Homegrown Theater
CURRENT PRODUCTION
Methow Valley Theater is excited to hold auditions for its 2025 Spring Production of “The Sound of Music”. Auditions will be held in the Methow Valley Community Center (main floor) room #3 on Sunday, November 3rd at 1:00 pm, and Wednesday, November 6th at 6:00 pm. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script, and musical numbers from the score. [You need only attend one of these dates.]
Adults and children of all ages are welcome to audition. Major roles include Maria, Captain von Trapp and his seven children aged 16 and younger, Baroness Schraeder, Rolf Gruber, Mother Abbess and Max Detweiler. Other adult roles are also available, as well as a nuns’ and children’s choirs.
Performance dates are April 24 – 27 and May 1 – 4, 2025 on the Community Center gym stage in Twisp. Specific rehearsal dates will be announced but will begin in January. MVT also welcomes those interested in assisting behind the scenes, including stage crew, set designers and builders, costumers, kitchen helpers, and lighting and sound technicians.
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Musical Links
Those auditioning for a female principal should pick one of the following based on their desired part:
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Climb Every Mountain: https://youtu.be/Fl5KC2CGk9w?feature=shared
Climb Every Mountain, Search High and Low
Follow every by way, every path you know
Climb every mountain, ford every stream.
Follow every rainbow, 'till you find your dream.
A dream that will need all the love you can give
every day of your life, for as long as you live.
Climb every mountain, ford every stream,
follow every rainbow, 'till you find your dream.
A dream that will need all the love you can give
Every day of your life, for as long as you live.
Climb every mountain, ford every stream.
Follow every rainbow, 'till you find your dream.
The Sound Of Music: https://youtu.be/_1spENjsC2c?feature=shared&t=95 (Skip introduction and start at 1:35 with "The hills are alive" - (this link should do that automatically, but just in case)
The hills are alive with the sound of music,
with songs they have sung, for a thousand years.
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music,
my heart wants to sing every song it hears.
My heart wants to beat like the wings
of the birds that rise
from the lake to the trees.
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
from a church on a breeze.
To laugh like a brook
when it trips and falls over stones in its way,
to sing through the night
like a lark who is learning to pray.
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely,
I know I will hear what I've heard before.
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
and I'll sing once more.
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Maria
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/QgrcJHsHpDFVkvqkbNZzrmdkvvWcbCntNkl?projector=1
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Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Liesl sings): https://youtu.be/XhD8iZjsRRY?feature=shared&t=126 (start at 2:06)
​I am sixteen, going on seventeen,
I know that I'm naive.
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
and willingly I'll believe.
I am sixteen going on seventeen,
innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
what do I know of these?
Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men.
Timid and shy and scared am I
of things beyond my ken.
I need someone older and wiser
telling me what to do
You are seventeen, going on eighteen,
I'll depend on you.
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Those auditioning for a male principal should pick, based on their desired part:
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Edelweiss:
https://youtu.be/j3FDj0l0BsI?feature=shared (No
repeat)
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Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
Every morning you greet me.
Small and white, clean and bright,
you look happy to meet me.
Blossom of snow may you bloom & grow,
bloom and grow forever.
Edelweiss, Edelweiss,
bless my homeland forever.
Sixteen going on Seventeen (Rolf Sings): https://youtu.be/XhD8iZjsRRY (beginning to 1:48)
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You wait, little girl, on an empty stage
for fate to turn the light on.
Your life, little girl, is an empty page
that men will want to write on -
(To write on)
You are sixteen, going on seventeen,
baby it's time to think.
Better beware, be canny and careful,
baby, you're on the brink.
You are sixteen, going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line,
eager young lads and roues and cads
will offer you food and wine.
Totally unprepared are you
to face a world of men.
Timid and shy and scared are you
of things beyond your ken.
You need someone older and wiser
telling you what to do.
I am seventeen, going on eighteen,
I'lll take care of you.
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Children:
Do Re Mi:
https://youtu.be/4Zti-rYa9mo?feature=shared. This piece will pick up in tempo later on, but for now singing at this speed is more likely during auditions. ​
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Let's start at the very beginning,
a very good place to start.
When you read you begin with -
(Gretle) A,B,C
When you sing you begin with Do-Re-Mi.
(children) D0-Re-Mi?
Do-Me-Mi
the first three notes just happen to be
Do-Re-Me
(children) Do-Re-Mi!
D-RE-ME-FA-SO-LA-TI...
Come, I'll make it easier. Listen...
DOE-a deer, a female deer,
RAY-a drop of golden sun,
ME-a name, I call myself,
FA-a long long way to run,
SEW-a needle pulling thread,
LA-a note to follow sew,
TEA-a drink with jam and bread,
that will bring uis back to do!
(Gretle) Doe!
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If you wish to obtain a musical score with which to follow along, please contact Nadine at
509-429-0454​
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