Thank you for auditioning for WEST SIDE STORY - TOKYO. at IHI Stage Around Tokyo ROLE: MARIA

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Thank you for auditioning for WEST SIDE STORY - TOKYO at IHI Stage Around Tokyo ROLE: Present in the room will be director, choreographer, producing team & casting.

1 Thank you for auditioning for WEST SIDE STORY - TOKYO at IHI Stage Around Tokyo ROLE: Present in the room will be director, choreographer, producing team & casting. Initial Call please prepare: This ENTIRE packet of material. You MAY OR MAY NOT be reading the sides at this initial appointment, but will definitely be singing the songs. Be familiar with the sides. Please also have your music book with you in case the team needs to hear something different. If you are called back please prepare: This ENTIRE packet of material (including Sides 3/3). Please also have your music book with you in case the team needs to hear something different. INSTRUCTIONS: Be sure to bring your picture and resume, otherwise we will not have one in the room! Thanks so much! W S Casting

2 END OF SCENE TWO SCENE THREE (Bridal shop) Por favor, Anita. Bajale el cuello! Por favor. Make the neck lower! Ah ah ah in English Please make the neck lower. No. One inch. How much can one little inch do? Too much. (Exasperated) Anita, it is now to be a dress for dancing, no longer for kneeling in front of an altar. With those boys you can start in dancing and end up kneeling. Querida, one little inch; un poquito Stop it, Maria. Bernardo made me promise Ai! Bernardo! One month have I been in this country do I ever even touch excitement? I sew all day, I sit all night. For what did my fine brother bring me here? To marry Chino.

3 When I look at Chino, nothing happens. What do you expect to happen? I don t know : something. What happens when you look at Bernardo? It s when I don t look that it happens. I think I will tell Papa about you and Nardo in the balcony of the movies. And I ll rip this to shreds! No. But if you perhaps could manage to lower the neck Next year. Next year I will be married to Chino and no one will care if it is down to here! I hate this dress! Then don t wear it and don t come with us to the dance. Don t come! Could we not dye it red, at least? No, we could not. )

4 White is for babies. I will be the only one there in a white dress Yes. and? Ahhhh si! I will be the only one there in a white dress! It is a beautiful dress: I love you! Are you ready? Come in, Nardo. BERNARDO Is it not beautiful? Yes. (Kisses her) Very. I didn t quite hear I didn t quite hear Very pretty. Come in, Chino. But this is a shop for ladies. Our ladies! BERNARDO BERNARDO CHINO BERNARDO Nardo, it is most important that I have a wonderful time at the dancing tonight. Why? BERNARDO

5 Because tonight is the real beginning of my life as a young lady of America! END OF SCENE THREE SCENE FOUR GLAD HAND Abstinence. Abstinence. A little abstencia. You have to make some happy space between you when you dance. Please pull it apart. Pretend she s your sister. All right boys and girls, attention please! Mira! Escuchen! (Ad libs from the kids) Abstience! One more time! Loud and proud! Abstience! Abstience is our friend. Your friend. A-RAB GLAD HAND A-RAB GLAD HAND RIFF GLAD HAND Well, it sure is a fine turnout tonight. We want you to make friends.make amigos and amigas,, so we re going to do, we re have a few get-together dances. Alright so what you re gonna do, you re going to form two circles dos circolos: Right? Am I Right?! Spanish is easy! The boys, the muchaschos, are going boys on the outside this way, and the muchachas the girls are gonn be on the inside circle going the other way. Where are you? BIG DEAL (Tries to laugh at this) GLAD HAND Very funny.all right. Now when the music stops,ok, alright! (whistle) So much energy. NOW.when the music stops, each boy dances with whichever girl is opposite. O.K.? I ll take that as a big Si! Si! (Alright, kids, two circles) Come on Don t be shy. Two circles. Well, it won t hurt you to try. BIG DEAL

6 You think it ll really be a fair fight? Yep What have you been taking tonight? DOC DOC A trip to the moon. And I ll tell you a secret. It s not a man up there, Doc. It s a girl. (Opens the door) Well, buenas noches, señor. DOC Buenas noches?! So that s why you made it a fair fight. things aren t tough enough? Not any more you re not scared? No. Why should I be? (Opens door, EXITS) DOC DOC You shouldn t. I m old enough I m scared for both of us (Turns out the last light) END OF SCENE SIX SCENE SEVEN (Bridal Shop) She s gone! That old witch has gone!

7 Brava! The day is over, the jail is open, home we go! You go, querida. I will lock up. Finish tomorrow. Come! But I am in no hurry. I am. No shower tonight. I m taking over the bathroom for a long hot bath all during supper: You will not eat? After the rumble with Nardo. (Sewing angrily) That rumble, why do they have it? You saw how they dance: like they have to get rid of something quick. That s how they fight. To get rid of what? Too much feeling. And they get rid of it: after a fight, that brother of yours is so healthy! Definitely a long hot bath. I don t care.. (Knock at rear door and ENTERS) Buenas noches!

8 (Sarcastically, to ) Ah!You go, querida. I will lock up. (To ) It s too early for noches. Buenas tardes. (Bows) Gracias. Buenas tardes. He just came to deliver aspirin. You ll need it. No, we re out of the world. You re out of your heads. We re twelve feet in the air. (Gently taking his hand) Anita can see all that. (To ) You will not tell? Tell what? How can I hear what goes on twelve feet over my head? (Opens door to ) You better be home in fifteen minutes. (SHE goes out) She likes us! Don t worry.

9 But she is worried. She s foolish. We re untouchable; we are in the air; we have magic! Magic is also evil and black. Are you going to that rumble? No. Yes. Why?? You must go and stop it. I have stopped it! It s only a fist fight. Nardo won t get Any fight is not good for us. Everything is good for us and we are good for everything. Listen and hear me. You must go and stop it. Then I will. (Surprised) You can? You don t want even a fist fight? There won t be any fight. I believe you! You do have magic.

10 Of course, I have you. You go home and dress up. Then tonight, I will come by for you. You cannot come by. My papa! (After a pause) Then I will take you to my house (Shaking her head) Your mama (Another awkward pause. Then he sees a female dummy and pushes it forward saying:) She will come running from the kitchen to welcome you. She lives in the kitchen. Dressed so elegant? I told her you were coming. She will look at your face and try not to smile. And she ll say: Skinny but pretty. I take after my mama; delicate boned. (HE kisses her) Not in front of you Mama! (HE turns the dummy around as she goes to a male dummy) My Papa will make him ask about your prospects,. if you go to church. But Papa Papa might like you. (Kneeling to the father dummy) May I have your daughter s hand? He says Yes.

11 Gracias! And your mama? She says Yes. Maid of Honor. That color is bad for Anita. Best man! That is my Papa! Sorry! Sorry,Papa. Here we go, Riff: Womb to Tomb! Now you see, Anita, I told you there was nothing to worry about. I, Anton, take thee, Maria I, Maria, take thee, Anton For richer, for poorer In sickness and in health To love and to honor To hold and to keep From each sun to each moon

12 From tomorrow to tomorrow From now till forever Till death do us part. With this ring, I thee wed. With this ring, I thee wed. (The MUSIC becomes a love duet:) MAKE OF OUR HANDS ONE HAND, MAKE OF OUR HEARTS ONE HEART, MAKE OF OUR VOWS ONE LAST VOW: ONLY DEATH WILL PART US NOW. MAKE OF OUR LIVES ONE LIFE, DAY AFTER DAY, ONE LIFE. NOW IT BEGINS, NOW WE START ONE HAND, ONE HEART EVEN DEATH WON T PART US NOW. MAKE OUR LIVES ONE LIFE, DAY AFTER DAY, ONE LIFE. NOW IT BEGINS, NOW WE START ONE HAND, ONE HEART, EVEN DEATH WON T PART US NOW.,,

13 , HOLD MY HAND AND I LL TAKE YOU THERE, SOME---, HOW - SOME DAY Stay back. How do you fire this gun, Chino? Just by pulling this little trigger? (SHE points it at him suddenly; HE draws back. SHE has all of them in front of her now, as she holds the gun out and her voice gets stronger with anger and savage rage) How many bullets are left, Chino? One bullet for you? One for you? For all of you? WE ALL KILLED HIM; and my brother and Riff. I, too. I CAN KILL NOW BECAUSE I HATE NOW. (SHE has been pointing the gun wildly and THEY have all been drawing back. Now, again, SHE holds it straight out at ACTION) How many can I kill, Chino? How many and still have one bullet left for me? DON T YOU TOUCH HIM! Te adoro, Anton. (SHE kisses him gently. CURTAIN

A Play by Yulissa CHARACTERS. Seventeen-year-old Mexican. She swears a lot, especially when she is mad. She has bad anger issues but won t admit it.

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