Directed by Joanna May Cullinan
Music Direction by Rachel Woods
If Interested: Email Patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com (include "FALSETTOS" in your subject line) to sign up for an audition time. If you do not tell us your audition time we will assign you the best available slot.
*If you cannot make auditions, please email us your headshot and resume for consideration. If possible, submit a video audition for consideration. Please submit this video by Monday June 22. We do our best to see and consider additional people, but attending auditions is always ideal.
Audition Date: Monday June 22
Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm
What to prepare: Please prepare two contrasting cuts in the style of the show (contemporary musical theatre), not to exceed three minutes total. A comedic uptempo and dramatic ballad is preferred if possible. Please bring a headshot and resume to auditions. Headshots and resumes are appreciated, but not required.
Performance Dates:
September 4 - 19
Shows will be Thursday-Sunday. Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00pm. Sunday performances will be at 7:00pm.
Rehearsals:
Begin August 3
Rehearsals will be Sundays-Thursdays. Typically 7pm-10pm, though Sundays are usually 6pm-10pm.
Pay: Blank Canvas Theatre dedicates 20% of the net profit to the cast of each show. The cast splits this evenly.
*We my explore AEA Contracts for this show.
Location:
Blank Canvas Theatre
1305 78th Street, Suite 211 (at 78th Street Studios)
Cleveland, OH 44102
(Click here for directions or visit our website at www.blankcanvastheatre.com)
The Story
Tony Award-winning Falsettos is a tribute to family and its many forms; a playful interrogation of faith and identity; and a celebration of the beauty, complexity, and necessity of love.
Marvin has left his wife, Trina, for his male lover; Trina has married Marvin’s therapist; and their son, Jason, is grappling with his parents’ divorce and his looming bar mitzvah. Everyone’s world has been upended and now they must explore what their new lives may hold. Featuring a sung-through score and set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic, Falsettos is a humorous and heartbreaking web of ex-spouses, co-parents, new lovers, and the lesbians next door.
Character Breakdown
We welcome and encourage all gender identities/expressions, body types, disabilities and races/cultural backgrounds to audition.
*Please note the role of Marvin is pre-cast and will be played by Scott Esposito.
All other roles are open.
MARVIN: (Late 30s to late 40s. C3- Bb4) Jewish. Father to Jason, divorced from Trina, now in a steamy relationship with Whizzer. Desperately wants to keep a tight-night family. *This role is precast and will be played by Scott Esposito
TRINA: (Female presenting, Age 30s-40s. B3-E5) Soprano with belt; Marvin’s ex-wife and mother to their son Jason. She has strong traditional Jewish values. Charmingly neurotic in her effort to understand the conflicting feelings she has in the aftermath of her divorce. She consults Mendel, her husband’s psychiatrist and eventually marries him.
JASON: (Male presenting, age 11-13, voice unchanged G3-D5) Marvin and Trina’s son – bookish and awkward – Jason’s impending Bar Mitzvah, his parents’ divorce and Whizzer’s arrival into his life leave him confused, angry and trying to sort it all out.
WHIZZER: (Male presenting, age late 20s-30s, E3-C5) Athletic, charming, and confident. He’s diagnosed with AIDS in the earliest months of the epidemic. Has a tempestuous relationship with Marvin, but ultimately loves him and forms a special friendship with his son, Jason.
MENDEL: (Male presenting, age 30s-40s, C3-B4) Marvin’s psychiatrist who marries Trina and enters into the tumultuous world of her life with her son while struggling with his own feelings. While Jewish, his values are less traditional and more modern.
DR CHARLOTTE: (Female presenting, age 30s-40s. F3-F5) One of the ‘lesbians from next door’ – Charlotte is a dedicated doctor alarmed by the mysterious illness that is killing her gay male patients. Tough, but extremely nurturing and very much in love with her partner, Cordelia.
CORDELIA: (Female presenting, age 30s-40s. A3-A5) The other ‘lesbian from next door’ – Cordelia is Dr. Charlotte’s partner – she runs her own kosher catering business despite being a self-proclaimed “shiksa”, is very keen on making a nice home – but also wants to be useful and valued for her contribution to the world.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us at patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com. We look forward to seeing you at auditions!