[music is my life!!!]

hi! at school, i found out today that we are doing the return to the forbidden planet as our big production. i'm a mezzo but i can sing soprano or alto if the ranges aren't too high or low. could someone just give me a quick breakdown of parts... please?

thanks in advance!

x x x

[PappyCat]

http://rttfpinfo.50webs.com/

Here is a really good website dedicated to RTTFP.

[music is my life!!!]

wow! thank you so much! that really helps but is there a website that gives the entire list of characters and voice ranges?

[PappyCat]

Let me dig around and see!

I couldn't find anything, but I believe a director I worked with was considering doing the show a few years ago and might still have a script...I can ask her if she still has it, but not all scripts have character descriptions or vocal ranges.

[music is my life!!!]

oooh! if you have the script could you put it on here or pm or email it to me please? hang on, it might be on www.simplyscripts.com ... i'll have a look...

i just checked and it's not on there... help...

[what_the_heck013]

It's a science fictionalization of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. So in true Shakespearean tradition... (I think) there's only one female role.

[AudreyTD]

As the music is all Rock n Roll (songs like Teenager in Love, Young Girl, Good Vibrations) the ranges are going to be mainly Mezzo-Sop female, and tenor male.

The main roles are:
Captain Tempest (Tenor)
Dr Prospero (Baritone)
Cookie (Tenor)
Bosun Arras (Tenor)
Miranda (Mezzo/Alto) - romantic lead
Gloria (Mezzo)
Ariel (Tenor) - skater too for preference

There are limitless crew roles, but these are the key singers.

It's a great script - has to be spoken well due to the Shakesperian style/quotations, and it's very "Sci Fi B-Move" in style - melodramatic acting to add comic effect.

Good luck with the auditions.

[Angel-of-Music*]

Its a fantastic show. the audience participation part especially.

Ariel is sometimes played by a girl (it was put out in the auditions i went to as being either male or female, i'm not sure how often that is done elsewhere) , so if youre a good skater you could try that. but you have to get pushed around a bit, and theres a sort of fight scene on skates.

Gloria has some fantastic songs- very very dramatic

Miranda, also brilliant songs, a very fun part to play.

Our bosun was a female too, so im suprised that its a male role, only females could audition at the community theatre production. it was pretty high soprano too... so im confused about that one.

Theres also a lot of parts that dont sing such as
Lotta cash - the treasurer
Axel Grease - The mechanic
e.t.c


I'm sure you'll have a blast

[Angel-of-Music*]

[music is my life!!!]

ok. i had my audition on monday and i think it went ok. apparently everyone could hear my singing from outside and they said it was good so i might have got through...
















yay


the acting was ok but i'd sprained my ankle the previous week so i couldn't exactly move well

i found out the 3 lead female characters: Miranda
Gloria/Science Officer
Navigation Officer

i hope i get one of these but i know gloria's gonna go to someone older so i'm hoping for Miranda

[Angel-of-Music*]

all the navigation officer sngs is "here it comes" in Gloria.

I'm confused.

[music is my life!!!]

the scene i auditioned the NO had loadsa lines....

[music is my life!!!]

ok. so i'm not sure what to think. i got through...




















to the chorus

the reason i'm not sure what to think is cuz 2 of my bezzie mates didn't get thru cuz their acting was lame... i should know... i had to do my acting audition with them.

on one hand i'm sorta glad i got thru but i really wanted to be at least the Nav Officer...

on the other, if i talk to my friends about it, they'll hate me for it....

i s'pose there'still the news reporter part up for grabs... what do you think i should do, peeps?

x x x

[Angel-of-Music*]

do the show.

Chorus is waaay fun in return to the forbidden planet. except the fact you never go off stage, that can be tiring.

Do you have a narrator type part in yours? seeing as no-one posted that earlier i supposed i would mention it now. probably too late though.

[music is my life!!!]

i'm not sure. all i know of is the singing parts and also the newsreader (who does like an adaptation of the prologue from romeo and juliet) but that part hasn't been cast...