PETER PAN Jr AUDITIONS

HOW TO AUDITION:

Step 1 : "SLATE" YOURSELF (NAME, GRADE, PART AUDITIONING FOR, SONG CHOICE TITLE)

Ex: "Hi! I'm Jill Scott. I'm in 9th grade and will be reading for the part of Mrs Darling. The song I'll be singing is "Over the Rainbow."

If not auditioning for a singing role please skip down to Step 4...

Step 2 : If auditioning for a role with a solo, Marilyn will test your vocal range before we begin.

Step 3 : Prepare ONE verse and/or ONE chorus of your song of choice (sanctuary appropriate + something that shows off your vocal range). Does not have to be from this show unless auditioning for Peter.

Step 4 : Prepare to read/recite one role from the audition slides below -this doesn't mean you won't be considered for other well-suited roles as well. Choose your top choice and be open to reading for other parts, if requested.

Step 5 (optional) : If you have a special skill or talent you would like us to consider for the show, you will have 30 seconds to showcase this for us.

Step 6 : Thank the audition panel and promptly exit the sanctuary.

Peter Pan is a free spirited boy who wants nothing more than to have fun and never grow up, he takes the three darling children on this epic adventure while fighting off Captain Hook! Peter Pan has numerous singing numbers in the performance as well as some dancing and lots of lines. F3-C5

Wendy Darling is the oldest of the darling children who accompanies Peter on his journey. Wendy is right in the middle of being 12 and 13 but still has the glow of a child. Wendy sings a few small solos in multiple songs, does some dancing but gets most of her recognition from her lines which make her sweet personality shine. Ab3-Db5

John Darling is the middle child of the Darlings and is slightly uptight and proper just like his father. John sings through out the play and has a good amount of lines. Ab3-Db5

Michael Darling is the youngest darling child with lots of energy. He is childish and sometimes stubborn. He lugs around a teddy bear and has an obsession with anything sweet. Michael sings in a few songs alongside others. Ab3-Db5

Mrs Darling is the mother of the Darling children, she is very sweet and is a perfectly proper mother. She sings a beautiful lullaby to her children and has a few lines. Db5-Ab3

Mr Darling is the father of the Darling children. He is strict and uptight, loves his children and demands order in his house. He does not sing, but has a few lines with Mrs Darling.

Liza is the Darling’s house keeper who is always busy with the children and the dog. She does not sing, but has a few lines.

Nana is the family dog who believes she is a nanny. Mr Darling is not too fond of her, but the family loves nana. Nana doesn't say much, but she occasionally barks.

Tiger Lilly is the fearless leader of the brave girls. She leads the song “Ugg-a-Wug” and has lines throughout the show with lots of dancing. Db5-Ab3

Captain Hook is the horrible fearsome leader of the pirates. He despises Peter Pan ever since an incident with a crocodile who bit off his arm and is now searching for the rest of him! He has lots of songs and lines throughout the show. E5-B3

Smee is Hook’s comedic sidekick who wants Hook to succeed in his scheme to take down Peter Pan. He has lots of lines alongside Captain Hook.

Crocodile THE crocodile who bit off hook’s arm! This is a role with no speaking lines and no singing. The crocodile slides across the ground and is a fun role if you prefer to not have lines to memorize.

ENSEMBLE

Pirates are Hook’s mischievous gang on his ship looking to cause trouble and help Hook. The main Pirates are Noodles, Cecco and Starkly and have a few lines. All Pirates are part of the singing ensemble.

Lost Boys are children who fell out of their cribs when their nurse wasn’t looking and if they weren’t claimed in seven days they were sent to Neverland. They all are friends of Peter. The main lost boys are Nibs, Slightly, Curly, Tootles, Twin One and Twin Two. This ensemble gang sings in lots of scenes and have lots of fun!

Brave Girls are a group of Neverland inhabitants who are in Tiger Lilly’s tribe. They are brave and very active. They sing, have a few lines and perform in “Ugg-a-Wug.” The main Brave Girls are numbered One + Two and include Small Brave Girl, but Tiger Lilly will need many more ensemble Brave Girls in her tribe to fight off Captain Hook!

Audition SCRIPTS

(COPY + PASTE INTO NOTES OR A WORD DOC TO PRINT)

Peter Pan, Wendy:

SIDE 1

PETER PAN

What’s your name? 

WENDY

Wendy Moira Angela Darling. What’s your name?

PETER PAN

Peter Pan.

WENDY

Where do you live?

PETER PAN

Second to the right and straight on till morning.

WENDY

What a funny address!

PETER PAN

No, it isn’t.

WENDY

I mean, is that what they put on your letters?

PETER PAN

Don’t get any letters.

WENDY

 But your mother gets letters?

PETER PAN

Don’t have a mother.

(pause)

I can’t get my shadow to stick on.

WENDY

It has come off? How awful. Why it must be sewn on. I shall sew it on for you.

(WENDY gets her sewing box.)

PETER PAN

Thank you.

(WENDY begins attaching PETER’s shadow.)

MICHAEL, JOHN:

SIDE 2

WENDY

John, Michael, wake up – there’s a boy here who is going to teach us to fly.

MICHAEL

There is? 

JOHN

Then I’ll get up at once.

(NANA barks from offstage.)

JOHN

Out with the lights! Someone’s coming!

(MICHAEL turns off the lights and everyone hides. LIZA enters being dragged by NANA.)

LIZA

There, you see! They are perfectly safe and sound asleep in bed.

(NANA barks.)

Now no more! Come along, you naughty dog!

(They exit, NANA barking loudly. The others emerge from hiding.)

PETER PAN

All clear!

JOHN

Can you really fly?

PETER PAN

I’ll teach you.

MICHAEL

How do you do it?

Captain hook:

SIDE 1

CAPTAIN HOOK

How still the night is. Nothing sounds alive. Now is the hours when children in their homes are a-bed – their lips bright- browned with the goodnight chocolate, and their tongues drowsily searching for belated crumbs housed insecurely on their shining cheeks. Compare with them the captive children on this boat. Split me the infinitives, but ’tis me hour of triumph!

(laughs)

At last I’ve reached me peak! I’m the greatest villain of all time.

Smee:

SIDE 2

CAPTAIN HOOK

Most of all I want their captain, Peter Pan. ’Twas he cut off me arm. Oh, I have waited long to shake hands with him with this.

SMEE

Yet I have oft heard you say your hook was worth a score of hands – for combing the hair, and other homely uses.

CAPTAIN HOOK

Aye, Smee, if I were a mother, I would pray that me children be born with this...

(indicating the hook)

... instead of that.

(indicating his hand)

But Pan flung me hand to a crocodile that happened to be passing by.

SMEE

I have often noticed your strange dread of crocodiles.

CAPTAIN HOOK

Not of crocodiles, but of that one crocodile. He liked me hand so much that he has followed me ever since – from land to land, from sea to sea, he follows the ship, licking his lips for the rest of me.

SMEE

In a way it is sort of a compliment.

CAPTAIN HOOK

Well, I want no such compliments! Smee, that crocodile would have got me long ere this if he could have crept upon me unawares. But by some lucky chance he swallowed a clock—

SMEE

A clock!

CAPTAIN HOOK

And it goes on – tick, tock, tick – within him; and so, before he can reach me I hear the tick.

SMEE

Some day the clock will run down, and then he’ll get you.

CAPTAIN HOOK

Ay, that is the fear that haunts me.

(CAPTAIN HOOK sits on a large mushroom and then

suddenly jumps back up.)

Ooooh!