Cinderella Auditions

 

Auditions for Cinderella this Saturday 17th Jan in our Dosco studio.

Auditions for our upcoming Pantomime Cinderella will be held on Saturday Jan. 17th in our Dosco Studio –

Audition slots can be booked by contacting the Drama Office
021 4891249 – each audition will last 30 minutes.

To audition you must be a minimum of 10 years old and a member of the Wolfe Stage School

You must be free to rehearse every weekend between now and April 7th
NB (this includes the mid-term break and St Patrick’s Weekend)
10 am – 2pm.

****Successful candidates will be replaced by their understudy if they fail to attend a rehearsal – unfortunately this includes illness or unexpected family trips or other engagements.

Students who have an interest in auditioning, must be comfortable with learning lines and reading.
Be full of energy, enthusiasm and willing to work hard with performers of varying ages.

The cost of this training module (on completion of a successful audition) will be €5.00 per session (10 sessions expected).

 

Principal roles we are looking to fill include:

Cinderella – Kind, honest and caring, Cinderella is treated very badly by those around her but her inner strength shines through in everything she does.

The Fairy Godmother – Forgetful, scatty and under prepared for her last Fairy exam.

Buttons – Cinderella’s “outrageously camp “ best friend

Zippy – The village idiot – a stereotypical boy who isn’t very bright.

Ugly sister – mean and nasty and spoilt the sisters will stop at nothing to get their own way

Ugly Sister – mean and nasty and spoilt the sisters will stop at nothing to get their own way

Baron – Cinderella’s forgetful father who suffers from memory loss

Baroness – A drunk

Dandini – A streetwise charmer who only wants the best for his friend the Prince- full of wise cracks

The Prince – A dreamer -quiet, shy and not very good around girls

Any of the Characters can be played by either a boy or a girl
Choose a Character to audition for and prepare one of the following short speeches. The lines do not need to be learnt – just be familiar. Please prepare to read both characters in each scene

CINDERELLA & FAIRY GOD MOTHER

CINDERELLA
Oh hello boys and girls I feel so sorry for Buttons and zippy – they went to so much trouble organising the party for me and my sisters were so horrible. I just don’t understand why everyone cant just get along .
I wish I was…. oh I wish I was far away, far away from all this…horribleness.

Enter Fairy

FAIRY GODMOTHER
Oh dear, now that wasn’t supposed to happen, let’s see how does this thing work. (She exams her wand)

CINDERELLA
Excuse me, but are you okay?

FAIRY GODMOTHER
Oh I’m fine, I’m just trying to get this wretched wand to work. It’s the latest model see, and I can’t quite get the hang of it.

CINDERELLA
And what is it?

FAIRY GODMOTHER
What is it? It’s a wand my dear, the 2010 JML I Wand. It’s top of the range, all the fairy godmothers have them. I just can’t seem to get the hang of it, personally, I I don’t think there was anything wrong with the old wands, but, you know, we’ve got to keep up with the trends.

CINDERELLA
Fairy godmothers? What’s a Fairy godmother?

FAIRY GODMOTHER
Well I am dear, well at least I will be when I get my licence.

CINDERELLA
Licence?

FAIRY GODMOTHER
To practise magic. You see the government changed the law last year, before, we could all do what we wanted, but now you need a certificate of excellence.
PRINCE & DANDINI

DANDINI
Oh come on, cheer up, you’re Prince Charming, you’re going to be King. You’ve nothing to be depressed about.

PRINCE
I know all that, but there’s one thing I don’t have.

DANDINI
A good hair cut?

PRINCE CHARMING
No, it’s more than that, there’s one thing in life I really want.

DANDINI
to grow a few extra inches.?

PRINCE CHARMING
I want a girlfriend, a companion, a wife.

DANDINI
A wife! No way, my father had one, it’s not a good idea.

PRINCE CHARMING
How is you dad now?

DANDINI
Well he’s fine now he’s made friends with the prison warden, but he still says the biggest mistake of his whole life was getting married. Personally I think his biggest mistake was burying her in the neighbour’s garden but that’s between us.

PRINCE CHARMING
I need someone I can confide in.

DANDINI
Yeah, well that’s not all it’s cracked up to be believe me.

PRINCE CHARMING
Why? I thought things were good between you?

DANDINI
Yeah, but she’s high maintenance, keeps texting me and things.

PRINCE CHARMING
Oh Dandini, I want to be in love.
BUTTONS & ZIPPY
BUTTONS
all the girls in the orphanage are so mean to Cinderella – they bully her

ZIPPY
and make her do all the work – poor Cinderella has no time for any fun

BUTTONS
its her birthday today and we are gonna throw her a surprise party

Zippy

But Buttons, Cinderella’s father already told you he can’t afford a birthday party.

BUTTONS
Oh Baron Hardup’s always moaning about money…

ZIPPY
Ya, cause of the confession.

BUTTONS
Recession.

ZIPPY
That’s what I said, he’s really struggling, I mean before it all Marks and Spencer’s and Tesco finest, now it’s all Aldi .

BUTTONS
But we can’t not have a party for Cinders, I mean, she deserves it, having to put up with that drunken floozie of a step mother, not two mention her two stepsisters, Ugly and Uglier!

ZIPPY
But there’s no money; I mean I tried to warn the Baron, I did, I even killed his cat shoving fivers down its throat.

BUTTONS
Why did you shove fivers down the cat’s throat?

ZIPPY
Well I heard on the news you should put money in the kitty.

BUTTONS
well as long as you don’t ed up back in jail – he got arrested last year for stealing a calendar

ZIPPY
I got 12 months!
THE UGLY SISTERS

DRizella
Was somebody talking about us?

ANASTASIA
All good I hope.
Here, what’s all this? Whose party’s this?

DRIZELLA
Oh I know, this is the rehearsal for our sweet sixteen next week.

ANASTASIA
It better not be, this party’s rubbish.

DRIZELLA
Yeah it’s rubbish, where’s all the DJs and the dancers and the horses?

ANASTASIA
And the chocolate fountain!

DRIZELLA
And that better not be our cake, we want a big cake!

ANASTASIA
Yeah, and we want a cake that looks exactly like us.
ANASTASIA
Now listen our sweet sixteen is in five days, MTV will be here in three days to film it, so you better have a good party planned and a good surprise.

DRIZELLA
Yeah we want a surprise, like a car or a castle or something cool like a castle we can drive.

ANASTASIA
Yeah we want a castle we can drive!

DRIZELLA
Wait a second! That cake says “Happy Birthday Cinderella”. What’s her dirty name doin on our birthday cake, which is too small?

BARON & BARONESS

BARONESS
Hold your horses will ya. You can’t hurry a genius.

BARON
I’m not, I’m hurrying you.

BARONESS
Now don’t get smart, this is a favour I’m doing for you remember.

BARON
Yes, yes, but it’s for Cinderella as well, I want to make it up to her for having such a terrible birthday, by making her a cake – myself. And you’re going to show me how to do it.

BARONESS
I said so didn’t I? Now I don’t have long cause I promised me mam I’d take her into Guiney’s. Now first thing’s first, we must wash our hands.

BARON
Oh dear, and the corporations turned off the water again.

BARONESS
Not to worry, we’ll improvise. (goes over to the dog)All right boy, now cock your leg up.

BARON
Well that’s not very hygienic.

BARONESS
You’re right. (spits into his hands) Now, once our hands are washed we can start preparing the ingredients. Now firstly, I need 200 ml of brandy.

BARON
Right.

BARONESS
Thanks.
(Drinks the brandy)
And another. And a bottle of wine.

BARON
Are you sure you know what you’re doing?

BARONESS
Course I do, my father was once a famous chef.

BARON
And what happened to him.

BARONESS
He got arrested for grievous bodily harm.

BARON
Why? What did he do?

BARONESS
He was beating the eggs.