KMSU Radio Drama Auditions For House On Haunted Hill

Sunday, August 27, 2023
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
KMSU Radio (1536 Warren St, Mankato, MN)

Open auditions for the Fountaineer's radio dramatization of House on Haunted Hill will take place at 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 27th at the KMSU studios (1536 Warren St, Alumni Foundation Building in Mankato, MN). This event is open to the public. No prior experience is required, just a willingness to be creative and to have some fun. Participants must be able to attend a number of recording sessions in the month of September.

If you would like to audition but are unable to attend on the 27th, please contact Shelley PIerce (shufflefunction@hotmail.com) to figure out a time that better suits your schedule. You may also send any questions you have to that e-mail.

You can choose between three script sections for your audition:

AUDITION PIECE 1:
PRITCHARD: The ghosts are moving tonight. Restless ...hungry. May I introduce myself? Watson Pritchard. In a minute I'll show you the only really haunted house in the world. Since it was built a century ago, seven people, including my brother, have been murdered in it. Since then I've owned the house. I've only spent one night there. When they found me in the morning I was almost dead. 

AUDITION PIECE 2:
FREDERICK: I'm Frederick Loren and I've rented this house on haunted hill tonight so my wife can give a party, a haunted-house party. She's so amusing ... There'll be food and drinks and ghosts - perhaps even a few murders, and you are all invited. If any of you will spend the next twelve hours in this house I'll give you each ten thousand dollars - or your next of kin, in case you don't survive. Ah, here come our other guests ... 

AUDITION PIECE 3 (Requires screaming):
LANCE: Let’s have a look around this cellar. (footsteps, shuffling) You believe in ghosts?
NORA: I don’t know.
LANCE: I agree with that Doc, you can spook yourself. I’ve done it in planes - seen things that weren’t there - or, were they? What are you going to do with the ten thousand dollars if you get it?
NORA: What do you mean if I get it? Won’t he pay us if we stay?
LANCE: Oh, sure he will. Ten thousand is no more to him than a nickel is to us.
NORA: My family and I were in an automobile accident and now I’m the only one in the family who can earn any money.
LANCE: I never saw so many doors.
(They go together toward one of the doors and LANCE pulls it open and looks in)
LANCE: This is a closet. 
(They go to another door and again LANCE opens in and looks in)
LANCE: Bottles in here. 
(LANCE closes the door and they wander on to a third door which he opens and peers in)
LANCE: I’m going to look in this room a second – wait here. 
(LANCE slowly walks into the room as NORA stands in the doorway peering in.)
NORA: Does it go anywhere?
(She waits for a few seconds but there is no answer)
NORA: Lance?
(The door almost slams in her face)
NORA SCREAMS 
(She slowly reaches out to the knob, turns it jerkily and pushes against the door. The door does not open or give)
NORA: The door is locked!
(She beats on the door with one hand)
NORA: Lance! Lance!
(MRS. SLYDES enters and floats across the stage past NORA)
NORA: (SCREAMS) GHOST!!!
(After MRS. SLYDES exits, NORA runs out of the last door)
NORA: (gasping for air) I need to get help!
[running footsteps enter the Living Room]
NORA: Help! Help!
(They all turn to stare at her and she runs to TRENT and begins to pull his arm)
NORA: Lance! Gone! And there’s a ghost. I saw a ghost!

The Fountaineers KMSU Radio Drama Troupe's House On Haunted Hill will air on KMSU Halloween night! This production is made possible with funding from the Minnesota State Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund