Music & Lyrics by

MAURY YESTON

Book by

PETER STONE & THOMAS MEEHAN

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DECEMBER 5-7, 2025

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Director - Ryan Hendricks

Musical Director - Matt Everingham

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AUDITION INFORMATION

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Sunday, September 14th - 6-10pm

Monday, September 15th - 6:30-10pm

Location @ Studio 797

797 8th Avenue, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019

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CALL BACK AUDITIONS

Wednesday, September 17 - 6-10pm

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REHEARSALS BEGIN

Friday 9/19 & Sunday 9/21

Continuing:

Monday 9/22 scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings

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ABOUT THE SHOW

Venice, 1921. The Duke’s villa is thrown into mystery and wonder when Death himself, weary of his eternal duty, decides to live as a man for one brief holiday. Taking the form of a Russian prince, he encounters the Duke’s daughter Grazia, whose near-death experience has awakened in her a hunger for life and passion. As Death tastes love and human desire for the first time, the villa’s residents are caught between fear, fascination, and longing. At once romantic, haunting, and deeply human, Maury Yeston’s Death Takes a Holiday is a lush and soaring musical meditation on life, love, and the unknowable.

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AUDITION INFORMATION

Please prepare 32 bars of a musical theatre song. Bring sheet music in the correct key; an accompanist will be provided. Actors of all genders and backgrounds are encouraged to audition.

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CHARACTER BREAKDOWN​

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DEATH / PRINCE NIKOLAI SIRKI
Male, mid–late 30s · Bari-tenor (Bb2–G4)
Charismatic, magnetic, and curious. Takes human form to understand life, only to discover love.

 

GRAZIA
Female, early–mid 20s · Soprano (G3–G#5)
Passionate, luminous, and searching for meaning beyond her arranged engagement.

 

DUKE VITTORIO LAMBERTI
Male, late 40s–late 50s · Baritone (D3–E4)
Patriarch of the villa, bound by duty, and torn between protecting his family and respecting Death’s bargain.

 

DUCHESS STEPHANIE
Female, mid 40s–mid 50s · Mezzo (G3–E5)
The Duke’s wife. A gracious hostess, keen to ensure the Prince’s comfort, though blind to her husband’s anxieties.

 

CORRADO DANIELLI
Male, mid–late 20s · Bari-tenor (D3–F4)
Grazia’s fiancé. Spirited and proud, shaken by Grazia’s detachment and Prince Sirki’s influence.

 

CONTESSA EVANGELINA DI SAN DANIELLI
Female, 60s–70s · Mezzo (B3–D5)
Corrado’s guardian. Forgetful, eccentric, yet perceptive. Senses the Prince is not what he seems.

 

BARON DARIO ALBIONE
Male, 60s–70s · Baritone (B3–E4)
Family doctor and old confidant. Worldly, wise, and skeptical of strangers.

 

ALICE
Female, mid–late 20s · Mezzo belt (D4–G5)
Grazia’s sister-in-law, widowed in the war. American. Brash, flirtatious, but lonely beneath her bravado.

 

MAJOR ERIC FENTON
Male, mid–late 20s · Tenor (Db3–G4)
American aviator and Corrado’s best friend. Protective, daring, and quick to sense danger.

 

DAISY FENTON
Female, late teens–early 20s · Mezzo (A3–F5)
Eric’s sister, Grazia’s friend. Romantic and impressionable, infatuated with Prince Sirki.

 

FIDELE
Male, any age · Baritone (F2–E4)
The majordomo. Comedic timing essential. Burdened with the secret of the Prince’s true identity.

 

SOPHIA
Female, late teens–early 20s · Ensemble/part flexible
A housemaid.

 

LORENZO
Male, any age · Ensemble/part flexible
The chauffeur/gardener.

 

CORA
Female, any age · Ensemble/part flexible
The cook.

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