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Romeo & Juliet Audition Information
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Thank you for your interest in auditioning for Romeo & Juliet, the rock musical.
Below is a breakdown of characters, songs & scripts. Please read carefully.
Auditions are on Sunday October 18th...Actors at 1:00, singers at 2:30, dancers
at 3:30 and callbacks at 4:30. We are looking for males & females, ages
13 through adult. Generally, the actors act, the dancers dance and the singers sing.
The bankd for the show is provided by Princeton School of Rock. Rehearsals don't
start for most until January and performances are February 13th & 14th at 2:00
& 7:00 with a benefit performance for the New Jersey Pediatric Council on Research
& Development on Saturday February 20th in the evening. Understudies may
be cast.
CAST
Capulets
Sampson, male or female (coward. all talk. funny)
Gregory, male or female (serious and well meaning)
Tybalt, male or female (Juliet's cousin. leader. Scary crazy)
Capulet, adult male (Juliet's Father. big ego. abusive)
Lady Capulet adult female (Juliet's Mother. a little crazy)
Servant, male or female (small., dry, funny)
Nurse, (character. funny crazy) This role is cast.
Juliet, female, 13 (Beautiful. Passionate)
Maids, female (Juliets best friends and attendees)
Dream Juliet, female dancer, comfortable with lifts
Montagues
Abram, male or female (strong. aggressive)
Benvolio, male or female (Romeo's cousin.)
Montague, adult male (Romeo's Father. Weak)
Lady Montague, adult female (Juliet's Mother. Strong.)
Romeo (male. deep. passionate.)
Mercutio (Romeo's best friend. Loud & lustful)
Balthasar (younger)
Dream Romeo, male, comfortable with lifts
Innocent Bystanders
Reporter, male or female (On the street reporter telling the story)
Camera Operator, male or female (Always filming reporter)
Prince, male or female (Like a high school princible)
Paris, male (Verona's most eligible bachelor. cheesey)
Friar, adult male or female (Hippie. well meaning. philosophical)
Apothecary, male or female (strung out drug dealer)
Postman, male or female, (hates her job. bored)
Her Mind (Singers) & His Mind (Singers)
From the singers, soloists for the following songs will be chosen. Feel free to
sing one of them at the audition. There will be an accompanist provided...
Imagine by John Lennon, Beat It by Michael Jackson, Mad World by Gary Jules, Unexpected
Song from Song & Dance by Andrew Lloyd Weber, Kissing You by Des'ree, Word of
Your Body from Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik, Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice,
Don't Let Me Down by Paul McCartney, I Believe from Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik,
Somewhere from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Wake Me Up When September Ends
by GreenDay
Her Spirit (Dancers) & His Spirit (Dancers)
Dancers will be taught a combination at the audition.
There may be a vocal and dance ensemble cast as well, representing both families.
AUDITION SCRIPTS...
Audition script for the roles of Romeo & Juliet. Teens. Be familiar with
entire scene
 NOTE: Romeo & Juliet have a long kissing scene. You must be comfortable with
that in order to do these roles.
ROMEO - He jests at scars that never felt a wound. (Juliet appears in the window)
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is
the sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale
with grief that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. See how she leans her
cheek upon her hand. Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that
cheek!
JULIET - Ay, me!
ROMEO - She speaks/ O, speak again bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this
night, being o'er my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven unto the white, upturned,
wondering eyes of mortals that fall back to gaze on him when he bestrides the lazy,
puffing clouds and sails upon the bosom of the air.
JULIET - O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art though Romeo? Deny thy Father and refuse
thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO - Shall I hear more or shall I speak at this?
JULIET - Tis but thy name that is thy enemy. Thou art myself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call
a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo
called. Retain thy dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff
thy name, and for that name, which is no part of thee, take all of myself.
ROMEO - I take thee at thy word. Call me but love and I'll be new baptized. Henceforth,
I never will be Romeo.
JULIET - What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my counsel?
ROMEO - By a name, I know not how to tell thee who I am. My name, dear saint,
is hateful to myself because it is an enemy to thee. Had I it written, I would tear
the word.
JULIET - My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue's uttering, yet
I know the sound. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montogue?
ROMEO - Neither fair maid, if either thee dislike.
JULIET - How camest though hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walss are
high and hard to climb, and the place death, considering who thou art, if any of
my kinsmen find thee here.
ROMEO - With love's light wings did I o'er perch these walls, for stony limits
cannot hold love out, and what love can do, that dares not attempt. Therefor, thy
kinsmen are no to stop me.
JULIET - If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
ROMEO - Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords. Look
thou but sweet, and I am proof against their enmity.
JULIET - I would not for the world they saw thee here.
ROMEO - I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes, and but thouh love me,
let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued,
wanting of they love.
JULIET - By whose direction found'st thou this place?
ROMEO - By love that first did prompt me to inquire. He lent me counsel and I lent
him eyes. I am no pilot. Yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore washed with the
farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.
JULIET - Thou knowest the mask of night is on thy face, else would a maiden blush
bepaint my cheek for that which thou hadst heard me speak tonight. Fain would I
dwell on form. Fain, fain deny what I have spoke. But farewell compliment! Dost
thou love me? I know thou wilt say "ay" and I will take thy word.
ROMEO - Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow, that tips with silver all these fruit
treetops.
JULIET - O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon that monthly changes in her
circle orb, lest that thou love prove likewise variable.
ROMEO - What shall I swear by?
JULIET - Do not swear at all. Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, which
is the God of my idoltry and I'll believe thee.
ROMEO - If my heart's dear love...
JULIET - Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have no joy on this contract
tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning. Sweet,
good night. This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath may prove a beauteous
flower when next we meet. Good night, good night! As sweet repose and rest come
to thy heart as sweet within my breast.
ROMEO - O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
JULIET - What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?
ROMEO - The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.
JULIET - I gave thee mine before thou didn't request it and yet I would it were
to give it again.
Audition Script for both gangs. All teenagers. Pick a character, but be familiar
with and ready to read any of them.
GREGORY - Draw thy tool! Here comes the house of Montagues.
SAMPSON - My naked weapon is out. Quarrel! I will back thee.
GREGORY - How? Turn thy back and run?
SAMPSON - Fear me not.
GREGORY - No, marry. I fear thee.
SAMPSON - Let us take the law of our sides. Let them begin.
GREGORY - I will frown as I pass by and let them take it as they list.
SAMPSON - Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to
them, if they bear it.
ABRAM - Do you bite your thumb at us sir?
SAMPSON - I do bite my thumb, sir.
ABRAM - Do you bite your thumb at us sir?
SAMPSON (aside to Gregory) - Is the law of our side if I say "ay"?
GREGORY (aside to Sampson) No.
SAMPSON - No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
GREGORY - Do you quarrel sir?
ABRAM - Quarrell sir? No, sir.
SAMPSON - But if you do, sir, I am for you. I serve as good a man as you.
ABRAM - No better.
SAMPSON - Well, sir. (Enter Benvolio)
GREGORY (aside to Sampson) - Say "better". Here comes one of my master's kinsmen.
SAMPSON (to Abram) - Yes, better, sir.
ABRAM - You lie.
SAMPSON - Draw if you be men. Gregory, remember thy washing blow. (They fight.)
BENVOLIO - Part, fools! Put up your swords. You know not what you do. (He draws
his sword. Enter Tybalt)
TYBALT - What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio,
look upon thy death.
BENVOLIO - I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, or manage it to part these
men with me.
TYBALT - What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues
and thee. Have at thee coward!
Audition script for Lady Capulet & Nurse. Adult female. Pick your favorite, but
be familiar with both.
LADY CAPULET - Nurse, Where's my daughter? Call her forth to me.
NURSE - Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old I bade her come. What, lamb! What
Ladybird! God Forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!! (Enter Juliet)
JULIET - How now, who calls?
NURSE - Your Mother.
JULIET - Madam, I am here. What is your will?
LADY CAPULET - This is the matter. Nurse, give leave while, we must talk in secret.
Nurse come back again, I have remembered me. Thou's hear our counsel. Thou know'st
my daughter's of a pretty age.
NURSE - Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
LADY CAPULET - She's not fourteen.
NURSE - I'll lay fourteen of my teeth - and yet, to my teen be it spoken I have
but four - She is not fourteen. How long is it not till Lammastide?
LADY CAPULET - A fortnight and odd days
NURSE - Even or odd, of all days in the year, come Lammas Eve at night shall she
be fourteen. Susan and she - God rest all christian souls - were of an age. Well,
Susan is with God. She was too good for me. But as I said, On Lammas Eve at night
shall she be fourteen, That shall she! Marry, I remember it well.
LADY CAPULET - Enough of this. I pray thee, hold thy peace.
NURSE - Yes, madam. Yet I cannot choose but laugh, to think it should leave crying
and say "ay". And yet, I warrant, it had upon it's brow a bump as big as a young
cockerel's stone. A perilous knock, and it cried bitterly. "Yea", quoth my husband,
"Fall'st upon the face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest of age. Wilt thou
not Jule?" It stinted and said "ay".
JULIET - And stint thou too, I pray thee Nurse, say I.
NURSE - Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace! Thou was the prettiest babe
that e'er I nursed. An I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
LADY CAPULET - Marry, that "marry" is the very theme I came to talk of. Tell me,
daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?
JULIET - It is an honor I dream not of.
NURSE - An honor! Were I not thine only nurse, I would say that thou hadst sucked
wisdom from thy teat.
LADY CAPULET - Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you, here in Verona, ladies
of esteem are already made mothers. By my count, I was your mother much upon these
years that you are now a maid. Thus then in brief: The valiant Paris seeks you for
his love.
NURSE - A man, young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world. Why, he's a man of
wax!
Audition Script for Adult male or female
FRIAR LAWRENCE - I will be brief, for my short date of breath is not so long as
is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet, and she, there dead, that Romeo's
faithful wife.
I married them, and their stolen marriage day was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely
death banished the new-made bridegroom from the city - For whom, and not for Tybalt,
Juliet pined.
You, to remove that seige of grief from her, betrothed and would have married her
perforce to county Paris.
Then comes she to me, and with wild looks bid me devise some mean to rid her from
this second marriage or in my cell, there she would kill herself.
Then gave I her, so tutored by my art, a sleeping potion, which so took effect as
I intended, for it wrought on her the form of death. |
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