WOMEN: Please choose one side to perform before or after your singing audition. Make clear choices for this character: To whom are you speaking, where does this take place, what do you want, etc. If you have never auditioned for a show before- feel free to read this but try to memorize the first and last line. Veteran performers should not have script in hand. Please introduce yourself and your selections- then begin your audition. Please have all material prepared, dress to impress, and above all- have fun with the process and with the audition!
DIALECTS are recommended for this audition.
Maria: Stay back!. How do you fire this gun, Chino? By pulling this little trigger? How many bullets are left, Chino? Enough for you? Or you? All of you! You all killed him! And my brother! And Riff! Not with bullets and knives! With hate! Well, I can kill now too, because now I have hate! How many can I kill, Chino? How many and still have one bullet left for me? Don’t touch him!
Anybody’s: Listen- Wotta buncha Old Man Rivers: they don’t know nuthin’ and they don’t say nuthin’. The question is: where’s Tony and what party’s lookin for him. I figgered somebody oughta infiltrate PR territory and spy around. I’m very big with shadows, ya know. I can slip in and out of em’ like wind through a fence. And you bet your fat A I will.
Anita: I’ve got to give a message to your friend. (reaction) Bernardo was right… If one of you was bleeding in the streets I’d walk by and spit on you. I’ll give you a message for your American buddy! Tell the murderer that Maria’s never gonna meet him! That Chino found out and – and shot her!
MEN: Please choose one side to perform before or after your singing audition. Make clear choices for this character: To whom are you speaking, where does this take place, what do you want, etc. If you have never auditioned for a show before- feel free to read this but try to memorize the first and last line. Veteran performers should not have script in hand. Please introduce yourself and your selections- then begin your audition. Please have all material prepared, dress to impress, and above all- have fun with the process and with the audition!
DIALECTS are recommended for this audition.
Tony: I tried to stop it; I did try. I don't know how it went wrong... I didn't mean to hurt him; I didn't want to; I didn't know I had. But Riff... Riff was like my brother. So when Bernardo killed Him… 'Nardo didn't mean it either. Oh, I don't know he didn't! Oh, no. I didn't come to tell you just for you to forgive me so I couldn't go to the police...
Detective Schrank: If I don't put down the roughhouse, I get put down -on a traffic corner. Your friends don't like traffic corners. So you buddy boys are gonna play ball with me. I gotta put up with them and so do you. You're gonna make nice with them PRs from now on. Because otherwise I'm gonna beat the crap outa every one of ya and then run ya in.
Riff: Look, Tony, I've never asked the time of day from a clock but I'm asking you, come to the dance tonight. I already told the gang you'd be there. If you don't show I'll be marked lousy. Who knows? Maybe what you've been waitin' on will be twitchin at the dance tonight.
Bernardo: More gracious living? Look: I don’t go for that pretend crap you go for in this country. Every one of you hates every one of us and we hate you right back. I don’t drink with nobody I hate, I don’t shake hands with nobody I hate. Let’s get at it.