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"The Wizard of Oz" celebrates its 75th anniversary as the Barn celebrates its 25th anniversary on opening night. Dorothy’s adventures have resonated with generations of audiences. She and her companions seek what we all seek: wisdom, heart, courage, and a place called home.

“The Wizard of Oz” Auditions for Adults (16 years thru senior), Monday, April 4th, 2016

Registration 6:00 pm, Auditions 6:30 pm

Auditions for Children (10 to 15 years), Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 Registration 6:00 pm, Auditions 6:30 pm

ACTOR/SINGER roles

Leading Roles: 1 woman (16 thru 30) 1 woman (30 thru senior)

3 men (20 thru senior) Children's Chorus - 12-20 members (10 years-13 years) Adult Chorus - 12-20 members (14 years thru seniors)

ACTORS / Non-singing roles 2 women (40 thru senior)

2 men (40 thru senior)

AUDITION INFORMATION MUSICAL AUDITION: Adults (16 and older): Be prepared to sing a verse and/or chorus of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". You will be singing with no accompaniment. Choose a key that is comfortable for you. Children: (15 and under) Be prepared to sing "Happy Birthday." You will be singing with no accompaniment. Choose a key that is comfortable for you. It's important to show us give your "belt out the song" voice! So have fun and "go for it"! SHOWDATES: JUNE 22 thru JULY 3rd (excluding Mondays and Tuesdays). We may hold the show over to JULY 4 & 5 depending on ticket sales. (All shows begin at 7:30 pm except for Sundays. Sundays the show begins at 2:00 pm)

Page 2 of 5 STANDARD REHEARSAL SCHEDULE: Three to four nights/week plus week-ends (varies depending upon how often each character is required and cast members prior commitments) - Rehearsals may begin as early as APRIL 18th. Specific rehearsal schedule will be decided after casting is complete. MUSIC REQUIREMENT FOR “The Wizard of Oz”: NON-SINGING ROLES: Uncle Henry, Auntie Em, the Professor Marvel/Wizard of Oz, and Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch. SOLO ROLES: Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tinman, Lion, Glinda, and the Emerald City Gatekeeper. CHORUS MEMBERS: (all make up the voices of the large musical numbers. Also, some chorus members take on multiple small roles in smaller choruses) THE CHORUS is a VERY big part of the show. A good chorus has lots of energy and creates fun and excitement. ADULT CHORUS: They are the Citizens of Emerald city. Some of the Adult Chorus will also play: the Apple Trees, Poppies & Snowflakes, Jitterbugs, Winkies (the Witch's Guard) CHILDREN'S CHORUS: Play the citizens of Munchinland. All of the children sing. There are also solo lines for 3-5 children. The Children are in to musical numbers: "The Munchinland sequence" as well as "Follow the Yellow Brick Road". GENERAL AUDITION GUIDELINES: - Auditions are open to everyone. -No appointments are necessary, auditions are conducted on a first-come first served basis. -If the audition date does not suit you please call 239-4600 to make alternate arrangements for an audition. -Casting can take up to two weeks. You will be notified if your presence is required at a call back audition. -Auditioners will be asked to read from the play - it will be a "cold reading". If Auditioning for the Chorus or a solo role you will also be asked to sing. (See Musical Audition at the top of the page.) -Please take note of performance dates and standard REHEARSAL SCHEDULE. Bring any conflicts to note on your audition form.

-We are a community theatre. All actors are volunteers, but because everyone will need to travel out to the Barn for all rehearsals we try to help out with the cost of fuel. Should you be cast in a roll you will be asked to keep track of the kilometers your vehicle has accumulated driving out to the Barn and will be reimbursed 10 cents per kilometer. There is also a $50 honorarium.

Page 3 of 5 Synopsis of "The Wizard of Oz" Dorothy Gale is an orphaned teenager who lives with her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry on a Kansas farm in the early 1900s. She daydreams about going "over the rainbow" after Miss Gulch a nasty neighbor, hits Dorothy's dog Toto on the back with a rake, causing Toto to bite her. Miss Gulch shows up with an order to take Toto to the sheriff to be euthanized. Uncle Henry and Auntie Em have no choice but to comply with the law and put Toto in Miss Gulch's basket. Dorothy, feeling like the world is against her, runs away from home. She meets an itinerant phony fortune teller, Professor Marvel, who immediately guesses that Dorothy has run away. Pretending to tell her fortune and wishing to reunite Dorothy with her aunt, he tells her that Auntie Em has fallen ill from worry over her. Dorothy immediately returns home, only to find a tornado approaching. Unable to reach her family in their storm cellar, Dorothy enters the house, is knocked unconscious by a loose window, and apparently begins to dream. Along with her house, she's swept from her world to the magical, beautiful, dangerous land of Oz. The tornado drops Dorothy's house on the Wicked Witch of the East, killing her. The witch ruled the Land of the Munchkins, little people who think at first that Dorothy herself must be a witch. The Wicked Witch of the West (played by Miss Gulch) who is the sister of the dead witch, threatens Dorothy. But Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, gives Dorothy the dead witch's enchanted Ruby Slippers, and the slippers protect her. Glinda advises that if Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas, she should seek the aid of the Wizard of Oz, who lives in the Emerald City. To get there, Dorothy sets off down the Yellow Brick Road. Before she's followed the road very far, Dorothy meets a talking scarecrow whose dearest wish is to have a brain. Hoping that the wizard can help him, the Scarecrow (played by the farmhand, Hunk) travels with her. Next they meet a man made of tin (played by the farmhand, Hickory) who was caught in the rain and is so rusty he can't move. When they oil his joints so he can walk and talk again, he confesses that he longs for a heart; he too joins Dorothy. As they walk through a dense forest, they encounter the Cowardly Lion (played by the farmhand, Zeke), who wishes for courage and joins the quest in the hope that the wizard will give him some. On the way to the Emerald City, Dorothy and her friends are hindered and menaced by the Wicked Witch of the West. She incites trees to throw apples at them, then tries to set the scarecrow on fire. Within sight of the city, the witch conjures up a field of poppies that cause Dorothy, Toto, and the lion to fall asleep. Glinda saves them by making it snow, which counteracts the effects of the poppies.

Page 4 of 5 The four travelers marvel at the wonders they find in the Emerald City and take time to freshen up: Dorothy, Toto and the Lion have their hair done, the Tin Woodman gets polished, and the scarecrow receives an infusion of fresh straw stuffing. As they emerge looking clean and spiffy, the Wicked Witch appears on her broomstick and skywrites "Surrender Dorothy" above the city. The friends are frustrated at their reception by the "great and powerful" Wizard of Oz (played by Professor Marvel) -- at first he won't receive them at all. When they finally see him (the doorkeeper lets them in because he had an Aunt Em himself), the Wizard declines to help them until they bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West. Daunted but determined, they set off again. The witch sends Jitterbugs, an insect to infect the friends with a never-ending-desire-to dance before they reach her castle. During the dance the Winkies, (the Witch's personal guards) snatch Dorothy and take her to the Witch's Castle leaving the others behind to search for her. When the witch finds that the Ruby Slippers can't be taken against Dorothy's will as long as the girl is alive, she turns her hourglass and threatens that Dorothy will die when it runs out. Meanwhile, dressed as guardsmen, the Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow sneak into the castle and try to rescue Dorothy. They're discovered before they can escape, however, and the witch and her guards corner them and threaten to set the Scarecrow on fire. Dorothy douses her with a pail of water. The water causes the witch to disintegrate ("I'm melting!"). The guards are happy to let Dorothy have the witch's broomstick, and Dorothy and her friends return to the Emerald City. The wizard isn't pleased to see them again. He blusters until the Scarecrow reveals an old man who resembles Professor Marvel pulling levers and speaking into a microphone behind the Wizard's throne. -- the so-called wizard, as the Scarecrow says, is a humbug. He's abashed and apologetic, but quickly finds ways to help Dorothy's friends: a diploma for the Scarecrow, a medal of valor for the Lion, and a testimonial heart-shaped watch for the Tin Man. Then he reveals that he's from Kansas himself and came to Oz in a hot-air balloon, in which he proposes to take Dorothy home. The wizard appoints the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion rulers of Oz in his absence. Dorothy is saying good-bye to her friends when something goes terribly wrong and the balloon along with the Wizard lifts off without Dorothy. Unable to come back because he can't actually fly the balloon, the wizard leaves without her. Glinda, the Good Witch appears and explains that Dorothy has always had the power to get home; Glinda didn't tell her before because Dorothy wouldn't have believed it. Bidding her friends a tearful good-bye, Dorothy taps her heels together three times, repeating "There's no place like home," and the Ruby Slippers take her back to Kansas.

Page 5 of 5 Next we Uncle Henry, Auntie Em and Professor Marvel searching in the dark, after the storm, for Dorothy. Just as they are about to give up the search they hear her. Dorothy wakes with Auntie Em and Uncle Henry fussing over her. She tells them of the place she has been and recognizes Professor Marvel as the humbug wizard, Oz. This raises indulgent laughter from her family, but she's so happy to be home she doesn't mind that they don't believe her. Uncle Henry and Auntie Em will take her home where Toto is waiting for her. It seems Miss Gulch suffered a broken leg in the storm and has no interest in pursuing Toto anymore. Dorothy ends the show with her new mantra, "There's no place like home!"

CAST OF CHARACTERS CHARACTERS: (*are non-singing roles) DOROTHY GALE - High spirited, kind, brave, caring -- experiences everything with wide-eyed wonder. *UNCLE HENRY - Thoughtful, slow, good sense of humor, does what ever his wife Emily says. *AUNTIE EM - Straight forward, no nonsense, fair HUNK / SCARECROW - Kind and loving, thoughtful and caring // wide-eyed and innocent HICKORY / TINMAN - Emotional and joyful and very sweet ZEKE / LION - Big and blustery, shows off and scares easily *MISS GULCH / WICKED WITCH - Selfish, Controlling, impatient, loud cackling (evil) laugh *PROFESSOR MARVEL / WIZARD OF OZ - A kindhearted show-off, doesn't take himself too seriously, loud showman. GLINDA - kind, gentle, graceful, self-assured EMERALD CITY GATEKEEPER - Gruff and gregarious, pushy but kind, a showman CHILDREN'S CHORUS (12-20 members): MUNCHKIN Chorus with Solo Characters Mayor 2 School Teachers Barrister 3Tots (Lullaby League) Coroner 3 Tough Guys (Lollipop Guild) ADULT CHORUS (12-20 members): All -- Citizens of Emerald City Smaller Groups -Apple Trees - Poppies chorus - Jitterbugs chorus - Winkie chorus (Witch's Guard)