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AUDITION INFORMATION

Details on an upcoming auditions at the Cabrillo Playhouse:

Audition Notice for

THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Presented by The Cabrillo Playhouse
Directed by Austin Peay
Choreographer Jimmy Hippenstiel
Performances April 13 – May 6, 2012

Date: February 11, 2012
Time: 10 am to Noon
Location: Cabrillo Playhouse

Actors, please have no more than 32 measures of an audition song prepared. You may use music from the show and/or appropriate musical theater numbers. You may be asked to read from the script. Please be prepared to stay the whole time. Questions may be directed to Austin Peay at (949) 280-2390 or austindpeay@gmail.com

Spelling Bee Character Breakdown

Cast size: Small (2-10)
Cast Type:
Ensemble Cast - Many featured roles, Ethnic Roles, Showcases trained singers
Dance requirement:
Standard (Musical Staging/Some Dance/Optional)
Casting notes:
5 Men, 4 Women with doubling or larger depending on the doubling

CHIP TOLENTINO (actor may also double as Jesus)A boy scout and champion of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, he returns to defend his title, but he finds puberty hitting at an inopportune moment. C3 - B4 - tenor
DOUGLAS PANCH
The Vice Principle. After five years' absence from the Bee, Panch returns as judge. There was an "incident" at the Twentieth Annual Bee, but he claims to be in "a better place" now, thanks to a high-fiber diet and Jungian analysis. He is infatuated with Rona Lisa Peretti, but she does not return his affections. He doesn’t really sing.

LEAF CONEYBEAR (actor may also double as Carl Dad)
The second runner-up in his district, Leaf gets into the competition on a lark: the winner and first runner-up had to go to the winner’s Bat Mitzvah. Leaf comes from a large family of former hippies and makes his own clothes. He spells words correctly while in a trance. In his song, "I'm Not That Smart", he sings that his family thinks he is "not that smart," but he insinuates that he is merely easily distracted. Most of the words that he is assigned are South American rodents with amusing names. A2 - G4 - Baritone or Tenor

LOGAINNE SCHWARTZANDGRUNENIERRE (SCHWARTZY)
Logainne is the youngest and most politically aware speller, often making comments about current political figures, with two overbearing homosexual fathers. She is somewhat of a neat freak, speaks with a lisp, and will be back next year. C4 - D5 - Soprano

MARCY PARK
A recent transfer from Virginia, Marcy placed ninth in last year’s nationals. She speaks six languages, is a member of all-American hockey, a championship rugby player, plays Chopin and Mozart on multiple instruments, sleeps only three hours a night, hides in the bathroom cabinet, and is getting very tired of always winning. She is the poster child for the Over-Achieving Asian, and attends a Catholic school called "Our Lady of Intermittent Sorrows." She is also not allowed to cry. B3 - E5 - Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
MITCH MAHONEY (actor may also double as Dan Dad and Olive’s Dad in fantasy)
The Official Comfort Counselor. An ex-convict, Mitch is performing his community service with the Bee, and hands out juice boxes to losing students. E3 - A4 (B4) - Tenor

OLIVE OSTROVSKY
A young newcomer to competitive spelling. Her mother is in an ashram in India, and her father is working late, as usual, but he is trying to come sometime during the bee. She made friends with her dictionary at a very young age, helping her to make it to the competition. B3 - F#5 - Soprano

RONA LISA PERETTI (actor may also double as Olive’s Mom in fantasy)
The number-one realtor in Putnam County, a former Putnam County Spelling Bee Champion herself, and returning moderator. She is a sweet woman who loves children, but she can be very stern when it comes to dealing with Vice Principal Panch, who has feelings for her that she most likely does not return. It is implied that she sees much of herself in Olive Ostrovsky. Her favorite moment of the Bee is in the minutes before it starts, when all the children are filled with the joy of competition, before they begin to resent each other. She later declares that she likes how everyone has an equal chance of winning, citing as an example that last year's winner can be this year's loser and vice versa. Another favorite moment is when the last winners go head to head for the top spot because it is so suspenseful and filled with hope. Ms. Peretti herself won the Third Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by spelling "syzygy," which she recounts at the very beginning of the opening number. C#4 - Ab5 - Soprano

WILLIAM BARFEE
A Putnam County Spelling Bee finalist last year, he was eliminated because of an allergic reaction to peanuts. His famous “Magic Foot” method of spelling has boosted him to spelling glory, even though he only has one working nostril and a touchy personality. He has an often-mispronounced last name: it is Bar-FAY, not BARF-ee ("there's an accent aigu," he explains with some hostility). He develops a crush on Olive. Eb3 - Bb4 - Tenor

Leaf’s Mom, Dad, and Siblings are usually played by the spellers and audience volunteers but some of this too, could be cast as individual roles.