Patience
All roles available. Needed: 6 male & 5 female (19 & up only) leads, and chorus.
Please read the audition announcement with complete character descriptions for all information. For your audition you will be expected to sing the aforementioned music for your part and do a cold reading from the play.
When: Saturday, April 29 (2:00-5:00 pm) 2023 and Thursday, May 4 (7:00-9:30 pm) 2023.
Where:
Park Avenue Community Center, 129 Park Avenue, Swarthmore PA
Sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4AA8AD29A1FD0-patience or email auditions@rvco.org. You will be asked for your name, phone number, and email.
- Stage Directors: Bob Binkley
- Musical Director: Florrie Marks
- Rehearsal dates and times start September 2023 and are Sunday afternoons 2:00-5:00 pm; Monday and Wednesday evenings 7:30-10:00 pm
- Show dates and times (tentative) November 11, 15, & 18 at 8:00 pm; November 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 2:00 pm
All those auditioning and participating in the show must be able to provide proof of vaccination.
Download and bring the filled-out audition form to your audition.
Use the links below to open a PDF file of the audition material for the desired role.
Character Descriptions with links to audition material
| Character/Description
|
Voice Part
| Audition Music
(pages in Schirmer edition)
| Audition Reading
|
Colonel Calverley
Rigid, military bearing, but willing to adopt (awkwardly) the unfamiliar pose of æstheticism to win back his fiancée.
|
Bass-Baritone
| #3 The Soldiers of Our Queen pages 29-32 (2nd verse) (begins the end of 32)
#9 Finale of Act I pages 100-103
| page 163 |
Major Murgatroyd
Rigid, military bearing, but willing to adopt (awkwardly) the unfamiliar pose of æstheticism to win back his fiancée.
|
Baritone
| #16 It's Clear that Medieval Art pages 158-162 (2nd verse)
#17 If Saphir I Choose to Marry pages 165-66
| page 163 |
Lieutenant, the Duke of Dunstable Must have noble bearing, yet appear foppish, used to the deference due him because of his very superior social class.
|
Tenor
| #9 Finale of Act I pages 82-84
| page 33 |
Reginald Bunthorne
Think Oscar Wilde: witty, self-absorbed, craving admiration, and, in Bunthorne's case, a total sham.
|
Baritone |
#6 Am I Alone and Unobserved? pages 52-58 (1st verse)
|
pages 59-60 |
Archibald Grovesnor
Genuinely convinced that he is "a trustee for beauty" (HIS!), he attempts always to do the right thing. |
Lyric Baritone |
#13 A Magnet Hung in a Hardware Shop pages 141-144
| pages 136-137 |
Solicitor
Fussy, fidgety, and alternately gratified by the maidens' blessings and horrified by the soldiers' curses. |
This role has action only--no lines.
| Non-singing
| Non-speaking |
Lady Angela
More or less the leader of the maidens, she is calmly certain of Bunthorne’s (and then Grosvenor’s) right to be adored. She must show her natural high spirits in the Act II quintet. |
Mezzo
| #7 Long Years Ago, Fourteen Maybe pages 62-64
#9 Finale of Act I pages 109-downbeat 110
| Page 60 |
Lady Saphir
Angela's sidekick, though not a leader. Even more unrestrained in Act II quintet than Angela. |
Mezzo
| #4 In a Doleful Train pages pages 38-39
#17 If Saphir I Choose to Marry pages 170-73
| Page 16 |
Lady Ella
Though she hasn't many lines, she completes the "three little maids." |
Soprano |
#1 Twenty Love-Sick Maidens We pages 13-15
|
Page 16 (read Angela's lines) |
Lady Jane
Elderly, unattractive (we can do it with makeup) spinster, desperately smitten with Bunthorne.
| Contralto / Mezzo |
#11 Sad Is That Woman's Lot pages 131 -33 begin with “To ‘make up’ for lost time” |
Pages 16, 47, & 129 |
Patience
Young, lively. The only female in the play with common sense, she sees through Bunthorne's ridiculous poetry and is not afraid to say so.
|
Soprano |
#2 I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be pages 19-22 (2nd verse) |
Pages 60 & 144 |
Show Synopsis
This sprightly satire on Oscar Wilde's æsthetic movement presents a “Fleshly Poet”, Bunthorne, and an “Idyllic Poet”, Grosvenor, as rivals for the hand of Patience, an innocent village milkmaid. Patience, being told that true love must be unselfish, vacillates in her affection between the two poets, causing them to compete for her attention. A train of adoring ladies and their former flames: a Colonel, a Duke, and a Major, with a regiment of officers of the Dragoon Guards, completes the picture..
