Send is the Girls Burlesque, Edmonton’s burlesque theatre company, is thrilled to announce our audition call for our 2016 project, the world premiere of BUST ‘EM UP BURLESQUE, presented as part of the 2015-2016 Made in Edmonton Cabaret Series at the Citadel Theatre.
Audition Date: Monday, March 30 at the C103 (formerly the Catalyst Theatre).
Actors are invited to submit a current resume/CV, headshot and cover letter to ellenchorley@hotmail.com. After submitting, actors will be contacted only if they receive an audition.
About the show: They were organized, they were cunning, they were ruthless and they looked great in a pair of silk stockings. From Edmonton’s Send in the Girls Burlesque the theatre company that created the sold out, held over, awarding winning “Tudor Queens: A Burlesque,” “A Brontë Burlesque” and “The Hollywoodland Burlesques” comes the little known story of the Forty Elephants, a girl- gang of jazz follies in 1920s London who looked like heaven but raised hell. It’s true crime meets striptease with some bad ass flapper feminism thrown in for good measure…
Workshop (1) Dates: May 13, 14, 15 (evenings)
Workshop (2) Dates: June 29-July 4 (dates/times subject to change)
Workshop (3) Dates: TBA
Rehearsal Dates: Feb 1- March 13, 2016
Show Dates: March 14-19, 2016
Both male and female actors are needed for this show.
Roles available:
- Alice QUEEN Diamond, the gang’s leader, tall and stocky, age 24
- Maggie BABY FACE Hughes, Queen’s lieutenant, small and pretty, age 26
- Silas JACKSON, age 19, “poor little rich boy”
- Cal CUTHBERT, age 26, Scotland Yard police officer under cover with the Elephant Boys
- SETH Camden (plays John PETERS), age 28
All actors submitting must be over the age of 18.
Actors are invited to submit a current resume/CV, headshot and cover letter to ellenchorley@hotmail.com. After submitting, actors will be contacted only if they receive an audition.
For more information about Send in the Girls Burlesque visit www.sendinthegirlsburlesque.com
