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Nunsense
HELLO SISTERS!!
Thank you so much for your interest in auditioning for Nunsense. In these trying times, we are still looking forward to the future. This process is going to be a little different so please bear with us while we journey through! Since North Carolina is still on a Stay at Home order, we will have rehearsals via Zoom until it is lifted. That means, if you are interested in this show, you must be willing to do some “Homework”. You will find below the information about the show and the audition process.
About the show:
It all begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters, and they are in dire need of funds for the burials. The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put on a variety show, so they take over the school auditorium, which is currently set up for the eighth-grade production of “Grease.” Here we meet Reverend Mother Regina, a former circus performer; Sister Mary Hubert, the Mistress of Novices; a streetwise nun from Brooklyn named Sister Robert Anne; Sister Mary Leo, a novice who is a wannabe ballerina; and the delightfully wacky Sister Mary Amnesia, the nun who lost her memory when a crucifix fell on her head. Featuring star turns, tap and ballet dancing, an audience quiz, and comic surprises, this show has become an international phenomenon. With more than 5000 productions worldwide, it has been translated into 21 languages. (Bio taken from http://nunsense.com/show-nun1.cfm)
Nunsense Character Descriptions:
Sister Mary Regina (Mother Superior): Mary Regina is charge of all the nuns. To those who know her, she is an outrageous, quick-witted soul who know how to get a laugh. She tries to convince you that she was strict, but everyone knew that her “bark was worse that her bite!”
Sister Mary Hubert (Mezzo/belter): Hubert oversees the novices but fancies herself a Mother Superior and is constant competition with Mary Regina. She exudes maternal wisdom to novices, but also likes to let loose.
Sister Robert Anne (Mezzo/belter): Once a child delinquent herself, this rough tough nun is a jokester and constantly challenging authority. She speaks with a thick Brooklyn accent and constantly displays her lack of refinement.
Sister Mary Amnesia (Soprano AND belter): As the name suggests, she has lost her memory and does not know who she is except that she is a nun. She is spacey and incoherent, often slipping into displays inappropriate for a nun and has a puppet alter ego named Sister Mary Annette (ventriloquism and puppet experience are a plus but not required.) Must be able to sing in classical and country styles.
Sister Mary Leo (Mezzo/belter): Leo is the novice nun, still learning the way and coming to terms with her decision to give up "civilian" life. She is a ballerina and displays her talents through much of the show. She is also easily swayed to join in mischief.
How to audition:
*Record only one video please but have the following in it. Please say your name and who you will be auditioning for*
1. Minimum of 16 bars of a karaoke track to a song of your choice that shows off vocal range and ability.
2. Choose the monologue of the character you are auditioning for. (If you are auditioning for more that one, please select the monologue of your top choice.)
3. Finally, the tap dance to “Tackle That Temptation with a Time-Step”. Here is a link to learn the tap dancing part. https://youtu.be/4lewRngBROo. HUGE thank you to Katie Dixon for helping teach the tap!
4. Fill out an audition form here: https://forms.gle/3mkjomwhEfzc97Tn7
We will have three different people casting the show. Our musical director, Mary Withington, our producer, Christine Leary, and myself. All videos should be emailed to timothyrprice16@gmail.com no later than 7:00pm on April 19th. You can also email me with questions!
Thank you and I look forward to seeing your auditions!
Your potential director,
Tim Price
Sister Leo: (Please have a person read Sr. Hubert. They will not influence the decision since we are looking at you 😊)
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The Music Man Audition Packet
Keep practicing...we hope to be able to have auditions soon!
This audition packet is long, and it involves a lot of reading. Being part of this musical is a commitment, and it involves a lot of work. If you want to be in the show, the first step is committing to reading the entire packet. Carefully.
AUDITION DATES:
Due to COVID-19 auditions have been postponed until further notice. Practice make perfect! :)
*Those auditioning for Winthrop, Zaneeta, Amaryllis, Gracie, and Tommy can come to any audition.
* All auditions will be in the BAND ROOM at WEST CARTERET HIGH SCHOOL
* Come prepared!!! Listen to the music and USE THE LINKS PROVIDED FOR YOU!!! There are 2 links: 1 with guide vocals and the other that we will use IN the audition!! Do this BEFORE the audition and know it!
*Come dressed appropriately and ready to MOVE! There WILL be a dance portion!!
*Make sure you fill out the audition form and sign ALL papers that go with it!
*Come with a POSITIVE attitude and HAVE FUN!!!!
*If you have questions, please e-mail the producer (Pam) at pamwall11@gmail.com
Director: Katie Dixon
Music Director: Craig Everette
Producer: Pam Wall
Asst. Producer: Michael Tonner
Choreographer: Ariana Guzman
Characters and what to prepare:
Harold Hill: “Seventy Six Trombones” (guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasJyPuQe4&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FSKOWh_9zoc&index=6
Audition Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97c9lpmW9wk Sing from 1:20-2:25
AND
“Marian The Librarian” (guide vocals)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBbFYkzOepA&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FSKOWh _9zoc&index=10
Audition Link: Beginning-1:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cBhuRyYZMA&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FSKOWh _9zoc&index=27
Prepare the following monologue:
HAROLD: Just you keep your eye on me for the next four weeks. It still takes ten days for the instruments to arrive, but it takes four weeks for the uniforms. And instruction books! I have a revolutionary new method called the Think System where you don’t bother with notes. When the uniforms arrive, they forget everything else – at least long enough for me to collect and leave. Oh, this is a refined operation, and I’ve got it timed right down to the last wave of the brakeman’s hand on the last train out of town
Marian Paroo: “Goodnight my Someone”(guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG1bMQfyGpk
Audition Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3yB7t63Yrc Sing from :15-1:22
AND: “’Til There Was You” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvrM5PQ5rI
Audition Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcGpG7gBpv4 sing from 2:20-2:52
Prepare the following monologue:
MARION: Professor Hill? Professor of what? At what college do they give a degree for annoying women on the street like a Saturday night rowdy at a public dance hall? Even if that should happen to be true, does that give you the right to follow me around wherever I go? Another thing, Mister Hill, I’m not as easily mesmerized or hoodwinked as some people in this town and I think it only fair to warn you that I have a shelf full of reference books in there which may very well give me some interesting information about you
Mrs. Paroo: “Goodnight my Someone”
(guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG1bMQfyGpk
Audition Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3yB7t63Yrc Sing from :15-:48
Prepare the following monologue:
(Irish accent) You’ll have to excuse Winthrop, Professor. We can’t get him to say three words a day even to us. And if you get him to play in the band you’ll have St. Michael’s own way with you. But if anyone can do it, I’ll bet you can. Out of a crowd I’ll pick you for a sod-carrying, pipesmokin’, shamrock wearin’, harp-playin’, Mavorneen-pinchin’, Tara’s hall minstrel-singin’ Irishman! Be-gob and be-jabbers! Where are ye from, me
WINTHROP: “Gary Indiana (Reprise)”
(guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qckApBAqK1I
Audition Link: Sing from beginning- 1:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QyUevVJkEY
Prepare the following spoken lines:
(With a lisp)” My cornet! Gee thankth, Profethor! Thithter! Thithter! Ithn’t thith the motht thcrumthyuth tholid gold thing you ever thaw? I never thought I’d ever thee anything tho thcrumpthyth ath thith thcrumpthyuth tholid gold thing! Oh thithter!”
AMARYLLIS: “Seventy-Six Trombones” (guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasJyPuQe4&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FSKOWh_9zoc&index=6
Audition Link: Sing from 2:41-3:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97c9lpmW9wk&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8 FSKOWh_9zoc&index=24
Prepare the following spoken lines:
“I’m patient. Even though he doesn’t ever talk to me – but I do to him – every night – I say goodnight to him on the evening star. You have to do it the very second you see it, too, or it doesn’t count.”
Gracie Shinn: “Wells Fargo Wagon” (guide vocals)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3luiELMdrYc&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FS KOWh_9zoc&index=12
Audition Link: Sing from 1:30-1:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8P8uuaPHSE&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8F SKOWh_9zoc&index=29
ZANEETA SHINN: “Seventy-Six Trombones”
(guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasJyPuQe4&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FS KOWh_9zoc&index=6
Audition Link: Sing from 2:41-3:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97c9lpmW9wk&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8 FSKOWh_9zoc&index=24
Prepare the following spoken lines:
“What is my name? Egads! Are you beckoning to me? I didn‘t have any idea you was beckoning to me. Zaneeta! Where am I going? I am not going home. I have to go to the Liberry, Egads!”
AND
“Tommy, Papa and Mama are sitting right there in the bank. Ye Gods! ! I can’t meet you after supper, Tommy. It’s Epworth League night. Meet you where? The footbridge? Isn’t that just what I said? Last time the lumber yard and now the footbridge. And where will you meet me after that? In the Black Hole of Calcutta? Ye Gods.”
EULALIE MACKECKNIE SHINN: “Pick a little, Talk a little” (guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhMMvuEJYc&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8F SKOWh_9zoc&index=9
Audition Link: Sing from beginning-:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNG4dWupgRk&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk 8FSKOWh_9zoc&index=26
Prepare the Following Monologue:
(As she rehearses her dance) Lovely, ladies, lovely. Now turn. Take the body with you. Lovely. Now let’s have a go with our Grecian Urns… One Grecian Urn… Two Grecian Urns… and a Fountain… trickle, trickle, trickle. Splendid, ladies. I predict that our Del Sarte display will be the highlight of the Ice Cream Sociable. And ladies, remember – don’t make me tell you again. Always keep your face to the audience.
MAYOR SHINN: “Seventy-Six Trombones”
(guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasJyPuQe4&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FSKOWh_9zoc&index=6
Audition Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97c9lpmW9wk Sing from 1:20-1:55
Prepare the following monologue:
As mayor of River City I welcome you River Citizens to the Fourth of July exercises set up for the indoors here in Madison Gymnasium, on account of the weather. The members of the School Board will now present a patriotic tableau. Oh – The members of the School Board will not present a patriotic tableau, some disagreement about the costumes, I suppose. Instead, the ladies will present a spectacle my wife – in which my wife, Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn, will take a leading part.
ALL WOMEN NOT NAMED ABOVE AND ENSEMBLE:
“Pick a little, Talk a little” (guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhMMvuEJYc&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8F SKOWh_9zoc&index=9
Audition Link: Sing from beginning-:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNG4dWupgRk&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk 8FSKOWh_9zoc&index=26
AND
“Iowa Stubborn”(guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpE1BxvE5g&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FSKOWh_9zoc&index=2
Audition link: Sing from beginning -1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frO0NfyIcHU&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FS KOWh_9zoc&index=20
ALL MEN WHO ARE NOT NAMED ABOVE AND ENSEMBLE:
“Seventy-Six Trombones” (guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasJyPuQe4&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FSKOWh_9zoc&index=6
Audition Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97c9lpmW9wk Sing from 1:20-1:55
AND
“Iowa Stubborn”(guide vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpE1BxvE5g&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FSKOWh_9zoc&index=2
Audition link: Sing from beginning -1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frO0NfyIcHU&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FS KOWh_9zoc&index=20
ALL KIDS: “Wells Fargo Wagon” (guide vocals)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3luiELMdrYc&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8FS KOWh_9zoc&index=12
Audition Link: Sing from 1:30-1:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8P8uuaPHSE&list=OLAK5uy_k0226Vwov47JoTjSePmAk8F SKOWh_9zoc&index=29