Audition requirements

Please prepare an opera/operetta aria in English and a contrasting Broadway showtune (memorized). Forward PDFs of your music to our accompanist: tombartsch@msn.com

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***IF YOU ARE AUDITIONING FOR 1776***

Please prepare to read the following excerpt.  It does not have to be fully memorized.

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Why independence, Mr. Adams? Since it has grown intolerable to you, I suggest you sever your ties immediately. But please be kind enough to leave the rest of us where we are. Personally, I have no objections at all to being the part of the greatest empire on earth, to enjoying its protection and sharing its benefits. Does England mean so little to you, sir? Can you muster no affection and pride for the nation that bore you — for the noblest, most civilized nation on the face of this planet? Would you have us forsake Hastings and Magna Carta, Drake and Marlborough, Tudors, Stuarts, and Plantagenets? For what, sir? Tell me, for what? For YOU? Some men are patriots, like General Washington, some are anarchists, like Thomas Paine- some even are internationalists, like Dr. Franklin. But you, sir, you are merely an a-gi-ta-tor, disturbing the peace, creating disorder, endangering the public welfare, and for what? Your petty little personal complaints. Your taxes are too high. Well, sir, so are mine. Come, come, Mr. Adams, if you have grievances — and I'm sure you have — our present system must provide a gentler means of redressing them short of... revolution!! That's what he wants — nothing less will satisfy him! Violence! Rebellion! Treason! Now, Mr. Adams, are these the acts of Englishmen?