Rage! Sex! Betrayal! Bloody murder! LIZZIE explores the days leading up to the murder of Lizzie Borden’s parents and her controversial acquittal of all charges. The creation of a new American myth is forged in blood and a searing rock score.
Descriptions of graphic violence and sexual abuse.
Directed by Jay Gile & Asst. Directed by Nicole Riege
Performance Dates: Fri, Apr 18th - Sat, May 3rd @ Bartell Theater, Drury Stage
Roles will also be open to all ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities and all genders who are comfortable playing female-identified characters. Queer (and particularly sapphic) actors are encouraged to audition.
Auditions for this show will be run by auditionees signing up for individual time slots as well as a dance call time slot. Sign up using the link here: https://www.signupgenius.com/.../10C0B4EAAA82FA4FAC70...
Actors will be asked to sing a one minute - or 32 bars - selection of a rock or contemporary musical theater piece. An accompanist will be available; you may also sing a cappella or with a track on your device. Singing will be followed by a dance call, please bring comfortable clothes and shoes
Callbacks will take place from 9pm to 10pm both audition dates. The directorial team will notify actors after the dance call if they would like them to stay. Actors will be asked to sing a small selection from the show and read a few sides.
LIZZIE: Female-Identifying, High belt: F#3-F#5 (belt to A5 if possible.) She is damaged, twisted. She can turn on a dime from fragile, broken, meek and obedient to conniving, sinister, furious and terrifying. She is a wounded animal backed into a corner, terrified but enraged. We find her at the moment she realizes she has nothing to lose. She is transformed through an act of unspeakable transgression, turning her own historical infamy into an ascension to legend.
Content: Must be comfortable with simulated physical intimacy as well as navigating mature themes with references to sexual assault and suicidal ideology.
ALICE: Female-Identifying, High mezzo lyric/mix/belt: G3 (w/F#3 pick-up/ghost-notes in one number) – A5 (legit soprano) Is the Borden's next-door neighbor. She is a luscious pear, the sensuous mother- sister-lover which is sorely lacking in Lizzie's life. She appears to Lizzy in her greatest moments of need and attempts to lead her away from a path of destruction and toward one of love, truth, and affection. Lizzie may have true feelings of affection for her, or she may be using Alice's feelings to build an alibi.
Content: Must be comfortable with simulated physical intimacy
EMMA: Female-Identifying, Alto/mezzo belt: F#3-D5. Is the older sister, eclipsed by the younger. She must content herself by playing a motherly Lady Macbeth to Lizzie, dripping her own hatreds into Lizzie's ears over the years, stoking the fires of Lizzie's rage, disappearing when the deeds must be done, and suffering with guilt afterwards. Emma is a woman who has come to see that every opportunity for happiness has passed her by. She's furious, but she's also desperately sad.
BRIDGET: Female-Identifying, Contralto/low alto: F3 (w/E3 pick-up/ghost-notes in one number) – Eb5 (E5 option in one ad lib) Is the Borden's Irish maid. She may be a Banshee, called to wail at the Borden's door. She always seems to know what is going to happen, and does things one step before anyone else. She's put upon, angry, and as resentful of the Borden sisters as she is of the parents. Bridget is the Sex Pistols rock and roll nihilist; ready to fuck things up because she knows that's the only way anything is ever going to get better.
