Urgent!! Panto Audition!

Nobody loves a fairy when she's forty,
Nobody loves a fairy when she's old,
She may still have her magic powers
but that is not enough.
They Like their bit of magic from a younger bit of stuff.
When once your fairy wand has lost it's glitter!
and your tinsel looks like rust instead of gold.
Your fairy days are ending when your wand has started bending,
no one loves a fairy when she's old!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beHuNtrhOCg

• 12 years ago
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That's quite fun and very appropriate but rather old fashioned.
Fairies generally speak in rhyming stuff. as a villain I generally describe my job as walking on, saying ten lines of rhyming stuff, laughing maniacally, and walking off.
So your job would be similar, so write something for yourself that fits the story.
So just off the cuff...erm
"My name is fairy hufflepuff, I've come here from the dell,
I would have got here sooner but I fell down in the well.
My evil nemesis is here, The giant's man Fleshcreep.
He could have had the mitchell brothers, but got him on the cheap."
That sort of thing, don't, I repeat don't do Shakespeare! however funny it might appear, it just says that you don't understand the genre you are applying for. Take a wand, be graceful tinged with clumsy, always enter from stage right and pretty much stay there, again that will show you understand the genre. if you need anything else just ask :-) good luck!

• 12 years ago
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Thanks Nigel :)

Sounds good - So you don't think I should steer clear from Fairy monologues then?

I know this is the role I am going for however I know some directors/companies like to see something different - but still along the same sort of lines!

Someone suggested to me a section from Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes (Cinderella) - what do you think? I like the fact you can create good characterisation within it and it also has storytelling/audience interation elements but am not too sure!

Thanks for your advice - I may mess around with some pen and paper and see what happens!

Zoe x

• 12 years ago
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By all means take the advice of anybody who has more panto credits than I have seriously! They would obviously know more about it than me. I only speak from my own personal experience and don't claim to be an authority on anything :-)
However if they haven't got many panto credits then it might be a different matter.

• 12 years ago
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ok thanks so much nigel! X

• 12 years ago
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Thanks Lindsay!!

:)

• 12 years ago
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