suggested):

John Wilkes Booth
(1838-1865) Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln during a performance at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. Foreman and inspirational celebrity to the other assassins.
Gender: male
Age: 25 to 35
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: F2

Charles Guiteau
(1841-1882) Assassinated President James Garfield in the waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881. Dashing but mad.
Gender: male
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: Ab4
Vocal range bottom: A2

Leon Czologosz
(1873-1901) Assassinated President William McKinley at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. on September 6, 1901. A young poverty-worn radical.
Gender: male
Age: 25 to 30
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: G#2

Giuseppe Zangara
(1900-1933) Attempted to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt as he greeted well-wishers in Bayfront Park, Miami, FL on February 15, 1933. An angry, heavily-accented immigrant.
Gender: male
Age: 30 to 35
Vocal range top: A4
Vocal range bottom: B2

Samuel Byck
(1930-1974) Attempted to assassinate President Richard Nixon by hijacking a commercial jetliner. Hysterically irate schlep in a Santa Claus suit.
Gender: male
Age: 40 to 45
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: D3

Lynette "squeaky" Fromme
(1948- ) Attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford at the Capitol Park in Sacramento, CA on September 5, 1975. A pixie hippie in love with Charles Manson.
Gender: female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: A3

Sara Jane Moore
(1930- ) Attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, CA, on September 22, 1975. A frazzled housewife with little sense.
Gender: female
Age: 40 to 45
Vocal range top: Eb5
Vocal range bottom: F3

John Hinckley
(1955- ) Attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981. A love-obsessed and depressed college student.
Gender: male
Age: 25 to 30
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: A2

Lee Harvey Oswald
(1939-1963) Assassinated President John F. Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963. A suicidal, dejected shipping clerk.
Gender: male
Age: 20 to 25
Vocal range top: C4
Vocal range bottom: G3

Balladeer
A folk singer and the narrator of the show. The voice of America.
Gender: male
Age: 20 to 40
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: C3

The Proprietor
A mysterious man who runs the shooting gallery at a carnival.
Gender: male
Age: 30 to 50
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: Gb2

Billy
Sara Jane Moore's whiny son.
Gender: male
Age: 8 to 12

Ensemble (there are solos within ensemble songs)
Emma Goldman, David Herald, Presidents, Bystanders, Tourists, Reporters, Photographers

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