Thank you for auditioning for SOMETHING ROTTEN NON-UNION NATIONAL TOUR ROLE: PORTIA. If you are called back, please prepare the entire packet.

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1 Thank you for auditioning for SOMETHIN ROTTEN NON-UNION NATIONAL TOUR ROLE: Present in the room for prescreens/ appointments /callbacks will be various combinations of director, music supervisor, choreographer casting. Producing team will also be present at callbacks. For the initial call, please prepare a contemporary comedic musical theatre song in the style of (or from) the show, and SIE 1. If you are called back, please prepare the entire packet. INSTRUTIONS: Be sure to bring your picture and resume, otherwise we will not have one in the room! Thanks so much! W S asting

2 SOMETHIN ROTTEN 6/21/ START: NIK Nigel, please. I need you, now more than ever. I ve got to go find us a new backer and that means you need to come up with a new idea. Please tell me I can count on you for that! Yes, you can. Yes, you can. (he tries to write) Uggggh, no you can t. Oh. ood day, mistress. Nick exits in a huff. MUSI STARTS. He stands to leave and is stopped by A WOMAN IN A LOAK (Portia). ood days were those when lit with love, till dusk of death did herald th eternal night Hey -- I wrote that. The woman turns and lowers her hood, revealing herself to be Portia. Yes, I know. (holding up a page) I accidentally took this after our first encounter. Your sonnet. It s -- perfection. Really You thought it was... good It... touched me in places I did not know could be touched. Portia suddenly realizes how that sounded, turns away - embarrassed. (ONT ) Forgive me. Poetry is forbidden in my house, especially poems of earthly love. (melodramatically; to the heavens) OH, IS THERE NO PITY IN THE LOUS THAT SEES INTO THE BOTTOM OF MY RIEF! Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5. Side 1 of 1 1/4

3 SOMETHIN ROTTEN 6/21/ You ve seen it Six times. And you Eight! If my father knew, he would disown me. My brother, too. I adore Shakespeare. Me, too! I ve got a omedy of Errors, first edition. I ve got Sonnet number 1. Signed! Wow! I know! Heh-heh... Heh-heh... I think you re his equal - if not better. They giggle together - a pause, then... What No way. Oh yes. Your sonnet has Shakespearean sophistication mixed with the complexity of aniel Webster and the sensitivity of Samuel aniel. 2/4

4 SOMETHIN ROTTEN 6/21/ Wow. You really love poetry. Oh, I do. I really, really do. (she sings) I LOVE SINEY AN MARLOWE AN OFTEN I BORROW THEIR WORS TO EXPRESS HOW I FEEL I LOVE POEMS OF MYSTERY, FANTASY, HISTORY OH WHAT SEUTIVE APPEAL AT NIHT, ALONE IN MY BEROOM, SATISFYIN MY NEE THE ANLELIHT FIRE INITES MY ESIRE - TO REA OHHHHH EVERY TIME I HEAR A PERFET RHYME I ET ALL TINLY BEAUSE I KNOW THAT TO FIN A PERFET RHYME IS NOT AN EASY THIN-LY I LOVE THE PLAES THAT WORS LET ME O I LOVE THE WAY THAT YOUR WORS MOVE ME SO (moving closer, facing him) NO WORS HAVE TOUHE ME THE WAY THAT YOURS O AN I LOVE (ONT') Youuuuuuu are really doing something to me, Mr. Poetry Man. Forgive me. I never get to discuss poems in this way. It s okay. I never knew poetry could affect someone the way it affects me. Me neither. (singing) IT S THE EN ALL THE BE ALL OH YOU OUHTA SEE ALL THE BOOKS THAT I HAVE ON MY SHELF Me, too! (singing) I FIN PLEASURE PERUSIN THOSE WRITINS AN MUSINS SO OFTEN I PLEASURE MYSELF WAIT, THAT IN T SOUN RIHT NO, I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN WHEN I M EEP IN THE THROES OF IMPASSIONATE PROSE - I OUL SREAM 3/4

5 SOMETHIN ROTTEN 6/21/ A. You scream So do I! (singing) OH... I LOVE A LILTIN LINE OF LYRIAL ALLITERATION WHO OESN T LOVE ALLITERATION AN THEN I M LIKE WHOA... WHEN THE PHRASES OME TOETHER LIKE A ONSUMMATION WHAT SWEET ELATION! / I LOVE THE PLAES THAT WORS LET ME O I LOVE THE WAY THAT YOUR WORS MOVE ME SO I LOVE THAT YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY I O AN I LOVE YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE, YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE... Me, too. (ONT ) Okay, I want to show you something. APPLAUSE as they stand there awkward. He reaches into his pants - then pulls out a piece of paper. (ONT ) I keep it hidden from my brother. It s a letter. To me. From the Bard. Saying he has received my sonnet. You sent him a sonnet And he s read it Well, he said he would. You know him!! Um, kinda sorta. He was in the same acting troupe as my brother, but I was just a kid then. It s not like he knows who I am or anything. MESSENER Master Nigel Bottom EN 4/4

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