Audition Callboard

Updated 9/25/09 • Before it goes before cameras, "Jonah & the Great Fish" will be jointly produced for the stage by Lightstone Pictures and SCERA Center for the Arts for a limited-run engagement, Feb. 5-15, 2010, at SCERA's Showhouse theater in Orem, UT.

After it completes its stage run, the movie version of the production will be shot on location and soundstages in Utah County for a scheduled release on DVD in November 2010.

We are currenty casting the lead singing roles for the stage production of "Jonah." If you feel you are perfect for one of the parts listed below, you may still send your headshot and resume to the address below. If you have sent in your headshot and resume, you do not need to re-send it.

Compensation

Those cast will be paid a fee to be negotiated based on the demands of the role and the actors' experience.

Tentative schedule

Rehearsals for the stage production will be evenings and Saturdays in January. Performances are every night (except Sunday) from Feb 5-15, 2010. If all goes according to plan, we expect to shoot "Jonah & the Great Fish" in March 2010. See our Auditions Process page for more info of what to expect on a shoot.

• Our Audition Process
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Roles

These are the roles we are seeking to cast for the stage production at the Scera Feb 5-15, 2010:

Lead singing roles

• Jonah (Cast): Jonah is a good man, but is nervous about his call to go to that rough city Nineveh. Ability to play the humor at the beginning of the story, but also the transformation to the serious prophet later in the story.
  

• Humphrey (Cast): The Great Fish. The kind of fish that gets passed over for schoolyard games, because he is oversized. Think Sulley from Monsters, Inc. or Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (only, you won't be animated).
  

• Chum (cast): Humphrey's fast-talking, diminutive friend and sidekick. Helps Humphrey realize what a great fish he really is. Think Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal's character) from Monsters, Inc. or Nathan Lane.
  

• King of the Ninevites (cast): Troubled, weary king of the squabbling Ninevites.
  

• Queen of the Ninevites (female, 30s-50s, soprano): Consoling, comforting queen to the troubled king of the Ninevites.
  

• El Capitan (cast): Captain and shipmaster of the Tarshish Expresh. A ridiculously good-looking Spaniard (quite possibly the ancestor of Antonio Banderas).
  

• Logan (cast): Handsome but menacing leader of the Nineveh Leftsiders. Dancing skills also required.
  

• Ryder (cast): Handsome but menacing leader of the Nineveh Rightsiders. Dancing skills also required.
  

• Chuy (cast): The smallest Spanish mariner, whose willing heart makes up for the fact that he is not the sharpest harpoon on the boat.
  

• Goldie, Gladys and Gwen (female, 20s-30s, sopranos): These three backup singer crab girls aren't afraid to warn Jonah about the consequences of disobeying God.
  

Lead non-singing roles

• Chloe (female, 11-13): Our "imaginer" child for this Liken is a middle-school girl of non-Caucasian ethnicity who has just moved to mostly white neighborhood and is a little nervous about fitting in at school. An ideal monologue will show us how your character is worried, but not so much that she seems whiny.
  

• Scott (male, mid-30s to mid-40s): Chloe's dad and narrator for this Liken, as he shares with his troubled daughter the story of Jonah.
  

• Lloyd & Latimer (males, 10-ish): Two mischievous Ninevites.
  

• Lila (female, 6-ish): A young Ninevite girl who doesn't understand why the two sides of Nineveh can't get along. An ideal monologue will show us how your character can be sad.
  

• Ramsey (male, 12-ish): A mischievous Ninevite boy.
  

• Alejandro (male, 20s-30s): Spanish mariner aboard the Tarshish Expresh.
  

• Shark #1: The rough and tumble leader of the pack of sharks who want to make lunch out of the likes of Chum and Jonah.
  

• Courtney (female, 11-13): Awkwardly tall, but friendly middle school girl.
  

• Hope (female, 11-13): Cheerful, talkative, wheelchair-bound middle-school girl (you don't have to really be wheelchair bound to audition for this role, but it's OK if you are).
  

Audition Schedule

To be considered for an audition by appointment, please e-mail your resume and headshot to auditions@lightstonestudios.com, and indicate a specific role you'd like to audition for (we won't exclude you from consideration from other roles, but it may help both you and us prepare accordingly). If we contact you for an audition appointment, we will work out a time with you that works for your schedule. Scheduled auditions can be during the day, early evenings, and occasionally on Saturdays. Auditions will be held in our offices in the East Bay area of Provo. We regret that we cannot schedule an appointment for everyone who submits their information, so if you don't hear from us, please keep an eye on our website for additional audition opportunities down the road. Sign up on our mailing list and click the "auditions/crew box" to be notified via e-mail when those are scheduled.

Dancers

Dancers, we will need you for this production. But we won't be holding auditions for dancers until the new year. Dates and locations to be announced here.