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Once Upon a Pandora's Box Auditions

ONCE UPON A PANDORA’S BOX



AUDITIONS:
October 14 & 15 @
7:30 pm
Call Backs on October 17 @
7:30 pm



The
Strollers
,
Burgdorff
Center for The Performing Arts, 10 Durant Road, Maplewood

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PERFORMANCE
DATES:
January. 10, 11, 12 and January 17,
18, 19 - 2014



Directed
by Fran Shultz

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A Theater
for Young Audiences Comedy, by Monica Flory



Playscripts,
Inc. 2007, Full-length, 60-75 minutes



SET: A New
York City apartment
and a “Pandora’s Box” big enough to contain 5 actors.



TIME: Present



SYNOPSIS:



Once upon
a time in New York City, Tabitha and her brother Louis discover a box sitting in
the hall of their apartment. Curious, Tabitha opens the box, allowing five
imprisoned fairy tale villains to escape. Free at last, the dastardly villains
begin to wreck the apartment, but when they discover that writing in Tabitha’s
notebook will give them control of other fictional characters, things really
get dicey. Will Tabitha harness the power of her storytelling? Or will the fairy
tale villains run wild in New
York? A clever
comedy that demonstrates the importance of the villains in every story.



CAST
of CHARACTERS:



TABITHA,
a bright girl who loves to write stories; charming and a bit high-strung: 
8 – 12.



LOUIS,
Tabitha’s older brother who loves soccer and video games:  10 – 14.



ZEUS,
the terrifying, yet handsome and charming, God of all Gods; the one who
captures each fairy tale character and puts them in Pandora’s Box, just because
he feels like it: 30 – 50.



QUEEN,
The Evil Queen from Snow White; the embodiment of evil beauty and
vanity: 30-50.



WOLF, the
villain from Little Red Riding Hood, constantly hungry to the point of
utter gluttony. Children are a favorite delicacy: 25-50.



RUMPLE,
from Rumplestiltskin, who cannot understand how everyone already knows
his name; he is angry to the core, given to childish tantrums and ridiculous
outbursts: 30-60.



WITCH,
the witch from Hansel and Gretel, who lures children with her candy
house; a ferocious dictator: 30-60.



FAIRY,
the thirteenth fairy from Sleeping Beauty; is jealous and extremely
insecure and clumsy, but cute. Can be a man or a woman: 15-30.



ANGELLA
& BEAUTELLA, characters from a story Tabitha has written; the most loving
sisters on the planet; “good” through and through; the love to sing, dance, and
braid each other’s hair, but not much else:  15-25.



ESPERELLA,
a gracious mother to Angella and Beautella in Tabitha’s story. Acts as
Tabitha’s writing mentor:  40-60.



TRANSLATOR,
to translate Zeus’ summary of the fairy tales at the beginning of the play. Man
or woman, any age.



REPORTER,
TV news reporter, telling of the havoc brought by the villains at the end of
the play. Man or woman, 25 -50.



CHILDREN,
various ages, a group of children surrounding ZEUS at
the beginning of the play as he sets the stage by quickly re-telling the plot
of the fairy tales. Children also serve as “props” in the retelling and respond
appropriately to the scary parts of each story



 



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