Hey Choir - I added "What Sweeter Music" to the bandcamp page: http://abwchoir.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-concert-practice-tracks - just scroll down to the bottom of the album.  The other tracks are from last year :)

Hello Dolly Audition Information—Part Two

Hello gang! Below please find the monologues for Hello Dolly auditions. Girls, please read for Dolly, boys please read for Horace Vandergelder. Please also take note of the context I’ve provided for you. Always keep in mind who you are talking to and what your character wants through their speech. Print out the monologue, write on it, make notes, create a character (but obviously memorize it for your audition). Do your personal best and make it your own! I believe in all of you!

Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi—An indefatigable meddling matchmaker of strikingly dramatic appearance; a widow in her middle years.

Horace Vandergelder— Proprietor of a Hay & Feed Store in Yonkers, N.Y. and a client of Mrs. Levi’s. A widower of some means

DOLLY

[Context: This monologue takes place in the second scene of the first act. Dolly is talking to Ambrose Kemper, a young artist seeking to marry Horace Vandergelder’s seventeen-year-old niece, Ermengarde. Vandergelder doesn’t approve of Ambrose, so Dolly is trying to find ways for Ambrose to be financially independent. If he participates in the dance contest and wins, that will help. Talking to him about the restaurant makes her start to reminisce about her late husband.]

Monologue: Now there’s a man, Rudolph Reisenweber, at the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant on Fourteenth Street, I’ll give you a note for him and we’ll see if he can’t have you both entered in the polka contest tonight. The prize is a week’s engagement and a gold cup. Oh, the cups we won, Ephraim and me! My late husband Ephraim Levi believed in life and anyplace you could find it . . . cafes, ballrooms, yes even theatres! Why, even when times were bad, every Saturday night like clockwork down those stairs at the Harmonia Gardens we came, Ephraim and me . . .Now you go to the Harmonia Gardens this afternoon and say Mrs. Levi sent you and incidentally tell Rudolph that Dolly’s coming back and I want a table for two and a chicken for eight o’clock tonight!

VANDERGELDER

[Context: Also act once scene two, Horace Vandergelder just told his two clerks Cornelius and Barnaby that he is going to New York and he will come back with a wife. To celebrate his impending marriage, he says he is promoting Cornelius to chief clerk. Cornelius then asks if he can have one night off a week. This monologue is Vandergelder’s response.]

Monologue: So that’s the way you thank me for your promotion, is it? No sir, you’ll attend to the store as usual! Now get back to work! And don’t forget to put the lid on the sheep dip! Evenings off, marrying artists . . . Foolishness! Ninety-nine percent of the people in this world are fools . . .And the rest of us are in great danger of contamination! Why, even I was once young, which was foolish; and got married, which was foolish; and was poor which was more foolish than anything else. Then my wife died which was foolish of her; I grew older which was sensible of me; and became rich, friendless and mean, which in Yonkers is about as far as you can go!

Hello, Dolly Audition Infomation - Part One!

Hey Everyone!

We've posted the audition schedule: Tuesday 12/20 & Wednesday 12/21 from 3-6pm.  Callbacks will be Thursday 12/22 from 2:15-7pm (or whenever we're done).  You must audition with a monologue AND song to be cast in the show, even for ensemble.  Dance auditions are encouraged but not required.  Sign up sheets will be outside the Activities Office by Friday.  If you would like to be considered for a principle role, you must be available for callbacks.

Audition rehearsal tracks, including optional dance audition music, are currently being uploaded and will be available at http://abwchoir.bandcamp.com

Music is posted as .pdf files on my google docs page.  Click below to download the sheet music for whatever voice part is appropriate for you.

High Voices (Soprano/Tenor)
Low Voices (Alto/Bass)

Mariel or I will be posting the monologues here shortly.

Please download, print, and complete the following documents and bring them with you to your audition, or turn them in to the Activities Office:

Play Sign Up Sheet
Parent Consent Form
Coach Consent Form (if you are an athlete or in a conflicting activity only)

Please direct any questions to me at shall(at)archwood(dot)org - if the email bounces back to you, please try again.  We are having problems with the system.

Please join the Facebook group if you're not already in it! :)

Looking forward to hearing you all again!  Break a leg!

Concert Info:

Monday 12/19 @ 7pm. Choir report at 6pm to warm up/run through stuff.
Wear black & white, any configuration. No jeans, no sneakers, dress like you're going out for a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant.

Here is a playlist of some of our music from youtube to listen to & practice with!

See you tomorrow for our last rehearsal! :)