Challenging Minds, Changing Lives

Department of Theatre & Dance

Spring Unified Auditions 2008

January 16* and January 17**

Ruthless and Arcadia

You will have 2 minutes to present a song and monologue

  • SONG:
    Traditional Musical Theatre style (belt, power ballad, story songs, and character songs)
    Cole Porter through 1995. Nothing contemporary. Pay very close attention to style and act the song.

    Reminder - no Drag auditions!
    Movies to watch for style choices: Bad Seed, The Women, Mommy Dearest, Gypsy, All About Eve

    Do Not Sing from the following composers:
    Stephen Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown, Andrew Lloyd Webber, or William Finn.

  • MONOLOGUE:

    Choose a monologue similar in intellect and language to the play, Arcadia.

    The piece should be British and performed in RP (standard British dialect)
    The following playwrights are a good place to look for the language and intellect: Stoppard, Frayn, McDonagh, Shaffer, Whitemore.

    If you have questions about material, please feel free to ask Lori Bales. lbales@millikin.edu

  • DANCE CALL:
    There will not be a general dance call for everyone.
    Those called back for Ruthless will learn and perform a tap combination at the callback on Friday night.

NOTES:
Sign ups for all auditions and dance calls will be posted on the bulletin board outside of Shilling 210 on Monday, January 14.

Scripts on permanent reserve at STALEY LIBRARY
Libretto and score for Ruthless under Long
Script for Arcadia under Bales
**Dramaturgy site for Arcadia at: http://www.millikin.edu/theatre/season/07_08_Season/Arcadia/arcadiaDrama/index.html

For all Theatre Majors
*Wednesday night, 1/16 of Unified Auditions, will be for Sophomores and Seniors and cast of Pinafore
**Thursday night, 1/17 will be for Freshmen and Juniors
all other students may sign up either evening.

Callbacks for shows:
Ruthless--Friday, January 18, 6:00pm - 10:00pm, Albert Taylor Theatre
Arcadia --Saturday, January 19, 10:00am - 2:00pm, Pipe Dreams I Studio Theatre

Junior and Senior Acting BFAs only
If you do not want to sing at the audition you must submit a written request to the department chair prior to the evening of your audition; you will still have the 2 minutes for your audition if you want to use it