If you are auditioning for Aunt Em please be familiar with both scenes.
Aunt Em
She is a hard working farmers wife. The actor playing this role must be able to show her strong side as well as her soft side. Aunt Em sings the reprise of “Over the Rainbow” but this is mainly an acting role.
Scene 1
In this scene Aunt Em and the farmhands are busy getting ready for a tornado. No one is listening to Dorothy.
Dorothy
Auntie Em! Auntie Em! Just listen to what Miss Gulch did to Toto! She…
Aunt Em
Dorothy, please!
Dorothy
Oh, but Aunt Em, Miss Gulch hit Toto right over the back with a rake just because she says he gets in her garden and chases her nasty, old cat.
Aunt Em
Dorothy, honey, it’ll have to wait. We’re busy.
Dorothy
But he doesn’t do it every day-just once or twice a week. And he can’t catch her old cat, anyway. And now she says she’s gonna get the sheriff, and..
Auntie Em, you know what Miss Gulch said she was going to do to Toto?
Aunt Em
Just help us out today, and find yourself a place you won’t get into any trouble.
No one is listening to Dorothy and she gives up. She feels like nobody cares about her.
Dorothy
Some place where there isn’t any trouble.
Do you suppose there is such a place Toto? There must be.
Scene 2
In this scene Auntie Em is worrying about Dorothy.
Aunt Em
Dorothy, I hope you can somehow here me wherever you are. We’re trying to find you, dear. We want you to come home, Dorothy.
Please come home, come home to us, safe and sound.