Instructions:

Please read all the material below.
Younger actors should read this with their parents.

The Audition Dates:

• monday august 23 4-7 reading
• wednesday august 25 4-7 dance
• sunday, august 29 4-7 music
• monday august 30 4-7 music
• wednesday september 1 4-7 dance
• sunday, september 5 4-7 reading

The Rehearsal Schedule:

• Sunday 5-8, Tuesday and Thursday 5:30-8:30
• Not everyone is needed at every rehearsal
• (no rehearsals on Jewish holidays)

The Show Dates:

December 2-19

Who is Eligible?

Grades 4-12

DETAILS

You will each have to come to 3 auditions: reading, voice and dance

Reading and voice are done privately, one actor at a time. Each of these auditions takes about 3-5 minutes. You should plan to be there at least 15 minutes before your audition to relax and prepare.

you must Call Lillian at 305-308-8055 to schedule a specific time for these reading and voice auditions.

When you call, tell Lillian which dance audition you'll be coming to.

The Dance audition is everyone at the same time.

There are two days scheduled for each type of audition; you have to be at one of each type.

EVEN if you don't think you can sing or dance, you MUST go through the audition process.

SPECIFICS

For reading: Try to memorize the audition piece below and be prepared to perform it

for singing: learn a song from ANNIE and be prepared to sing it (we will have music for you).

For dancing: wear shoes and clothes in which you can move freely... if you do gymnastics, please let us know (and wear clothes you can do that in). Girls: no skirts for dance auditions.

We have experienced professionals as Musical Director and choreographer. We set the bar high and you work hard... and reach it! SO, Do your very best at auditions. It doesn't pay to be shy... take a risk and go for it!

SELECT FROM THE SCENES OR MONOL0GUES BELOW:

1.MONOLOGUE FOR WARBUCKS

WARBUCKS: Annie, the time has come for the two of us to have a very serious discussion. Annie, can we have a man-to-man talk? I was born into a very poor family in what they call Hell's Kitchen, right here in New York. Both of by parents died before I was ten. And I made a promise to myself - some day, one way or another, I was going to be rich. Very rich. By the time I was twenty-three I'd made my first million. Then, ten years later, I turned that into a hundred million. Anyway, making money is all I've ever given a damn about. And I might as well tell you, Annie, that I was ruthless to those I had to climb over to get to the top. Because I've always believed one thing: You don't have to be nice to the people you meet on the way up if you're not coming back down again. But, I've lately realized something. No matter how many Rembrandts or Duessenbergs you've got, if you have no one to share your life with, if you're alone, then you might as well be broke and back in Hell's Kitchen.

2. SCENE FOR ANNIE (we'll read Warbucks)

ANNIE: No! No please don't make me take my locket off. I don't want a new one. This locket, my Mom and Dad left it with me when . . . when they left me at the orphanage. And there was a note, too. They're coming back for me. And, I know, being here with you for the holidays, I'm real lucky. But . . . I don't know how to say it . . . the one thing I want in all the world is to find my mother and father. And to be like other kids, with folks of my own.

WARBUCKS: It's okay, Annie, I'll find them. (Picks up the phone and calls). J. Edgar? Warbucks. I want 50 of your best G-Men. I'll pay all the costs. Fine. Tomorrow morning. (to Annie) Annie, we need the locket. It's a clue for the F.B.I.

ANNIE: Oh, okay. And maybe the F.B.I. should have my note, too!

WARBUCKS: You watch Annie, you may be meeting your mother and father within a couple of days.

ANNIE: Really? Oh, boy, I gotta write a a letter to the kids about this! (writing) And Mr. Warbucks says that I'm gonna be meeting my mother and father within a couple of days.

3. SCENE FOR HANNIGAN OR ROOSTER:

MISS HANNIGAN: A fifty thousand dollar reward! What I couldn't do with fifty thousand dollars. I hate that Annie so much you'd think I was her mother.

ROOSTER: Excuse me, ma'am, we knocked upstairs but nobody answered. Are you the lady that runs this here orphanage?

HANNIGAN: Yeah, whatta ya want?

ROOSTER: Well, we had terrible troubles back then. We had to head north to Canada. Had to leave a baby here. On the front stoop. Our little girl. Our Annie.

HANNIGAN: Annie? You're Annie's parents? I can't believe it. Annie's parents. Where'd you say you come from again?

ROOSTER: We come from a little farm in Canada where they've got lots of chickens and ducks and geese and roosters. Gotcha, Sis.

HANNIGAN: Oh, God, Rooster, I never woulda knowed it was you in a hundred years.

ROOSTER: Fooled ya and we're gonna fool Warbucks, too. This is gonna be the best bunco job ever. We need your help, Sis, for details about Annie that can help us pull this thing off.

HANNIGAN: Sure, I could help you. A lot. But what's in it for me?

ROOSTER: A three-way split.

HANNIGAN: Half.

ROOSTER: HALF!?!?

HANNIGAN: Half.

ROOSTER: Half, half, half. Straight down the middle. Twenty-five grand each. But we gotta do it fast, Sis. Give'em some of the old Rooster razzle-dazzle. In and out. Two-three minutes at the most. Get the money, get the kid and get the hell outta town.

HANNIGAN: Yeah, the kid, Annie. That's the problem. What would we do with her afterward?

ROOSTER: That's no problem. When the Rooster wants something to disappear, it disappears. For good.

HANNIGAN: Rooster!

4. SCENE FOR GRACE OR HANNIGAN

GRACE: Good afternoon. Miss Hannigan?

HANNIGAN: Yeah?

GRACE: Oh, good. I'm Grace Farrell.

HANNIGAN: So?

GRACE: ...and the New York City Board of Orphans suggested that...

HANNIGAN: Wait! Hold it! I can explain everything! It wasn't my fault. It was Annie, you see, who got into Bundles' laundry bag and...

GRACE: Miss Hannigan, I

HANNIGAN: ...and, sure, I should of called Mr. Donatelli instead of the cops, but I...

GRACE: Miss Hannigan, I'm sorry, but I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about.

HANNIGAN: Wait a minute, sister, I get it. If it's beauty products you're peddling, I don't need any. Get out.

GRACE: Miss Hannigan, I am not "peddling" anything. I'm private secretary to Oliver Warbucks.

HANNIGAN: Oliver Warbucks. The Oliver Warbucks

GRACE: The Oliver Warbucks.

HANNIGAN: I read in Winchell's column that Oliver Warbucks is the world's richest unmarried man.

GRACE: I wouldn't know. I don't read Mr. Winchell. Miss Hannigan, Mr. Warbucks has decided to invite an orphan to spend the holidays at this home.

HANNIGAN: An orphan? You sure we wouldn't rather have a lady? I got two weeks coming.

To sign up for an audition time or date, or with any other questions, call Lillian Andron at 305-308-8055