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COMPANY MEMBERSHIP AUDITIONS!!!

ALL TYPES NEEDED   Send Picture and resume to auditions@theprodco.com

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'M. BUTTERFLY' AUDITIONS!!! 

M BUTTERFLY

Written by David Henry Hwang

Directed by Derek Charles Livingston

M. BUTTERFLY won the Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Drama Award and the Drama Desk Award for best play.  Based on a true story, it follows a Chinese opera actor/government spy(male) who fooled his French Diplomat lover for 20 years into believing that the performer was in fact a woman.  This is the play that introduced B. D. Wong to wider audiences and won him a Tony Award. 

Auditions by appointment only.   Please submit to auditions@theprodco.com or call 310-869-7546.    

Performances at The Chandler Studio Theatre, 12443 Chandler Blvd., North Hollywood, CA, 91607

October 3rd through November 9th, 2008.

Rehearses evenings and weekends. 

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CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:

SONG LILING -- Asian male, 20's to early 30's to play Chinese Opera star and government spy.  Capable of cutting cynicism, incisive wit, passive femininity, seductiveness, and great strength.  Believable physically as a woman when in Kimono or dress and make up and wig, competent singer, dance background or move well, must be comfortable with full nudity and with kissing another man.   Please note:    The nudity is absolutely non-gratuitous and essential to the plot.                               'SONG' SIDES:    CLICK HERE    CLICK HERE

RENE GALLIMARD -- white male late 30's to 50's, self effacing, well spoken, likeable, vulnerable, comfortable kissing both men and women. 'RENE' SIDES:   CLICK HERE      CLICK HERE

KUROGO  -- Asain men, athletic, experienced in stage movement or dance to play performers/dancer in Chinese Opera and also to be soldiers in Chinese army.  Mostly non-speaking roles but excellent stage action. 

MARC -- late 30's to 40's, male naturally charming and flirtatious (in that stereotypical "French lover" mode), in-bred elegance and confidence bespeaking upper class.   MARC SIDES: CLICK HERE

RENEE/GIRL IN MAGAZINE - 20's, white, attractive, sexy, student, very smart, spirited, a bit spoiled, direct, opinionated, sexually liberated.  This actor must be comfortable with nudity or semi-nudity as she plays a fantasy woman from a 'girly magazine.' RENEE SIDES: CLICK HERE

COMRADE CHIN/SUZUKI -- Asian woman, 30's to 40's (will consider younger and older), Chinese community party official, enforcer of Moaist beliefs, cynical, commanding, humorous, powerful, capable of both frieghtening bombast and chilling stillness.                              
CHIN/SUZUKI SIDES:  CLICK HERE   CLICK HERE

HELGA -- 40's, woman, white, intellegent, supportive, exudes "old
Europe
" upper class grace (she's both the daughter or and wife of diplomats) and colonial mindset bigotry, but also capable of vulnerability.  HELGA SIDES:  CLICK HERE   CLICK HERE

TOULON/JUDGE -- 50's-60's, white, male, life long diplomat, bombastic, paternalistic, quick witted and self serving.  Judge is direct, stern and serious.  TOULON SIDES: CLICK HERE

Email or call to request an appointment: 310-869-7546, auditions@theprodco.com

  
THE CHANDLER STUDIO THEATRE, 12243 Chandler Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91607 Info: 310-869-7546

 

 

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