THE SOUND of MUSIC

Thursday, Friday & Saturday 10th, 11th & 12th May, 2012

AUDITIONS Auditions for the six younger members of the von trapp family (see below) will take place on Saturday 14th January St MARY’S SCHOOL HALL, CHAPEL GREEN CROWBOROUGH, at 10.00 am These auditions will consist of a workshop audition for all applicants, involving movement, singing and acting in the morning.  This will be followed by an afternoon of ‘recalls’ which will involve more formal auditions from the script.  (If a large number of children audition it may mean that not all of them will be shortlisted for the afternoon ‘recalls’.) The children’s audition song will be “Do-re-mi”, and the parts are as follows:-

Female		Male
Louisa	13 yrs	Friedrich	14 yrs
Brigitta	9 yrs	Kurt	11 yrs
Marta	7 yrs
Gretl	5 yrs

The ages quoted above are approximate

FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT SUE BURNETT (Musical Director) via email: burnett.family@btinternet.com, or on 01892 852687

In order to schedule the day to maximum advantage, we are asking all children who are interested in auditioning to register with one of us, giving the name and age of the child / children plus a contact email address / telephone number.  (This includes any who are already members of the Rotherfield Players.)

Please contact Kate Organ on news@rotherfieldplayers.co.uk
or Sue Burnett burnett.family@btinternet.com.
Alternatively you can telephone Sue Burnett (01892 852687)

Adult auditions will be held in the week beginning 6th of February as follows:

• Monday 6th February – Help Night involving further information on characters and the show, learning the movement audition piece and a chance to register for the parts you wish to audition for.
• Friday 10th February – Movement and singing audition.  This will be the main audition for those people only wishing to audition for chorus roles.
• Saturday 11th February  - Principals auditions (n.b. a schedule for the day will be arranged based upon who registers on the Monday evening, we hope that this will limit the amount of hanging around for everyone).

A reminder of the characters is given below.  The Sound of Music characters and ‘stage age’ are below. 

Women:                       Character                                                      Stage age                                    Example Actual age (children only)

• Maria Rainer                                                 20 – 30 yrs
• Mother Abbess                                             50+ yrs
• Sister Margaretta                                         30+
• Sister Berthe                                                 Any
• Sister Sophia                                                                elderly
• Elsa Schraeder                                            30 – 40 yrs
• Liesl                                                               16 yrs                                           young adult
• Louisa                                                            13 yrs                                           14 – 15yrs
• Brigitta                                                           9 yrs                                             11 (membership age)
• Marta                                                              7 yrs                                             9  - 10 yrs
• Gretl                                                               5 yrs                                             6 or 7 yrs
• Frau Schmidt                                                40+ yrs (non singing principal)
• Nuns chorus                                                 Any – must be very good singers.  Sing unaccompanied harmonies
• Dancing chorus                                           Any  - will have a limited amount of singing

Men:

• Captain Von Trapp (Georg)                       40+ yrs
• Max Detweiler                                              40+ yrs
• Rolf Gruber                                                   17yrs                                            young adult
• Franz                                                              Any (non singing principal)
• Friedrich                                                        14                                                 16 – 17yrs
• Kurt                                                                 11                                                 12 – 13yrs
• Herr Zeller                                                     Any (non singing minor principal)
• Admiral Von Schreiber                               Any (non singing minor principal)
• Chorus of soldiers, dancers etc                                Any – will have a limited amount of singing.

Audition Songs:        

• Children – ‘Do-Re-Mi’ (main verse to be learnt)
• Maria – ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘The Lonely Goatherd’
• Rolf and Liesl – ‘Sixteen Going on Seventeen’
• Mother Abbess – ‘Climb Every Mountain’
• All others – ‘Edelweiss’ or ‘My Favourite Things’

This production is going to be huge amounts of fun but is also going to involve a lot of hard work during March and April which will include a number of Sunday rehearsals and having to rehearse on some bank holidays. 

As a result we will be asking for holiday dates for both Juniors and adult members wishing to audition for the show to ensure that we can maintain as well attended rehearsals as possible throughout.

If you have any queries please contact either Kate Organ or Sue Burnett on the numbers detailed below.

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