Calling all actors for an upcoming audition for Playhouse in the Park! May 11th and 12th at 6pm at the Playhouse Annex. You only have to attend one night of auditions! Learn and work one of the monologues below for the audition and expect cold reads from the script.

Bilbo
"Go back? No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? ... Only thing to do! On we go!" Well, look here, it is a pool or possibly a lake, and not an underground river after all. What is that? It gleams even in this small amount of light. I think...I think it may be a ring. No matter, I shall have it for the small amount of light it brings to this putrid cave."

Gollum
Bless us and splash us, my precioussss a feast! I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, gollum! Never truer words spoken. And we's is so hungry. But that dagger of his...my preciousness! What should I do? Your wits, gollum. Use them. The morsel will never know."

Smaug
"I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and there like is not seen in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old, and I am strong, Strong, STRONG! Now, my armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death! "

Gandalf
Why the halfling you ask? I don't know, really. Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small things, every act of normal folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

Tauriel
It is our fight, but it will not end here. This evil will grow. We will hide within our walls and live our lives away from light. The darkness will descend. Tell me, when did we allow evil to become stronger than us?

Thorin
He is soft. He is as soft as the mud of his shire and just as silly too. His father died too soon and his mother not soon enough. I see. You are playing some crooked game of your own Master Gandalf. You must have other purposes than helping me. Otherwise you are crazed.