Audition Information Packet
Class of 2018 & 2019
The Burlington County Institute of Technology - Academy of Performing Arts’ mission is to create a highly specialized and safe learning community promoting honesty, integrity, and citizenship while challenging students through rigorous academics. The program cultivates a life‐long thirst for learning through problem solving, meaningful project‐based lessons, and interdisciplinary education. Simultaneously, students are immersed in a dynamic and intense Performing Arts program which fosters strong personal, intellectual, and social development while opening the door for students to pursue a career in the Performing Arts.
Burlington County Institute of Technology – Medford Campus
10 Hawkin Road
Medford, NJ 08055
(609) 654-0200
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Auditions – Class of 2018 & 2019
December 2014
Dear Applicant and Family,
This Packet will guide both potential Dance and Theatre majors through the audition process for the
Class of 2018 and 2019. Auditions are to be held on March 31, April 18th & May 30th, at the BCIT Medford Campus, Performing Arts Center. You must attend one of these sessions as part of admission to the program.
Auditions are by invitation only. To qualify for an audition opportunity, the applicant must first qualify for admission to attend BCIT. While applicants MAY audition for both Dance and Theatre programs, admission can only be accepted to one.
Criteria for Admission:
- Promotion to grade being applied for
- Passing average in all courses
- Good school citizenship
- 8 or fewer excused absences per semester (one half school year)
- Competence on BCIT admissions test(s)
- A student may request a personal interview as part of the admissions process
Procedure for Admission:
- Student submits application
1.Apply online by going to and click on “High School Admission” and completing the “High School Admissions Form”.
2.Apply through mail by calling the admissions office at 609-267-4226, ext. 246 and materials will be sent by mail.
- Student receives enrollment program invitation
- Student and parent/guardian attend an enrollment program and bring with them:
1.Behavior statement completed by sending school
2.Preliminary course selections
3.Most recent report card
- Student completes admission test(s) at enrollment program
- Students begin to receive admissions status letters by January 1.
- Students admitted sign-up for an audition date:
March 21
April 18
May 30
- Students are notified of acceptance into the Academy of Performing Arts.
Good luck and we hope to see you in September!
Michael Parker,
Principal – Academy of Performing Arts
(609) 654-0200 x 431
THEATRE PROGRAM AUDITIONS
Once students meet the academic qualifications, applicants will be scheduled into audition time slots.
Duringthe appointment time, applicants will deliver a short monologue, from memory, to our panel of adjudicators in a private session.
Monologues must be chosen from the provided Monologue Bank. Please use the rubric included in this packet to prepare, and be sure to consult our tips below.
Registration
Parents/guardians are asked to drop off their children promptly 10 minutes before their designated time. When they arrive, students will be asked to sign‐in upon arrival. The audition sessions are closed to the public, but parents/guardians should wait in the waiting area as the audition should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.
Practice Room
Applicants will be allowed to rehearse their monologue in a practice room prior to their audition time.
Tips for monologues:
- Use only approved monologues from the provided list. The plays from which these monologues are taken are readily available on Amazon.com or at your local bookstore or library. Please read the whole play in order to best understand your character.
- Make sure that your monologue is memorized. A prompter will be made available, and you may call for line only if necessary. Please memorize verbatim and do not improvise or add any ofyour own lines.
- Please do not bring any additional furniture, props, costume, sound or lighting equipment. A chair will be made available upon request.
- BCIT has a strongly enforced dress code that students are required to follow in auditions and all theatre classes. Students should be dressed in neat, professional looking attire that permits freedom of movement. The following items are not permitted: Baggy sweat pants, shorts, big shirts, and hats, head scarves, dangling jewelry, large earrings, high heeled shoes, chewing gum or snacks. Water bottles in plastic containers are acceptable.
- Please do not bring resumes, headshots or letters of recommendation.
Theatre Auditions ‐ Monologue Bank
Male options
George from Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Emily, if I go away to State Agriculture College next year, will you write me a letter once in a
while? The day wouldn’t come when I wouldn’t want to know everything that’s happening
here. Y’know. Emily, whenever I meet a farmer I ask him if he thinks it’s important to go to
Agriculture School to be a good farmer. Yeah, and some of them even say that it’s a waste of
time. You can get all those things, anyway, out of the pamphlets the government sends out.
And Uncle Luke’s getting old, ‐‐ he’s about ready for me to start in taking over his farm
tomorrow, if I could. And Like you said, being gone all that time… in other places and meeting
other people… Gosh, if anything like that can happen I don’t want to go away. I guess new
people aren’t any better than old ones. I bet they almost never are. Emily… I feel you are as
good a friend as I’ve got. I don’t need to go and meet the people in other towns. (After a
pause, very seriously.) Emily, I’m going to make up my mind right now. I won’t go. I’ll tell Pa
about it tonight.
Hansel from Hansel and Gretel adapted by Jean Marlow
Don’t cry Gretel. Father didn’t mean to leave us all alone in the forest. I know he didn’t…please
don’t cry! See. I’ve broken up the crust of bread he gave us and left a trail of crumbs leading all
the way back home again. Think how happy he’ll be when he finds us all tucked up and snug in
our beds tomorrow morning. Look! The moon is coming up from behind the clouds and we can
easily find our way back. See – there are the breadcrumbs. They start from here and they go
all along the path and…Oh no! The trail has stopped…Of course; the birds have eaten them up!
There are only little bits left. And I simply can’t remember the way back…Never mind, father will
come and find us very soon…Don’t worry, I’ll look after you…How beautiful everything looks in
the moonlight.
Charlie Brown from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner
I think lunch time is about the worst time of the day for me. Always having to sit here
alone...Well, I guess I’d better see what I’ve got. Peanut butter. Some psychiatrists say that
people who eat peanut butter sandwiches are lonely. I guess they’re right. Boy, the PTA sure
did a good job of painting these benches. There’s that cute little redheaded girl eating her lunch
over there. I wonder what she’d do if I went over and asked her if I could sit and have lunch
with her. She’d probably laugh right in my face. It’s hard on a face when it gets laughed in.
There’s an empty place next to her on the bench. There’s no reason why I couldn’t just go over
and sit there. I could do that right now. All I have to do is stand up. I’m standing up…I’m sitting
down. I’m a coward. I’m so much of a coward she wouldn’t even think of looking at me. She
hardly ever does look at me. In fact, I can’t remember her ever looking at me. Why shouldn’t
she look at me? Is she so great and am I so small that she couldn’t spare one little moment just
to…….She’s looking at me. She’s looking at me!
Female options
Julie from 18 More Reasons Not to Be in a Play by Alan Haehnel
Because you’re a fast talker. You come from a family of fast talkers and if there’s such a thing
as a gene for fast talking you have definitely inherited it and if you were in a play you’d memorize
your lines and all that but you’d say them too fast and you know the director would say…Take it
slower. And you’d know you’re supposed to take it slower and you would say to yourself over and
over, “Talk slower, talk slower,” but when you worried about it you’d get tense and when you got
tense you’d talk even faster so the director would start to get mad and he’d say…You have to talk
slower! And you’d practically be screaming at yourself inside yourself and beating yourself up
because you’d know you were still talking too fast but you’d be getting so nervous about it you’d be
getting faster and faster so the director would lose his patience finally and yell…Slower! And that
would make you go so fast that you never even took a breath and you’d go and go and go and go
and go and go so fast that you ran completely out of air but still you’d be telling yourself to slow
down so the director wouldn’t yell at you because you hated that but couldn’t stop racing and
racing until you finally just…
Emily from Our Town by Thornton Wilder
I’m not mad at you. (Pause) Well, since you ask me, I might as well say it right out, George. I
don’t like the whole change that’s come over you in the last year. I’m sorry if that hurts your
feelings, but I’ve got to—tell the truth and shame the devil. Up to a year ago I used to like you
a lot. And I used to watch you as you did everything… because we’d been friends so long… and
then you began spending all your time at baseball… and you never stopped to speak to anybody
anymore. Not even to your own family you didn’t… and, George, it’s a fact, you’ve gotten awful
conceited and stuck‐up, and all the girls say so. They may not say so to your face, but that’s
what they say behind your back, and it hurts me to hear them say it, but I’ve got to agree with
them a little. I’m sorry if it hurts your feelings… but I can’t be sorry I said it.
#60 from Things I Want to Say But Never Will… by Alan Haehnel
My brother would kill me if he saw me talking to you. He doesn’t even want me coming near you, his
precious girlfriend. But let me tell you: I’m on to you. I know you’re a liar and a cheat and a complete
poser. You claim you “love” my brother, so why did you tell that whole web of lies involving him that
got you kicked out of your house, huh? And was it your tremendous love for him that forced you the
other night to show up at the movie theater where my brother was working – hanging all over some
other guy? I mean, pull-eeze! They say love is blind, which is a good thing for you, but love is blinding,
an even better thing, because you can tell all your lies and be with a million other guys and my brother
is so in love he just doesn’t see it! But he will someday. And I do right now. Obviously, you don’t love my brother. If you even like him, though, do us all a favor: Get lost.
Male or Female Option:
Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The King doth keep his revels here tonight.
Take heed the Queen come not within his sight,
For Oberon is passing fell and wrath
Because that she as her attendant hath
A lovely boy stolen from an Indian king.
She had never had so sweet a changeling,
And jealous Oberon would have the child
Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild.
But she perforce withholds the loved boy,
Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her joy.
And now they never meet – in grove or green,
By fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen –
But they do square, that all their elves for fear
Creep into acorn cups and hide them there.
Rock from Tales From the Arabian Mice by Will Averill
Hi. I don’t know if you remember me or not, but I was the kid who played the
Crocodile last year inPeter Pan? Do you remember? Probably not. It was a little
part, and although I’ve trained for yearsfor a life in the theatre, three years running
here at [name of venue], they neglected to use me to my fullest potential…again.
You know what I am this year? I’m. A. Rock. Not the professional wrestler and famous
actor in such cinematic classics as “The Scorpion King”, no, I’m just a routine lousy
geologicalformation which our protagonist (that’s a big word for hero that I learned in
my three years of professional theatre training, all of which did me NO good when it
came to casting), finds himself collapsing against in his time of trouble. Can’t wait for
school to start again – “We went to Disneyworld this summer, oh, wow, we went to Europe.
Hey, what’d you do this summer (kid’s name)? Who, me? Oh, I stayed at home AND PLAYED
A LOUSY ROCK!” Not that I’m bitter. Cause it’s ---“it’s great training.” Oh. Excuse me.
Gotta go LIE ON THE FLOOR AND DO NOTHING now for a while.
DANCE PROGRAM AUDITIONS
Once students meet the academic qualifications applicants will be scheduled into audition time slots. At the audition, they will be asked to perform in a technique class consisting of Ballet, Modern, and Jazz. No special preparation will be needed for this class.
Registration
Parents/guardians are asked to drop off their children promptly at the time assigned; the designated time will allow for proper stretching. When they arrive, students will be asked to sign‐in. Since all audition sessions are closed to the public, parents/guardians should arrange to pick up their
children at the conclusion of the session.
Dress Code
BCIT has a strongly enforced dress code that students are required to follow in auditions and all dance
classes. Students should be dressed in neat, form‐fitting, professional looking attire. The following
items are not permitted in class: Baggy sweat pants, shorts, big shirts, hats, head scarves, jewelry, leg-warmers, chewing gum or snacks. Water bottles in plastic containers are acceptable.
Girls:
- Long hair should be pulled back into a bun and pinned securely away from the face and neck.
- Leotard: Preferably black.
- Tights: Pink, convertible-style.
- Shoes: Ballet shoes, preferably pink, and Jazz shoes without heels.
- Skirts and Pointe shoes not required for the audition.
Boys:
- Hair: Preferably kept short and neat. If long, pull it back securely into a pony tail.
- Top: White or Black fitted leotard or tank top (no graphics) tucked inside pants.
- Pants: Black fitted jazz pants or tights. Must stop at the ankle.
- Dance belt/supporter must be worn for audition, all dance classes and rehearsals.
- Shoes: Black ballet with white socks, and black jazz shoes preferred.