AUDITION PACK

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE MOVING ON

First of all, thank-you so much for your interest in Spring Awakening Jersey 2018! We are
delighted to have you auditioning with us here today. A lot of what is on this first sheet will be
told to you verbally during your audition, but please read it carefully in case we miss anything
during our pre-audition talk.

The audition will be in a workshop format, meaning everything you do will be in a group,
although you will have to sing and act on your own within that group. The most important
thing to remember is don’t panic! We know how you feel, we have all been in your shoes so
many times, so we’ve tried to make the audition process as easy, relaxed, and fun as
possible. Remember, we want you to do well! We hope you will also get to know some of
your fellow potential cast members during the audition, as well as getting to see what you
can do.

INCLUDED IN THIS PACK IS:

 A Timetable for the day

 A List of Characters
 Lyrics for Totally F*cked, B*tch of Living and Mama Who Bore Me
 Script Extracts
 A (subject to change) Rehearsal Schedule
 Audition Form, and Disclosure & Photo Release Form
THE AUDITION TIMETABLE

FROM 1PM – Arrive and sign in! Fill out the form in this pack, hand it over to the creative
team, and get your photograph taken.

1:30PM – Audition pre-talk! Everything you need to know about the show, our own
production and the audition process for the day.

1:45PM – Auditions start! In the first part of the audition, you will all learn the song ‘Totally
F***ed’ with our musical director, Cindy, and director, Lottie! You will also do a dance to the
same song with our choreographer, Bradley.

2:45PM – 15 minute break.

3:00PM – In the second part of the audition, girls and boys will split off. Girls will go with
Cindy to learn part of ‘Mama Who Bore Me’, while the boys stay with Lottie and Bradley to
do a read-through of the schoolroom scene, among other small scenes. We will then swap,
the boys learning part of ‘The B*tch of Living’ with Cindy, and the girls doing some small
scenes from the show.

4PM – Most of you will be able to go home! We may ask people to stay behind if we feel we
haven’t seen enough from them, or weren’t able to see them in a role we wanted to see
them in during the reading/sing-through. It may also be do to a chemistry test in the romantic
roles (Melchior, Wendla, Ernst & Hanschen). If you aren’t asked to stay behind, that doesn’t
mean you aren’t cast in the show! Definitely not!
LIST OF CHARACTERS

WENDLA - A naive but determined young girl who has limited knowledge about adult
issues, causing her to have trouble understanding things such as romance, abuse, and
pregnancy. She tends to learn these things by experiencing them. Melchior’s love interest.

MELCHIOR - Headstrong, handsome, and intelligent. He knows much more than the
others, maybe too much, because of what he reads in books and is able to see the
corruption in society. He very well could have risen to the top of his class, but instead rejects
his school's hard regime and rebels against it.

MORITZ - Intense and nervous. Melchior's best friend. He feels intense pressure from his
parents and his peers to succeed, and he frequently struggles in school due to his confusion
of adolescence and growing up.

HANSCHEN- A humorous, arrogant and almost narcissistic classmate. Like Melchior, he

also appears to be very intelligent, but uses his knowledge in favor of the school system. He
is comfortable with his own sexuality, and his looks and intelligence captivate Ernst. Optional
Doubling as RUPERT.

ILSE – A childhood friend who runs away from an abusive home to live in an artists' colony.
She is somewhat less connected to the main story than the other children. She reaches out
to her old friend Moritz in the last moments of his life, and lingers on stage throughout as a
symbolic presence.

MARTHA - A quiet girl, and friend of Wendla's who is abused at home. She has a crush
on Moritz, and is chastised by the other girls for it.

ERNST - A schoolmate of Melchior's. Sweet and naive, who falls in love with Hanschen.
Less intense and softer spoken than the other boys, with a heart of gold. Optional Doubling
as REINHOLD.

GEORG - A clumsy schoolmate of Melchoir's. He is overcome with his feelings for his
piano teacher. Optional Doubling as DIETER.

THEA - A confrontational school girl and Wendla's best friend. She has a crush on
Melchior.

OTTO - A classmate of Melchior's, who is also struggling with the trials and tribulations of
growing up. Optional Doubling as ULBRECHT.

ANNA - An innocent, optimistic and a somewhat naïve school girl and Martha's best friend.
BITCH OF LIVING
Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik

[MORITZ]
God, I dreamed there was an angel
Who could hear me through the wall
As I cried out, like in Latin
"This is so not life at all!
Help me out, out of this nightmare,"
Then I heard her silver call
She said: "Just give it time, kid
I come to one and all"

She said, "Give me that hand, please

And the itch you can't control
Let me teach you how to handle
All the sadness in your soul
Oh, we'll work that silver magic
Then we'll aim it at the wall"
She said, "Love may make you blind, kid
But I wouldn't mind at all"

[BOYS]
It's the bitch of living [OTTO]
Bitch, just the bitch
Nothing but your hand

Just the bitch of living

As someone you can't stand Just the bitch, yeah

[GEORG]
See, each night, it's like, fantastic
Tossing, turning, without rest
'Cause my day's at the piano
With my teacher and her breasts
And the music's, like, the one thing
I can even get at all
And those breasts! I mean God, please
Just let those apples fall

[BOYS]
It's the bitch of living (Bitch, ah ah ah)
With nothing going on, nothing going on
Just the bitch of living
Asking, "what went wrong?"
Do they think we want this?
Oh, who knows?

[ERNST]
It's even, there's showering at gym class

[HANSCHEN]
Bobby Maler, he's the best
Looks so nasty in those khakis

[ERNST]
God, my whole life's, like, some test

[OTTO]
Then there's Marianna Wheelan
As if she'd return my call

[HANSCHEN]
It's like, just kiss some ass, man
Then you can screw 'em all

[BOYS]
All...

[MELCHIOR]
It's the bitch of living [BOYS]
It's the bitch of living
And living in your head
In your head
It's the bitch of living It's the bitch
And sensing God is dead

[MORITZ & BOYS] [MELCHIOR]

It's the bitch of living You watch me, just watch me
And trying to get ahead I'm calling, and one day
It's the bitch of living
Just gettin' out of bed
It's the bitch of living, living
Living and getting what you get
Just the bitch of living All will know
All will know

Just the bitch of living

And knowing this is it

[BOYS]
God, is this it?
This can't be it
Oh God, what a bitch!
TOTALLY FUCKED
Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
[MELCHIOR]
There’s a moment you know you’re fucked
Not an inch more room to self-destruct
No more moves, oh yeah, the dead-end
zone
Man, you just can’t call your soul your own
[OTTO, spoken]
But the thing that makes you really jump
Is that the weirdest shit is still to come
You can ask yourself: ‘Hey, what have I
done?'
You’re just a fly. The little guys, they kill for
fun
[GEORG]
Man, you’re fucked if you just freeze up
Can’t do that thing that keeping still
[HANSCHEN]
But, you’re fucked if you speak your mind
[GEORG, HANSCHEN & OTTO]
And you know uh huh you will
[COMPANY]
Yeah, you’re fucked all right and all for
spite
You can kiss your sorry ass goodbye
Totally fucked, will they mess you up?
Well, you know they’re gonna try
[MELCHIOR, spoken]
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
[COMPANY, spoken]
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
[MELCHIOR]
Disappear yeah, well, you wanna try
Wanna bundle up into some big ass lie
Long enough for them to all just quit
Long enough for you to get out of it
[COMPANY]
Yeah, you’re fucked all right and all for
spite
You can kiss your sorry ass goodbye
Totally fucked, will they mess you up
Well, you know they’re gonna try X2
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Blah blah blah blah blah
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Blah blah blah blah blah X2
Totally fucked!
MAMA WHO BORE ME
Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik

[WENDLA]
Mama who bore me
Mama who gave me
No way to handle things
Who made me so sad
Mama, the weeping
Mama, the angels
No sleep in Heaven, or Bethlehem

Some pray that, one day, Christ will come a-callin'

They light a candle, and hope that it glows
And some just lie there, crying for him to come and find them
But when he comes, they don't know how to go

Mama who bore me

Mama who gave me
No way to handle things
Who made me so bad
Mama, the weeping
Mama, the angels
No sleep in Heaven, or Bethlehem
ACT ONE, SCENE TWO
OTTO (Heading out): Well, I'm off.

ERNST: Me, too.

HANSCHEN: I'll walk with you, Ernst.

ERNST (Pauses, turns back): You will?

HANSCHEN ("Yes"; suggestively): We'll huddle over the Homer. Maybe do a little
Achilles and Patroclus ... (Hanschen leads Ernst off.)

GEORG ("Good night"): Melchior, Moritz.

MELCHIOR (Archly): Home to Bach? ...

GEORG: Fraulein Grossebustenhalter will not be kept waiting! (Georg shivers

involuntarily, and goes. Melchior turns to Moritz with a wink, but Moritz waves it
away.)

MORITZ: Ach, Melchi! Sixty lines of Homer, all those quadratic equations ... I'll be
LIp all night again, haunted by another of those ... dreams. And still I won't get
through it.

MELCHIOR: Oh, yes. Your dream.

MORITZ ("The horror!"): Melchi, why-why-am I haunted by the legs of a woman? By

the deepening conviction: some dark part of my destiny may lie there between them?
...

MELCHIOR: All right then. I'll tell you. I got it out of books. But prepare yourself: it
made an atheist out of me. (A beat.) So-

MORITZ: No no-not here! I can't talk it! No-do me a favor: write it down. All of it.
Conceal it in my satchel-after Gymnastics-tomorrow. (A beat.) If you like, you could
add some illustrations in the margins.

(A beat.)

MELCHIOR: Top to bottom?

MORITZ: Everything!

ACT ONE, SCENE 6

The schoolyard. Georg, Hanschen, Ernst and Otto wait expectantly.

OTTO (Pointing): Look-there he is!

(Moritz bounds on.)

HANSCHEN: So, did you get caught?

MORITZ: No-no-thank God-

ERNST: But, you're trembling.

MORITZ: For joy. For pure and certain joy!

GEORG: Cross your heart?

MOIHTZ: Twice over!

(Melchior enters.)

ERNST: Melchior!

MELCHIOR: Moritz, I've been looking for you.

GEORG: He snuck into the headmaster's office.

MELCHIOR: Moritz, what were you thinking?

MORITZ: I had to, Melchi. I just had to. The good news is: I passed!

HANSCHEN: The middle-terms, that is.

MORITZ: Yes. Everything will now be determined by the final exams. Still, I know I
passed. Truly, Heaven must feel like this.

(Melchior embraces Moritz. The lights shift.)

ACT ONE, SCENE THREE
Late afternoon. A bridge in the countryside. Wendla, Martha, Thea and Anna walk
home, talking excitedly.

THEA (Mid-conversation): ... And the bodice in lace, with a satin bow in back ...

ANNA: Ooh! And Wendla-what will you wear to Greta Brandenburg's wedding?

WENDLA: Mama said we cannot go.

THEA: To Greta's wedding?!

MARTHA: Because she's marrying that forest inspector?

WENDLA: Mama felt it was a little improper.

ANNA: But, they're decking the entire sanctuary in orchids and chrysanthemums! ...

WENDLA: Mama said no.

(Anna and Thea exchange a look.)

ANNA: I certainly hope your mama approves the man I marry.

THEA: And the man I marry!

WENDLA (Teasing): Well, we all know who Thea longs to marry!

MARTHA: Melchior Gabor!

THEA (“Gimme a break"): And who doesn't?

ANNA (Still playful): He is rather handsome ...

WENDLA: So wonderful…

MARTHA (Her secret crush): But not so wonderful as that sad soulful sleepyhead,
Moritz Stiefel ...

ANNA AND THEA: Moritz Stiefel!?

THEA: How can you even compare them? Melchi Gabor, he's

such a radical. You know what the whisper is?

(All the Girls lean in, eager to hear.)

He doesn't believe in anything. Not in God.

(The Girls gasp in wonder.)

Not in Heaven.

(Another gasp.)

Not in a single thing in this world.

(The Girls utter a final, collective sigh.)

ANNA: They say he's the best, in everything. Latin, Greek, Trigonometry...

THEA: The best part is: he doesn't care a whit about any of it!
ACT ONE, SCENE SEVEN

ANNA: Shall we take the short way home?

THEA: No no-by the bridge.

WENDLA: After two hours marching with that medicine ball?!

THEA: Come on!

ANNA (Teasing): Someone wants to see: has Melchi Gabor taken a raft out?

THEA: Last one there has to old hands with Hanschen!

(The Girls start off.)

ANNA: Martha, careful-your braid's coming loose.

MARTHA (Concerned): No.

THEA: Just let it. Isn't it a nuisance for you-day and night. You may not cut it short,
you may not wear it down ...

WENDLA: Tomorrow, I'm bringing scissors.

MARTHA: For God's sake, Wendla, no! Papa beats me enough as it is.

WENDLA: Really?

MARTHA: No, no, I- It's nothing.

THEA: Martha ... ?

ANNA: Martha, we're your friends ...

(A beat)

MARTHA: Well, when I don't do as he likes ...

ANNA: What?

MARTHA: Some nights ... Papa yanks out his belt.

THEA: But where is your mama?

MARTHA: "We have rules in this house. Your father will not be disobeyed." (A beat)
The other night, I ran for the door. "Out the door? Alright, I like that. That's where
you'll spend the night-out on the street:'

THEA: No!

MARTHA: It was so cold.

ANNA: My God.

(A beat.)

WENDLA: He beats you with a belt?

MARTHA: Anything.

WENDLA: With a buckle?

MARTHA (Rolls up her sleeve): Right there ...

ANNA: Oh my God!

WENDLA: Martha, the welts-they're terrible.

ANNA: We must tell someone.

MARTHA: Anna, no!

ANNA: But we must.

MARTHA: No, no, please. They'd throw me out for good.

THEA: Like what happened to Ilse, you mean.

WENDLA: Remember!

ANNA: But still ...

MARTHA: Anna, no.

(The utter degradation) Just look what's become of Ilse now! Living who knows
where-with who knows who?!

WENDLA: I just wish I could somehow go through it for you ...

(A beat.)

THEA: My Uncle Klaus says, "If you don't discipline a child, you don't love it."

MARTHA: That must be.

 REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
As previously mentioned, this is subject to change. We are more than happy for people to
miss rehearsals in May and June if they have exams the next day/need to revise for exams,
as long as you let us know beforehand. We don’t have a rehearsal venue as of yet, but we
will email you with an updated schedule once we have a finalized venue.

DATE TIME VENUE NUMBER/SCENE NEEDED

13/05/18 1PM-3:30PM TBA Meet & Greet, and Initial Read-Through Full Company
20/05/18 1PM –2:30PM TBA Mama Who Bore Me + Reprise Vocal Call Girls
20/05/18 2:30PM – 4PM TBA Scene 1 + MWBM & Reprise Choreography + Pre-amble Full Company
24/05/18 5PM – 8PM TBA B*tch of Living + Scene 2 Boys
27/05/18 1PM – 4PM TBA My Junk Full Company
03/06/18 5PM – 8PM TBA Touch Me + Scene 4 Full Company
07/06/18 5PM – 6:30PM TBA Scene 5 + Word of your Body Wendla + Melchior
07/06/18 6:30PM – 8PM TBA Scene 7 + Dark I Know Well Full Company
10/06/18 1PM – 4PM TBA Scene 8 + Scene 11 + I Believe Full Company
14/06/18 5PM – 8PM TBA Scene 6 + Scene 9 + Scene 10 + And Then There Were None Full Company
17/06/18 1PM – 4PM TBA Act One Run-through + Polishing Full Company
21/06/18 5PM – 8PM TBA Act 2 Scene 1 + Guilty Ones + Scene 3 + Left Behind Full Company
24/06/18 1PM – 4PM TBA Scene 2 + Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind + Scene 5 + WOYB Reprise Full Company
28/06/18 5PM – 8PM TBA Scene 4 + Totally F*cked Full Company
01/07/18 1PM – 2:30PM TBA Scene 6 + Whispering Wendla, AW, AM
01/07/18 2:30PM – 4PM TBA Scene 7 “ “ + Boys
05/07/18 5PM – 8PM TBA Scene 8 + Scene 9 + Those You’ve Known Full Company
08/07/18 2PM – 4PM TBA Song of Purple Summer + Polishing Full Company
12/07/18 5PM – 8PM TBA Act 2 Run-through + Polishing Full Company
15/07/18 2PM – 4PM TBA Full Run-through Full Company
16/07/18 1PM – 5PM TBA Vocal Call – Run through all the numbers vocally Full Company
17/07/18 1PM – 5PM TBA Dance Call – Run through all the numbers physically Full Company
18/07/18 1PM – 5PM TBA Full Run-through + Final Polishing Full Company
19/07/18 1PM – 5PM TBA Dress Rehearsal (not in the theatre) Full Company
20/07/18 11AM – 5PM TBA Tech + Dress Rehearsal Full Company
20/07/18 8PM – 10PM TBA FIRST PERFORMANCE Full Company
21/07/18 1PM – 5PM TBA SECOND PERFORMANCE (Show starts at 2PM, call is 1PM) Full Company
21/07/18 7PM – 10PM TBA FINAL PERFORMANCE (Show starts at 8PM, call is 7PM) Full Company

Please let us know either today or at the meet and greet if there are any dates you cannot
make. Alternatively email us at springawakeningjsy@outlook.com.