AUDITIONS
*"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jr." and "A Dickens of a Christmas Carol" will be performed by our Youth Theatre class.*
Everyone interested in auditioning must email their video auditions with rehearsal conflicts to Marie@liveoaktheatre.org by 11:59 PM on Saturday, June 28th!
Everyone interested in being considered for the show must record a video of them performing the monologue and song outlined below! Please upload your audition as an unlisted youtube video with your name and song/monologue in the name. You can submit your audition as one video OR separate videos for the song and monologue!
Audition format:
Please state your name, age, and role(s) you're interested in being considered for at the beginning of the video. Please record auditions in front of a solid color background.
If you have any questions, please email marie@liveoaktheatre.org.
Important:
The Callback date is Saturday, July 12th. The rehearsal schedule can be found here. Please include all conflicts when you submit your audition by June 28th so we can cast accordingly.
ENSEMBLE:
Everyone auditioning needs to video the title song from Oklahoma to the best of your ability in character for the role of your choice (ensemble can just be in the character of someone from Oklahoma.). Start at 1:01 and finish at 1:56 of the following track on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEENYKek5Ys
MALE LEADS AND SUPPORTING ROLES:
CURLY MCLAIN (A cowboy in love with Laurey)
SONG: Oh what a Beautiful Morning 2:15 to end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuiZopiqoeE&list=RDkuiZopiqoeE&start_radio=1
ALL THE SOUNDS OF THE EARTH ARE LIKE MUSIC - ALL THE SOUNDS OF
THE EARTH ARE LIKE MUSIC. THE BREEZE IS SO BUSY IT DON'T MISS A
TREE, AND A OLE WEEPIN' WILLER IS LAUGHIN' AT ME!
OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNIN', OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY. I GOT A
BEAUTIFUL FEELIN' EV'RITHIN'S GOIN' MY WAY.
OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY.
Please record the following 2 contrasting monologues. They do not need to be
memorized.
CURLY MONOLOGUE 1 (to Jud)
In this country, they's two things you c'n do if you're a man. Live
out of doors is one. Live in a hole is the other. I've set by my horse
in the bresh som'eres and heared a rattlesnake many a time.
Rattle, rattle, rattle! - he'd go, skeered to death. Somebody comin'
close to his hole! Somebody gonna step on him! Git his old fangs
ready, full of pizen! Curl up and wait! - Long's you live in a hole,
you're skeered, you got to have perfection. You c'n have muscles,
oh, like arn - and still be as weak as an empty bladder - less'n you
got things to barb yer hide with.
(Suddenly, harshly, directly to JUD.) How'd you git to be the way you
air, anyway - settin' here in this filthy hole - and thinkin' the way
you're thinkin'? Why don't you do sumpin healthy onct in a while,
'stid of stayin' shet up here - a-crawlin' and festerin'!
CURLY MONOLOGUE 2 (to Laurey)
I'll be the happiest man alive soon as we're married. Oh, I got to learn
to be a farmer, I see that! Quit a-thinkin' about throwin' a rope, and
start in to git my hands blistered a new way! Oh, things is changin'
right and left! Buy up mowin' machines, cut down the prairies! Shoe
yer horses, drag them plows under the sod! They're gonna make a
state outa this territory, they gonna put it in the Union! Country's
a-changin', got to change with it! Bring up a pair of boys, new stock,
to keep up 'th the way way things is goin' in this here crazy country!
Now I got you to he'p me - I'll 'mount to sumpin yit! Oh, I 'member the
first time I ever seen you. It was at the fair. You was a-ridin' that gray
filly of Blue Starr's, and I says to someone - "Who's that skinny little
thing with a bang hanging down on her forehead?"
Hey! ‘If there's anybody out around this yard 'at c'n hear my voice, I'd
like fer you to know that Laurey Williams is my girl.
JUD FRY (A hired hand on Aunt Eller's ranch, a loner with a sinister past)
Song: Lonely Room
Here’s a demo of “Lonely Room” that Jud sings. I’m including it because it’s not as well
known than most of the other songs from Oklahoma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xnvC9yFy4
Here is the accompaniment track for “Lonely Room” . The solo
starts at :10 seconds in. You can either do half the song and stop
at 1:35 or do the whole song for extra credit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7bzwwGfQ8
JUD- I remember eve'ything ya ever done...every word ya ever
said. Cain't think of nuthin' else... See? ...See how it is. I ain't good
enough, am I? I'm a h'ard hand, got dirt on my hands, pigslop. Ain't
fitten to tetch ya. You’re better, so much better. Yeah, we'll see
who's better - Miss Laurey. Nen you'll wisht you wasn't so free with
yer airs, yer sich a fine lady...
WILL PARKER (A Cowboy in love with Ado Annie)
Song: Kansas City
Please sing Kansas City from the Beginning to about 1:16.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYsFjtpT3Rs&list=RDpYsFjtpT3Rs&start_radio=1
Be prepared to sing "All or Nothing” with Annie if called back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPUjJGAOOS8
KANSAS CITY LYRICS:
I GOT TO KANSAS CITY ON A FRID'Y.
BY SATTIDY I L'ARNED A THING OR TWO.
FOR UP TO THEN I DIDN'T HAVE AN IDY
OF WHUT THE MODERN WORLD WAS COMIN' TO!
I COUNTED TWENTY GAS BUGGIES GOIN' BY THEIRSEL'S
ALMOST EV'RY TIME I TUCK A WALK.
NEN I PUT MY EAR TO A BELL TELEPHONE
AND A STRANGE WOMERN STARTED IN TO TALK!
AUNT ELLER.
WHUT NEXT!
BOYS. (Spoken.) YEAH, WHUT!
WILL.
WHUT NEXT?
EV'RYTHIN'S UP TO DATE IN KANSAS CI1Y.
THEY'VE GONE ABOUT AS FUR AS THEY C'N GO!
THEY WENT AND BUILT A SKYSCRAPER SEVEN STORIES HIGH-
ABOUT AS HIGH AS A BUILDIN' ORTA GROW. EV'RYTHIN'S LIKE A DREAM IN
KANSAS CI1Y.IT'S BETTER THAN A MAGIC-LANTERN SHOW!
Y'C'N TURN THE RADIATOR ON WHENEVER YOU WANT SOME HEAT.
WITH EV'RY KIND O' COMFORT EVRY HOUSE IS ALL COMPLETE.
YOU C'N WALK TO PRIVIES IN THE RAIN AN' NEVER WET YER FEET!
THEY'VE GONE ABOUT AS FUR AS THEY C'N GO!
THEY'VE GONE ABOUT AS FUR AS THEY C'N GO!
WILL Monologue:
Know whut I got fer first prize at
the fair? Fifty dollars! Ketch on? Yer paw promised I cud marry
you 'f I cud git fifty dollars. Know whut I done with it? Spent it all
on presents fer you!
Oh, Ado Annie, honey, y'ain't been off my mind since I left. All the
time at the fair grounds even, when I was chasin' steers.
(Mimicking the actions as he speaks them.)
I'd rope one under the hoofs and pull him up sharp, and he'd land
on his little rump...
(He looks lovingly at the imaginary steer's rump.)
Nen I'd think of you.
ALI HAKIM (A Persian peddler, enamored of Ado Annie)
Ali Hakim- please submit the following monologue and be prepared
to read from the script opposite Ado Annie, Laurey and Aunt Eller if
called back.
ALI HAKIM MONOLOGUE:
Four days.
(GERTIE~ laugh is heard from the group. ALI winces.)
Four days with that laugh should count like a golden wedding.
Sure I wanted to. I wanted to marry her when I
saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun! I
thought it would be better to be alive. Now, I ain't so sure.
ANDREW CARNES (Ado Annie's father, eager to have her marry)- The Farmer and the
Cowman should be friends
Those auditioning for Cannes and Aunt Eller should sing along to this track from :19- :40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lXz1mdF0IU
Here are the Lyrics:
THE FARMER AND THE COWMAN SHOULD BE FRIENDS, OH, THE FARMER
AND THE COWMAN SHOULD BE
FRIENDS.
ONE MAN LIKES TO PUSH A PLOUGH,
THE OTHER LIKES TO CHASE A COW,
BUT THAT'S NO REASON WHY THEY CAIN'T BE FRIENDS.
TERRITORY FOLKS SHOULD STICK TOGETHER, TERRITORY FOLKS SHOULD
ALL BE PALS.
COWBOYS, DANCE WITH THE FARMERS' DAUGHTERS! FARMERS, DANCE
WITH THE RANCHERS' GALS!
MALE ENSEMBLE :
● COWBOYS: (Age 16-30s) Dance ability a plus.
● Cord Elam, M, Tenor/Bari/Bass Small vocal part in “Oklahoma”.
● Mike, M, Tenor/Bari/Bass.
● Joe, M, Tenor/Bari/Bass
● Sam, M, Tenor/Bari/Bass
● ENSEMBLE: All ages 16+. Singing and dancing ability needed for the large group
musical numbers. Proficiency in ballet will be needed for some girls. Laurey’s
Friends, Farmers and Cowmen will be part of the ensemble.
FEMALE LEADS AND SUPPORTING ROLES:
In addition to the song “Oklahoma” listed above, those auditioning for the following roles should
submit a video audition of the following song & monologues. Monologues and songs do not
need to be memorized as long as you can still demonstrate your understanding of the character.
LAUREY (Aunt Eller's niece, an independent young woman)
Song: Out of My Dreams
Out of my Dreams: Start at 2:40 and sing to the end. Please take the optional high ending
on “with you” if you’ve got the range for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmU1pYqUKW4
Monologues: Please record the following 2 contrasting monologues. They do
not need to be memorized.
Monologue 1: Me? Course I want sumpin. (Working up to a kind of
abstracted ecstasy.) Want a buckle made outa shiny silver to fasten
onto my shoes! Want a dress with lace. Want perfume, wanta be
purty, wanta smell like a honeysuckle vine!
Want things I've heared of and never had before
- a rubber-t'ard buggy, a cut-glass sugar bowl. Want things I cain't tell
you about - not only to look at and hold in yer hands. Things to
happen to you. Things so nice, if they ever did happen to you, yer
heart ud quit beatin'. You'd fall down dead!
Monologue 2: (Suddenly angry and losing her fear.) Air you making
threats to me? Air you standing there tryin' to tell me 'f I don't 'low
you to slobber over me like a hog, why, you're gonna do sumpin
'bout it? Why you're nuthin' but a mangy dog and somebody orta
shoot you.
You think so much about being a h'ard hand. Well, I'll just tell you
sumpin that'll rest your brain, Mr. Jud. You ain't a h'ard hand fer
me no more. You c'n just
pack up yer duds and scoot. Oh, and I even got better idys'n that.
You ain't to come on the place again, you hear me? I'll send yer
stuff any place you say, but don't you's much's set foot inside the
pasture gate or I'll sic the dogs onto you!
Be prepared to sing “People will say we’re in Love” with Curly if called back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTiKr3JFwpU
ADO ANNIE (A flirtatious, gullible young woman)
Song: I Can’t Say No from the beginning of the track til about 1:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8J__PIxxd8
Be prepared to sing "All or Nothing” with Will if called back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPUjJGAOOS8
ADO ANNIE. Now, Laurey, you know they didn't nobody pay me no
mind up to this year, count of I was scrawny and flat as a
beanpole. Nen I kind of rounded up a little and now the boys act
diff'rent to me. I like it. I like it so much when a feller talks purty to
me I git all shaky from horn to hoof! Don't you? Don't you feel kind
of sorry fer a feller when he looks like he wants to kiss ya?
AUNT ELLER (Laurey's aunt, a respected community leader)
Song - The Farmer and the Cowman should be friends :19-:40
Here are the Lyrics:
THE FARMER AND THE COWMAN SHOULD BE FRIENDS, OH, THE FARMER
AND THE COWMAN SHOULD BE
FRIENDS.
ONE MAN LIKES TO PUSH A PLOUGH,
THE OTHER LIKES TO CHASE A COW,
BUT THAT'S NO REASON WHY THEY CAIN'T BE FRIENDS.
TERRITORY FOLKS SHOULD STICK TOGETHER, TERRITORY FOLKS SHOULD
ALL BE PALS.
COWBOYS, DANCE WITH THE FARMERS' DAUGHTERS! FARMERS, DANCE
WITH THE RANCHERS' GALS!
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lXz1mdF0IU
Please record the following 2 contrasting monologues. They do not need to be
memorized.
Monologue 1: All right then. Now you know the rules, gentlemen.
Y'got to bid blind. Y'ain't s'posed to know whut girl goes with whut
hamper. Of course, if yer sweetheart has told you that hers'll be
done up in a certain kind of way with a certain color ribbon, that
ain't my fault. Now we'll auction all the hampers on t'other side of
the house and work around back here. Follow me.
Monologue 2: It's all right, Laurey baby. If you cain't fergit, jist don't
try to, honey. Oh, lots of things happen to folks. Sickness, er bein'
pore and hungry even - bein'
old and afeared to die. That's the way it is - cradle to grave. And
you can stand it. They's one way. You gotta be hearty, you got to
be. You cain't deserve the sweet and tender in life less'n you're
tough
Other Female ensemble roles:
If you are auditioning to be one of Laurey’s friends, please be prepared to sing “Many a New
Day” at the callback following the dance audition.
GERTIE (A local farm girl, fond of Curly, marries Ali Hakim)
● Laurey’s Friends: (16-20s) Dance ability a plus. May be part of the ensemble.
● Ellen, F, Alto/Mezzo/Soprano; Has a solo part in “Out of My Dreams”.
● Kate, F, Alto/Mezzo/Soprano; Has a solo part in “Out of My Dreams”.
● Virginia F, Alto/Mezzo/Soprano; Has a solo part in “Out of My Dreams”.
● Vivian, F, Alto/Mezzo/Soprano; Has a solo part in “Out of My Dreams”.
● Aggie, F, Alto/Mezzo/Soprano; Has a group singing part in “Many a New Day”.
● Sylvie, F, Alto/Mezzo/Soprano; Has a group singing part in “Many a New Day”.
● Armina, F, Alto/Mezzo/Soprano; Has a group singing part in “Many a New Day”.
Click Here to print the Live Oak Theatre Audition Form
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 one of the pre-selected monologues from the show and one of the pre-selected, character specific songs from the show. Selections can be found below.
●Monologue and song should be performed 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 must be submitted via an unlisted YouTube Link ONLY.
●Only one Monologue and Song submission per person. If you are interested in being considered for other roles, please note that in your email. DO NOT MAKE ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS FOR OTHER CHARACTERS.
●You have time. Please make sure the video you are submitting is the one you want the panel to see.
●Talent should be well lit from the front.
●Remember, dress for success!
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