-1THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Eastside High School, 2006 spring musical

Audition Requirements

All auditions will be single. There will be an acting audition, a singing audition, a callback, and a final callback. The initial acting audition will call for some improvisation. For the singing audition, students wishing to try out must come with a prepared song that can be no longer than five minutes. For the callback, students will choose a partner, sing a prepared duet, and act a prepared script or monologue. For the final callback, students will be assigned a portion of the "Phantom" script to read, and a song from the musical to sing. We wish you all the best of luck in your auditions.

Sincerely,

Geoffrey Andrews, co-director

Richard Furman, co-director

Madeline Geofferson, choreographer

Monday, January 29- Acting auditions

Tuesday, January 30- Singing auditions

Thursday, February 1- Callbacks

Friday, February 2- Final callbacks

Monday, February 5- Cast list will be posted

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"So, Cristina, you excited about auditions?" Megan Geofferson plopped down in the seat next to Cristina Arnez in their shared history class.

Cristina smiled. "Of course I am. How could I not be?"

Megan scowled. "I wish I could try out," she said, pulling out her notebook. "But since my mom's the choreographer, it's going to raise questions."

Cristina regarded her best friend sadly. "Yeah, it does seem kind of like a lose-lose thing," she said, thoughtfully. "Cause if you don't get a lead, everyone's going to be like, 'It's your own mom, and you couldn't even manage a lead?' But if do get a lead, everyone'll be all, 'Oh, you just got in cause of your mom.'"

The classroom door closed, and Ms. Terry entered, with a Diet Coke in hand. "Turn to page sixty-five," she said in a bored voice. Cristina sighed. The only thing fun about this class was the fact that she shared it with Megan.

The lights went down, and Ms. Terry turned on the overhead. Cristina had just pulled out her notebook when a folded piece of paper landed on her desk. She looked over at Megan, and Megan smiled in a way that said, open-it.

Cristina unfolded the paper, and smiled. It said, "Eric's been staring at you." She glanced in his direction. She couldn't deny that he was kind of hot, what with his tousled black hair and striking green eyes. But still, Eric Chapman was considered kind of a freak. As far as Cristina knew, he didn't really have too many friends, and he certainly didn't have a girlfriend.

He is kind of hot, a small voice in her head said. But then the bigger part of her head was telling her, Yeah but do you really want to be remembered as the girlfriend of the school freak?

Besides, Cristina already had her sights on a guy. And that guy was not Eric Chapman. She had known Ryan Prescott since they were kids, and she hadn't seen him since he moved to North Carolina. But just a few months ago, he had moved back, and he was hotter than ever. Her thoughts strayed to his dirty-blonde hair, to his blue eyes, to the way he used to make her laugh.

I just hope he still remembers me. she thought dreamily.