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MASTERCHEFGORDON RAMSAY AND THE PRODUCERS OF THE BIGGEST LOSER ARE NOW CASTING AMATEUR CHEFS FOR A NEW INSPIRATIONAL COOKING SHOW!

Can you cook well despite never having been formally trained? We are currently searching for budding chefs from all walks of life - amateur chefs, passionate foodies, the ultimate dinner party host/hostesses...

Now one of the world's most acclaimed chefs, GORDON RAMSAY, is giving you the opportunity to become a MasterChef!

MasterChef is a show that celebrates great people who make great food. The show will give contestants the opportunity to develop their cooking skills while being encouraged, mentored and celebrated by the industry's best and evaluated by world-renowned judges!

If you are passionate about cooking and ready to change your life then audition for MasterChef, an inspiring cooking show from the producers of The Biggest Loser!

We will NOT be considering professional chefs who work in professional kitchens!

Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and either a U.S. citizen or permanent legal resident with the unrestricted ability to work in the U.S.

To audition, send an email with your information to:

masterchefcasting@gmail.com

Please include your name, age, occupation, current photo, contact number and a brief description of your cooking experience and style.

Please put the city and state you reside in the subject of the email.

January 9th:
New York City

CASTING CALL FOR: Mary Poppins National Tour

SEEKING: Excellent dancers, male and female, to comprise the ensemble and understudy principals. For future replacements in the National Tour company.

PAY: Production Contract $1605/week minimum

WHERE:
Chelsea Studios
151 West 26th Street, 5th Floor, NYC
Studio 503� Holding Room
Studio 502 � Audition Room

WHEN:
Equity Chorus Call / Dancers:
Monday, January 4, 2010
10 AM � Equity male dancers
2 PM � Equity female dancers

Notes/What to bring: All bring jazz, character, and flat tap shoes.

You may be asked to stay and sing. Prepare a contemporary musical theatre song. Bring sheet music; an accompanist provided.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together. Equity Chorus Procedures are in effect.


Equity Chorus Call / Singers:
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
10 AM � Equity male singers
2 PM � Equity female singers

Notes/What to bring: Prepare a contemporary musical theatre song. Bring sheet music; an accompanist provided.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together. Equity Chorus Procedures are in effect.

Disney and Cameron Mackintosh have teamed up to produce Mary Poppins, bringing to life P.L. Travers' fantastic stories filled with eccentric and perceptive characters whose adventures have delighted every generation since they first appeared in the 1930's. After an award-winning production in London, and the success of the current Broadway production, the time has come to cast a national tour. This production combines the best of the film including the now standard songs by the Sherman Brothers, with new material from the classic P.L. Travers books and additional songs by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Written between 1934 and 1944, the books tell the story of the Banks family of Cherry Tree Lane, a household in disarray until Poppins arrives.



Producer: Cameron Mackintosh & Disney Theatrical Productions
Director: Richard Eyre
Co-Director & Choreographer: Matthew Bourne
Co-Choreographer: Stephen Mear
Original Music & Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
New Songs & Additional Music & Lyrics: George Stiles & Anthony Drewe
Book: Julian Fellowes
Musical Supervisor: David Caddick
Based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film
Casting: Tara Rubin Casting

Please note that this production will use smoke and haze in accordance with guidelines established with Actors' Equity Association.


Company Tara Rubin Casting
Address New York, NY 10036
US

THANKS TO PLAYBILL FOR THIS INFO.

OPEN CASTING CALL FOR: New York City production of The Bohemians

SEEKING TO CAST:
Non union performers in the following roles

Mediocates: (20-30, Male) Mediocrates is an aspiring writer, poet, painter, potter, congo-drummer, juggler, mime, dancer, and actor. He is a proud artist, determined to live his independent life. He is bankrolled by his father.

Hippocarates: (40-60, Male) Hippocrates is a wealthy, waspy, doctor. He is the father of Mediocrates. He loves money, and hates art. When he's not busy fulfilling his potential, he's reading the Wall Street Journal, and finishing a glass of whisky. He disapproves of Mediocrates' lifestyle, but no son of his will live on the street.

Xanthius (18- 75, Male) Xanthius is Mediocrates' quick witted slave. His opinion, which is never accepted, is nearly always correct. Actors who submit for this role must be gifted physical comedians.

The Chorus (15- 60, Male and Female) Bohemians of all shapes, sizes, colors, and types. Bohemians who hail from every decade this century. These bohemians are hippies, beatniks, metal-heads, punkers, hipsters, homeless, ad inf. The Chorus is composed of Mediocrates' best friends.
Description The Bohemians is an original play written in the style of an Aristophanic comedy. In fact, the play is so aptly composed, that many prominent scholars are convinced that this work is actually a lost play of the great Aristophanes. Though an academic consensus has yet to be reached on this subject, it is safe to assume that such theories are likely correct. (wink, wink.)

TO AUDITION:
Please send your headshot and resume to Bohemiansplay@gmail.com

Job Start Date 12/20/2009
Job End Date 2/27/2010

Company Second Best Bed Productions
Address 234 East Third Street
New York, NY 10009

For more info, please contact:
Dave at Bohemiansplay@gmail.com

THANKS TO PLAYBILL FOR THIS INFO.

According to Miss Latina at Latina on a Mission,
WHO's CASTING: Between the Lines Productions
WHAT PRODUCTION: the NYC and national touring productions of Platanos and Collard Greens

OPEN CASTING CALL:
�Date: Saturday, December 12th, 2009
�Time: 2pm to 6pm
�Address: Roy Arias Studios at 300 W. 43rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) Room 500A.
�Required: A headshot and resume. Sides will be distributed at the audition. Non Union. Stipend per performance, plus on tour hotel and transportation provided.


Currently seeking the following types:

�African-American Actors: males and female, 18-22, to play college students
�African American male, 30s-40s, to play father and professor
�Latina Actors: female, 18-22, to play college students, ability to speak Spanish a plus
�Latina female 30s-40s, to play the mother, ability to speak some Spanish a must
�Note: All characters must be comfortable with spoken work/poetry/rap.


New Cast members are paid 50% of the below rates until successful completion of the three performances. Note the Standard BTLP Company Member Rates below.

�$100.00 Per Show - NYC (5 Boros).
�$125.00 Per Show - (Outside of 5 Boros) Non-overnight.
�$165.00 Per Show - Requiring overnight stay

For more information, go to:
www.platanosandcollardgreens.com/About_Us.html

This just in:

OPEN CASTING CALL for TV projectWHEN: Tuesday, December 15th - 2PM - 5PM
WHO: Comedy Duos(in the spirit of Martin/Lewis, Cheech/Chong, Abbott/Costello, et. al.)
WHERE: 379 Park Avenue South 3rd Floor (b/t 26th and 27th Street)



**Be prepared with 2 - 5 minutes of material**



PLEASE ARRIVE FOR OPEN CASTING CALL BETWEEN 2PM - 5PM - YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESPOND BY EMAIL FOR APPOINTMENT.


PLEASE ONLY SHOW UP IF YOU PLAN TO AUDITION AS A COMEDY DUO - INDIVIDUALS PERFORMING ALONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY.

Casting for Print Shoot WHEN: this weekend 12/19, 12/20
FOR: Time Warner products: TV Remotes, Laptop/Roadrunner, Digital phone, etc.
CASTING SPECS: Ages 5-70, all ethniticies, and can include families or couples
If you are selected, we will inform you of which day you will be needed. Most people will only be asked to come on one of the days. The shoot days will be full days, approximately 8 hours. Each person will receive $350 CASH the day of the shoot in return for their participation.

Please send photos of all interested parties to: time.warner.cable.casting@gmail.com

*ALSO PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS, PHONE AND CELL NUMBERS, YOUR AGE, AND WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DATES YOU ARE AVAILABLE: 12/18, 12/19, 12/20.

Producers Club Open Casting Call for Fashion Magic Ventriloquist showSEEKING: girl model needed
FEE: $10 for rehearsal
Studio 5
For more info, please send email to: modelmacys@yahoo.com

Saturday January 23 2010
6pm to 8pm

358 west 44st new york 10036
www.producersclubtheatres.com/#studios

Aaaaaaggghhhhh - Jennifer! I wish you knew about some of these things happening in Atlanta, LOL! NYC is a bit far to travel for the 12 yr old.

Just received the following casting call by email:

Next spring when the curtains rise in
The PepsiCo Theatre of The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, the spotlights will be shining on an all-star cast from the community performing alongside a troupe of top flight professional dancers from New York City.

This pro-am cast will be part of a unique program commissioned by The Performing Arts Center with renowned choreographer Larry Keigwin which will premiere May 6, 2010 and be presented again on May 8 in The Center�s PepsiCo Theatre.

The PAC Executive Director Wiley Hausam has announced that this large-scale community-based movement work - with perhaps as many as 80 performers onstage - will be staged to Ravel�s Bolero and will be called Bolero: Suburbia. It will celebrate life in Westchester and Fairfield counties and will include professional and amateur participants of all ages and backgrounds from throughout the region.

There will be an open casting call for the community from noon to 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6 in The Center�s PepsiCo Theatre. A broad array of individuals will be needed - ranging from young toddlers, young female ballet students and male soccer players, to mothers, fathers and older adults. Rehearsals � to be held evenings and some weekends - will begin Feb. 15.

�We encourage everyone in our communities who has any desire to appear onstage at The Center to come meet Larry and his company and work with us on this fun and exciting project,� says Hausam. �In my years of working in the arts field, this is one of the most gratifying projects I have been involved with. It engages the community in a very satisfying way.�

Joining the community participants onstage will be an eclectic mix of professional dancers from Keigwin�s company, professional dancers-in-training from Purchase College�s acclaimed Conservatory of Dance, and other members of the Purchase community who are not trained dancers.

The work will be the culmination of an evening-length performance that also will feature dances by Keigwin + Company.

Bolero: Suburbia is inspired by the original commission in 2007 called Bolero NYC. It was commissioned by Wiley Hausam, then at the Skirball Center for the Arts at New York University. Hausam has been The Performing Arts Center�s executive director since July 2008.

The original commission was extremely successful. At the time of its premiere, The New York Times wrote, �Speed-dial the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts right away: there is just tonight left to see Larry Keigwin�s �Bolero NYC,� a joyful and breathtakingly clever celebration of the city and its people that is probably the most inexpensive legal fun to be had for miles around.�

The piece was so successful that it was revived by the Joyce Theater in Manhattan in June 2009 and the Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver commissioned a similar piece Bolero: Colorado, which won acclaim in fall 2009 in Denver. �Each version is different and inspired by and tailored to the communities where it is presented,� Hausam explains.

The creative process of the piece will be documented on video by a young documentarian.

Tickets - $22.50 (including parking charges) - will go on sale Feb. 6, the day of the casting call.

For more information and to buy tickets, call The Performing Arts Center ticket office (914-251-6200). For more information, log onto The Center�s Web site www.artscenter.org/.

For more information about the open casting call and rehearsal schedule, call (914) 251-6222.

Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, N.Y., is located 28 miles northeast of New York City at the Connecticut border. The College, part of the State University of New York, is an institution of public higher education encompassing the liberal arts and sciences, professional training in the performing and visual arts, continuing education, The Neuberger Museum of Art and The Performing Arts Center.

Paramount Pictures is seeking a 12-16 year old girl to play Mattie Ross in True Grit. "Fourteen year old Mattie is a simple, tough as nails, young woman in post-Civil War Arkansas." Only girls between 12-17 will be considered.

For more info, email truegritcasting@gmail.com or go directly to www.truegritcasting.com for details on how to submit an audition tape or to find out when and where open casting calls will be held.

True Grit Casting
The Post Factory
161 6th Avenue, 11th Avenue
Ny, NY 10013