Casting Call for Boys and Girls for "The Little Prince" Play
Searching for kids ages 8 and up for "The Little Prince" Play. Please see the details below. About the project: Large-Cast Version. The Little Prince may have returned to his own tiny planet to tend his Rose and look after his Sheep, but for a short enchanted time he returns to us and comes alive on stage. This play/musical tells the story of a world-weary and disenchanted Aviator whose sputtering plane strands him in the Sahara Desert and a mysterious, regal "little man" who appears and asks him to "Please, sir, draw me a sheep." During their two weeks together in the desert, the Little Prince tells the Aviator about his adventures through the galaxy, how he met the Lamplighter and the Businessman and the Geographer, and about his strained relationship with a very special flower on his own tiny planet. The Little Prince talks to everyone he meets: a garden of roses, the Snake, and a Fox who wishes to be tamed. From each, he gains a unique insight which he shares with the Aviator: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly." "What is essential is invisible to the eye." At length, both the "little man" and the Aviator must go home with a new understanding of how to laugh, cry, and love again. Additional info: Cold readings from the script. Headshots and Resumes are recommended but not required. Show Dates September 5-8 at the Mills-Pate Arts Center. If interested, please apply.
5 roles
The little prince is the main protagonist of the story. He is the personification of the fantasy world in the story and the voice of children in the adult world. He is at times grave, amused, querulous, inquisitive, philosophical, curious, willful, and kind. At the end of the tale, he asks the snake to bite him in order to send him back to his home planet where his beloved flower is.
The rose/flower represents a stereotypical view of women, for she is fickle, flighty, self-absorbed, flirtatious, and contradictory. Though he loves her, the prince is easily annoyed with her; he comes to believe she is vulnerable and needs him.
The little prince is, at first, seduced by the street lamp lighter. His job is useful: he lights the lamps at sunset. But his planet turns more and more quickly, so he has to keep on switching his lamps off and on. "Those are the orders," says the lamplighter to the little prince, who, after all, respects the efforts of this grownup. "He is the only one who does not seem ridiculous to me. This may be because he deals with something else than himself."
The flower is a “nobody” whom the prince meets while wandering in the desert. 2 lines.
4-6 Individuals.
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