Utah Repertory Theater Company is pleased to announce open auditions for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Directed by Chris Clark
Music Direction by Anne Puzey
All roles are open. Sign up list for auditions here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zm8kyyy01Kuh2zqDN5U7dW85iPoANQ5ecMhAe17fiPk/edit?usp=sharing.
A modest stipend will be made available to all actors. Rehearsals will take place beginning in November (with a break for Christmas). Rehearsals will take place at Barlow Arts Academy in Lehi as well as in Salt Lake CIty.
Auditions will be held on Sat, Oct 10 from 5:30-7:00 and Sun, Oct 11 from 11 am -2 pm. Callbacks will be held on Sunday, Oct 11 at 3:30 PM.
The director and music director have requested that auditioners prepare: a one-minute monologue of a classical play (not Shakespeare) and 32 bars of music in the style of “A Little Night Music.”
Sondheim creates a stunning tour de force when he takes Ingmar Bergman’s comedy of manners, Smiles of a Summer Night, and turns it into a musical of masterful execution and elegance. Winner of four TONY Awards, this is a musical work that has forever entranced the world of theatre.
Set in 1900 Sweden, A Little Night Music explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress Desirée Armfeldt and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When the traveling actress performs in Fredrik’s town, the estranged lovers’ passion rekindles. This strikes a flurry of jealousy and suspicion between Desirée, Fredrik, Fredrick’s wife, Anne, Desirée’s current lover, the Count, and the Count’s wife, Charlotte. Both men — as well as their jealous wives — agree to join Desirée and her family for a weekend in the country at Desirée’s mother’s estate. With everyone in one place, infinite possibilities of new romances and second chances bring endless surprises.
A Little Night Music is full of hilariously witty and heartbreakingly moving moments of adoration, regret and desire. This dramatic musical celebration of love is perfect to showcase your highly-trained singers with it’s harmonically-advanced score and masterful orchestrations and contains Sondheim’s popular song, the haunting “Send in the Clowns.”
Fredrika Armfeldt: Desiree’s witty daughter who is very self-contained and formal with the precise diction of the convent-trained.
Female, 12-15 yrs old
Range: C4 - Eb5
Madame Armfeldt: Desiree’s elderly mother; brutally honest and a veteran of discreet encounters with the crowned heads of Europe.
Female, 70-85 yrs old
Range: C3 - F#4
Henrik Egerman: Fredrick’s gloomy son. He is serious but confused, as he studies for the Lutheran priesthood. Needs to play cello.
Male, 18-21 yrs old
Range: G3 - B4
Anne Egerman: Giddy and virginal; naive at times. A breathtakingly gorgeous child bride and Fredrick’s new wife.
Female, 18-21 yrs old
Range: G#3 - Ab5
Fredrick Egerman: Middle-aged lawyer who is married to his second wife, Anne, and has a son, Henrik, from his first marriage.
Male, 35-45 yrs old
Range: A2 - E4
Petra: Anne’s earthy maid and closest confidante. She seizes every moment to rustle in the hay.
Female, 20-30 yrs old
Range: F#3 - F5
Desiree Armfeldt: A self-absorbed, once-successful actress now touring the country-side. She becomes entangled in a love triangle with the Count and Fredrick.
Female, 40-50 yrs old
Range: F#3 - Ab5
Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm Vain, arrogant, and splendidly proportioned but ferociously jealous. He is Desiree’s newest lover.
Male, 30-45 yrs old
Range: G3 - F#4
Countess Charlotte Malcolm The Count’s manic depressive, mistreated and downtrodden wife.
Female, 30-40 yrs old
Range: G3 - F5
Ensemble The Liebeslieder Singers, Servants, Helpers
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will be performed at the Sorenson Unity Center Black Box Theater in Salt Lake City Jan 15-31.