AUDITION CALL - My Fair Lady

 

SYNOPSIS: My Fair Lady, a musical by Lerner and Loewe, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s popular play Pygmalion. When the opinionated linguistics professor and bachelor Henry Higgins wagers that he can convert a lowly Cockney flower girl named Eliza Doolittle into a lady of high society, he never bargains for the unexpected transformation that she will evoke within him. The musical takes place in early-20th-century London, satirizing issues of class hierarchies, gender disparity, and how language plays a part in social othering and perceived respectability.

 

AUDITIONS:
Monday, May 6th at 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 11th at 11:30 am

 

CALLBACKS:
Monday, May 13th at 7:30 pm

 

AUDITION FORMAT:
For your audition please prepare 16-32 bars of any golden age musical theater song in the style of the show that shows type and range. An accompanist will be provided, so please bring sheet music for the pianist. Following your vocal audition there will be a dance call. Please bring suitable clothing and footwear to change into.

Rehearsals are set to begin starting the week of May 20th.

 

PERFORMANCE DATES:
July 6**, 7*, 12, 13**, 14*, 18, 19, 20**, 21*
*2:00pm Matinee
** 2:00pm Matinee & 7:30pm Evening Performance

 

PRODUCTION TEAM:
Producer: Patricia Barry
Director: Andrew Ferrie
Choreographer: Christine Baglivio
Music Director: Teddy Kernizan

 

ROLES:
All roles are OPEN!
Seeking performers age 15 and up.

Eliza Doolittle A poor girl who dreams of working in a flower shop while she sells flowers in England's Covent Garden; she employs Henry Higgins to help her with her speech and begins to transform herself into a regal figure fit to consort with nobility. In the end, she not only passes for a duchess but becomes an independent woman. Gender: Female Age: 20 to 35 Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: A3 Gender: Female Age: 20 to 35 Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: A3

 

Henry Higgins A confirmed bachelor, a professor of phonetics, and an expert elocutionist; he is an unconventional man who goes in the opposite direction from the rest of society in most matters; he is impatient with high society, forgetful in his public graces, and inconsiderate of normal social niceties. Gender: Male Age: 35 to 50 Vocal range top: E4 Vocal range bottom: B2

 

Colonel Pickering A former British officer and author. Friends with Henry Higgins and a fellow phonetics enthusiast. Gender: Male Age: 50 to 70 Vocal range top: D4 Vocal range bottom: C3

 

Freddy Eynsford-Hill A upper class British man who falls in love with Eliza. Gender: Male Age: 20 to 35 Vocal range top: F4 Vocal range bottom: C3

 

Alfred P. Doolittle Eliza's boisterous and charismatic father. Gender: Male Age: 50 to 70 Vocal range top: E4 Vocal range bottom: G3

 

Mrs. Higgins Henry's mother. Age: 60 to 80

 

Mrs. Pearce Higgin's housekeeper. Gender: Female Age: 40 to 60 Vocal range top: G4 Vocal range bottom: E4

 

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill Freddy's mother and a friend of Mrs. Higgins. Gender: Female Age: 40 to 70

 

Harry and Jamie friends of Alfred P. Doolittle's. Gender: Males Age: 30 to 70

 

Ensemble Cockney men and women, townspeople, servants, stewards, lords, ladies. Gender: Any