TOM OF WARWICK - AUDITION CARD

Please fill out and return with audition materials.

Name: _________________________________________________________________ Age: ___________________________

Address: _______________________________________________________ City/State: ___________________________

School: _____________________________________________________________ Grade: ___________________________

Height: _______________ Weight: _______________ Hair Color: _______________ Eye Color: _______________

Chaperone/Legal Guardian Name(s): _______________________________________________________________

Phone number(s): _________________________________Email: ____________________________________________

Please list any past performance experience that you have, including the year, show name, your role, and the organization or school where you participated: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Do you sing? Circle one:                                                                              Y                           N

Are you a member of the actor’s union? Circle one:                     Y                           N

If chosen, you will be required to be at the theater for sound check and costume fitting opening day of the performance (December 5). You will also be required to be at the theater two (2) hours prior to the show on all performance days. Parent/legal guardian must accompany the child at all times.

SHOW PERFORMANCE TIMES:

December 5 - 8:00 p.m.

December 6 - 2:00 p.m.; 8:00 p.m.

Do you have any conflicts with the above times or on December 5? If yes, please list them below and whether or not they are flexible (Note: You will be expected to be at the theater through the duration of the show for each performance):

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SCRIPT FOR AUDITION

Please prepare the following in your audition video.

ARTHUR

Goodbye, my love . . .

(GUENEVERE exits, taking a different path from LANCELOT)

. . . My dearest love.

(He stands for a moment in silence. A rustling is heard behind the tent)

Who's there? Who's there? Come here boy!

(TOM, a young lad about fourteen, appears from behind the tent -- he carries a bow)

TOM

(Frightened)

Forgive me, Your Majesty. I was searching for the Sergeant of Arms and got lost. I didn't wish to disturb you.

ARTHUR

Who are you, boy? Where did you come from? You ought to be in bed. Are you a page?

TOM

I came to fight for the Round Table. I'm very good with the bow.

ARTHUR

(takes bow from him and inspects it)

And do you think you will kill people with this bow of yours?

TOM

Oh yes, Milord. I intend to be a Knight.

ARTHUR

A Knight. . . ?

TOM

Yes, Milord. Of the Round Table.

ARTHUR

When did you decide upon this nonexistent career? Was your village protected by Knights when you were a small boy? Did your father serve a Knight?

TOM

Oh, no, Milord. I only know of them. The stories people tell.

ARTHUR

From the stories people tell you wish to be a Knight?

(A strange light comes into his eyes)

What do you think you know of the Knights and the Round Table?

TOM

I know everything, Milord. Might for right! Right for right! Justice for all! Everything!

ARTHUR

Come here, my boy. Tell me your name.

TOM

It is Tom, Milord.

ARTHUR

Where is your home?

TOM

In Warwick, Milord.

ARTHUR

Then listen to me, Tom of Warwick. You will not fight in the battle, do you hear?  You will run behind the lines and hide in a tent till it is over. Then you will return to your home in England. Alive. To grow up and grow old. Do you understand?

TOM

Yes, Milord.

ARTHUR

And for as long as you live you will remember what I, the King, tell you; and you will do as I command.

TOM

(No longer disappointed)

Yes, Milord.

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PERMISSION AND RELEASE FORM

Please fill out and return with audition materials.

I, ________________________________________________________, am the legal guardian and the

custodian of _____________________________________________________, who is a minor aged ______________.

For good and valuable consideration as set down hereafter, my son or daughter agrees to audition for the role of “Tom of Warwick” in the National Touring production of CAMELOT coming to the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend, IN, Dec. 5-6, 2014. I agree to allow his/her audition video to be used for promotional and marketing purposes in media and online, including but not limited to the Theater League website and social media sites.

If chosen, my son or daughter agrees to participate in written and broadcast interviews, included but not limited to print, television, radio and social media. You warrant and he/she and I acknowledge that photos and videos of rehearsal, sound check and interviews may be publicly available for promotional use.

If chosen, my son or daughter agrees to attend a mandatory sound check and rehearsal opening day, December 5, 2014, at the Morris Center. He/she and I agree to arrive not less than two (2) hours prior to curtain time on each performance day. We will be responsible for transportation and travel to and from the theater. I or another legal guardian of my son will accompany him at all times, but not limited to, during rehearsal, costume fittings, sound check and backstage during performance(s) listed below:

CAMELOT at the Morris Center:

December 5 - 8:00 p.m.

December 6 - 2:00 p.m.; 8:00 p.m.

            I acknowledge that I am and will be fully responsible for my child’s and my own actions while in the theater. I warrant that my child has no medical condition or injury that places him/her at risk in participating in this production.

            In consideration for the above representations, Theater League agrees to pay to your child the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per performance as your child’s honorarium for performing all of the above services, including acting the role of Tom of Warwick in the play. Payment shall be made at the conclusion of the final performance by company check.

Thank you for your time and attention. We look forward working with you and your son or daughter on CAMELOT.

                                                                                                      Sincerely,

                                                                                                      Theater League

Accepted : ____________________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________

Name of Parent/Legal Guardian:____________________________________________________________________________

Social Security # of Parent/Guard___________________________________________________________________________

Address_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

City______________________________________________________State______________Zip_________________________________

Phone_____________________________________________________Cell____________________________________________________

Email address:___________________________________________________________________________________________________

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