AUDITIONS
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NEXT AUDITION:
SPRING AWAKENING
SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 10:30AM - 1:30PM, AT MVT
SUNDAY, JAN. 11, 6:30 - 9:30PM, AT MVT
CALLBACKS WILL BE HELD BY INVITATION FRIDAY, JAN. 16, 6 - 9PM AT MVT
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AUDITION OVERVIEW
ACTORS ARE ENCOURAGED TO FAMILIARIZE THEMSELVES WITH THE SCRIPT BEFORE COMING TO AUDITIONS. IT CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER, INCLUDING FRANK SEXUALITY, MASTURBATION, SEXUAL ABUSE, ABORTION, DEATH, AND SUICIDE. PERFORMERS MUST BE 17 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME OF THE AUDITION. PERFORMERS OF ALL ETHNICITIES AND GENDERS ARE WELCOME. WE INVITE GENDER NON-CONFORMING, GENDERQUEER, TRANSGENDER, AND NON-BINARY ACTORS TO AUDITION FOR THE ROLES THEY MOST IDENTIFY WITH. NO FULL NUDITY WILL BE USED IN THE PRODUCTION, ALTHOUGH FOR SOME CHARACTERS THERE MAY BE REVEALING GARMENTS, SHEER FABRICS, AND SIMULATED NUDITY.
AWAKENING
SPRING
DATES:
AUDITIONS
SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 10:30AM - 1:30PM, AT MVT
SUNDAY, JAN. 11, 6:30 - 9:30PM, AT MVT
CALLBACKS WILL BE HELD BY INVITATION FRIDAY, JAN. 16, 6 - 9PM AT MVT
*ALL PERFORMERS MUST BE 18 (OR 17 WITH PERMISSION FROM PARENTS/GUARDIANS)*
BASED ON THE PLAY BY FRANK WEDEKIND
BOOK + LYRICS BY STEVEN SATER
MUSIC BY DUNCAN SHEIK
DIRECTED BY LURANA DONNELS O’MALLEY
MUSIC DIRECTED BY JENNY SHIROMA
CHOREOGRAPHED BY JONATHAN CLARKE SYPERT
WHAT TO PREPARE
INITIAL AUDITIONS WILL CONSIST OF 32 BARS OF A SONG, PREFERABLY FROM SPRING AWAKENING OR FROM A SIMILAR SHOW. PLEASE BRING CLEARLY MARKED SHEET MUSIC. EACH AUDITIONEE WILL ALSO READ THE AUDITION SIDE OF THEIR CHOICE (COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE, NO MEMORIZATION NEEDED), AND WILL MEET WITH THE CHOREOGRAPHER TO LEARN A MOVEMENT SEQUENCE. IMPORTANT: PLEASE WEAR CLOTHING YOU CAN MOVE IN (BEWARE HIGH HEELS, TIGHT CLOTHING). CALLBACKS WILL CONSIST OF ADDITIONAL SONGS AND READINGS.
SYNOPSIS
MUSICAL IN 2 ACTS. BASED ON THE PLAY BY FRANK WEDEKIND.
A GERMAN PROVINCE, 1891. THE ENSEMBLE OF BOYS AND GIRLS ARE ALL IN THE THROES OF ADOLESCENT CONFUSION AND DESIRE, WHILE THE ADULTS EVADE THEIR QUESTIONS AND DEMAND CONFORMITY. WENDLA EXPLORES THE MYSTERIES OF HER NEWLY WOMANLY BODY, AND WONDERS WHERE BABIES COME FROM. THE BRILLIANT AND FEARLESS MELCHIOR DEFENDS HIS FRIEND MORITZ, WHO IS SO TRAUMATIZED BY PUBERTY HE CAN'T CONCENTRATE. IN A PRIVATE PLACE IN THE WOODS, MELCHIOR AND WENDLA DISCOVER ONE ANOTHER, AND UNCOVER A TUMULTUOUS DESIRE. MEANWHILE, MORITZ FAILS OUT OF SCHOOL. WHEN EVEN HIS ONE ADULT FRIEND, MELCHIOR’S MOTHER, IGNORES HIS PLEA FOR HELP, HE IS LEFT SO DISTRAUGHT, HE CAN'T HEAR THE PROMISE OF LIFE OFFERED BY HIS OUTCAST FRIEND ILSE. THE HEADMASTERS WASTE NO TIME IN PINNING THE “CRIME” OF MORITZ' SUICIDE ON MELCHIOR, WHO IS SENT TO A REFORMATORY. AND WHEN HER MOTHER LEARNS THAT WENDLA IS CARRYING MELCHIOR’S CHILD, SHE SHUFFLES THE GIRL OFF FOR A BACKSTREET ABORTION. MELCHIOR BREAKS FREE, AND RUNS TO MEET HIS BELOVED — AT MIDNIGHT IN THE GRAVEYARD — ONLY TO LEARN THAT SHE HAS DIED. OVERWHELMED BY THE LOSS OF HIS TWO FRIENDS, AND THE TRUE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, MELCHIOR NONETHELESS DETERMINES THAT HIS FRIENDS WILL BE REMEMBERED.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
*ALL ROLES AVAILABLE | ALL PERFORMERS MUST BE 18 (OR 17 WITH PERMISSION FROM PARENTS/GUARDIANS)*
Role Title: Wendla
Character Gender: Female | Vocal range: E3-E5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Naive, in first romance/sexual experience, becomes unintentionally pregnant
Role Title: Melchior
Character Gender: Male | Vocal range: G2-B4
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Intellectual, rebellious, romantic/sexual experience with Wendla
Role Title: Moritz
Character Gender: Male | Vocal Range: C3-A4
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Struggling with school and desire, commits suicide
Role Title: Ilse
Character Gender: Female | Vocal range: E3-E5
Age range: character is 16-20 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: A free spirit returning to her hometown. Sexually abused by her father.
Role Title: Man (Multiple characters)
Character Gender: Male
Age range: 40+
Description: Plays various authority figures in the kids’ lives; harsh, “grownup”; performer must distinguish between each separate role. Minimal singing/dancing.
Role Title: Woman (Multiple characters)
Character Gender: Female
Age range: 40+
Description: Plays various authority figures in the kids’ lives; most are harsh, “grownup”; performer must distinguish between each separate role. Minimal singing/dancing.
Role Title: Martha
Character Gender: Female | Vocal range: E3-E5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolgirl with a crush on Moritz. Beaten and sexually abused by her father.
Role Title: Thea
Character Gender: Female | Vocal range: E3-E5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolgirl with a crush on Melchior.
Role Title: Anna
Character Gender: Female | Vocal range: E3-E5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolgirl, a romantic.
Role Title: Hanschen
Character Gender: Male | Vocal range: Ab2-D5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolboy, with queer longing, kisses Ernst. Masturbation scene. (May double in reform school scene).
Role Title: Ernst
Character Gender: Male | Vocal range: Ab2-D5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolboy, with queer longing, kissed by Hanschen. (May double in reform school scene).
Role Title: Georg
Character Gender: Male | Vocal range: Ab2-D5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolboy with a crush on his piano teacher, fretful. (May double in reform school scene).
Ability to play piano is helpful.
Role Title: Otto
Character Gender: Male | Vocal range: Ab2-D5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolboy, full of energy. (May double in reform school scene).
Role Title: Male Ensemble (1-2)
Character Gender: Male | Vocal range: Ab2-D5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolboy, may double in reform school scene.
Role Title: Female Ensemble (1-2)
Character Gender: Female | Vocal range: E3-E5
Age range: character is 15-18 | All performers must be 18 (or 17 with permission from parents/guardians)
Description: Schoolgirl.
MEET THE DIRECTORS
LURANA DONNELS O’MALLEY
DIRECTOR
Lurana Donnels O’Malley (she/her) is a freelance director and independent researcher living in Honolulu. She is a retired Professor of Theatre at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with a specialty in Russian theatre and theatre by women. Recent directing credits include Indecent (Open Home Performance Network), June is the First Fall (Kumu Kahua Theatre), The Spitfire Grill (Kennedy Theatre), Flowers of Hawaii (Kennedy Theatre), and Aitu Fafine (Kumu Kahua Theatre). Lurana is the daughter of New Orleans artist Johnny Donnels. Lurana is thrilled to work with this stellar production team in her first production at MVT.
JENNY
SHIROMA
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Jenny Shiroma (Music Director) earned a B.Ed. in music education from the University of Hawai’i and studied piano at Juilliard with Julie Jordan. Previous music directing credits include: Come From Away, Spongebob, Frozen, My Fair Lady, Mamma Mia, Beauty and the Beast, and Anything Goes at DHT, Parade, Once on this Island, Dear Evan Hansen, Tick, Tick, Boom!, The Rocky Horror Show, Avenue Q, and Fun Home with MVT, A Charlie Brown Christmas with the Secret Theatre in NYC, and Renewal at the Times Square Arts Center in NYC. She has also accompanied many choirs, workshops and auditions throughout Hawaii and NYC. Jenny teaches choir and piano at Farrington High School.
