Sign up here for one slot to audition on either August 26th or 27th
Callbacks will be August 28th
All who audition will be cast. Those considered for lead/supporting roles will be called back. Call backs will consist of a vocal check and a dance call.
First rehearsal: August 30th
Rehearsals are from Monday to Thursday from 4pm to 7pm.
Show dates: November 12, 13, 14
High School Requirements: Prepare 32-bars of a Golden Age Broadway piece and a two-minute monologue featuring character voice. Please have backing tracks prepared (YouTube preferred but not required).
Junior High Requirements: Prepare a selection oour choice using the selections provided at www.CourserTheatre.com. Junior high students who wish to be considered for lead or supporting roles are strongly encouraged to prepare a high school level audition.
Callbacks: All who audition will be cast. Those considered for leads and supporting roles will receive a callback for August 28th. The callback will consist of a vocal check and a dance call.
Eliza Doolittle: A cockney flower girl from Lisson Grove, Eliza works outside Covent Garden. Her potential to become “a lady” becomes the object of a bet between Higgins and Pickering.
Henry Higgins: A British, upper class professional bachelor, Higgins is a world-famous phonetics expert, teacher, and author of “Higgins’ Universal Alphabet.”
Colonel Pickering: A retired British officer with colonial experience, Pickering is the author of “Spoken Sanskrit.”
Alfred P. Doolittle: Eliza’s father, Doolittle is an elderly but vigorous dustman.
Freddy Eynsford-Hill: An upper class young man, Freddy becomes completely smitten with Eliza.
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: A friend of Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Eynsford-Hill is Freddy’s mother.
Mrs. Higgins: Henry’s long-suffering mother.
Bartender: George works the Tottenham Court Road Pub.
Harry: Drinking companion of Alfred Doolittle.
Jamie: Drinking companion of Alfred Doolittle.
Mrs. Pearce: Henry Higgins’ housekeeper.
Mrs. Hopkins: A cockney woman of Tottenham Court.
Prof. Zoltan Karpathy: A bearded Hungarian, Karpathy is a former phonetics student of Henry Higgins who fancies himself impossible to dupe when it comes to identifying the origin of anyone’s speech patterns.
A Bystander
First Cockney, Second Cockney, Third Cockney, Fourth Cockney: Four men who form a Cockney quartet.
Butler: Henry Higgins’s household employee.
Footman: Henry Higgins’s household employee.
Lord Boxington: A friend of Mrs. Higgins, Boxington is an Ascot race patron.
Lady Boxington: The wife of Lord Boxington.
Flower Girl
Footman: An embassy employee
Selsey Man: A bystander outside Covent Garden
Various Servants, Maids, Stewards, Etc.
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You may select the vocal part and side reading of any role you like, but be advised that auditioning with materials from a certain role does not mean you are auditioning to be exclusively considered for that role. For example, auditioning with selections for Eliza does not mean you're only going to be considered for Eliza.
If you're uncertain about how to prepare:
Find Mr. White when he's not busy. Emails are magical for this purpose.
Ask a high schooler
Attend the audition workshop (date/time TBD)