Amadeus Auditions
What You Need to Know
Ages: Grades 7-12
Audition Registrations Accepted Until: September 10
Registration: Sign up to audition here.
To audition, please register at the registration link above. Then, download the monologue packet for this show
and record a short video of yourself performing two. Send your video to
audition@columbiachildrenstheatre.com.
Please direct any questions to Sallie Best at sallie@columbiachildrenstheatre.com.
About the Show
Written by: Peter Shaffer
Director:
Paul Lindley
Claiming to have murdered the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the elderly Antonio Salieri recounts to a priest his dealings with the brilliant composer. Salieri was court composer to Austrian Emperor Joseph II when Mozart and he first met. The Emperor, a major patron of the arts, immediately commissioned Mozart to write an opera in German, rather than the customary Italian. Mozart is childish, arrogant, annoying and brilliant all at once and Salieri is simultaneously in awe and green with envy at his genius. Salieri uses Mozart's difficult relationship with his father and his guilt over being a bad son to drive him slightly mad and into a downward spiral of ill health, leading to his death.
Safety Procedures
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