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Audition details

We will be auditioning principal parts for our February 2009 production of "The Geisha" on Tuesday 24th June 2008 from 630pm in Enfield.

Click here for more information about auditions and to download an audition form which must be returned to the company by 17th June 2008. Once you have completed and returned the audition form you will be allocated an audition time. Completed forms can be emailed to

If you have any questions about auditions first read here. If you cannot find the answer you need please contact Della Freedman on 020-8482-9519 or 07903-311-465.

FEES
The cost of putting on a full-scale show is around £10,000.00. To help defray these costs every performing member must pay a fee of around £100.00 per show.  This covers the costs of hiring the musical director and director, rehearsal room hire, costume hire, orchestra hire and so on. 

Please note the following:

  • For operas where the original language was not English -auditions MUST be sung in English - auditions will be terminated if any language other than English is used. Any translation is acceptable.
  • Please prepare the whole of the audition piece, but constraints of time may require the audition panel to stop you when they have heard enough to form a judgment.

Character

Voice

Audition piece - Music

These must be sung in the original key in the vocal score and must also be sung in English. Page numbers are taken from the Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew vocal score

Dialogue

 
O Mimosa San (Chief Geisha) SOPRANO P 60-63 "A Geisha's Life" Details of dialogue audition piece will be provided when you send in your application.
Molly Seamore MEZZO-SOPRANO P71-73 "Chon Kina"
Juliette Diamant (A French Girl, attached to Tea House as Interpreter) SOPRANO P118-121"Ching-a-ring-a-ree"
Lieut. Reginald Fairfax (Officer of H.M.S. Turtle) BARITONE  PAGE 64-66 AND 129-131"Jack's the boy" and "Star of my Soul"
Lieut. Dick Cunningham (Officer of H.M.S. Turtle) BASS P 24-26 "The dear little japanese"
Lieut. Caddy (Officer of H.M.S. Turtle) BARITONE P123-125 "Jolly young jacks are we" Singing part only - no dialogue
Wun-Hi (a Chinaman; proprietor of the Tea House of Ten Thousand Joys) BARITONE P145-146 "Chin chin chinaman" Details of dialogue audition piece will be provided when you send in your application
Marquis Imari (Chief of Japanese Police and Governor of the Province) BARITONE P92 AND 94 Relevant solo lines from Act 1 Finale
Police Sergeant Takemini (Sergeant of the Governor’s Guard) BARITONE P67-69 "Attention pray"
Lieut. Katana (Captain of the Governor’s Guard) TENOR  P 83-84 "Pearl of the radiant sea"
Lieut. George Grimston (Officer of H.M.S. Turtle)   SPEAKING ROLE
Lady Constance Wynne (An English Visitor in Japan traveling in her Yacht)   SPEAKING ROLE
Marie Worthington (English lady, guest of Lady Constance)   SPEAKING ROLE
Mabel Grant (English lady, guest of Lady Constance)   SPEAKING ROLE
O Kiku San (Chrysanthemum) (A Geisha)   SPEAKING ROLE
O Hana San (Blossom) (A Geisha)   SPEAKING ROLE
Nami (Wave of the Sea) (an Attendant)   SPEAKING ROLE