*Youth Theatre spring semester mandatory parent meeting and auditions for Bye Bye Birdie Jr. and A Little Princess will be held on Saturday, January 16th beginning at 10:00am*

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Everyone interested in auditioning for our main stage production of My Fair Lady must email their video auditions with a list of rehearsal conflicts and other information (see instructions) to Marie@liveoaktheatre.org by 11:59 PM on Sunday, November 1st!​

 

Important:

The Callback dates are November 16th and 17th at 6:30pm. The rehearsal schedule can be found

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Please include all conflicts when you submit your audition by November 1st so we can cast accordingly. If you don't submit a conflict for a rehearsal, we will expect that you will be at that rehearsal. An audition submission will NOT be considered complete without this information. If you have no conflicts with the rehearsals scheduled, please just say "no conflicts" ​​

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Click Here to print the Live Oak Theatre Audition Form

 

If you are new to Live Oak, please fill it out and bring it with you if you get called back, along with your headshot and resume…

Video Audition Submission Format: To be considered for this audition, any talent, whether they’ve been involved in a Live Oak Theatre production or not, should submit a video audition of themselves performing the pre-selected audition material from the show. Selections can be found below.
●Video should be recorded in front of a solid-colored background.
●Video should start with talent stating name, age, and role they are interested in, including secondary options.
●Video can be shot on any device with a camera.
●Videos may be submitted via an unlisted YouTube Link or a Google Drive link ONLY.

●You have time. Please make sure the video you are submitting is the one you want the panel to see. We recommend recording a video well ahead of time, and then if you get a better one later you can always send that better one in. If you wait until the last minute to record your video and then something happens (illness, etc) that prevents you from showing your best abilities that is always hard.
●Talent should be well lit from the front.
●Remember, dress for success!

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AUDITION DETAILS:

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MY FAIR LADY AUDITIONS

 

If you are interested in auditioning for our spring mainstage production of My Fair Lady, please read the following information carefully and in its entirety.

 

Since its Broadway debut in 1956, My Fair Lady has remained one of musical theatre’s most beloved classics. Celebrated for Lerner and Loewe’s unforgettable score, witty and elegant script, and enduring charm, we are thrilled to bring this timeless musical to our stage in April 2027.

 

The show features many principal and supporting roles, as well as a strong ensemble. Ensemble members will have opportunities for featured singing, speaking, and dancing.

 

REHEARSAL SCHEDULE

 

Please review the rehearsal schedule linked above

 

Along with your audition video please send any conflicts you have with this schedule, if you have no conflicts please state that in your email. An audition submission is NOT considered complete without this information.

 

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

 

ELIZA DOOLITTLE

Soprano 1 (A3–G5)

A spirited Cockney flower seller who transforms into a poised and confident young woman through Professor Higgins’s speech lessons, ultimately discovering her own self-worth and independence. This role requires a comfortable, clear upper register.

 

PROFESSOR HENRY HIGGINS

Baritone (B2–E4)

A brilliant but arrogant phonetics professor who takes on Eliza as an experiment, only to find his own assumptions and emotions challenged. Much of Higgins’s music is speech-like or talk-sung.

 

COLONEL PICKERING

Baritone (C3–E4)

A courteous and compassionate linguist who treats Eliza with respect from the beginning and serves as Higgins’s moral counterbalance. Much of his singing is speech-like.

 

ALFRED P. DOOLITTLE

Baritone (G2–E4)

Eliza’s charismatic, carefree father, whose comic outlook on life and unexpected rise to respectability provide much of the show’s humor. This role calls for a strong, energetic character voice.

 

FREDDY EYNSFORD-HILL

Tenor 1 (C3–F4)

A kind-hearted young gentleman who falls deeply in love with Eliza and admires her for who she is. Freddy requires a lighter, romantic tenor sound with comfortable sustained upper notes.

 

MRS. HIGGINS

Acting/Character Role

Henry Higgins’s wise and gracious mother, who recognizes Eliza’s humanity and often offers the practical insight her son lacks.

 

MRS. PEARCE

Mezzo-Soprano

Higgins’s sensible and efficient housekeeper, who looks after Eliza’s well-being and keeps Higgins grounded.

 

ZOLTAN KARPATHY

Acting/Character Role

A former student of Higgins and self-proclaimed phonetics expert who unknowingly confirms the success of Eliza’s transformation.

 

ENSEMBLE

The citizens of London—including flower sellers, servants, aristocrats, racegoers, and embassy guests—bring the world of the musical to life and highlight its themes of class and society.

 

A NOTE ABOUT YOUTH CASTING

Opportunities for children in My Fair Lady are limited. Younger performers may be considered for select ensemble appearances, primarily in street scenes, but there are no featured children’s roles in the production.

 

VIDEO AUDITION SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

 

Please follow these instructions carefully:

 

Place your camera at eye level and frame yourself from approximately mid-waist up.

Record your video in landscape orientation.

Use a plain background and make sure you have good lighting.

Begin your video by clearly stating your name, age, and the role you are auditioning for.

Perform your audition material in this order: Monologue, Song, Dance Combination, Box Step Waltz.

Upload your completed audition to YouTube as an unlisted video.

Email the link to your unlisted video to marie@liveoaktheatre.org no later than 11:59 PM on November 1.

In your email, please include:

All rehearsal and performance conflicts

Your vocal part

Any special skills, tricks, or acrobatics you can perform

A headshot and résumé, if you have them

Any roles you would not be willing to accept

 

Below you will find the monologue and song to perform for your audition. Please note that you may be called back for a role other than the one for which you initially audition.

 

Please use the provided accompaniment tracks.

 

FEMALE ROLES

 

ELIZA DOOLITTLE

Monologue – Cockney Accent

 

“I ain’t done nothin’ wrong by speakin’ to the gentleman. I’ve a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb. I’m a respectable girl, so help me, I never spoke to him except to ask him to buy a flower off me. Oh, sir, don’t let him charge me. You dunno what it means to me. They’ll take away my character and drive me on the streets for speakin’ to gentlemen. It’s because I called him Captain. I meant no harm. Oh, sir, don’t let him lay a charge agen me for a word like that. I’m a good girl, I am. Let him mind his own business and leave a poor girl alone. I’ve a right to be here if I like, same as you.”

 

Song: “Show Me” – Full Song

https://youtu.be/4aPx5SCL39M?is=csUNWhzWv5-16OL4

 

MRS. EYNSFORD-HILL / MRS. HIGGINS

Monologue – Standard English Accent

 

“And you mean to say that after you did this wonderful thing for them without making a single mistake, they just sat there and never said a word to you? Never petted you, or admired you, or told you how splendid you’d been? That’s simply appalling. I should not have thrown the slippers at him…I should have thrown the fire irons. Remember, Eliza, last night you not only danced with the Prince, but you behaved like a princess.”

 

Song: “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly”

Sing through 1:30 on the provided YouTube track.

https://youtu.be/1uCtZ4B6o4s?is=mAkpSaXvS8NcBUi7

 

MRS. PEARCE

Monologue – Standard English Accent

 

“Mr. Higgins, you simply cannot go on working the girl this way. Making her say her alphabet over and over again, from sunup to sundown, even during meals—when will it stop? You’ve all been working much too hard. I think the strain is beginning to show. Eliza, I don’t care what Mr. Higgins says, you must put down your books and go to bed.”

 

Song: “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly”

Sing through 1:30 on the provided YouTube track.

https://youtu.be/1uCtZ4B6o4s?is=mAkpSaXvS8NcBUi7

 

WOMEN’S ENSEMBLE

Monologue: Please perform Mrs. Pearce’s monologue above.

 

Song: “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly”

Sing through 1:30 on the provided YouTube track.

https://youtu.be/1uCtZ4B6o4s?is=mAkpSaXvS8NcBUi7

 

MALE ROLES

 

PROFESSOR HENRY HIGGINS

Monologue – Standard English Accent

 

“Simple phonetics. The science of speech. That’s my profession, also my hobby. Anyone can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue. I can place a man within six miles. I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets.

 

(To Eliza) A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting noises has no right to be anywhere—no right to live. Remember, you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech.

 

(To Pickering) You see this creature with her curbstone English; the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days? Well, sir, in six months I could pass her off as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. I could even get her a place as a lady’s maid or a shop assistant, which requires better English.”

 

Song: “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” – Full Song

https://youtu.be/Jcm7OROeJe8?is=oZmBk84zTKNEvqUZ

 

ALFRED P. DOOLITTLE

Monologue – Cockney Accent

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“Home? What do you want to go home for? Eliza should be along in a few minutes. She ought to be good for half a crown for a father what loves her. What’s half a crown after all I give her? I gave her everything. I give her the greatest gift any human being can give to another: life! I introduced her to this here planet, I did, with all its wonders and marvels. This loverly world with the sun that shines, and the moon that glows, Hyde Park to walk through on a fine spring night. The whole ruddy city of London to roam about in sellin’ her bloomin’ flowers. I give her all that, and then I disappears and leaves her on her own to enjoy it. Now, if that ain’t worth half a crown now and again, I’ll take off my belt and give her what for.”

 

Song: “With a Little Bit of Luck”

Sing through 1:28 on the provided YouTube track.

https://youtu.be/cR2JgvI4iXY?is=LkhO_fpyjxgMoPGi

 

COLONEL PICKERING

Monologue – Standard English Accent

 

“Higgins, if there’s any mishap at the Embassy tonight, if Mrs. Doolittle suffers any embarrassment whatever, it’s on your head alone. I’ve been begging you to call this experiment off since Ascot. Suppose she’s discovered? Suppose she makes another ghastly mistake? If anything happened tonight, I don’t know what I’d do. The way you’ve driven her these last six weeks has exceeded all the bounds of common…

 

Higgins, stop pacing up and down! Can’t you settle someplace? Where is she, anyway? I’ll bet the damned gown doesn’t fit. I warned you about those French designers. You should have gone to a good English store, where you knew everybody was on your side.”

 

Song: “You Did It”

Sing through 1:04 on the provided YouTube track.

https://youtu.be/1WXUWDzb6H0?is=J9PbgSMoqywZd0OR

 

FREDDY EYNSFORD-HILL

Monologue: Please perform Colonel Pickering’s monologue above in the style and character of Freddy.

 

Song: “On the Street Where You Live” – Full Song

https://youtu.be/DQ4h9kMp1Yw?is=of5oIo9IPGoSJwPv

 

ZOLTAN KARPATHY

Monologue – Hungarian Accent

 

“Professor Higgins, you remember me? I am your pupil, your first, best, and greatest pupil. I am Zoltan Karpathy, that marvelous boy. I have made your name famous throughout Europe. You teach me phonetics. You cannot forget me. The Queen of Transylvania is here this evening. I am indispensable to her at these international parties. I speak thirty-two languages. I know everybody in Europe. No imposter can escape my detection. And now, Professor, you must introduce me to this glorious creature you escort this evening.”

 

Song: “With a Little Bit of Luck”

Sing through 1:28 on the provided YouTube track.

https://youtu.be/cR2JgvI4iXY?is=LkhO_fpyjxgMoPGi

 

MEN’S ENSEMBLE

Monologue: Please perform Colonel Pickering’s monologue above.

 

Song: “With a Little Bit of Luck”

Sing through 1:28 on the provided YouTube track.

https://youtu.be/cR2JgvI4iXY?is=LkhO_fpyjxgMoPGi

 

DANCE COMBINATION VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS

 

Here you will find a step-by-step tutorial for the video dance audition, followed by the dance combination performed up to speed:

 

https://youtu.be/u8l2gm-npIA?feature=shared

 

For your dance audition, please use the following track, beginning at 2:12:

 

https://youtu.be/oJE06nf2cUE?is=6tbnNn8szhTbxjet

 

Here you will find the box step waltz combination:

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/ETDL1uYN44c?is=65r-hZuVFdrtKU88

 

Please record your dance audition in the same manner demonstrated by Ms. Carly in the tutorial video. Your dance portion should include the “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” dance combination first, followed by the box step waltz.

 

Those who choose not to submit the dance combination will still be considered for roles that do not require dancing.

 

CALLBACKS

 

You will receive specific preparation instructions if you are invited to callbacks.

 

Callbacks will be held November 16 and 17 at 6:30pm. Please keep both dates available.

 

You are also encouraged to read through the script and become familiar with the scenes. It will be to your benefit to learn all of the songs performed by the character or characters for whom you are auditioning.

 

A NOTE ABOUT ACCENTS

 

One of the defining elements of My Fair Lady is its use of accents and dialects. We encourage performers to fully embrace the accent specified for their audition material.

 

We are not looking for perfection.

 

If you are unfamiliar with a Cockney or Standard English accent, take some time to listen to examples and make your best effort. Confidence, clarity, and truthful acting are far more important than a flawless dialect. Dialect coaching will be provided during the rehearsal process.

 

Most importantly, we are looking for performers who tell the story honestly and connect with the material. Don’t worry about creating a perfect recording—just do your best.

 

We’re excited to see your personality, preparation, and potential, and we can’t wait to see your audition.

 

Have fun!

 

Your Director,

Bethany Romeo

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