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Casting: Here is the full casting for Act 1 and Act 2

Newsies Crew : congrats to all selected

*Senior Crew

SMs: EJ Buckingham*, Ruan Daniels*

ASMs/Head Mechs: Sakthi Prabhu*, Molly Williams*

Co-HODs Props: Rhiannon Hesp*, Atta Rahim*

HOD Lighting and Sound: Ishmam Biswas*

HOD Body mics: Emma Pryce*

HOD Follow Spots: Megan Winter*

Lighting/Sound: Tommy Cottrill

Follow Spot: Charlie Davidson

Body mics: Isaac Fox, Emma MacPherson, Liwan Griffin

Stage Crew: Jack Wilson*, Ethan Veale*, Leejun Kim, Danela Neilson-Sanchez, Eva Wilshire, Kavin Prabhu, Xylys D’silva, Benji Leary

Sound Reader: Mahin Sujau (Backup: TBC)

Props: Natalie Jackson, Eva Jauregui, Logan Crafts, Sadeetha Kohaban, Heesu Kim, Libby Huang, Mitchell Berry, Tinofara Sinamai

A Props Construction Team will commence some work in November/December 2024. This will mainly comprise artists who will not be part of the above named Performance Props Team. However if any of the above named Team have artistic skills and which to help with construction, they should contact EJ Buckingham.

 

Makeup/Hair: Azmain Ifrit, Niamh Hince, Lanyah Ilangana-Latu, Jeein Ahn, Aurora Goldsack, Scarlet Baker

ATTENDANCE: Crew are required to attend ALL rehearsals and performances from the dates below (See Timeline 2025 V2 for further details):

Props from Sun 16/2

Senior crew rostered in from Sun 26/1

Stage crew from Sun 26/1

Mics from Thurs 20/2

Follow Spots from Sun 2/3

Makeup/Hair first call Mon 3/3 then see Timeline

With the exception of Makeup/Hair, all above Crew are required to attend one of two 2 hour Safety and Familiarisation courses in the Speirs Centre on Sunday Jan 26 at either 9.45-11.45am or 12.15-2.15pm

Cast: Poppy Shoebridge, Sienna Lim, Lara Ogilvie, Angelica Kwok, Bella Smout, Shian Millward, Ari Steer, Gabby Cavan, Ngataria Pomana, Amelia Bennett, Prya Simon, Kaitlyn Crafts, Abby Maskill, Charlotte Leleni, Kiara Wijayawickrama, Emily Sutherland, Suia Samuelu, Angela Du, Emily Sutherland, Nikhil Baine, Regan O’Connor, Ben Viljoen, Campbell Mackintosh, Angus Taylor, Shloke Dutta, Karam Dhari, Lachlan Hall, Lenny Hansen-Wall, Oscar Mudgway, Cole Buchanan, Max Bradnock, Dennis Johnson, Max Varney, Colin Qin, Mattias McGregor, Kasra Mitchell-Kouttab, Luke Dallas, Josh Smith, Devon Blackburn, Tyler Thompson

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Dance links

King of New York link, both walkthrough and whole video, principal dancers and Katherine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1aYT4PxO60​

Carrying the Banner Part 1, everyone to learn
https://youtu.be/tz1fc1-N6oU

Carrying the banner Part 2, everyone to learn
https://youtu.be/3e_8MxxTmXw

There’s no “easy” or “hard” dance unfortunately, I understand they are all fast! So just try your best in learning these, we will do a quick walkthrough of them on the day

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Minor changes @ 12/9/24
Intensive planning has indicated to the Creative Team that with Newsies we need more time in 2024 to meet our usual goals before we break for summer. Consequently:
1 Sunday 3/11 12.30 - 2pm readthrough then PDs will be kept for Dance in the Little Theatre
2 Sunday rehearsals from Nov 10 will be from 12.30 - 5pm. They will comprise 2 hours singing, a quick move to Red Star Dance and Dance till 5pm. 
3 Kirsten will be singing with principals and small groups on these Thursdays in December: 5th, 12th and 19th. Specific times will be arranged once the show is cast around individuals' availability. 
These changes have been made to the appropriate docs - V2s

Link to Disney where you can watch the excellent  filmed live performance - you will need to belong to Disney to open it.

Audition excerpts
General audition dialogue excerpts:





Character descriptions and Principal Vocal Ranges 





Principal workshop and audition dialogue excerpts
(General excerpts 1-3 may also be used)

Character descriptions

Principal Vocal Ranges

#1

#2

#3

Excerpt 4

ML, JK, DV

Excerpts 5a & 5b

JK, KN

Excerpt 6

MR, PL, BN,

HN, SN

Excerpt 7

PL, RV

Excerpt 8

JK, CR

Workshop and audition number excerpts - mostly 3 docs per number: Vocal Book (VB), Piano Conductor (PC) and the track

This document lists all music excerpts with specific
bar numbers for Ensemble and each role being
separately auditioned


ENS - Ensemble numbers                               





NWS - Newsies audition




JK - Jack 




JK & KN - Jack and Katherine



JK & CR - Jack & Crutchie





KN - Katherine 




KN, DV, LS - Katherine, Davey & Les                                




CR - Crutchie 




DV - Davey








PL - Pulitzer





ML - Medda Larkin
 
 
 
 
 
 


SZ, HN, BN - Seitz, Hannah, Bunsen

 
 
 
BBs - Bowery Beauties



 
ENS King of New York start to bar 29 - 6_08_24, 2.30 PM
00:00 / 00:41
ENS The World will Know bar 97 -100 - 6_08_24, 2.36 PM
00:00 / 00:11
KN, JK Something to believe in bar 58 - 83 - 6_08_24, 2.46 PM
00:00 / 00:55
JK Santa Fe bar 80 to end - 6_08_24, 2.43 PM
00:00 / 01:17
JK, CR Santa Fe prologue bar 99 -111 - 6_08_24, 2.55 PM
00:00 / 00:28
JK I never planned on you bar 92 -122 - 6_08_24, 2.49 PM
00:00 / 00:31
KN Watch what happens bar 110 to end - 6_08_24, 2.58 PM
00:00 / 01:09
KN, DV Watch what happens reprise bar 37 to 42 - 6_08_24, 3.01 PM
00:00 / 00:14
CR Letter from the refuge bar 29 t0 end - 7_08_24, 2.10 PM
00:00 / 01:48
DV Seize the Day bar 21 - 37 - 6_08_24, 3.05 PM
00:00 / 00:52
DV Watch what happens reprise bar 21 - 28 - 6_08_24, 3.08 PM
00:00 / 00:14
PL The Bottom Line bar 44 to end - 6_08_24, 3.11 PM
00:00 / 00:53
ML That's Rich start to bar 15 - 6_08_24, 3.15 PM
00:00 / 00:44
ML That's Rich bar 53 to end - 6_08_24, 3.17 PM
00:00 / 00:44
SZ, HN, BN The Bottom Line bar 52 to 58 - 6_08_24, 3.13 PM
00:00 / 00:16
BBs I never planned on you bar 92 -134 Bowery Beauties - 6_08_24, 2.51 PM
00:00 / 00:37
Brooklyn's Here start to bar 12 - 6_08_24, 3.20 PM
00:00 / 00:25

So who's doing the bizzo?

Creative Management Team
 

Co-Directors: Alex Hughes, Chris Burton

Production Manager: Nik Kearns

Vocal Director: Kirsten Clark assisted by Lindsay Yeo

Choreographer: Leanora Potten

Musical Director: Lindsay Yeo

Production Secretary: Sophie Belcher

Stage Managers: Ruan Daniels, EJ Buckingham

Props Director: Kirstie Robertson

Lighting Design: Rhys Doherty

Sound Design: Graham Johnston

Sound Operator: Riley Best

Newsies Senior Student Crew

SMs: EJ Buckingham, Ruan Daniels

ASMs: Sakthi Prabhu, Molly Williams

Senior Stage Crew: Ethan Veale, Jack Wilson

Co-HOD Props: Rhiannon Hesp, Atta Rahim

HOD Lighting and Sound: Ishmam Biswas

HOD Body mics: TBC

HOD Follow Spots: Megan Winter

 

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