Auditions
2024-2025 SEASON
AUDITION ANNOUNCEMENT: DRACULA
Directed by Bruce Curless
Stage Managed by Brian Gensel
Rehearsals: Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, beginning on Sunday, August 18th.
Performances: October 18, 19, 20, 25, 26mat, 26eve, 27, 30mat, 30eve, November 1, 2, 3
Audition Process:
– 1st Round: Self-tapes sent to RitzTheatreCasting@gmail.com by August 2nd @ 5:00PM
– 2nd Round: By invitation only, at the Ritz, Monday, August 12th @ 7:30PM
– 3rd Round: By invitation only, at the Ritz, Wednesday, August 14th @ 7:30PM
The Ritz Theatre Company is currently seeking a multi-racial cast of non-union artists (ages 18+) for our upcoming production of DRACULA. For the first round of auditions, please send an email containing your headshot, resume, and self-tape to RitzTheatreCasting@gmail.com with the subject line DRACULA. Due to expected volume, submissions will not be accepted after the above deadline.
For the self-tape, actors should record a 1-minute melodramatic monologue. YouTube links are preferred. If sending via Google Drive, please ensure anyone provided the link can access the video. Successful candidates from the first round will be invited to attend the in-person round.
All performers will receive a stipend between $150-$250, depending on the role.
SYNOPSIS:
Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from it’s victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is finally laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. The play is intended for all who love thrills in the theatre, and is appropriate for all groups.
CHARACTERS:
DRACULA: (male presenting, age 20s-50s) A mysterious and sensual man. Polished and distinguished. Continental in appearance and manner.
MAID: (female presenting, age 20s-50’s) A victim of Dracula.
HARKER: (male presenting, age 20s-30s) A young man, handsome in appearance, a typical Englishman of the Public School class, but in manner direct, explosive, incisive, and excitable.
DR. SEWARD: (male presenting, age 40s-50s) An alienist. Intelligent, but a typical specialist who lives in a world of text books and patients, not a man of action or force of character.
VAN HELSING: (male presenting, age 40s-50s) Clean shaven, astute face with dark piercing eyes and grey hair. Nervous, alert manner. An air of resolution, clearly a man of resourceful action. Incisive speech – raps his words out sharply, quickly, and always to the point.
RENFIELD: (male presenting, age 20s-40s) Repulsive patient of Dr. Seward. Face distorted, shifty eyes, tousled hair.
ATTENDANT: (male presenting, age 20s-40s) Renfield’s attendant, dressed in uniform.
LUCY: (female presenting, age 20s-30s) A beautiful girl, clad in filmy white dressing gown, her face unnaturally pale. She walks with difficulty, round her throat is a wound scarf.
Detailed audition notices are posted here, on our social media pages (Facebook and Instagram), and on the Theatre Philadelphia website, typically one month before the dates listed below.
IN-PERSON AUDITION DATES
RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA
Sunday, August 25th & Wednesday, August 28th, 2024
ANGELS IN AMERICA
Monday, October 7th & Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
KINKY BOOTS
Monday, November 18th & Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
JULIUS CAESAR
Monday, December 9th & Wednesday, December 11th, 2024
SISTER ACT
Monday, February 3rd & Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
THE WIZARD OF OZ
ADULTS: Monday, March 31st & Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
CHILDREN: Tuesday, April 1st & Thursday, April 3rd, 2025