South Pacific Auditions
See below for character notes and audition pieces.
- Sunday, 18 May at 2pm
- Preview - Community Centre, Bourne End, SL8 5SX
- Sunday, 8 June at 2pm
- Open auditions - Community Centre, Bourne End, SL8 5SX
Character Notes
- Nellie Forbush
- Naïve US Navy nurse. Confident, bubbly, compassionate. She loves Emile but cannot accept that he had a native wife and children.
- Playing age 25 – 35.
- Audition score page 20 & 21, and page 70 & 71.
- Emile de Becque
- Serious, calm nature, middle-aged plantation owner. Has a mystery past.
- Playing age 45 – 60. French, must speak with a slight accent .
- Audition score page 26 & 27, and page 148 & 149.
- Bloody Mary
- Loud, brash Polynesian. Rather shady – she will sell anything, including her own daughter, to anyone.
- Playing age 40+
- Audition score page 47 & 48.
- Luther Billis
- An ‘entrepreneur’ in the loosest sense, able to talk his way out of trouble. Loud and scruffy, a chancer.
- Playing age 30 – 40
- Audition score page 35; 36 & 37.
- Lt. Cable
- The clean-cut all-American hero! Brave and handsome.
- Playing age 25 – 30
- Audition score page 53, and page 94, 95, 96.
- Cpt Brackett
- Officer in charge. Commanding, authoritative.
- Playing age 50 - 60
- Commander Harbison
- Second in command. Sharply spoken, clipped sentences – very much a ‘Navy’ man.
- Playing age 45 - 60
- Ngana / Jerome
- Boy and girl – age range 7 – 11
- Dark-haired, need to sing. Appear in first and final scenes.
- Audition score page 14.
- Henry
- Emile’s man-servant. Playing age 50+. Speaks in French. First scene only
- Could then join chorus.
- Liat
- Teenage pretty Polynesian girl. Non-singing, has only a few lines to say. No audition, but speak to Diane if interested
Audition Pieces
- Ngana / Jerome
- P98-99 “What on earth are those?” (Nellie) ………”Chantez Nellie”
- Henry
- P3 “Allez-vous”……”Oui Monsieur de Becque”
- Nellie Forbush
- P3 -4 “You know what they call me? Knucklehead Nellie!”……”What’s this one?”
- P61 – 62 “Bon soir. Bon soir. Oh aren’t they adorable!”….”Please let me go.”
- P92 “Come back, so I can tell you something”….”Live!”
- Emile de Becque
- P3 -4 “That is frangipani”……”You do not look much like an Admiral.”
- P 61 – 62 “They’re mine.”…..”Do you hear me Nellie? I love you!”
- P89 – 90 “Hello. Hello my friends and allies”……..”Goodbye!”
- Bloody Mary
- P11 – 14 “Hello G.I.”……”She make wave like this.”
- P67 – 70 “She come in big white boat”……”Stingy bastard!” (missing out songs)
- Luther Billis
- P15 – 17 “Here you are sweetie pie”…………”It is boars’ teeth”
- Lt. Cable
- P51 – 53 “What’s this?”……….”Aw let them wait”
- P 86 “All you Navy”………”There was fighter escort, not heavy”
- Cpt Brackett
- P25 – 27 “You are causing an economic revolution”…..”Maybe you and I’ll get into this war yet”
- P72 “”Up to now”…..”Commander Harbison”
- Commander Harbison
- P26 – 27 “A coast watch”…..”Right on the bottleneck”
Notes
All small named parts will be members of the chorus
Accents
- Emile / Henry / children – French
- Mary / Liat – Polynesian
- All others - American