Characters you can audition for:

Auditions:

-Little Alice and Big Alice(Lipsync “World of my Own”, Kathryn Beaumont,  from Disney movie 1951.  Here we are looking for 2 character parts: a smaller girl to play Alice when she shrinks, and a bigger girl to play Alice when she is normal sized.  This may be double cast if needed. )

-White Rabbit (Lipsync  “I’m Late” (:43) Bill Thompson Disney movie 1951.  This may be double cast if needed.)

Gesture and Movement Auditions:

Dinah the cat

Alice’s sister (reading to her at the beginning and end of the show)

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Dodo bird

Caterpillar

Cheshire Cat

Mad Hatter

March Hare

Dormouse

Queen of Hearts

Gardeners (cards)

Extras (TBD. These are usually fun parts to enhance the show, often humorous!)

1-2:30 Big Alice and  Little Alice (Lipsync)

2:45-3:15 White Rabbit (Lipsync)

3:30-5:00 All other gesture and movement characters

Notes for Auditioning:

Watch the Movie (Disney, 1951 version) and read the Plot (below) that has had some changes for our Recital purposes.  We urge you to audition for as many parts as you are interested in. The more parts you audition for the more your chance to get one!!)

Alice in Wonderland Recital Plot (adjusted)
links with information about characters available below

In a park on a summer day, a young girl named Alice with her cat, Dinah, listens distractedly to her sister’s reading and begins daydreaming of a nonsensical world. She spots a passing White Rabbit in a waistcoat, who panics of being late. Alice follows him but ends up plummeting down a rabbit hole and lands in a place called Wonderland.  She finds a tiny door with a bottle on a table nearby that says “drink me”.  She does so and shrinks, but has left the key on the table. Alice then eats a cookie that says “eat me” which causes her to grow excessively.  Now she can’t fit through the small door and follow the Rabbit!  Exasperated by these changes, she cries and floods the room with her big tears. She drinks again from a bottle to shrink and drowns in her own tears. Finally she swims through the small door.  As Alice continues to look for the Rabbit she encounters Tweedledum and Tweedledee.  She then sees the Rabbit and follows him to his house, where Alice finds and eats another cookie and grows giant, getting stuck in the house! Thinking her a monster, the Rabbit asks the Dodo to help expel her. When the Dodo decides to burn the house down!  Alice escapes by eating a carrot which causes her to shrink to her original size.

Continuing to follow the Rabbit, Alice comes upon a garden of flowers.  Alice then encounters a Caterpillar asking “Who are you?” and blowing smoke rings. The Caterpillar turns into a butterfly and levitates away.  Next she meets the mischievous Cheshire Cat, whose smile keeps fading in and out.  Walking further into the woods she comes upon a  Mad Hatter, March Hare, and a Dormouse having a tea party celebration. The Hatter and the Hare keep switching seats and making no sense. Alice finally decides they are all mad. Leaving the woods, Alice tries to find the Queen of Hearts hoping she might be able to take her home. In the Queen’s garden Alice finds beautiful white roses.  Then she meets gardeners (who are playing cards) that are trying to paint the white rosebushes red. The Queen appears in all her glamour.  She eventually invites Alice to play a game of croquet.  The queen proclaims that the game should begin!  But first, she asks Alice to curtsy to the Queen.  The croquet game starts but the balls and hoops move around in the Queen’s favor.  Nevertheless, Alice wins and the enraged Queen proclaims “Off with her head!” forcing Alice to flee through the deteriorating realm with a large crowd of Wonderland’s inhabitants in pursuit.  Alice suddenly finds herself waking from her dream and back with her sister still reading and her cat Dinah.