Auditions Announced for 'Sweeney Todd' at the Phoenix Stage Company

Auditions Announced for 'Sweeney Todd'

Sunday, July 7, 2013 from 3:00-5:00pm
Monday, July 8, 2013 from 7:00-9:00pm

(Early arrival is appreciated)
Auditions will be held at Phoenix Stage Company, 686 Rubber Avenue, Naugatuck, CT

Callbacks will be held Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 7:00pm

All roles open to audition.  Auditioners are asked to sing something from the show for their audition piece.  The production is directed by Ed Bassett with music direction by Dan Porri.  For additional information, please call (203) 632-8546.

Cast Requirements:

• ADOLFO PIRELLI: A flamboyant Italian rival barber; a charlatan with a secret past. 
Male, 30-45 yrs old 
Range: B2 - C5

• ANTHONY HOPE: A naive and youthful sailor returning to London. He helps Todd return to London and unexpectedly falls in love with Johanna. 
Male, 20-30 yrs old 
Range: Bb2 - F4

• BEGGAR WOMAN: A deranged and schizophrenic woman who harbors a dark, surprising secret. 
Female, 35-50 yrs old 
Range: Ab3 - F5

• JOHANNA:  A spritely girl, full of innocence, constantly yearning for freedom. Todd's long-lost daughter and Turpin's ward. 
Female, 18-21 yrs old 
Range: Bb3 - A5

• JONAS FOGG:  The owner of Fogg's Asylum. He sells the hair of madmen to wigmakers. 
Male, 35-60 yrs old 
Speaking Role

• JUDGE TURPIN:  A lecherous public official who portrays himself as a sanctimonious authoritarian. He takes advantage of his position in the city and is responsible for imprisoning Todd. 
Male, 50-65 yrs old 
Range: E2 - Gb4

• MRS. LOVETT:  An entrepreneurial and amoral meat pie shop owner. She falls in love with Todd and turns his desire for revenge into a profitable business venture. 
Female, 35-50 
Range: G3 - E5

• SWEENEY TODD:  A wrongfully imprisoned barber seeking to right the wrongs committed against him. He is Johanna's father, singularly focussed on taking bloody revenge. Our story's tormented protagonist. 
Male, 40-55 yrs old 
Range: F2 - Gb4

• THE BEADLE:  A pompous public official. He is deeply loyal to the corrupt Turpin. 
Male, 40-55 yrs old 
Range: D3 - D5

• TOBIAS RAGG:  A poor youngster apprenticed to Pirelli. He finds a surrogate family in Todd and Lovett. 
Male, 12-18 yrs old 
Range: Bb2 - Ab4

• ENSEMBLE:  TOWNSPEOPLE; POLICEMEN; LUNATICS

Performance Dates:
    Saturday, September 14, 2013 at 8:00pm
    Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 2:00pm
    Friday, September 20, 2013 at 8:00pm
    Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 8:00pm
    Sunday, September 22, 2014 at 2:00pm
    Friday, September 27, 2013 at 8:00pm
    Saturday, September 28, 2013 at 8:00pm

About the Show:
The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe!

Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, SWEENEY TODD nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howlingly funny moments of dark humor: audiences find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next.

About Phoenix Stage Company:
Phoenix Stage Company is Naugatuck Valley’s Community Theatre. It is the mission the Phoenix Stage to enhance the quality of life in Connecticut’s Naugatuck Valley by providing quality theater experiences for the residents of Naugatuck and other areas in the state of Connecticut and providing training and education for actors, directors and others involved in theater productions and by providing an opportunity to demonstrate and improve their skills by participating in theatrical productions.