AUDITION - Sleeping Beauty

Audition Information

Theatre Whakatane’s final production for 2025 is “Sleeping Beauty”, a pantomime directed by John White.

Important Dates:

Information Evening – Tuesday 15th July 2025, 7.00 pm at Gateway Theatre

Auditions – 26 and 27 July 2025.

Show Opens 30 October 2025 and runs for two weeks at Whakatane Little Theatre.

Download the Audition Form - Not yet available

Download the rehearsal schedule - Not yet available

The purpose of this page is to give you some more information if you are considering auditioning to be part of this fabulous opportunity. Here you will find:

• Storyline of show

• Outlines of roles

• Audition information

  ‘Sleeping Beauty’

This traditional British pantomime adapted with lots of local references follows the classic fairy tale story.

Carabosse, the wicked witch, sentences the young Princess Aurora to death by spinning wheel on her 18th birthday, but the good Fairy Sweetheart transforms this to a long boring sleep - a sleep from which the Princess can only be woken by a kiss from her true love. Matters are complicated somewhat by the arrival of a fearsome dragon.

Lots of fun and laughter for the whole family.

Please read prior to your Audition

We are looking forward to seeing you in the Audition room very soon and we wanted to make sure you understand the following:

• Please be prepared with your audition piece before you come into the Audition room.

• Remember to download and fill out the audition form and bring this with you to the audition.

• The names of the people on the Audition Panel will be displayed and available for you to peruse before you go into the Audition room.

• Most importantly enjoy the experience and thank you for the work that you have put into your audition.