Auditions

THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM

 

Auditions: Redbud Theatre.  7 minute appointment. To schedule an appointment please email the stage manager at bbutler1@twu.edu. Please include you name, phone number, email address, and your preference of time and day.

 Tuesday January 24 @ 5-8 PM

Wednesday January 25 @ 6-9 PM

Callbacks: Redbud Theatre.

Thursday January 26 @ TBA (The callback will include movement work)

 Audition Materials: Please bring a comic one minute monologue and be prepared to sing 16 bars of either a show tune, bluegrass or country song.  A picture resume is not required, but is encouraged.

 *Availability of scripts, score, book and soundtrack: These materials will be on reserve at the TWU library and can be checked out for perusal. If there is a specific role you wish to audition, please make yourself familiar with the callback materials listed below.

Materials for Callbacks:

Big Harp and Little Harp: Reading page 11 – 12 and sing Two Heads.

Big Harp and Goat: Reading page 63 – 64 and sing Poor Tied Up Darlin’.

Jamie and Rosamund: Reading page 34 – 37. 

                                    A. Jamie sing Steal with Style & Love Stolen.

                                    B. Rosamund sing Sleepy Man & Ain’t Nothin’ Up.

Salome and Clemment: Read pages 22 – 24.

                                    A. Salome sing Prickle Pear and Lily Bud

                                    B. Clemment sing first 30 measures of Marriage is Riches.

Goat, Goats Mother and Salome: Read pages 28 – 30.

                                    A. Goats Mother, Goat and Salome do the chant found book pages 30-31

Ensemble: Sing Good Bye Salome & Sleepy Man

 Synopsis:

A rousing, bawdy Southern fairy tale set in eighteenth century Mississippi, THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM is the story of the courting of Rosamund, the only daughter of the richest planter in the country, by Jamie Lockhart, a rascally robber of the woods. The proceedings go awry, thanks to an unconventional case of double-mistaken identity. Throw in an evil stepmother intent on Rosamund’s demise, her pea-brained henchman and a hostile talking head-in-a-trunk, and you have the recipe for a rollicking country romp.

 Character Descriptions:

 Jamie Lockhart – A double personality.  By day he is a well-to-do, amiable young man.  By night he is the bandit of the woods.  He is able to navigate amongst high society and cutthroats with equal success.  He is a master of seduction, quick witted and street smart.  He is loaded with boyish southern charm.  Jamie is capable of defending himself and others with his fists.  He is formally courting Rosamund by day, but disdains her heart and soul.  Unbeknownst to him, Rosamund is the secret lover he meets at night in the woods as the bandit.  He is committed to having Musgrove’s money and his nighttime lover.

 

Clemment Musgrove – He is the richest planter on the Natchez Trace.  He is eternally optimistic and determined to marry his daughter to Jamie Lockhart.  He is in a second marriage with Salome and is unaware of her designs on his money and other men.

 

Goat - A simpleton.  He is described as having fewer brains than a scuppernong seed.  As a child he was disciplined with a skillet to the head.  He brays and butts like a goat.  Salome and Little Harp, to execute their vicious plans, recruit Goat.

Little Harp – One of a murderous brotherly pair.  Little Harp is a killer and a robber of renown in the Natchez Trace.  He is crude and brutal, seldom bathes and has a deviant lust for the darker side of amore.  He is short tempered and is the antithesis of Jamie.  Little Harp carries his brother’s head in a trunk.

 

Big Harp – A talking head in a trunk and the brains behind the Harp Brothers operations.  He is lustful and utterly dependent on his brother.  He resents living in the trunk.

 

Salome - Musgrove's second wife and stepmother to Rosamund.  Salome is an herbal specialist.  Considered the ugliest woman on the Natchez Trace, she can grow cartilage faster than any other human being.  She is committed to ending Rosamund’s life and securing Clemment’s fortune for herself.  She is an outrageous flirt with Jamie.  In the end, she gets her comeuppance.

 

Rosamund - Musgrove's daughter from a previous marriage.  Rosamund is to be wed to the courting Jamie Lockhart, but in a robbery that leaves her with little more than her virtue, she falls for the Bandit of the Woods, unaware that Jamie and the bandit are one and the same.  There is little to occupy her time and her curiosity about the bandit grows into an unabashed yearning.  She is fooled by Salome and exposes the bandit.

 

Ensemble: (Roles within the Chorus.  Chorus number to be determined)

Goat’s mother

Airie – Goat’s sister

Raven – travels with the Harp Brothers

Queenie Sue

A flatboatmen

Neighbors

Landlord

Rehearsals: (Dates TBA based on actor & staff availability.  Proposed schedule is 4 days of rehearsal per week @ 4 hours per meeting)

A.    Monday February 20 through Wednesday April 11

B.    March 16 through 25 – off for SPRING BREAK

Tech:

Thursday April 12 @ 6-10:30

Friday April 13 @ 6-10:30

Saturday April 14 @ 10-10 (10 out of 12)

Sunday April 15 @ TBA

Dress/runs:

Sunday April 15 @ 6 PM

Monday April 16 @ 8 PM

Tuesday April 17 @ 8 PM

Performances:

Wednesday April 18 @ 8 PM

Thursday April 19 @ 4 PM

Friday April 20 @8 PM

Saturday April 21 @ 2 PM and 8 PM

Sunday April 22 @ 2 PM