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ACTOR-SINGERS FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE STAGED READING OF ZOOM, THE NEW MUSICAL TO BE PERFORMED IN OCEANSIDE, CA, SEPTEMBER 12, 2025. The staged reading will introduce Zoom to friends, family, the profession and producers and is, at this time, an unpaid project. 9 Rehearsals. Scripts, sheet music, recordings provided]

Seeking Actor-Singers who can sing rock, pop, jazz and r&b. Five leads and three supporting roles with songs plus one non-singing role. SINGING RANGE: All the female singers are approximately in the mezzo soprano range. Shira could be an alto. Nancy, Shira, Harriet, and Christa require about an octave and a half. Ellen and Harriet's Mom require more modest ranges of a little over an octave.  Johnny is a baritone. There's flexibility as songs can be transposed. Especially seeking actors for HARRIET, HARRIET"S MOM, JOHNNY and HILDY 

THE CHARACTERS OF ZOOM

(In these descriptions, race is included because one dynamic of the play is the persistence of bias and separation in American life)

NANCY: A well-to-do married white 70-year-old woman living in Georgia, involved with charities and religion.

JOHNNY: NANCY’s husband, white, 75 years old. Long retired, he struggles with depression.

HARRIET: A 70-year-old single Black woman living in Hawaii, she has recently retired as an influential civil rights lawyer.

SHIRA: A 70-year-old married Jewish woman living on a farm in Wisconsin, struggling with questions about her farm and her marriage.

ELLEN: A 70-year-old single white woman living in Hawaii. Recently retired as a school secretary, energetic and witty, she has a feeling love is in her future.

CHRISTA: A 70-year-old white woman living in Massachusetts. A widow, dreamy and imaginative but persistent to the point of irritating the others.

HILDY (dramatic role, no-singing): NANCY and JOHNNY’s daughter, white, thirty-five. Intelligent, shabby, sad and angry, she lives on downtown streets near her parents.

MOM: HARRIET’s mother, Black, 90 years old. A widow for years, she is a big influence on HARRIET, calls her daughter out for her weaknesses but is a chief supporter and confidante.

They were best friends in 1968 and now they are isolated, it’s been 50 years and Covid just hit. But on Zoom they are not alone. So much to cover, problems to solve, love to rediscover.

• Job: Other

• Type: Principal
• City: Oceanside, CA
• Gender Preference: Female
• Age Appearance Range Preference: 60 - 75
• Artistic Ethnic Appearance Preference(s):
  • Caucasian
• Union: NON-union
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