spring awakening online auditions

[mjjammer95]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 7:46am

There have probably been a lot of questions about this subject already but I'm a new member, forgive me. I recently went on the site for spring awakening and saw that there were online auditions, they said they were looking for anyone who could believably play ages 16-18. I also saw there was an open call in NY. This said anyone ages 16-21, I am fourteen and when people meet me they say I look 16-17. I'm a bit confused as to if I'm allowed to go or not, can anyone help explain this to me?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 8:16am

1. Are you sure that is a current audition? I was pretty sure the tour was over soon (it's finishing it's second year -- the last scheduled date is in May.)

2. Regardless, I'm pretty sure you need to be 18 to tour with SA.

[angelxschunard]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 8:35am

Neither of those things are true, at least...the second one is not.

Spring Awakening is going non-eq soon, as far as I know, and you only need to be 18 to play Wendla or Melchior, as they engage in some pretty heavy stuff throughout the show.

When the '68 version of Romeo and Juliet premiered, Oliva Hussey was not allowed to go to the premier because the movie had nudity in it. It was her breast and Leonard Whiting's rear end. As of right now, I don't know the correlation between being 18 to be in Spring Awakening and Oliva Hussey being underage, but the one make me think of the other, so I apologize if that's out of nowhere.

[IfYouCan]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 10:20am

You do need to be 18 to go on tour with Spring Awakening-with any show, really. Yes, they do sometimes cast 17 if they find someone truly remarkable, but they try to cast 18 so as to avoid difficulty with child labor laws in different states as they travel.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 11:04am

It's VERY expensive to tour with minors -- as they have to also have some sort of adult responsible for them, and they need to be educated.

The SA tour requires 18.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 11:08am

Where did you see there was an open call in NY? I can't find anything on the website.

[musicalbluemirror]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 12:39pm

and the non-eq tour is casting from the west coast

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 12:41pm

The SA tour requires 18.

Isn't that why Emma Hunton went to Broadway instead of the tour? Because she was 16?

[kellymarie465]

Posted: 4/3/10 at 1:22pm

-The SA tour requires 18-

Not exactly ... Only for Wendla, maybe! Some states are different for the nudity and stuff that happend on stage (17/18 years old). Krista Pioppi (Wendla u/s) joined the tour when she was 17 and she didn't even finish High School yet.

-And the non-eq tour is casting from the west coast-

Where did you hear that from? Networks works with Binder Casting which is based in NYC

[k8tve]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 8:48am

Where are people finding this information about SA auditions? And are they for the tour or a permanent theater production?

[kellymarie465]

Posted: 4/4/10 at 6:16pm

-Where are people finding this information about SA auditions? And are they for the tour or a permanent theater production?-

There aren't any current auditions for Spring Awakening. They are talking about the Tour

[christrenfro]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 1:27am

Scroll down for The Spring Awakening Non-Eq. auditions..

http://www.networkstours.com/jobs

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 2:48am

18 to 21. I was fairly certian that all had to be 18. Tours don't like to take under 18 because of working conditions, not because of the sexual content. They only do it when they HAVE to.


But I LOOOVE the descritption of Hanschen: Serial killer in the making, despite an angelic choirboy appearance. Must have an excellent command of language.

Does "serial killer" translate to Nazi?

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 11:50am

dramamama, I'm cracking up at that description too. Too funny.

Anyway I'm excited and totally going.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 12:14pm

I always that Jonathan B Wright looked very Aryan/Rolf from "Sound of Music" so that description is hysterical.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 6:26pm

I MISS Jonathan B Wright in NY. I caught him last summer at the Public festival. {sigh}

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 8:00pm

Just submit a video! I did and got a few calls. I did one or two callbacks and then decided that I wanted to go to college, so stopped pursuing Spring Awakening.