Annie Jr Research Paper

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Rapid applauding, curtains closing, all the performers waving goodbye. The performance of Annie Jr has just finished. There are smiles on everyone’s face, from the audience to the director and to the performers themselves. Kings Junior High puts on one musical each year for the school’s theatre program. This theatre season, the choice was Annie Jr the musical. From the initial reaction to the announcement, everyone seemed excited as can be. Three long, hard months of work all come down to just five shows, each two hours long. To have these musicals there is a lot of work to be done in a little amount of time. At Kings Junior High every performer is not only required to be at all of their rehearsal times, but have private one on one singing coaching, and donating some of their time to the building of the set. For a show to have a good outcome, every single person must be putting in a lot of time and effort, not just as rehearsals but at home also. …show more content…

Everyone who auditions must be at the specified audition date, everyone needs to have a short, three minute monologue (a memoized speech from a show or movie) prepared. There will also be short clips of songs from the show that each auditionee has to sing. Everyone auditioning will also be required to learn a little choreography (a sequence of a dance), memorize it, and perform it to the best of their ability. Unlike some auditions where everyone auditions with everyone else in the room, at Kings Junior High, each person who auditions will go into a room with just the directors to

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