4707 N.

Hogback
Fowlerville, MI
fowlervillecommunitytheatre@gmail.com
fowlervillecommunitytheatre.org
517 223-9409

The Wizard of Oz Audition Packet

Welcome to Fowlerville Community Theatre’s March 15-17, 2013 production of
The Wizard of Oz. We want this to be an enjoyable experience for everyone
involved. Our goal is to learn new skills, have a lot of fun while doing it, and put
on a great show. If you or your child plans to audition for a role in the show, you
must fill out the audition form (next page), sign up for an audition time by
emailing fowlervillecommunitytheatre@gmail.com, and come prepared to
perform one of the songs and audition monologues provided in the packet. If
you do not have email, call Diana at 517 223-9409 to set up an audition time.
Before you make the decision to audition, we need to provide some participation
requirements:

Age requirements: Minimum age for cast members is 6 years, with one
completed year of elementary education. Most lead roles will be cast as adults
and teens. Children will play the roles of the Munchkins.

Membership requirement: If you or your child is cast in the show, you must
become a member of Fowlerville Community Theatre. Adult memberships are
$20.00. Youth memberships (age 17 and under) are $10.00. There is a family
limit of $55.00. Memberships remain active for one year.

Show Fee: Musical productions such as The Wizard of Oz are very expensive to
produce. Costumes, props, scenic drops, make-up, licensing fees, PAC rental
fees, etc. run into the thousands of dollars. In an effort to curb some of the
costs, we ask each cast member to pay a show fee of $15.00. There is a family
limit of $25.00.

A production of this kind relies on the willingness of cast members, parents, and
friends to volunteer their special skills. All cast members (and parents of young
cast members) will be asked to help in some way.

After reviewing the audition packet, please contact Diana via email or phone if
you have any questions.
 Fowlerville Community Theatre
Wizard of Oz Audition Form
Name
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Parent(s) name if age 17 of under
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Age _____________ Email Address
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Address
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Phone ___________________________________________ Gender: M F Height
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Voice type (circle one) Females: Soprano Mezzo Alto Unknown
Males: Tenor Baritone Bass
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Will you accept any role? YES NO
What role are you interested in playing?
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List any previous on-stage theatre experience:
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Circle any formal training that you have had:
Vocal Dance Acting Playing an instrument Additional:
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In the event you do not get a part, would you still be interested in remaining involved with
the production in any of the following areas? Check all that interest you. Keep in mind
you must join Fowlerville Community Theatre to work on the production.
___usher ___host/hostess ___advertising/promotion
___ticket sales ___pit orchestra ___ choreographer
___backstage crew ___rehearsal pianist ___costumer/seamstress
___set design ___set building ___clean up crew
___make up ___photographer ___ concessions

PLEASE LIST ALL CONFLICTS YOU HAVE BETWEEN JAN. AND THE
PERFORMANCE DATE (rehearsals will be M-F in the evenings: exact time TBA)
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If cast, I will attend all rehearsals, (or give 24 hours notice), attend all required rehearsals
in the last two weeks before the show, and come to rehearsals on time, and willing to
accept the directions of the director, stage manager, and producer.

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Signature (or parent signature if actor is 17 or under)

How to audition:
1. Fill out the audition form. Bring the completed form with you to your audition.
2. Contact Diana Dombrowski (director) via email at
fowlervillecommunitytheatre@gmail.com to select an audition time. Auditions will be
held in the Fowlerville High School Performing Arts Center on Nov. 9 from 6:00 p.m.-
9:00 p.m. and again on Nov. 10 from 9:00 a.m. – noon and from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
If we need to call you back for a second audition, it will be scheduled on Nov. 17 from
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. in the PAC.
3. Arrive at least 15 minutes prior to your audition slot. We will strive to make sure you
audition right on time, but be prepared to stay if auditions are running a little late.
4. You will remain in the PAC lobby until your name is called. You will audition alone
unless you permit a friend or family member to come into the room with you. All
children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
5. See the Audition Song and Audition Monologue sections below to learn what song and
monologue you will present at your audition. We will provide the instrumental music.

Show schedule:
1. Rehearsals for main characters begin Jan. 7, 2013 and run through the week of the
show. Show dates are March 15, 16, and 17, 2013. All ensemble roles
(chorus/dancers/Munchkins/Ozians/ Jitterbugs/etc.) begin rehearsing the first week in
February. Rehearsals will be in the Fowlerville Jr. High auditorium Monday through
Friday from either 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. depending on a vote
of the cast. You will NOT be required to attend every night. Each cast members will
be given a schedule listing the rehearsals he or she is required to attend. The
schedule will be finalized in mid December.
2. You must notify the director 24 hours in advance if you cannot make a rehearsal.
3. There can be NO ABSENCES the last two weeks before the show.

Song Requirement:

All women sing: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”

You can find this on youtube.com at the following site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOe7BmJzNr0

All Men Sing: “If I Only Had a Brain”

You can find this on youtube.com at the following site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sauRB6699v4

All Children sing: “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead”

It will be helpful if every child has seen the movie The Wizard of Oz prior to auditioning.
You can find this song on youtube.com at the following site:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQLQ1Rc_Js&feature=related

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!

WIZARD OF OZ
Cast of Characters
Watch the film Wizard of Oz to become familiar with these
characters:

Dorothy Gale: (female, 14+) mezzo soprano – middle range voice

Aunty Em/Glinda, the Good Witch of the North: (adult female) soprano
Uncle Henry/Emerald City Guard: (adult male) tenor
Hank/The Scarecrow: (male) tenor
Hickory/The Tin Man: (male) baritone
Zeke/The Cowardly Lion: (male) baritone
Miss Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West: (adult female) non-singing
Professor Marvel/The Wizard of Oz: (adult male) non-singing
Munchkin speaking and solo singing parts include: The Mayor, The
Coroner, The Lullaby League, The Lollipop Guild, The Barrister, City Fathers
#1 and #2, School Teacher #1 and #2 (youth performers aged 6 and up) all
vocal ranges
The Winky General and The Winkies [The Witch's Guards]: (male and
female performers who may also appear in other scenes)
Chorus of Munchkins: (youth performers aged 6 and up who may also
appear in other scenes) all vocal ranges
Ozians [Residents of the Emerald City]: (youth and adult performers -
male and female - who may also appear in other scenes) all vocal ranges
Dancers: dancers are integral to this production and will appear in the
Emerald City and Jitterbug scenes. (male and female - all ages). Dancers
may appear in other scenes.

Audition Monologues

If you are not auditioning for a specific role such as Dorothy, Scarecrow,
Tinman, Lion, Witch, etc., all females will read the audition monologue for
Dorothy I and, if asked, Dorothy III. All males will read the audition
monologue for Scarecrow and, if asked, Tinman. It helps if these
monologues are memorized, but it is not required.

All children will read the audition monologue for Munchkin I and, if asked,
Munchkin II. Parents need to go over these monologues with their children
before the audition. Munchkin I should be memorized if possible.

Those auditioning for specific parts should be prepared to read the

monologues provided below:

Munchkin I: We thank you very sweetly for doing it so neatly.

You’ve killed her so completely, that we thank you very sweetly.
Let the joyous news be spread!
The wicked old witch at last is dead!

Munchkin II: The house began to pitch.

The kitchen took a slich.
It landed on the Wicked Witch in the middle of a ditch,
Which was not a happy situation for the Wicked Witch!

Dorothy I: Aunt Em! Aunt Em! Just listen to what Miss Gulch did to Toto. Aunt
Em, she hit him and . . . Oh, but Aunt Em, Miss Gulch hit Toto right over the back
with a rake just because she says he gets into her garden and chases her nasty
old cat. But he doesn’t do it every day, just once or twice a week, and he can’t
catch her old cat anyway. Now she says she’s going to get the sheriff and . . .
Dorothy II: Follow the yellow brick road. Follow the yellow brick road. Now
which was do we go? That’s funny. Wasn’t he pointing the other way? Don’t be
silly, Toto, scarecrows don’t talk. Why, you did say something. Are you doing
that on purpose or can’t you make up your mind? You haven’t got a brain? How
can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?

Dorothy III: But it wasn’t a dream. It was a place. And you and you and you . . .
and you were there. But you couldn’t have been, could you? No, Aunt Em, this
was a real truly live place, and I remember some of it wasn’t very nice, but most
of it was beautiful – but just the same, all I kept saying to everybody was, “I want
to go home,” and they sent me home! Home. And, this is my room, and you’re
all here, and I’m not going to leave here ever, ever again. Because I love you all.
And . . . Oh, Auntie Em! There’s no place like home?

Aunt Em/Glinda:

• Aunt Em: Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn’t
mean you have the power to run the rest of us! For 23 years I’ve been dying
to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well, being a Christian woman,
I can't say it!

• Glinda: Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Or, is that the witch? Well,
I’m a little muddled. The Munchkins called me because a new witch has
dropped a house on the Wicked Witch of the East. There’s the house, and
here you are, and that’s all that’s left of the Wicked Witch of the East. And,
so, what the Munchkins want to know is, are you a good witch or a bad
witch?

Miss Gulch/Witch

• Miss Gulch: (The part of Uncle Henry will be read by a casting director.)
Uncle Henry Gale: Well, howdy, Miss Gulch.
Miss Gulch: I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy!
Uncle Henry Gale: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
Miss Gulch: What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
Uncle Henry Gale: Oh! You mean she bit you?
Miss Gulch: No, her dog!
Uncle Henry Gale: Oh, she bit her dog, eh?
Miss Gulch: No!
• Witch I: Who killed my sister? Who killed the Wicked Witch of the East? Was it
you? It was an accident, you say? You didn’t mean to kill anyone. Well, my pretty, I
can cause accidents too. The ruby slippers, where are they? What have you done
with them? Give them back to me or I’ll . . . Give me back my slippers. I’m the only
one who knows how to use them. Give them back to me. Give them back!
 • Witch II: Well! Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of spears. Thought you’d be
pretty foxy, didn’t ya? Well, the last to go will see the first three go before her! And
her mangy little dog, too. How about a little fire, Scarecrow? (Dorothy throws water
on the witch) You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done! I’m melting! Melting!
Oh, what a world, what a world! Who would have thought that some little girl like
you could destroy my beautiful wickedness. No! No! I’m going.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Uncle Henry/Emerald City Guard (The part of Miss Gulch will be read by a casting
director.)
Uncle Henry:
Uncle Henry: Well, howdy, Miss Gulch.
Miss Gulch: [comes into the Gales' yard] I want to see you and your wife right away
about Dorothy!
Uncle Henry Gale: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
Miss Gulch: What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
Uncle Henry Gale: Oh! You mean she bit you?
Miss Gulch: No, her dog!
Uncle Henry Gale: Oh, she bit her dog, eh?
Emerald City Guard: (The parts of Dorothy & friends will be read by a casting director)
Guard: Who rang that bell?
Dorothy & Friends: We did!
Guard: Can't you read?
Scarecrow: Read what?
Guard: The notice!
Dorothy: What notice?
Guard: It's on the door - as plain as the nose on my face! It… oh...
[Guardian hangs the notice and goes back inside]
Dorothy & Friends: Bell out of order, please knock. [Dorothy knocks]
Guard: Well, that's more like it! Now, state your business!
Dorothy: We want to see the Wizard!
Guardian [gasps] The Wizard? But nobody can see the Great Oz! Nobody's ever
seen the Great Oz! Even I've never seen him!
Dorothy: Well, then how do you know there is one?
Guard: Oh, you're wasting my time!

Scarecrow I: Pardon me, that way is a very nice way. It’s pleasant down that
way, too. Am I confusing you on purpose? Of course not. You see, I can’t
make up my mind because I haven’t got a brain, only straw. How can I talk if I
haven’t got a brain? Hmmm, well some people without brains do an awful lot
of talking, don’t they?
Scarecrow II: Witch? Huh! I’m not afraid of a witch! I’m not afraid of
anything . . . oh, except a lighted match. But I’d face a whole box full of them
for the chance of getting some brains. Look – I won’t be any trouble because I
don’t eat a thing, and I won’t try to manage things because I can’t think. Won’t
you take me with you?
Scarecrow III: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles
triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy! Rapture! I got
a brain! How can I ever thank you enough?
 Tinman I: Oil can. My mouth. The other side. My, my, my goodness. I can
talk again! Oil my arms, please. Oil my elbows. It feels wonderful. I’ve held
that axe up for ages. It was about a year ago that I was chopping that tree and
suddenly it began to rain. Right in the middle of a chip I rusted solid.

Tinman II: Well, when I was flesh and blood like you, I fell in love with a
Munchkin maiden whose mother hated me. So, to stop me from marrying her
daughter, she hired the Wicked Witch of the West to put an evil spell on my
axe. When I tried to chop down a tree, it chopped off my leg instead. But by
good fortune, I knew a wonderful tinsmith, and he made me a new leg almost
as good as the old one. So back I went to work, and you know what happened?
I swung my axe again, and dang me if it didn’t take off the other leg.

Lion I: Roooaaarr! Put ‘em up, put ‘em up! Which one of ya first? I’ll fight ya
both together if you want. I’ll fight ya with one paw tied behind my back. I’ll
fight ya standing on one foot. I’ll fight ya with my eyes closed. Oh, pulling an
ax on me, eh? Sneaking up on me, eh? Why ruff, ruff!

Lion II: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes
the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his
tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his
musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What
makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so
hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?
Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman: Courage!
Cowardly Lion: You can say that again! Huh?

Professor Marvel/ The Wizard

Professor Marvel: Well, well, well! House guest, huh? Ha Ha Ha Ha. And who might
you be? No, no, now don’t tell me. You’re traveling in disguise. No, that’s not right. I . . .
You’re . . . you’re going on a visit. No, I’m wrong. You’re . . . running away. They . . .
don’t understand you at home. They don’t appreciate you. You want to see other lands,
big cities, big mountains, big oceans. Ha ha!

The Wizard: Come forward. I am Oz, the great and powerful. Who are you? WHO are
YOU! Silence! The great and powerful Oz knows why you’ve come. Tinman, step
forward. You dare come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering,
collection of caliginous junk.

If you’d like to join Fowlerville Community Theatre, we’d love to have you as part of our
theatre family.
Anyone is welcome to join. Just fill out this form, and mail it along with a check to the
address below. 
 MEMBERSHIP
FORM
Please Print

Name:___________________________________________________________________________________
City, & Zip Code _________________________________________________________________________
Home Phone: _________________________Cell Phone: ________________________________________
Email: ___________________________________________________________________________________
(Email will only be used to contact you for FCT events or volunteer opportunities.)

If you’d like to join our Facebook page when it is completed, please provide your Facebook
name: __________________________________________

Yearly Membership Fees

Adults: $20.00 - Youth 17 and under: $10.00 - Family Limit: $55.00

List the names of family members joining with the enclosed membership fees. Please
indicate if the member is age 17 or younger.

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Please check off any of the theatrical jobs listed below that you might want to do:
___ Fundraising ___ Host/Hostess ___House Manager
___ Ticket Sales ___ Usher ___ Advertising/Promotion
___ Acting ___ Stage Manager ___ Backstage/Tech Crew
___ Pit Orchestra ___ Choreographer ___ Rehearsal Pianist
___ Set Design ___ Set Building ___ Costumer/Seamstress
___ Clean Up Crew ___ Photographer ___ Lighting Director or Crew
___ Makeup Crew ___ Director ___ Sound Director or Crew
___ Producer ___ Assistant Director ___ Webpage Maintenance

Mail this form with your check made out to Fowlerville Community Theatre (do not
abbreviate) to:
Diana Dombrowski
4707 N. Hogback
Fowlerville, MI 48836