Rent Film Auditions
Rent Film Auditions
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Joined: 12/31/69
#0Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:44pm
Auditions for "RENT" film
Original URL: http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/tfr/47835032.html
We are holding auditions for Featured roles and Day Players for "RENT" the film. RENT is based on the Pulitzer- Prize winning stage production by Jonathan Larson, and will be directed by Christopher Columbus. The film will shoot March-May 2005 in San Francisco. There are roles for all ethnicities between the ages of 8-60. We are especially looking for gritty, streety, downtown New York types. While many roles require singing, there are non-singing roles available. Please send your picture (snapshot okay) and resume (or any experience you have) ASAP to:
Bernard Telsey Casting
145 West 28th Street
Suite 12F
New York, NY 10001
ATTN: RENT FILM
Auditions will be November 16, 17, 18 by appointment only.
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#1re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:48pmTHANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!
camerangel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/04
#2re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:53pm
Ahh.. am I reading this right? they are being held in SF and not NY?
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
#3re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:54pmWhat will be held in CA? It's shooting there, will probably for the most part audition here.
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#6re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:56pmthey are for DAY PLAYER roles and most of the film is being shot on stages in cali. Some exteriors are being filmed in NYC.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 5:58pmyea this sucks....so i'm from the san francisco area and yet i just moved down to los angelas for college and so i wont be there in march-may ugh....
camerangel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/04
#8re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:09pm
Crap this is next week.. Man! I have shows on one of the days.. Maybe I can swing it.. Argh!! my apologies, slightly excited at the moment..
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
luvWICKED416
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/04
camerangel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/04
#10re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:22pm
I read it as they are in SF and other seem to have read it the same way, it's a bit vague..
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
luvWICKED416
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/04
#11re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:23pmyeah, it says "Bay Area" as in SF... but that could mean where they're filming. I'm confused....
#12re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:30pmIf they want you to send your pix to NYC, they're not going to hold auditions in SF - they might hold 2 round. They want people to look like they're from downtown NYC - no better place to look thaN NYC. I'm definitely going to try and get this.
Chloe
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/04
#13re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:31pmGiving the address of the casting agency as NY suggests to me that that's where the auditions will be. Why not just send in your info no matter where you are right now and let the chips fall where they may. What have you got to lose?
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#14re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:34pmThe auditions are in the city. Several of my classmates already have appointments.
camerangel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/04
#15re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:51pm
" The auditions are in the city. Several of my classmates already have appointments."
Umm sorry but which city, we in the bay area refer to SF as the city, and I know others that refer to NY as the city
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#16re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:56pmTheir auditions are in NYC. It's possible that they're having them in both, though. Thing is, it's by appointment only so they'll receive thousands of resumes and headshots but will only choose a small number to actually come in. The friends of mine who already have appointments, I'm sure, are not the only ones. So, the open-call type thing they're advertising is a little surprising.
camerangel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/04
#17re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:58pm
Thanks Erin, You Rock! I'm still going to try, it can't hurt right?
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
#18re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/13/04 at 1:56pmif you don't have a resume what should you type? activites you are involved in?
#19re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/13/04 at 6:00pm
wow that is an amazing oppurtunity. Thanks for posting it. Too bad I don't live in NY or SF.
As for the resume, I would say previous experience in the movie industry, and also activites involving music. And if you have something else you think is impressive, just write it.
I mean... the ages are from 8 - 60. It's pretty general.
RENThead, enLIGHist, Ozalot, Grobanite, Ringer, Pickwick LW, Wicked, Lost, American Dreams, West Wing
Lea S. Hugh J. Adam P. Idina M. Matt M. Taye D.
#20re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/13/04 at 6:03pm
i basically have no professional experience so that wont help haha but i guess i could put summer plays i was in.
:sigh: how i wish i actually spoke at a macys audition when i was about 6..where would i be now? hahaha
#21re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/13/04 at 6:07pm
Yea most definitely... I dont' know what your age is, but for me... I would be putting musical experience from high school, maybe outside of school... and you said summer musicals. Maybe you did district chorus (I don't know... they have it in my area.)
HOpe that helps/
RENThead, enLIGHist, Ozalot, Grobanite, Ringer, Pickwick LW, Wicked, Lost, American Dreams, West Wing
Lea S. Hugh J. Adam P. Idina M. Matt M. Taye D.
#22re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/13/04 at 6:15pmI'm guessing they want extras who simply can sing (but don't necessarily have a long list of experiences) for the opening number. The apartment where Roger and Mark live must have children in it...
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#23re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/13/04 at 7:09pm
A friend of mine (in the SF area) just sent in his headshot and resume. He has a number of stage credits up and down California, along with some TV experience behind him, and has for years wanted to play Mark. I think he's too old, but apparently HE doesn't. 
Obviously he won't get to play Mark in the movie, but I'll probably end up posting here with delight if he even makes it in as an extra.
#24re: Rent Film Auditions
Posted: 11/13/04 at 7:31pmthanks. im having such a tough time getting the format. do i need a cover letter? it didn't say.
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