Call for Auditions: Threepenny Opera

The Columbia University Thesis Production of Threepenny Opera by Brecht and Weill and translated by Michael Feingold is having an initial round of auditions Monday December 1st and Tuesday December 2nd at Columbia University. The equity showcase code production will be at The Theatre at Riverside Church and run April 1st till April 4th. The director is Henning Hegland and musical director is Nicholas De Maison. We are looking for experienced actors/singers for the roles of:

macheath (mac the knife) a gang leader and thief planning on becoming a banker (male mid 20's to mid 30's a charmer with a dangerous side) - tenor (or high baritone): B2 - Aflat4

polly peachum: the daughter of peachum wanting true love and passion (female 18 - 25 an innocent girl look with a hidden foxy side) - soprano (or mezzo): C4 - Gflat5

mr. peachum: a businessman and the beggar king (male 40-50's shrewd, cynical, and very very clever) - tenor (or baritone): C3 - F4

mrs peachum: an alcoholic wife and sexually frustrated woman (female late 30's to mid 50's) - mezzo (or alto): D4 - E5

tiger brown: the police commissioner and spineless bureaucrat (male mid 30's) - baritone (or tenor): C3 - Eflat4

jenny: a whore who loves Macheath (female 20 - 30) - soprano (or mezzo): B3 - F5

lucy: the danger-courting, affection-needing daughter of Tiger (18 - 20's) - soprano: E4 - Gflat5

Please email your headshot and resume, as well as any vocal file/link to:

auditions@3penny.org

We would like to see an a capella song and a monologue for the audition.

Flashback

Some photos collected from the Opera Cabal benefit at High Concept Laboratories last week. I don't have names for everybody below, perhaps some viewers could help with labeling. In case we forgot to say this earlier, Kevin: we love you. Big time.

Irene Hsaio prepares to welcome guests.

Master pie-baker, Candy Connery.

Some of the 37 pies that were baked in 2 hours and 6 minutes by Candy earlier in the day.

mmmmm....pie.

Sommelier, David Bashwinner, with his lovely assistant, Myra.

Dasha Polzik introduces the presenters for the evening.

Yup. That's a big bucket of worms.

A presentation from Fresh Picks Organic farms (correct me if I got that wrong)

A presentation by PETA.

The pies were going like hotcakes....or....like really good apple pies.

Asylum rocks it again.
(Brennan Connors, Dan Siakel)

Ben Kolak, Ben's collaborator Eric Mika, and DJ Adam Weg on the lower level in front of part of Ben and Eric's video installation.

Ahhhh...Chicago (seen from the roof of High Concept Laboratories)

Mr. President Elect looked on with approval. Obama likes pie too.

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THANK YOU!!!

An enormous thank you to everybody who came out to the event this weekend. The benefit was a great success, and we look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration developing with High Concept Laboratories.

Special thanks go to anybody and everybody who hosted, donated, baked, spoke, played, chatted, drank, bought flowers, bought cookies, bought pie, gaurded the door, fed Majel and I while we toiled, danced, set up multi-floor/multi-channel live video feeds, shared a room and let me pet their cat, and especially big thanks to everybody who didn't bring along their 37 live chickens to the party.

There will be more visually stimulating posts coming shortly.

Don't forget the shows on Dec. 11,12,13 at the AVaerie. Tell your friends.
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Dear Mr. Bush,

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Sincerely yours,

The enlightened 62,774,339 of us
(...not yet counting Indiana and South Carolina)