Thank you for auditioning for AUSTEN S PRIDE ROLE: MR. BENNET

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1 Thank you for auditioning for ASTEN S PRIDE ROLE: MR BENNET Present in the room ill e diretor, musi diretor, produing team asting Please prepare: This full paket Please also prepare a rief legit allad from a lassi Broaday musial (Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loe, et) Please no ontemporary musial theatre or pop/rok INSTRTIONS: Be sure to ring your piture and resume, otherise e ill not have one in the room Thanks so muh W S asting

2 MR BENNET 1-66 SENE 10: MR OLLINS IS REJETED Longourn House START MRS BENNET (Offstage) (Lights reveal MR BENNET quietly reading at Longourn MRS BENNET runs to him) Oh, you are anted immediately You must ome and make Lizzy marry Mr ollins, for she vos she ill not have him, and if you do not make haste he ill hange his mind and not have her MR BENNET (With alm un-onern) I have not the pleasure of understanding you Of hat are you talking MRS BENNET Of Mr ollins and Lizzy Lizzy delares she ill not have Mr ollins, and Mr ollins egins to say he ill not have Lizzy What am I to do MR BENNET MRS BENNET Speak to Lizzy Tell her that you insist upon her marrying him MR BENNET Lizzy, ome here, hild (ELIZABETH enters nervously) Mr ollins has made you an offer of marriage Yes ELIZABETH MR BENNET And this offer of marriage you have refused I have, Sir (Defiantly) ELIZABETH MR BENNET ery ell We no ome to the point Your mother insists upon your aepting Is it not so, Mrs Bennet Yes, or I ill never see her again MRS BENNET ASTEN S PRIDE opyright , Baker Jaos NY La Working Sript 6 117; 9:15 pm

3 1-67 MR BENNET An unhappy alternative is efore you, Elizaeth From this day you must e a stranger to one of your parents Your mother ill never see you again if you do not marry Mr ollins, and I ill never see you again if you do END (ELIZABETH smiles ith relief) What do you mean, MRS BENNET (Enter MR OLLINS) Oh Mr ollins MRS BENNET MR OLLINS (Holding up his hand for silene) Far e it from me to resent the ehaviour of your -- daughter My only ojet has een to seure a ompanion for myself, ith due onsideration for your family (HE exits ith a stiff upper lip in resentful silene) MRS BENNET Oh Mr ollins (SHE turns on ELIZABETH) MSI 1: MY POOR NERES MRS BENNET (ontinues) I tell you hat, Miss Lizzy, if you take it into your head to go on refusing every offer of marriage, you ill never get a husand at all I DON T NDERSTAND WHAT GOES THROGH YOR HEAD IT TEARS ME TO PIEES THAT YO WILL NOT WED THIS PSTANDING MAN WHO WILL OWN THIS LAND ONE DAY WHAT IF YOR FATHER SDDENLY DIED HOW WILL WE LIE WHERE WILL WE RESIDE THIS IS A TRAGEDY YO NEER THINK OF ME WHY DO YO AT SO SELFISHLY ASTEN S PRIDE opyright , Baker Jaos NY La Working Sript 6 117; 9:15 pm

4 ue: ELIZABETH: Mamma No 6 - SILLY GIRLS () MR$BENNET$1 Baker Jaos (MR BENNET athes in silene as the girls run offstage in a flutter) Freely h = 9 Freely h = 9 I live a - mong six om - en I'm a strang - er in my home F I Piano 5 u an-not flee the fem - i - nine I ould rite a tome a - out the quirks and fol -lies 5 u 11 n 11 of the fe -male mind from my dai - ly o- ser - va-tions of the ge-nus: om-an - kind ẇ opyright fl n n

5 A 17 A 17 In Time h = 9 (JANE enters in traveling lothes, folloed y her mother and sisters THEY all hatter aout their exitement as MR BENNET sings) In Time h = 9 fl Sil - ly girls, they are all a-round me Sil -ly girls, they as - tound detahe No 6 - SILLY GIRLS - me 1 1 To e ed > is their sole am -i - tion, > so they plot night and day > 5 5 mak-ing use of their in-tu -i - tion Men are prey in the games they

6 9 9 rit play rit No 6 - SILLY GIRLS - 3 B B n n n n n n n n n n n n Freely h = 9 Wom - en hunt for hus-ands Freely h = 9 Sp like 3 hounds that hase the 3 n (Jane kisses goodye) fox, æ g or Ụ like a spring - er span - iel flush -ing out the 37 ood-oks, for one she sets her sites on him she nev - er lets him go He's 37

7 poo rit No 6 - SILLY GIRLS - (Ironi humor) (SOND: Thunder) h = q am - ushed y her eau - ty Fin - ished I should poo rit j j kno h = q 6 ASTEN: "Mrs Bennet's hopes ere ansered Jane had not een gone long efore it rained (SOND: A spring shoer ASTEN deides to raise the stakes) hard" Brooding q = 11 amp p n n 6A (SOND: Thunderstorm) MRS BENNET: (lapping her hands ith giddy exitement) Jane ertainly annot ome ak no 7 Sil - ly ife, hat are you do - ing What on - o - tions are you re - ing

8 No 6 - SILLY GIRLS poo rit u J molto ritard q = h n 9 All this shem-ing, ourt - ing, oo - ing, may e the ause of your un - do - ing poo rit u Ÿ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ molto ritard j fl q = h n n D 51 D 51 In Time h = 9 In Time h = 9 (Again, the remaining BENNET WOMEN gossip and hatter aout everything in their lives Making preditions aout Jane, talking aout lothes, soldiers, anything and everything ) Sil-lygirls All a-round me Sil- lygirls on - found j me fl Buy-ing ri-ons for hair and on - nets Flirt -ing shame-less-ly, read - ing son-nets

9 No 6 - SILLY GIRLS Ball - gons tirl-ing, lov -ers' hearts are stir - ring, my orld is hirl-ing ith sil - ly girls j j