Jenna Robbins ’13 writes:

Love Sondheim? Interested in playing in a pit orchestra? Into the Woods will be holding auditions for all instruments this Saturday, February 5th, from 1:00-4:00 pm in the Memorial Chapel Meeting/ Rehearsal Room (in the basement). Please come prepared to play a selection from a musical score. You can sign up for an audition slot on the sheet posted on the Music Department call board, but walk-ins are also welcome. You must own the instrument you plan to play. Production dates are April 21st – 23rd.

Date: Feb. 5
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Place: Memorial Chapel Meeting/ Rehearsal Room

Courtesy of Jenna Robbins ’13:

Audition for Stephen Sondheim’s musical fairytale masterpiece, Into the Woods!

An ambivalent Cinderella? A blood-thirsty Little Red Ridinghood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? A witch…who raps? They’re all among the cockeyed characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s fractured fairy tale. When a baker and his wife learn they’ve been cursed with childlessness by the witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone’s wish is granted at the end of Act One, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results.

For details on the auditions themselves, read past the jump.

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