Audition Notice – Treasure Island

Los Altos Youth Theater is holding open auditions for ages 10-18 for Treasure Island

SYNOPSIS

It’s time to hit the seven seas and head straight to Skull Island for a bountiful booty of buried treasure! Teenage Jim works at his mother Ruth’s inn, a favorite of sailors and pirates alike. When a crusty, on-the-lam Old Sailor dies in one of their rooms, leaving behind a map to buried treasure, Jim and Ruth decide adventure and fortune are calling their names: they take the Old Sailor’s map and get hired on a ship sailing west to the Caribbean. Packed with ribald humor, puns aplenty, and pirate antics, this zippy and fun adaptation of Treasure Island will shiver your timbers and provide you with a boundless fortune of big laughs and happy hearts.

AUDITIONS

Auditions will be held on Saturday, January 10 at Grant Park (1585 Holt Ave., Los Altos) from 10:00-2:00. You will need to sign up for a 10 minute audition slot HERE.

Please fill out an audition form HERE and prepare a one to two-minute memorized monologue.

CALLBACKS

Callbacks will be on Sunday, January 11th.

REHEARSAL SCHEDULE

Treasure Island will rehearse starting January 13th on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00-9:00 and on Sundays from 2:00-8:00. Mandatory tech week rehearsals start on Sunday, March 8th (12:00-8:00) and continue that week from 5:00-10:00. Performances are Friday-Sunday, March 13 – 22.

PARTICIPATION FEE

There is a participation fee of $650 in order to register for this production. Limited scholarships available based on need.

CHARACTERS

RUTH – a proper British innkeeper with a hidden wild side

JIM – an eager, yet moody young teenager

NO-GOOD NATHAN (OLD SAILOR) – a rum-loving, surly pirate who just wants some alone time

CREW OF PEW (all female)

MARGARET PEW – a mostly blind, old, disgusting lady pirate. Maybe she was once joyful and lovely. Maybe.

URSULA – a well-meaning idiot

GENTLE MARY – a sweet and gentle lover of all Earth’s creatures, but with a murderous temper

OXANA PIRANHA – a quiet and stealthy killer who can read people too well

STABBIN’ JUDY – just like the name says: a lady that loves the knife

MERCY McFOUL – the smelly, rather grotesque one. Slow on land but quick in a fight

CREW OF SMOLLETT (all male)

CAPTAIN JAMES SMOLLETT – a no-nonsense captain that is kinda over it

LONG JOHN SILVER – an excessively friendly cook. Maybe too friendly

MR. ELEPHANT SMALL – the muscle of the crew but a secret scaredycat

RIDER ONASIS – the gossipy mapmaker. Likes to think he is smarter than everyone. He’s not.

HAMHOCK HANNIGAN – a greasy fella who indulges a bit too much in everything

STEED BONNET – the gentleman pirate. A fop who prefers tea to rum.

FAT PHILLIP – a rabble rouser, instantly killed

SLENDER BRAD – his friend, instantly killed