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Name: ___________________________________________________________
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If unsuccessful in obtaining a principal role, I would accept an alternative role and/or ensemble
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If unsuccessful in obtaining a role in this production, I would be willing to assist with
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PREVIOUS THEATRE EXPERIENCE
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Year
Show
Role
Company
VOCAL:
On a scale of 1-10 (10–very good, 1-not at all)..
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How well do you read music?
Trained with:_____________________________ ________ Yrs
How well do you hold harmonies? _________
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DANCE:
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DANCE STYLES: (Please list the styles of dance studied – if any)
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Please Circle Yes OR No for the following question
Are you available Wednesday evenings (7:30PM) and Sunday afternoons (2PM) commencing
WEDNESDAY 20th May?
Yes / No
Please list any other commitments you have during the rehearsal period:
Are you currently involved in, or planning to audition for another show during May – July?
Yes / No
If yes, level of involvement?_______________________________________________________________________________________
Are you available for:
1. The first rehearsal
2. Rehearsal camp weekend
3. Set Bump In
4. Dress Rehearsals
5. Performance Dates:
- 23rd May
- 26th - 28th June
–10th - 12th July
– 19th – 22th July
- 23rd – 25th July
Yes / No
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If successful in my audition I agree;
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I have committed to attend all rehearsals and production dates required of me and understand my
absence could necessitate my replacement and withdrawal from the show, unless previously
discussed with and approved by the Director and Choreographer of the production.
I will be required to assist with set construction, set painting, costumes and props.
That I may be required for publicity and promotional purposes
There will be a small fee ($30) for accommodation and food for the Rehearsal Weekend
*** Most of the cast will be required to supply their own themed costume’. Shopping for these items at
op shops in groups is fun and cheap.
Lord Somers Camp & Power House (LSC&PH), in the course of its business, collects certain information
relating to members and those auditioning. LSC&PH guarantees that it will keep confidential the data
collected and take all steps as necessary to safeguard the confidentiality of the data. Will not disclose the
data to anyone outside LSC&PH, unless required by law.
I agree to abide by all the above-mentioned conditions and the policies of PTG & Lord Somers
Camp & Power House.
Signed:______________________________________________________ Date ___/____/________
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CINDERELLA AUDITION INFORMATION
Auditions
Principals
- Sunday 10th May 2014 (2pm – 4pm)
Rehearsals begin
- Wednesday 20th May @ 7:30pm (main cast read through),
First all cast rehearsal 24th May at 2pm
Rehearsals
- Wednesday (7:30pm-9:30pm) and Sundays (2pm-5pm)
Rehearsal Venue
- Lord Somers Camp & Power House – Albert Park
PRINCIPALS
Individual Audition: There will be two sections to the individual audition.
Section 1:
Singing
Please prepare a song excerpts. You should prepare approximately 32 bars (approximately 11.5 minutes is a good guide). With this in mind, please make appropriate cuts to your song
before your audition and choose appropriate excerpts with which to properly demonstrate
your abilities. Be prepared to be stopped and started throughout your song. Use a CD or iPod
backing. A CD player and ability to plug in your I-pod will be available. No a cappella auditions
please.
Section 2:
Acting
You will need to prepare a 1-2 minute piece. Select something that clearly shows you portraying
a character (Don’t just read – act) You may also be asked to undertake a cold read from a piece
of script at your audition and possibly be given direction as you read. Please be prepared to
adapt your performance to the direction given. There are some examples following the tips and
tricks, but you can choose anything.
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Audition Tips and Tricks.
Everyone hates auditions. Everyone!! Actors hate doing them. Directors and producers hate holding
them. No one in the theatre enjoys the audition process. It is stressful, uncertain, time consuming, and
uncomfortable for everyone involved. But it is also the only way that actually works. As an actor, there
are some things you can do to make the process easier on yourself, and that ultimately will make you a
more professional prospect to an auditing director or producer. Some of this may sound obvious, but
you know what? You would be surprised. The following tips are meant in the context of the general
theatre audition.
Steps
1. Finding the perfect audition piece is probably the most difficult task of all. Take the time to find a
piece that speaks to you; that you like and can identify with.
2. The piece you pick should be a character you would actually have a chance being cast as. As a
twenty year old female actor, showing that you can play an 80 year old man isn’t going to help
them in most cases, well except here.
3. Pick monologues from plays, TV or Movies as you are able to identify with the original piece and
that actor interpretation of it. It is perfectly okay to use a new play or something the auditors
have not heard before.
4. When rehearsing your piece, make one to three clear, distinct acting choices and commit to them
fully. When in doubt, simplify.
5. Keep the blocking in your piece simple as well. Choose one to three clear, precise movements or
crosses. When in doubt, simplify.
6. Show the auditors what they ask for. If they ask for two monologue pieces and a song, prepare
that.
7. If the auditors give you a choice of presenting one or two pieces, choose to do one and do the
funny one. Give that one piece the same amount of preparation you would give two pieces.
8. Work to keep your audition pieces at one minute long. Usually the audition will have a time limit.
Do not go over that limit. The auditors will stop you and it is embarrassing to be stopped in the
middle of your monologue. More is not better. Nine times out of ten the auditors have decided
whether or not you are right for the role within eight seconds of you walking in the door.
9. Stop, drop your eyes to the floor and take a second (one second) to take a breath, focus your
thoughts and communicate to the auditors that you are beginning.
10. Jump into your character with all your ability and passion. Transform into the character in a
heartbeat. Commit one hundred percent. This is the most important half second in your audition.
Practice it. If you want to be impressive, be impressive here.
11. Never use the auditors in your piece or speak directly to them. This makes them uncomfortable
and they will strongly dislike you for it. If your character is speaking to another person, place
that person just above and to the right or left of the auditor’s heads.
12. If you make a mistake, just continue. Pause if you have to, but do not berate yourself, or stomp
your foot or leave character. Do not break character.
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13. If you have to go back, pause for a beat, go back and continue like nothing happened.
14. If you forget your lines, it is best not to stop and ask if you can go back. Pause if you have to, and
then skip to the next part of the monologue that you remember. Do not apologise to the auditors
or berate yourself in front of them. Do not break character.
15. When the piece is finished, take a short beat in the characters final moment. Then, drop
character, return to neutral, and say “Thank you.”
16. Do not expect the auditors to applaud for you. Even if you were brilliant!
17. Never take it personally if you are not cast as a principal.
Tips
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Smile. Be genuine. Show the auditors who you are. That means, yes, here it comes- BE YOURSELF.
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Be confident. Don’t EVER qualify your audition before or after with statements like, “I didn’t have
time to prepare,” or “This needs work” or anything of the sort. The auditors don’t care and you are
wasting their time telling them these things.
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Be relaxed. If it helps, think of it this way- most of this is out of your hands. The director and other
auditors have a good idea of who they are looking for. Most of the time you will either fit that idea
or you won’t. It isn’t your fault if you don’t. Your talent or the fact that you know you could do this
part is truly irrelevant. Just give the best, most well-rehearsed, professional audition you can. That
is all you can do.
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Sometimes an actor who gives the audition of his/her life does not get the part while the actor
who gives what he/she thinks is a terrible audition gets the part. It happens all the time.
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Monologue examples
Honey, I'm a Leprechaun
Why can't you accept I'm a leprechaun? It's like you're embarrassed. When we're out and I mention to
people that I've recently transformed into a leprechaun, you always laugh lightly then veer the
conversation to another topic. I don't want them to think I'm crazy either, but I can't lie about who I
am. It is who I am.
Look at the facts. There's a salary freeze but I got a raise. The market took a beating, but my stocks are
up. Housing values are in the toilet, just not our house.
No people aren't lucky like that. How do you explain that rainbow in our back yard? Rainbows do not
linger for a week in low humidity.
I mean I get this isn't what you bargained for when you said "I do" But people change. Not usually into
leprechauns but - and granted the priest said "do you take this man..." not "do you take this
leprechaun..."
But this can't come as a total surprise. When you went on that special K diet and I went on that lucky
charms diet...that should have tipped you off...
Or when I started to develop five o'clock shadows at 10 am. Honey this kind of aggressive beard growth
is not natural...for humans. And I get you don't like it, how the stubble chaffes, and that's why I'm
shaving every hour practically, for you.
But, cmon, you have to accept this. We have to get it out in the open so we can work through it,
together. This isn't easy for me either, I denied it at first too.
You know when I couldn't deny it anymore? That day after my physical, when they found the sudden
and medically puzzling height loss. I know the doctor explained it away as unusually drastic spinal
compression, but I saw the look on your face, on his. And me, my stomach dropped out.
Remember how you comforted me. Said I didn't really seem much shorter. Still the same strapping
man you married. But you towered over me as you said it. I felt so scared. Remember I couldn't
sleep...came to bed late...
But then, that night, when I came to bed, you were already out. I gave you a little peck and said
goodnight - you said, and you had that tone, half asleep, you said- I love you, little fella.
Little fella. There it was the truth. It hurt. But less so because you were there. Snoring a little. Beside
me. And you reached out and took my hand the way you always do. Because some things haven't
changed.
I know it's scary. But please, just accept it, even if it makes us a little weirder as a couple, please say it.
Say - say honey I accept that you are a leprechaun. And then we can get on with the rest of our
lives. What do say?
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I killed Chuck
I just freakin killed Chuck. I think. I mean, he’s just laying out there. He's not moving. I don't think he's
breathing.
I mean, there I was just up on the roof with Marissa – talking, laughing, having a great time. I tell her she
reminds me of Sandra Bullock. I tell her I loved “Hope Floats.” Who knew those would be the magic
words? Next thing I know her clothes are off and we’re loosening roof shingles like there’s no
tomorrow. And then there’s biting and kissing and touching and suddenly someone starts beating on
me, I mean, just pounding on me and growling. Yeah, growling. And I look up and there’s Chuck. And I’m
like, “What’s the problem?” and he says “The problem is, dude, you’re screwing my girlfriend.”
So I look at Marissa and I’m like “You’re someone’s girlfriend?” And she says “No.” Then it comes out
Chuck just wishes she’s his girlfriend but actually she’s his cousin or something, so he’s got these
feelings of guilt about wanting her...and then he starts crying.
So that ruined the mood. Marissa puts her clothes on, and she goes back down through the window,
back into the party. And I’m left with Chuck. Blubbering, whining, crying Chuck.
And he starts in on how he’s just this total mess and maybe he should just throw himself off the roof.
And for a split second I’m thinking “YES! Throw yourself off the roof! Do it!” But I don’t say that. I say I
“You’re gonna get a girl, buddy, just maybe not your cousin, huh?” And then I give him a friendly pat on
the back. A nice manly slap on the back. And he looked heavy, I mean, who knew he’d go flying.
Who knew he’d go flying right off the roof?
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High Fidelity Novel by Nick Hornby
“Hook Panto” by Spuzz
Roxie Look at all this mess, why aren’t my children here working?! They never tidy up. (Audience) I say
when did you lot appear? You seem to be making a great deal of mess in here as well. Take that litter
home with you won’t you, yes like him. I say; we haven't been introduced have we? My name's Roxie,
Roxie Darling. Hello everybody! (Audience Response)
My two children and I live here alone above our shop. I sell a whole range of jokes, provide a dry
cleaning service and hire out fancy dress costumes. (To audience.) I see a few of you have been in, and
haven't returned them. At least this year I don't have to worry about finding a lost horse, werewolf’s
from Kazakhstan or try making my daughter turn things into gold, which I’ve heard can happen in
pantomimes you know. You want to know something? I always wanted my name in the paper. Before
my recently departed husband Amos, years ago I used to date this well-to-do, ugly bootlegger. He used
to like to take me out and show me off. Ugly guys like to do that. The thing is, see ... I'm older than I ever
intended to be. I like to call them the Nile years - it’s somewhere between juvenile and senile. All my life
I wanted to be a dancer. Oh, yeah. Have my own act. But, no. No. No.No. They always turned me down. It
was one big world full of "No." Then Amos came along. Sweet, safe Amos, who never says no. You know
some guys are like mirrors, and when I catch myself in Amos' face I'm always a kid. You could love a guy
like that. However after dark, Amos was zero. I mean, it was like he was fixin' a carburetor or
something'. "I love ya, honey. I love ya." Anyway,' to make a long story short, I started fooling around.
Then I started messing around, which is fooling around without dinner. I gave up the dancer idea,
because after all those years you sort of figure opportunity just passed you by. All I need is some
publicity; I could still get into vaudeville. I could still have my own act. I got me a world full of "Yes."
Especially if I use my middle name – Hart
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When Harry met Sally
“Convinced I Did the Right Thing”
Sally: When Joe and I first started seeing each other, we wanted exactly the same thing. We wanted to
live together, but we didn't want to get married because anytime anyone we knew got married, it
ruined their relationship. They practically never had sex again. It's true, it's one of the secrets no one
ever tells you. I would sit around with my girlfriends who have kids, well, my one girlfriend who has
kids, Alice, and she would complain about how she and Gary never did it anymore. She didn't even
complain about it now that I think about it. She just said it matter-of-factly. She said they were up all
night, they were both exhausted, the kids just took every sexual impulse out of them. And Joe and I used
to talk about it and wed say we were so lucky to have this wonderful relationship, we can have sex on
the kitchen floor and not worry about the kids walking in; we can fly off to Rome on a moments notice.
And then one day I was taking Alice's little girl for the afternoon - because I'd promised her I'd take her
to the circus and we were in the cab playing "I Spy". I spy a mailbox, I spy a lamppost and she looked out
the window and she saw this man and this woman and these two little kids, and the man had one of the
kids on his shoulders and Alice's little girl said, "I spy a family," and I started to cry. You know, I just
started crying. And I went home and I said, "The thing is, Joe, we never do fly off to Rome on a moments
notice." And that kitchen floor? Not once. It's this very cold, hard Mexican ceramic tile. Anyway, we
talked about it for a long time and I said, this is what I want, and he said, well, I don't, and I said well, I
guess it's over, and he left. And the thing is, I feel fine. I am over him, I mean, I really am over him. That
was it for him, that was the most he could give, and every time I think about it, I am more and more
convinced that I did the right thing.
Harry: Boy you sound really healthy.
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AN IDEAL HUSBAND
MABEL CHILTERN: Well, Tommy has proposed to me again. Tommy really does nothing but propose to
me. He proposed to me last night in the music-room, when I was quite unprotected, as there was an
elaborate trio going on. I didn't dare to make the smallest repartee, I need hardly tell you. If I had, it
would have stopped the music at once. Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want
one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. Then he
proposed to me in broad daylight this morning, in front of that dreadful statue of Achilles.
Really, the things that go on in front of that work of art are quite appalling. The police should interfere.
At luncheon I saw by the glare in his eye that he was going to propose again, and I just managed to
check him in time by assuring him that I was a bimetallist. Fortunately I don't know what bimetallism
means. And I don't believe anybody else does either. But the observation crushed Tommy for ten
minutes. He looked quite shocked.
And then Tommy is so annoying in the way he proposes. If he proposed at the top of his voice, I should
not mind so much. That might produce some effect on the public. But he does it in a horrid confidential
way. When Tommy wants to be romantic he talks to one just like a doctor. I am very fond of Tommy, but
his methods of proposing are quite out of date. I wish, Gertrude, you would speak to him, and tell him
that once a week is quite often enough to propose to any one, and that it should always be done in a
manner that attracts some attention.
In summary - Here’s what you need to do:
 Fill out and bring your Audition form
 Bring a CD/Ipod with you to sing to*
 Prepare 2 monologues of your choosing and a song (some are provided
with this pack but you don’t have to use them)
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Present the monologues
Sing song*
Have a general chat
*(Singing is optional, but some lead characters obviously need to sing!) You can sound as good as Anthony
Warlow or as bad as Barbra Streisand, just have a go
We’ll be looking for how you can portray a character - it can be as straight as
Hamlet or as left field as Mullet.
Just do your best and have fun.
Any Dramas, call Andrew Raphael on 0411 397 865