Audition Packet 2019

Auditionees will progress through three sections of the audition process. Grade 5 - 8 students will have 15 minutes in three different rooms: Room 1 – choreography, where they learn a few dance steps, Room 2 – review script pieces, Room 3 – review vocals. After this rotation, they will enter the room with the adjudicators and perform the vocals and read from the scripts that they have reviewed. You will find a link to the script and music pieces below.

Fourth graders will audition on Monday, August 19, but they will not need to prepare for the audition except to learn a clip from the song “Beauty and the Beast.”

The script for Beauty and the Beast is very similar to the animated Disney version, so you may wish to watch the movie for inspiration. However, don’t worry about copying the movie exactly! Please feel free to make the characters your own. The script for Cheaper by the Dozen, however, is nothing like the Steven Martin film. It is based on the 1948 novel by Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

You must bring the items listed below to your audition!

• Signed Family Participation Contract (please keep the additional information) • Signed Audition Form • A picture of yourself that we can keep

In this packet, you will find:

• Audition Song and Scene Information (page 2) • Link to Audition Materials (page 2) • Audition Form (pages 3 - 4) • Family Participation Contract (pages 5 - 7)

Audition Song Information

Everyone should be ready to sing the applicable highlighted “general” song.

If you’re interested in a specific role, you may choose one of the characters listed below and prepare his/her song, in addition to the “general.”

Please know in advance that we may only be able to let you sing one of the songs you have worked on. We need to make sure that we will have time to hear everyone!

Fifth - Eighth Grade Girls’ Songs: Fifth - Eighth Grade Boys’ Songs: • General: “Beauty and the Beast” • General: “Human Again” • Belle: “Home” • Lumiere: “Be Our Guest” • Mrs. Potts: “Be Our Guest” • Gaston: “Gaston (Reprise)”

Fourth Grade Song: • “Beauty and the Beast”

Audition Scene Information

Fifth – Eighth Grade: Please be prepared to read scenes from both Cheaper by the Dozen and Beauty and the Beast during your audition. You may be asked to read as different characters, though we will not have time for you to read every scene and character.

***Here is a link to audition materials, including rehearsal tracks, accompaniment tracks, character breakdowns, and acting scenes:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17CPmmW9jnASWuDTDHRBTk8q Jw0b-c-LY?usp=sharing

Audition Form This form is to be completed and brought to auditions with a PHOTO and student/parent signed contract.

Name______Grade_____ HR Teacher/Classroom Teacher ______Address______Please circle below the phone # at which you would prefer to be contacted. Mom’ Cell ______Dad’ s Cell ______Email for info & updates ______*We will use the REMIND app for timely text updates. Height______(do not estimate) Please specify child or teen sizes: Dress Size ______Pant Size ______Shirt Size______T-Shirt size (specify child or adult for our ordering purpose) ______Circle the show(s) for which you would like to be considered: FALL PLAY SPRING MUSICAL

EXPERIENCE: (previous plays, dance, gymnastics, special talent) ______

Audition Form (continued)

Are you interested in a particular role? If so, what? ______

Will you take any role, even if it is non-speaking? ______

If not cast, are you interested in Tech? Yes/No ____ If yes, what? ______

Conflicts: Do you have any known conflict dates? ______

For the Spring, what afternoons are you available to rehearse? ______

Are you committed to a Fall or Spring sport? ______

Tentative Calendar Dates: Morning Rehearsals 6:50 - 8:10 AM Fall rehearsals will be scheduled on the Drama Web Calendar. Morning rehearsals will tentatively begin August 27 and run Monday – Thursday until the after-school rehearsals begin on October 28. After school rehearsals will run from October 28 until the performance on November 7. THERE WILL ALSO BE REHEARSALS ON EARLY RELEASE DAYS AT 12:30 PM ON SEPTEMBER 12 AND OCTOBER 2 AND A POTENTIAL REHEARSAL ON COLUMBUS DAY, OCTOBER 14. Rehearsals for the March musical, Beauty and the Beast Jr, will be November 13 – November 21 and December 2 – 13 and will resume January 6 after break. Dance rehearsals will be Friday afternoons beginning in November. PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE REHEARSALS ON EARLY RELEASE DAYS AT 12:30 PM ON FEBRUARY 6 AND 7 WITH A VERY PROBABLE REHEARSAL ON FEBRUARY 17, PRESIDENTS DAY.

Family Participation Contract

Please read this contract very carefully! Much work is required to stage a production, and we want you to understand, as much as possible, your commitment. We want you to understand that you are making a commitment for your student and your family in the following ways:

• Parents are also committing to serving in producing the production (props, costumes, set…). Each parent is expected to sign up for a production committee and “a week of performance” job. Parents are also expected to help to break down after the final performance. • If an actor chooses to drop out of this cast or is removed from the cast for disciplinary reasons, the participation fee will not be returned. • The actor will commit to cooperating with Miss Myers, Mrs. Scott, the Musical Director, and Choreographer during rehearsals so that our time will be used wisely. The actor will encourage other cast members with positive words to and about them. • It is crucial that I come to the rehearsals on time to practice for my part. A missed rehearsal can and will result in the loss of stage time. • Continued tardiness to rehearsals effects not only me but the entire cast. It may result in removal from the cast. • There are absolutely no pre-arranged absences allowed for after school rehearsals 2 weeks prior to the play performances, INCLUDING PERIMETER SCHOOL SPORTING EVENTS. An absence may result in being replaced by an understudy. • Costumes and their expense are the responsibility of the cast member with direction from the costumer. We will use our costume closet as much as possible, but they may be as much as $100 - $150. • I understand that there is a $125 activity fee for either play in which I am cast. • Parents agree to contribute a minimum of 20 hours help by signing up for various production jobs in an area of pre-production and the week of the play. Please fill out the Parent Involvement form and include it with your child’s completed Audition Form to be turned in at their audition. • Drama is not an excuse to miss my homework. My rehearsal and stage time may be reduced if my grades drop significantly. If I am put on Academic Probation during the production process, I may be pulled from the production. • I understand that there is often down time offstage while I am waiting to do my role. I will not be disruptive during these times and will be attentive to when it is my time to be onstage. • I understand that a sporting event or lesson is not an excused absence from an announced rehearsal. Exceptions are made for play last minute changes. • Not all students will need to come to every rehearsal; he/she will only be called when necessary. All rehearsals and performances are expected to be held at Perimeter. A more detailed parent meeting will be held when the play is cast.

*I may be dismissed from the production if: • I exhibit disruptive or unkind behavior to other students or adults. • I have 2 unexcused absences from rehearsals (i.e. I don’t show up to rehearsal and do not give prior notice). You may email Miss Myers at [email protected] or call her at 770-841-2667 or Mrs. Scott at [email protected], 404-408-8571. If you need to notify us of a child’s illness, you must do so before rehearsal begins. Once rehearsal has begun, we will not check our phones, which may result in you receiving a 7:15 AM phone call. • I am put on Academic Probation.

Projected Family Costs: • Participation Fee: $125 (cover lights, sets, sounds, publicity, programs, t-shirts, tech fees, cast/crew meals and rentals). • $75.00 for tech • Costumes: personal expenditures may be up to approximately $100-$150 • Tickets – Musical: $7.00 - $10 or $6.00 for a non-musical general admission. After one paid admission, immediate family (parents and siblings) are permitted to attend additional shows for free.

(Turn this page in with your filled-out audition form at Auditions)

Drama Department Production Contract

I have read and agree to the Drama Production Contract.

SIGNATURE OF STUDENT: ______DATE ______

My child has my permission to participate in the Perimeter School productions, and I AGREE to the guidelines as set out in the audition packet and contract. I will participate if my child is cast in a play by volunteering a minimum of 20 hours to help and also by keeping track of rehearsal dates and show information to have my child at rehearsals on time.

SIGNATURE OF PARENT(S) OR GUARDIAN(S):

______DATE ______

I would like to help in the following areas (Circle any interest below):

Set construction Painting Props- construction or hunting and gathering Costuming Make up Meals/snacks Business administration Poster or t-shirt design Program layout

Please note if you are interested in chairing a committee if your child is cast:

______