Tuacahn Summer Season 2018

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Thank you for auditioning for Tuacahn Summer Season 2018 at Screenland Studios 10501 Burank Blvd, N Hollyood, CA 91601 ROLE: Present in the room ill e director/choreographer, producing team casting

1 Thank you for auditioning for Tuacahn Summer Season 2018 at Screenland Studios Burank Blvd, N Hollyood, CA ROLE: Present in the room ill e director/choreographer, producing team casting Initial Call: A song in the style or from any of the shos Have a 2 nd selection that contrasts in case it is asked for Callacks: Roles as requested Please prepare all the materials in this packet for each character Be sure to donload the callack material for each role e are asking you to prepare All callack material in the packets on our esite are for CALLBACKS only Thanks so much! W S Casting

2 Prince of Egypt AH-- AH-- AH-- AH-- HEBREW SLAES DELIER US SEND A SHEPHERD TO SHEPHERD US AND DELIER US TO THE PROMISED LAND DELIER US TO THE PROMISED LAND! DELIER US! YOCHEED SCENE 2 PROMONTORY - EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER and, no to young men, sit in their chariots on a promontory overlooking the desert and the outskirts of the city of Thees So e race our chariots straight don the edge of the cliff into ton Good luck keeping up ith me, rother (looking don nervously) Uh, Moses isn t the path don the cliff pretty steep Sure is So don t go off the edge It s a long ay don So let s see, then e go around the marketplace (gaining confidence) It s faster to go through the center! Of course, I ll e ay ahead of you y then! All right, Ramses, through the center of the marketplace - and around the Temple of Horus (aghast) But the High Priest ill e there! That s the est part - can you imagine the look on Hotep s face Of course, if you re too scared to race First through the royal gate ins!

3 Prince of Egypt All right, on the ord dust Dust As in eat my DUST! (confused) ( lashes his horses ith his hip on dust and races off hips his horse and is off as ell They race side y side, as the sights along their route flash past) AND WHEELS OF THE CHARIOT SPINNING BARRELING DOWN FROM THE LEDGE WE KNOW THE BEST WAY OF WINNING IS KEEPING CLOSE TO THE EDGE WHOA! - OBSTACLES COMING SO QUICKLY YOU ALWAYS ARE NARROWLY SKIRTING DISASTER THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THAT'S BETTER THAN GOING SO FAST - AND THAT'S GOING FASTER! COME ON, YOU FOOLS YOU'RE HORSES, NOT MULES! YOU'E GOT TO GO EEN FASTER! (They race on into the MARKETPLACE) AND THUNDERING INTO THE MARKET ON A MAGNIFICENT STEED

4 Prince of Egypt SINCE THERE IS NOWHERE TO PARK IT MIGHT AS WELL PICK UP SOME SPEED WATCHING MY BACKSIDE GET FURTHER IN FRONT OUGHT TO PROE TO YOU I'M YOUR MASTER! I WOULD GIE UP AND ADMIT YOU'RE IMPRESSIELY FAST - EXCEPT THAT I M FASTER! (There s the SOUND OF NUMEROUS CRASHES from ehind them looks ack) So much for the marketplace! It s in ruins! Next target -- the temple! Maye e ll e lucky and Hotep on t e there I m counting on him eing there! AND WE'E GOT NO EXCUSE BUT WHY WORRY, SINCE THERE IS A RACE TO BE RUN AFTER ALL, WHAT IS THE USE OF BEING A PRINCE - IF YOU CAN'T HAE A LITTLE FUN! That s right! AND WHY NOT HAE A LITTLE FUN! (A short distance in front of them, HIGH PRIEST HOTEP and his PRIESTS are conducting a solemn ritual A clay figure of HORUS stands on an altar HOTEP raps a cloth around the figure)

5 Prince of Egypt Moses ( leaps onto the marle lock and seizes the GUARD s hip as he raises it for another lo The startled GUARD turns and sees looming over him Do you dare to disoey me (He raises his hand to strike the GUARD The GUARD coers and loses his alance Screaming, the GUARD falls ackards, toppling off the marle lock and crashing onto the stone elo AARON rushes to the limp, still ody) He s dead! AARON (Everyone freezes, uncertain ho to react to an Egyptian prince killing a guard Then runs off) SCENE 12 THE EDGE OF THE DESERT has run to the edge of the temple complex The desert stretches efore him to the horizon He stops exhausted, hands on knees runs toards him from the construction site Moses! What are you doing I killed that man I committed murder It as an accident! I sa it The man fell I m responsile Either I leave or I must e put to death

6 Prince of Egypt Don t e ridiculous He as ust a guard, one step aove a slave Someone so far don the pyramid of ma at, e can t even see him! A prince of Egypt can t e punished for -- But I m not a prince of Egypt What are you talking aout There s no royal lood in my veins I as orn a a Here A slave ( laughs) (CONT D) Ask Father and Mother if you don t elieve me I m a Here! ( recoils, as he reacts) (in a lo voice) If that s true, no one must ever kno that I can t keep it secret Of course you can We can You ve had a shock You re not thinking straight Come ack ith me no I can t run aay from the truth (He pulls his arm free from grasp) You re running aay right no! Listen to me -- I am the son of Egypt - the morning and the evening star If I say day is night, it ill e ritten And I say you are innocent I say you are my rother I can t stay here I don t elong

7 Prince of Egypt (NEFERTARI looks to ) Seti the Second HOTEP In the name of Amun-Ra the Father, Horus the Son of Isis, and Kneph the Spirit of the River Nile, I name you Seti the Second, heir to the throne of the living god Pharaoh Ramses (He scatters ater from another ol over the BABY's head) PRIESTS AND ATTENDEES MIGHTY PHARAOH QUEEN NEFERTARI SETI THE SECOND LIFE! HEALTH! STRENGTH! LIFE! HEALTH -- (As the MAID carries the ay out of the room, a commotion erupts from the ack of the room, as GUARDS shout at unseen intruders) GUARDS (ad li) Stand ack! This is a royal celeration! You cannot enter! Halt! Stop him! ( ursts into the throne room, folloed y TZIPPORAH) I m here to see my father, the Pharaoh ( stands up and crosses to the edge of the royal platform) What is this There are no strangers alloed in the throne room! ( steps forard, flanked y nervous GUARDS TZIPPORAH follos, a short distance ehind) But I m not a stranger ( rises, gazing in diselief at )

8 Prince of Egypt It can t e Everyone said you must e dead Moses! ( olts from the throne and runs to They emrace) Ramses It s een so long And you ere sitting on the throne I am Pharaoh no Then Father ( nods) And Mother (CONT D) She She s different than hen you left, Moses She rarely leaves her chamers She never really recovered from Father s death ( is silent for a moment notices TZIPPORAH) (CONT D) Isn t this the Midian girl ho escaped You rought her ack for me, ust as you said you ould! Unelievale! You kept your promise! What promise TZIPPORAH (icily, to ) (to TZIPPORAH) It as a long time ago (to ) Ramses, Tzipporah is my ife HOTEP Excuse me, Your Maesty, I am compelled to remind you Pharaoh Seti anished Moses from Egypt for life Hotep, you re still here

9 Prince of Egypt HOTEP I ill alays e here, serving the gods You, on the other hand, ill soon e gone (erupts ith fury) This is my rother! He s come ack from the dead, and I am going to elcome him ack into my family NEFERTARI Ramses, you can t! He pretended to e a memer of your family, then ran off after killing an overseer and married a slave! TZIPPORAH I as never a slave! In fact, I m more of a princess than you are NEFERTARI (urning) I m descended from five generations of Pharaohs! Nefertari, I think TZIPPORAH There are ten generations of high priests in my family! There s no reason Ho dare a desert savage speak to NEFERTARI (TUYA, leaning heavily on a SERANT s arm, alks sloly and painfully into the throne room) TUYA Is it true Has my Moses come ack Mother Mother! (uncertain at first) (HE runs to TUYA and emraces her)

10 Prince of Egypt AARON Look, there s your rother the Pharaoh floating don the Nile! (He points to the royal arge floating don on the Nile, ith and the other royals on oard) AARON (CONT D) Go oin your family on the royal arge! HEBREWS YOU RE NOT ONE OF US! SCENE 25 THE BANKS OF THE NILE runs toards the ank of the river Ramses! TZIPPORAH Moses, no! Why are you doing this Ramses roke your deal We re free to go! No, I m not I m one of them, hether they accept me as one of them or not I m going to fight for them (calls out to the arge) Ramses! Is it true Did you go ack on your promise to me The Pharaoh does not give promises HOTEP NEFERTARI Ho dare a suect talk to his king like that! You ve roken your ord Why did you do this to me ( rises up in anger) To you I m not the one ho ran aay, leaving his father to die in mourning for a lost son I m not the one ho left his rother alone, thinking you ere dead I m not the one ho turned his ack on the family ho rescued him from a life of squalor A family ho loved him like one of their on Why did you do this to me

11 Prince of Egypt This isn t aout you, Ramses Everything is aout me! I am Pharaoh! Guards, seize him! (GUARDS leap off the arge and start trudging through the shallo aters toards The HEBREWS have noticed the commotion and approach the river) Moses, run! MIRIAM AARON Miriam, keep out of this We ll all e in troule ecause of this mad man (The GUARDS reach and gra him TZIPPORAH starts running toards ) Take your hands off of my husand! TZIPPORAH You ll regret this decision, Ramses! I on t forgive you for this! ( plants his staff into the ater to anchor himself against the GUARDS The ater turns red around the staff Rapidly the red spreads, until the entire Nile has turned to the color of lood The GUARD stops, paralyzed ith fear Everyone freezes in their tracks, diselieving MIRIAM puts her finger into the ater and tastes it) It s lood! MIRIAM GUARD 1 Blood! The river has turned to lood! (The GUARDS start to eat a frenzied retreat) Guards, go ack!

12 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 5 10 I Will Make it Right/No Poer on Earth [RE ] (:) 59 # # # ## May - e the rest of the orld could e fooled, ut that still leaves us to, and # # # ## n # # # ## n n 6 67 # # # ## # # # ## # # # ## # # # ## no po - er on earth can change that, roth - er, not ev - en 64 : But I ill e Pharaoh, the living god If I say it is so, it ill e so : No, Ramses # # # ## # # # ## you : No po - er on n n 72 : 7 earth I ill make it right, n can change the n n n n n 74 n n n past find a ay to

13 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 6 10 I Will Make it Right/No Poer on Earth [RE ] 75 (:) fix (:) it Leave it up to me to make it et - ter, strong - er than I've ev - er 79 8 No po - er on een Though it reaks my hep earth 80 can We ill alk in heart to leave you, make a lie e 81 light, there's noth - ing I can - pened, and e'll keep your sec - ret safe for - ev - er, you May - e the rest of the 84 orld could e fooled, ut 85 that still leaves us 82 true do like this nev - er 86 to, can count on me to and

14 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 7 10 I Will Make it Right/No Poer on Earth [RE ] 87 (:) in (:) this no po - er on earth can change that, roth - er, not ev - en you # # fight for you 92 I ill find the 9 might Try ith all your I ill make it I ill make it might, you can't make it, you can't make it rall

15 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 8 10 I Will Make it Right/No Poer on Earth [RE ] 98 A Tempo (:) U 102 right (:) U right rall U U > Ó [APPLAUSE SEGUE]

16 Piano/ocal cue : So e thought [MUSIC IN] THE LEAST FREE MAN [RE ] PRINCE OF EGYPT 18 Music and Lyrics y STEPHEN SCHWARTZ Ó (cont'd) : But e didn't kno hat troule really as In truth, e didn't have a care in the orld 2 Ó 4 : 5 When I as a oy, I could - n't ait to e a man I thought that then I'd fi - nal - ly e 6 7 free There'd e no more scold - ing voi - ces, I'd make my on choi - ces; I dreamt a - out ho hap - py life ould e hen I gre n n 12 (:) up Then I gre up, and no I some - times have to laugh for all I'm orth, as the

17 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 2 18 The Least Free Man [RE ] priests and gen - 'rals too tell me all that I must do, I'm the least free man on n 19 +: 20 earth, the least free man on 21 earth 22 # # : You don't kno hat it's like to e told to do something and you can't say no : Oh, I think I do But I've ust seen an entire people ho are slaves I've seen ho it ros them not only of dignity, ut of hope It haunts me Ó : They're not your people : My on rother and sister are slaves : I'm your rother! n n 28 n 29 : Ramses, you can end this inustice You can free them from slavery 0

18 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 18 The Least Free Man [RE ] 1 : What people are you talking aout : My people The Heres 2 : If you ant a couple Heres freed, of course I ill give you that : Not a couple Heres - I ant you to free all of them n : That's insane We've alays had slaves, since the first Pharaohs The Heres uild our temples and mausoleums What you're asking is impossile [GO ON] 7 8 # (con't) : What you're asking is impossile [GO ON] 9 40 SAFETY 41 : 42 4 We're no lon-ger oys, I can't ust take one of your dares ust n think if I let half our ork - force leave! Think of Ho - tep, Ne - fer - ta - ri they'd make me ve - ry sor - ry; I'd 47

19 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 4 18 The Least Free Man [RE ] 48 n have more trou - le than you can con - cieve! And there's Ma 'at You kno I've n n 51 (:) got to pre - serve it, that's the Pha - roah's role from irth This thing you can - not ask, it's n too ex - treme a task for the least free man on earth, and I'm the # # Ó un 60 : Unless 61 Ó least free man - less You

20 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 5 18 The Least Free Man [RE ] : Tell me hat you ant give me a real rea - son to say yes : You're asking me to overturn centuries of tradition, to deny Ma'at itself All the priests and aristocrats ill e against it But if you agree to stay here ith me, if you return to eing a Prince of Egypt, if you ill e my most trusted advisor Ó : At my 72 side At my 7 side 74 I'll e stron - ger ith you at my 75 side! At my n Ó : At your n n n n

21 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 6 18 The Least Free Man [RE ] side At my side Once more you'll e al - ays at my side At your side 79 : My ife ill kill me (:) 80 Ó : I'll e in much hotter ater than you : Then - yes! I'll stay! side : 8 84 " As hen e ere oys, e'll e a team so get your things You must ad - mit this is a cause for mirth! The n

22 PRINCE OF EGYPT Piano/ocal 7 18 The Least Free Man [RE ] 87 He - res ill e free, hile you and I ill e the least free men on earth To - 88 : 89 least free men on 90 earth # # To - 91 (:) (:) ge - ther e ill e the most least free the least free men on n ge - ther e ill e the most least free the least free men on rall Ó [ hugs, then exits the room As he alks out the door, NEFERTARI and HOTEP emerge from a hiding place] # earth! Ó # earth! # #

Thank you for auditioning for PRINCE OF EGYPT. at TUACAHN ROLE: RAMSES

Thank you for auditioning for PRINCE OF EGYPT at TUACAHN ROLE: Present in the room will be the Director, Producing Team, Casting, and Composer/Lyricist Stephen Schwartz. INSTRUCTIONS: Please prepare this