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Once Upon a Pandora's Box Auditions

ONCE
UPON A PANDORA’S BOX 



AUDITIONS: October 14 & 15 @ 7:30 pm with Call Backs on October 17 @ 7:30 pm  



The Strollers, Burgdorff Center for The Performing Arts, 10 Durant Road, Maplewood  

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Further information 973-395-9185 or www.thestrollers.org



PERFORMANCE DATES: January. 10, 11, 12 and January
17, 18,
19 -
2014 

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Directed by Fran Shultz  



A Theater for Young Audiences Comedy, by
Monica Flory 



Playscripts, Inc. 2007, Full-length, 60-75 minutes 



SET: A New York City apartment and a “Pandora’s Box” big enough to
contain 5 actors. 



TIME: Present 



SYNOPSIS: 



Once upon a time in New York City, Tabitha and her brother Louis discover a box
sitting in the hall of their apartment. Curious, Tabitha opens the box,
allowing five imprisoned fairy tale villains to escape. Free at last, the
dastardly villains begin to wreck the apartment, but when they discover that
writing in Tabitha’s notebook will give them control of other fictional
characters, things really get dicey. Will Tabitha harness the power of her
storytelling? Or will the fairy tale villains run wild in New York? A clever comedy that demonstrates the
importance of the villains in every story. 



 



CAST of CHARACTERS: 



TABITHA, a bright girl who loves to write
stories; charming and a bit high-strung:  8 – 12. 



LOUIS, Tabitha’s older brother who loves
soccer and video games:  10 – 14. 



ZEUS, the terrifying, yet handsome and charming,
God of all Gods; the one who captures each fairy tale character and puts them
in Pandora’s Box, just because he feels like it: 30 – 50. 



QUEEN, The Evil Queen from Snow White; the embodiment of evil
beauty and vanity: 30-50. 



WOLF, the villain from Little Red Riding Hood, constantly hungry to
the point of utter gluttony. Children are a favorite delicacy: 25-50.



RUMPLE, from Rumplestiltskin, who cannot understand how
everyone already knows his name; he is angry to the core, given to childish
tantrums
and ridiculous outbursts: 30-60. 



WITCH, the witch from Hansel and Gretel, who lures children with
her candy house; a ferocious dictator: 30-60. 



FAIRY, the thirteenth fairy from Sleeping Beauty; is jealous and extremely insecure
and clumsy, but cute. Can be a man or a woman: 15-30. 



ANGELLA & BEAUTELLA, characters from a story
Tabitha has written; the most loving sisters on the planet; “good” through and
through; the love to sing, dance, and braid each other’s hair, but not much
else:  15-25. 



ESPERELLA, a gracious mother to Angella and
Beautella in Tabitha’s story. Acts as Tabitha’s writing mentor:  40-60.  



TRANSLATOR, to translate Zeus’ summary of the
fairy tales at the beginning of the play. Man or woman, any age. 



REPORTER, TV news reporter, telling of the
havoc brought by the villains at the end of the play. Man or woman, 25 -50. 



CHILDREN, various ages, a group of children
surrounding ZEUS at the beginning of the play as he sets the
stage by quickly re-telling the plot of the fairy tales. Children also serve as
“props” in the retelling and respond appropriately to the scary parts of each
story.  



 

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