Concert Audition

Our Grade 4/5 students got audition sheets today and all are invited to come and try out for a part next week Wednesday and Thursday.

Here is the audition song.  Some who are trying for smaller parts will be able to sing it with another person.  Anyone who wants a large part like Santa or the Captain, must be able to sing it on their own.

AUDITION LINES:

Please choose ONE part from ONE scene and memorize it.  Remember that acting is getting into a character.  You are using vocal, body and facial expressions to show who you are and what is happening.  Make it interesting and speak SLOWLY.

SCENE 1 (when the Captain and the pirates discover White Beard/Santa)

Captain: Ahoy, mate!  Tell us what you saw!

Pirate: (in awe) Captain!  My Captain! I have seen what every pirate dreams of seeing: what every pirate has been told about, since we were little scurvies.

Captain: What?  What is it?

Pirate: Captain!  I have seen… WHITE BEARD!

Captain: (gasp) White Beard?

Pirate: Aye, me matey!  I would not have believed it, but I have seen him with me own eyes.

Captain: You mean the legendary White Beard is alive and sleeping in that tent?

Pirate: I have seen him.  White Beard is in THAT tent.

SCENE 2 (when Santa first meets the pirates)

Santa:  Ho!  Ho! Ho!  What have we here, Christmas carolers?  I just love when people show up expectantly to sing songs on my front porch.  (to one pirate with a patch).  Sorry about that eye, fella, you might find something new in your stocking this year, if you’ve been a good boy.  Ho! Ho! Ho!

Pirate: Avast! Hold it right there, White Beard!

Santa: White Beard? Ho! Ho! Ho! How cute!  Well, I guess I do have a white beard after all.  Very observant of you.

Pirate: Don’t try to be sly, White Beard!  We know all about you!

SCENE 3 (when the pirates go to the North Pole with the elves)

Pirate: Blimey!  How do you elves stand it up here?

Elf: We work almost all the time making toys for little girls and boys.  And when we get a break…. We dance.

Pirate: Dance!?

Elf (enthusiastically): Sure!  Nothing will warm up your body like a little song and dance

Pirate: This is too weird.

Elf (happily): Hey, don’t knock it till you try it

Pirate:  ARRRR!  We’re pirates!  Pirates don’t dance.  It wouldn’t be cool.

Elf (practically): Suit yourself.  If you want to stand there and freeze, go ahead.  But if you want to stay warm at the North Pole, listen to some elfy advice… just dance!