Overview
Character Name
Henrik Egerman
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Late Teen, Young Adult
Role Size
Lead
Dramatic Function
Foil, Love Interest
Relationships
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Tenor
Vocal Range
High Note: B4
Low Note: G3
Time & Place
Late nineteenth-early twentieth century, Sweden
Analysis
Henrik Egerman is Fredrik Egerman’s depressive, extremely serious, and somewhat self-pitying nineteen-year-old son. He observes outright the hypocrisies and trivialities in the world and in himself, and has turned to his studies (he attends a seminary and is training for
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Audition & Character Tips for Henrik Egerman
To play Henrik successfully, you must lean into his intense internal conflict: he is a 19-year-old seminary student who is deeply earnest, sexually frustrated, and self-pitying, yet painfully aware of the hypocrisy around him. Resist the temptation to play him purely as a whining, melancholic teenager. Instead, root his frustration in high stakes—his feelings of passion, religious duty, and love for his stepmother Anne are terrifyingly real to
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