Students should pick one song and one monologue to perform at the audition. Materials should be off book if possible!
MONOLOGUES:
WINNIE FOSTER - Maybe it’s today, when something exciting happens…or something, just anything… Please not another day when nothing happens. Can I go outside and play before breakfast? Can we have breakfast outside this morning? Remember when Dad made waffles and we ate them outside and you said it was just like a picnic? Can we have an adventure? Please? Please?
JESSE TUCK - Look around you, the flowers, and the trees, and the frogs, they’re all part of the wheel. They’re always changing, always growing, like you Winnie. Your life is never the same, you were once a child, now you’re about to become a woman. Then one day you’ll go out, like the flame of a candle. You’ll make way for new life. That’s a certainty. That’s the natural way of things.
MILES TUCK - Ma, shut the music box, you never know who could hear it. Here Ma, happy ten Birthdays…It’s good to be home but I never felt like I truly belonged here. Perhaps people like me will never have a home. A house yes, but can anyone feel truly at home when so separated from the people around them? - so alienated from something so basic as time?
MAE TUCK - Angus what anniversary are we up to? What’s a marriage after a century passes? Winnie said she wanted to drink the water…that frightened me. Winnie’s going home, the boys are leaving…we’ve talked more in one day than we have talked in years…are you with me or are you just snoring near me? We have to go…I know it’s for the best.
ANGUS TUCK - Do you like fishing? I didn’t have to teach Jesse; I think he was born already knowing how…both my boys could swim before they could walk. I think you’ve got a fish on your line, pull it up…Well done Winnie, Trout for breakfast! Ok…Ok…I’ll put him back…there you can see him swimming away…you know Winnie, the time before we drank when we could hurt, when we could die, those are the only moments that matter.
THE MAN IN YELLOW SUIT - Well, now. Aren’t you wise beyond your - eleven years, is it? I’m a carnival man, young lady! It’s my business to know un-knowable things…We have something in common…I’d do anything to live forever, and I mean anything. Would you? Now, I don’t suppose you’ve noticed anyone strange around here recently… Been up and down the state, looking for a highly unusual family. Used to live here in Treegap, some time ago.
SONGS:
WINNIE FOSTER - “Good Girl Winnie Foster”
Measures 3-40
JESSE TUCK - “Top Of The World”
Measures 3-25
ANGUS TUCK- “The Wheel”
Measures 21-38
MAE TUCK - “My Most Beautiful Day”
Measures 5-35
MILES TUCK - “Time”
Measures 21-38
MAN IN YELLOW SUIT - “Ev’rythings Golden”
Measures 25-58
HUGO - “Hugo’s First Case”
Measures 1-31
ENSEMBLE - “Join The Parade”
Measures 3-20