INTO THE WOODS JUNIOR AUDITION MATERIALS
AUDITION ACTING SIDES
Please select 2 different characters to read at your audition. They do not need to be memorized and we will read the other lines.
We will have copies available at the audition. Have Fun!
AUDITION SONGS:
IMPORTANT: The music and lyrics are by Stephen Sondheim. His melodies can be intricate and tricky. We will need to know that you can sing them the way they are written, so pay careful attention to the notes as written and
don't sing alternate notes, please.
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AGONY
High in her tower she sits by the hour maintaining her hair
Blithe and becoming and frequently humming a light-hearted air AH AH AH AH AH AH AH
Agony- far more painful than yours
when you know she would go with you- if there only were doors
Agony, oh the torture they teach. Always 10 steps behind always 10 feet below
And she's just out of reach
Agony that can cut like a knife. I must have her to wife
GIANTS IN THE SKY
A big tall terrible giant with a terrible roar
So you steal some gold and away you go and you scramble down to the world below
And you're back again only different than before. After the sky. There are giants in the sky
There are big, tall, terrible, awesome, scary, wonderful giants in the sky!
I KNOW THINGS NOW
When he said, "Come in," with that sickening grin, how could I know what was in store?
Once his teeth were bare then I really got scared. Well, excited AND scared, but he drew me close and he swallowed me down, down a dark slimy path where lie secrets that I never want to know
And I know things now, many valuable things that I hadn't known before
Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood... They will not protect you the way that they should.
And take extra care with strangers, even flowers have their dangers and though scary is exciting, Nice is different than good. Now I know -don't be scared-Granny is right, just be prepared.
Isn't it nice to know a lot? And a little bit not.
INTO THE WOODS OPENING
The way is clear, the light is good. I have no fear nor no one should.
The woods are just trees, the trees are just wood.
No need to be afraid there- there's something in the glade there!
Into the woods to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying
Into the woods to see the king, to sell the cow, to make the potion
To see, to sell, to get, to bring, to make, to lift, to go to the festival
Into the woods, into the woods, into the woods then out of the woods
and home before dark!
IT TAKES TWO
We've changed. We're strangers. I'm meeting you in the woods
Who minds what dangers? I know we'll get past the woods!
And once we're past, let's hope the changes last.
Beyond woods, beyond witches and slippers and hoods
Just the two of us. Beyond lies, safe at home with our beautiful prize
Just a few of us It takes trust it takes just a bit more and we're done
We want four, we had none, we've got three. We need one.
It takes two!
ON THE STEPS OF THE PALACE
Better run along home and avoid the collision
Even though they don't care you'll be better off there
Where there's nothing to choose so there's nothing to lose
So you pry up your shoes and then out of the blue and without any guide...
You know what your decision is- which is not to decide. You'll just leave him a clue
For example a shoe - and then see what he'll do
Now it's he and not you who is stuck with the shoe, in the stew, in the goo...
and you've learned something too, something you never knew- on the steps of the palace!
STAY WITH ME
Princes wait there in the world it's true
Princes, yes, but wolves and humans too
Stay at home, I am home. Who out there could love you more than I?
What out there that I cannot supply? Stay with me.
Stay with me, the world is dark and wild.
Stay a child while you can be a child. With me.
AUDITION SIDES ARE NOW POSTED ABOVE THE VOCAL AUDITION MATERIALS.
*Take a look at them after you have selected your two songs and rehearsed them.
Prepare 2 scenes for 2 DIFFERENT characters, if you have time or
pick two to read "cold" after your vocal audition!*
HAVE FUN!!!