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Auditions for Iolanthe with GSSME February 2019!
Auditions will be held in the theater (on the 2nd floor) at the Moore Community Center (133 State St, Ellsworth, ME 04605) in Ellsworth.
10/23/18 Tuesday from 7-9pm, and Saturday morning 10/27/18 from 10-12am. If you cannot make one of these days, please contact us.
We are not signing up for times so we can see you all interact, but plan to be there for ~30 min or so. You do not need to be there right at the start, but we appreciate an email (gssmaine@gmail.com) if you are coming!
Note: pages referenced here are from the Schirmer edition of Iolanthe. You can rent this from the Bagaduce Music Library for $3, or order your own from Amazon (~$12).
From Dorothy Wheatcraft (Artistic Director)
Lines to read for auditions (You may also be asked to cold read other scenes/Move):
Fairies C/L/F: Act 1,1. Pg 21 till queen entrance
Iol/Strep/Queen: Act 1,3 pg. 31
Phyllis/Strep:Act 1,4 pg 37
Chancellor/Strep: Act 1, 11. Pg. 84
Fairies C/L Lords T&M: Act 2, 15. Pg 152
T/M: Act 2,19. Pg 161 from ‘prepared to’ till end, the back and forth. Add Phyllis if there.
Chancellor: act 2, 22 monologue of 194
Private/queen: act 2, 25. Pg 202.
From Sandi Blanchette (Music Director)
Musical numbers for auditions:
The Lord Chancellor page 85 when I went to the bar as a very young man
Lord Mount Ararat when Britain really ruled the waves page 1 5 3
Lord Tolloller blue blood spurn not the nobly-born actually. Page 73
Private Willis when all night long a chap remains page 144
Strephen if we’re weak enough to tarry page 189 this is a Phyllis duet.
The fairy queen oh foolish Fay page 158
Celia and Lelia in vain to us you plead pig 155
Phyllis if we’re weak and off to tarry page 189
