Wicked National Tour

[bobbysworld]

Posted: 5/13/04 at 9:31pm

I have heard rumors the the Wicked national tour will be starting in Toronto sometime this winter. Does anyone know when casting will take place??

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 5/13/04 at 9:35pm

It starts in 2005, and I have no idea when the auditions are. I'd snoop around NYC for info whenever and wherever you can. :)

[bobbysworld]

Posted: 5/13/04 at 10:06pm

any ideas on who could play the lead girls on tour?? Everyone is so conserned with who is going to replace kristen and idina on broadway...what about the tour?!?!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 5:01pm

The first national tour of WICKED will begin rehearsals in January 2005 and start
performances in Toronto in March. Anyone interested in being a member of the
cast / orchestra should send a resume to the following.

CAST AUDITIONS

Bernard Telsey Casting
145 W. 28 St. #12F
NYC 1000

ORCHESTRA AUDITIONS

Michael Keller
33 Carmen Road,
Harrington Park
NJ 07640

However, please note that only members of Actors' Equity Association will be considered for the cast, and only members of the American Federation of Musicians will be considered for the orchestra.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 5:35pm

LOL

Of course only Equity will be cast. Non-Equity actors should never have a right to tour. If you see them, picket them and try to shut them down. How dare they try to work! They need to be squashed under the Equity thumb. Let them become Equity and earn the right to deserve work. Unless, of course, they live outside of NYC. Then they probably won't work because there is only one role for every 100 actors and Equity will not allow them to work anywhere else without paying fines and jumping through flaming hoops of red tape. But they can hold an air of superiority at their temp jobs in order to pay the insurance and annual fees because they are a member of Equity.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 5:42pm

I think non-equity shows should be allowed to tour, I just don't think they should be allowed to play the big theatres and be included in Seasons of professional touring Broadway productions. The current Broadway / San Diego season has all equity productions, but then Miss Saigon, and Crazy For You will be non-equity, but nowhere does it state this. It's false advertising if you ask me....

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 5:49pm

Oh... I wonder if that is the same touring company that I saw of Miss Saigon.... because they were amazing....

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 5:54pm

If you saw it recently then it's probably a good guess that it is the same one.....

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 6:00pm

And the non-Equity tour of Miss Saigon was far superior to the last couple of seasons of the Broadway production.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 6:06pm

I'm just scared to see what non-equity is going to do with the helicopter....

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 6:15pm

How do you become a member of Equity?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 6:16pm

Actually, the non-Equity helicopter was quite cool and very effective.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 6:18pm

you wan't to join equity? It's like a cult, don't get yourself involved with that kind of stuff.....

[zbigner]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 6:34pm

So the Broadway helicopter is a member of Equity, but the touring one is not. These unions really are getting tough when even the props have to join.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 7:00pm

You said it! And no, I do not want to be a member of Equity. I don't live in New York and I would like to perform.

Updated On: 5/14/04 at 07:00 PM

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 9:26pm

What exactly /is/ Equity, since you guys seem to know so much about it?

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 9:29pm

Equity is the stage actors' and stage managers' union. You can get in by doing the Membership Candidate program, by being signed to an Equity contract by a producer, by being a part of a sister union (SAG, etc), and other ways. Check actorsequity.org Updated On: 5/14/04 at 09:29 PM

[Becky]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 9:36pm

"I think non-equity shows should be allowed to tour, I just don't think they should be allowed to play the big theatres and be included in Seasons of professional touring Broadway productions. "
.............................

Amen to that. Sunday I saw the non-equity tour of The Full Monty (I've seen the Broadway production many times and eq. tour). All I kept thinking was "most of these people in here think this is as good as it gets." It simply wasn't that good, and I wanted SO much to love them. My biggest complaint, however, was that my ticket cost me $80 plus service charges. If you bring in non equity tours, the price of the ticket sure as hell better reflect that....for more and more of the tours that come through the Dallas/Fort Worth area now are non-eq....yet I'm still paying top dollar. Where is the fairness in that?

[Matt_G]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 9:46pm

You really paid $80 for a Non-Equity Tour?? That is outrageous!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 10:10pm

And I've paid $80 for an Equity show that I thought was worse than the non-Equity tours I've seen.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 10:30pm

I've seen some regional stuff here in San Diego like at the Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse and Starlight that were infinitely more entertaining than some of the tours I've seen, but I still look at the tours like a little kid. It's all still magic to me. It's a carbon copy of a Broadway show, it can still be thrilling. Except, the sets for THE PRODUCERS tour were so tiny. And the late national tour of Beauty and the Beast was just dreadful. When they scaled it down to that degree it just lost all of it's magic. It's almost like it should have had a disclaimer: "The scaled down, 10 thousand dollar version of Disney's internationl sensation"..... Updated On: 5/14/04 at 10:30 PM

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 5/14/04 at 10:32pm

The non-equity touring shows that come to Chicago always seem to have the same ticket price as an equity show. But, i think non-equity shows can be just as good as equity (SOMETIMES).