Audition Call - Much Ado About Nothing
Jesse Jensen - VCT - USD
Auditions will be held Saturday and Sunday, July 8th and 9th, from 7-9
p.m. at the United Church of Christ, Congregational in Vermillion,
South Dakota.
Youth aged 11-18 years old are encouraged to audition. The cast will
consist of 16-20 performers. As such, this will be a competitive
audition; not everyone who tries out will necessarily get a part.
Auditions will consist of readings from various scenes, the text of
which are included in the attached word document. You are encouraged to
familiarize yourself with these texts prior to auditioning.
Additionally, monologues may be performed (from memory). These
monologues are optional, and we ask that they last no longer than one
minute in length.
Rehearsals for the play will be held in the evenings, once or twice a
week throughout the summer, and increasing in frequency as we approach
the performance date. Our goal for the performance dates are December
8th, 9th, and 10th. Youth who are unable to commit to these three days
are asked not to audition.
Aimee and Joel Miron are serving as co-directors for this production,
which is presented by The Understudies, a branch of the Vermillion
Community Theater.
For those who are unable to audition on July 8th and 9th, auditions may
be set up by appointment from July 5th through July 13th.
For more information, please contact Aimee and Joel at
vctunde...@gmail.com (the email address location for all things
regarding Much Ado)
Jesse Jensen - VCT - USD
BEATRICE I wonder that you will still be talking, Benedick. Nobody
minds you.
BENEDICK What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
BEATRICE Is it possible disdain should die while she has such good food
to feed her as Benedick?
BENEDICK But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted,
and I wish I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for,
truly, I love none.
BEATRICE A dear happiness to women. They would else be troubled with a
pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humor
for that. I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he
loves me.
BENEDICK God keep your ladyship still in that mind! So some gentleman
or other shall escape a terrible scratched face.
BEATRICE Scratching could not make it worse, if it were such a face as
yours.
CLAUDIO Benedick, did you note that freshman, Hero?
BENEDICK I noted her not, but I looked on her.
CLAUDIO Is she not a beautiful young lady?
BENEDICK Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for my simple
true judgment, or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a
professed enemy to their sex?
CLAUDIO No, I ask you speak in sober judgment.
BENEDICK Why, in faith, I think she's too low for a high praise, too
brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise. Only this
commendation I can give her, that were she other than she is, she would
be unhandsome, and being no other but as she is, I do not like her.
CLAUDIO You think I am in sport. I ask you to tell me truly how you
like her.
BENEDICK Would you buy her that you inquire after her?
CLAUDIO Can the world buy such a jewel?
BENEDICK Yes, and a case to put it into.
MARGARET In honesty, I think your other frock was better.
HERO No, pray you, good Meg, I'll wear this.
MARGARET By my word, it's not as good, and I warrant your cousin will
say so.
HERO My cousin's a fool, and you are another. I'll wear none but this.
MARGARET I would like your new hair excellently, if it were a little
browner; and your gown's in the new fashion.
HERO God give me joy to wear it, for my heart is exceeding heavy.
MARGARET It will be heavier soon by the weight of a man.
HERO Margaret! You should be ashamed!
MARGARET Of what, lady? Of speaking honestly? Is not marriage an honest
relation? I think you would have me say, 'saving your reverence, a
husband:' If bad thinking does not change true speaking, I'll offend
nobody. Is there any harm in 'the heavier for a
husband'? None, I think, if it is the right husband and the right wife;
otherwise it's light, and not heavy.