Anyone can audition!

Auditions for The Gulf Coast Rep productions are open to everyone. 

PRODUCTION: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW

Audition Prep Packet will be available on August 18th.   You will be able to download a PDF of the script pages we will use at the auditions. You do not have to memorize the lines for your audition, however, you are encouraged to be very familiar with them.

Dates: 

Saturday, September 6th - 10:00 a.m.

• ALL ROLES ARE OPEN.

Synopsis:

When Cassie goes trick-o-treating, she has a little mishap. She awakes in the days of Ichabod Crane and Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Now, her friends and family from present day have somehow stepped into the shoes of the classic characters! Cassie, now known as "Cassandra", makes it her mission to save "Ichabod" from his famous ride where the Headless Horseman will...well, we all know how the story is supposed to end, but will it end that way? 

Roles:

Cassie/Cassandra

Stacy

Katie/Katrina

Mr. Van Tassel

Mrs. Van Tassel

Irving/Ichabod

Buster/Braum

James

Peter

Goblin/Alexis

Sarah

John

Gretchen

Isabelle

Mrs. Simpson

Mrs. Clark

Mrs. Van Hugen

GENERAL INFO

AUDITION TIPS:

• Be very familiar with the lines in the scene or scenes. You don't have to memorize, but it's important that you don't sound like you're reading.

• Be sure to have expression in your voice.

• Make sure we can hear you.

• Do not over act. Don't be fake. Don't use silly hand or body gestures. Be real! Make the character as real as possible so that we believe you are the character.

What will the audition be like?

• Arrive a little earlier than the scheduled time. 

• When you enter the building, you will be given an audition form to fill out. 

• There will be about a 15-minute meeting with everyone before we begin the auditions to go over all of the general information about the show.

• We will take 10 (ten) people at a time to audition. Each group will spend about 20 minutes in the audition room. When you go back to the audition room, it will be Mr. Butler and his assistant director in the room with the group. You are not auditioning in front of tons of people - just the people in your group, the director and assistant director.

• You will either read with a "reader" or someone in your group.

• When your group is finished, you will be free to go! 

• The director will notify anyone he needs to see for a Callback audition. Typically, the director likes to bring back actors for another look, to see how they read with other actors, and narrow down who fits each role the best. Callbacks will be on Thursday, August 28th

• The cast will be announced by September 2nd on our website and on Facebook. If you are cast in the show, you will be told when the first rehearsal will take place. 

LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW - Audition Sides

SIDE #1:

Cassie, Katie, Mother, Buster, Irving

(The first scene takes place in modern day time.  Each of the characters we see will appear in Sleepy Hollow later.  The scene opens in Cassie’s living room.  Katie and Buster are sitting on the couch, flirting with each other.  Cassie sneaks up behind them.)

CASSIE

Boo!

KATIE

Cassie!  You are getting on my last nerve!

CASSIE

I’m ready for you to take me trick or treating.

KATIE

Oh no!  Buster and I are going to the masquerade party.  I am not taking you trick or treating.

BUSTER

Yeah kid, make like a tree and get out of here.

CASSIE

Leave.  It’s make like a tree and leave.  You know like leaf.  Never mind.

KATIE

Why don’t you go trick or treating with your little friends.

(MOTHER enters.)

MOTHER

What’s the problem here?

CASSIE

Katie won’t take me trick or treating.

KATIE

Mom!  I have plans already!

MOTHER

Then you’ll just have to un-plan.  Your father and I have a party to go to, and I need you to take Cassie trick or treating and drop her off at Leslie’s house.

KATIE

Mother!  It’s not fair!  I have a life of my own!

MOTHER

No you don’t.  You have no life as long as you live here young lady.  You either do what I tell you to or I’ll take your car away for two weeks.

KATIE

No Mom, you can’t do that.

BUSTER

Yeah, you can’t do that Mrs. T.  How will I get to school every day?

CASSIE/KATIE

Shut up, Buster.

MOTHER

I can and I will.  Now, you can take Cassie around until she fills her bag and then you can take her to Leslie’s and be on your way.  Alright?

KATIE

Alright.  But I don’t like it.

MOTHER

That’s life my dear.  There’s a lot of things I don’t like, but I do them anyway.

KATIE

Come on squirt.  Let’s go.

(Buster doesn’t move.)

Buster?  Let’s go.

BUSTER

What?  You mean now?

KATIE

Yes, now!

(Doorbell rings and Cassie and Katie run for it.  Cassie gets it.)

CASSIE

Hello, Irving.

IRVING

Is Katie here?

CASSIE

Yes, she is.  Just a minute.

KATIE

No!  Tell him I’ve already gone.  (Ducking behind the couch.)

CASSIE

You want me to lie to Irving?

KATIE

Yes.  He’s going to ask me to the masquerade party tonight and I can’t let him know I’m going with Buster.

CASSIE

Two boyfriends.  Well now.  This puts me in a very interesting position.

KATIE

How do you mean?

CASSIE

If I lie, you have to pay.

KATIE

Alright, what do you want?

CASSIE

Complete use of your CD collection, free use of your make-up and your nail polish for one week.

KATIE

Fine.  It’s a deal.  Just tell him something.

CASSIE

Irving?  Hey look, I’m sorry, I thought she was here.  Mom says she’s gone over to the Bradford nursing home to take Halloween cookies to them.

IRVING

I came by to ask her to the dance.  Do you know if she’s going with anyone yet?

CASSIE

Well, I don’t think she’s planning on going, since she’s going to the old folks home, you know.

IRVING

I guess I should have asked her last week.

CASSIE

Yes, Irving, I guess you should have asked her last week.  So, are you going?  (Pushing him out the door, so that we cannot hear the rest of the conversation.)  I see.  Well have a good time.  (Stepping back in.)  Good-bye.

KATIE

Well, what did he say?

CASSIE

He’s not going without you, so he’s going to stay home, watch Friday the 13th part twelve and answer the door for trick or treaters.

KATIE

Great.  You’re not so bad for a little kid.

CASSIE

It’s my specialty.

KATIE

What?  Lying or being a little kid.

CASSIE

Both.  Let’s go get some candy.

KATIE

Alright.

(They start to exit, but Buster doesn’t follow.  He has been reading or probably just looking at a magazine.)

CASSIE/KATIE

Buster!

BUSTER

Who me?

CASSIE/KATIE

Yes you.

CASSIE

Irving’s looking pretty good, huh?

KATIE

Brains or muscle.  It’s a tough choice.

SIDE #2:

Katrina, Isabelle, Gretchen, Mrs. Van Tassel

KATRINA

Hello girls.  Mr. Crane is not here yet.

ISABELLE

We know.  He’s coming down the road with your little sister.

GRETCHEN

It appeared that they are racing to the house.

ISABELLE

Katrina, you look very nice this evening.

KATRINA

Thank you, Isabelle.

GRETCHEN

Are you dressed up for Mr. Crane?

KATRINA

I just wanted to look nice for our lesson.  What’s wrong with that?

ISABELLE

Now, Katrina.  You don’t have to pretend with us.  We know you like Mr. Crane.

GRETCHEN

And Braum Bones.

ISABELLE

Are you going to ask Mr. Crane to the masquerade party?

KATRINA

Mr. Crane will get an invitation just like everyone else.

ISABELLE

If you ask Mr. Crane, would you be upset if I went with Braum?

MRS. VAN TASSEL

Ladies!  I have never heard such wicked talk.  Proper ladies do not ask the gentleman, they wait to be asked.

KATRINA

What if they never ask?  What if they are too shy?

MRS. VAN TASSEL

Then you give them a little nudge.

GRETCHEN

Which will it be Katrina?  Braum or Ichabod Crane?

KATRINA

I don’t know.  I like them both.

SIDE #3

CASSIE, STACY

STACY

Cassandra.  Open the window.

CASSIE

Stacy!  Is that you?

STACY

Of course it’s me.  Who else would be knocking on your window?

CASSIE

Boy am I glad to see you.  Oh, I get it.  This is all a Halloween joke, right?

STACY

Joke?  What are you talking about?

CASSIE

Katie and Buster are behind this right?  And your just playing along to make fun of me right?  Some friend you are.  But, I forgive you.  Just tell them to stop their little masquerade and let’s go get a pizza of something.

STACY

Cassandra, are you feeling alright?

CASSIE

Now your doing it too.  Don’t call me Cassandra.  I hate that name.

STACY

What should I call you then?

CASSIE

Cassie.  That’s what you always call me.  Now knock it off with the practical joking, alright.  I give in!

STACY

Give in to what?

CASSIE

(Disgusted)  Uhhhhhh!

STACY

The girls are taking their singing lesson from Mr. Crane.  They sound as bad as he does, don’t you think?

CASSIE

Uh, huh.

STACY

My father says that Mr. Crane is not really a singer.  The older people in the church like him because he sings so loud they can hear him and that warms their hearts enough that they overlook his voice.  But, I will say that Katrina and the others have improved.  My father says that those girls squawk like chickens when they sing.  Do you think Mr. Crane will ask your sister to the masquerade party?

CASSIE

Stacy.  What is the date today?

STACY

It’s Thursday.

CASSIE

Not the day, the date.

STACY

October 29th, of course.

CASSIE

What year?

STACY

What year?  Have you gone mad?

CASSIE

Humor me, okay.  What year is it?

STACY

1875, silly.

CASSIE

It’s true.  I’m really alive and well and in 1875.  Pinch me!

STACY

What?

CASSIE

Pinch me.

STACY

Cassandra…I mean Cassie.  You are scaring me.

CASSIE

Look, just do it alright.

(STACY pinches her.)

CASSIE

Ouch!

STACY

I’m sorry.

CASSIE

That’s alright.  I’m not dreaming, but this is a nightmare.

SIDE #4

Braum, James, Peter

BRAUM

Ichabod Crane!  Ichabod Crane!!  Ichabod Crane!!!  I hate that name!

JAMES

Braum, there is really nothing you can do about it.  Ichabod asked Katrina first.  He just beat you to it, old buddy.

BRAUM

First of all, if you ever touch me again, I’ll break your arm.  Second, don’t you ever say that name again.  Got it?

JAMES

Got it.

PETER

Lighten up, Braum.  He’s right.  You’re getting yourself all worked up over nothing.  Why don’t you ask Gretchen or Isabelle.  They both like you.

BRAUM

But, I wanted to go with Katrina.  I even took her flowers and everything.  And there was that little schoolmaster stuffing his face with Mrs. Van Tassel’s pumpkin pie.  Somehow, someway I’m going to get that little mouse.

JAMES

Braum,  Katrina is not going to change her mind.  And if Katrina ever finds out that you’ve been the one playing all those practical jokes on Ich…the schoolmaster, she would never speak to you again.

BRAUM

Then we just won’t let her find out, now will we?  (Pause)  We need something that would make this guy so crazy, he would be scared of his own shadow.  He wouldn’t even think of going out at night.

PETER

Why don’t we ambush him on the road in the middle of the woods?  We’ll tie him up and leave him there over night.  That would scare him good.

BRAUM

Not bad.  Let’s save that one for Halloween night, if he makes it that long.  Let’s start with a good old fashioned smoke-out.

JAMES

A what?

BRAUM

Tomorrow, we’ll smoke out the schoolhouse.

PETER

How’s that going to scare him?

BRAUM

It’ll scare him good if he thinks Old Hetsaba is behind it.

JAMES

Hetsaba, the witch?

PETER

That’s just an old tale.

BRAUM

To us, yes, but to Ichabod, she’s as real as real can be.

SIDE #5

Mrs. Clark/Mrs. Van Hugen/Mrs Simpson

MRS CLARK

This area abounds with haunted spots and twilight superstitions.  However, the dominant spirit that haunts this region and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head.  It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on wings of the wind.  His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of the church at no great distance.  Certain historians that have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this specter, allege that the body of the trooper was buried in the churchyard and the ghost rides forth to the scene of the battle in nightly quest of his head; and that rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.  This specter of the night is known at all the country firesides such as ours tonight as the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

SIDE #6

ICHABOD, BRAUM

BRAUM

There you are pipsqueak. 

ICHABOD

Braum…Braum Bones, is that you?

BRAUM

Of course it’s me.  Who else did you expect?

ICHABOD

The Headless….uh…

BRAUM

What was that?

ICHABOD

Nothing.  Nothing at all.  Did you say you were looking for me?

BRAUM

You bet your life I was looking for you.  Let’s get one things straight Mr. Crane.  Katrina Van Tassel is my girl.

ICHABOD

She is?  I didn’t…

BRAUM

No, and you never will.  Ever since you came to Tarry Town, she’s looked your way, but understand this, she’s mine.

ICHABOD

I’m sorry Braum, I didn’t know that the two of you were engaged.

BRAUM

Engaged?  We’re not engaged.

ICHABOD

Going steady?

BRAUM

No, not exactly.

ICHABOD

Then, if you have no agreement, she is not your girl.  Besides, if she were your girl, she would not have accepted my invitation to the masquerade party tomorrow night.

BRAUM

You are thick headed aren’t you egghead?  I don’t need no agreement to claim Katrina.  I take what I want!

ICHABOD

I suggest you discuss this with Miss Van Tassel.  It is a matter for her to decide.