Casting Scene Reading

Wizard of Oz Scene Readings 1/21/2014
*Please read through these scenes and be familiar with them. You may choose a part that you
would like to read at casting, but keep in mind you may be asked to read a different part as well*
SCENE 1
LION
Oh, scared, huh! Afraid, huh? Hah! How long can you stay fresh in that can? Come on, get up and fight, you
shivering junk yard! Put your hands up, you lop-sided bag of hay!
SCARECROW
That’s getting personal, Lion!
TINMAN
Yes, get up and teach him a lesson.
SCARECROW
Well – what’s wrong – with you teachin’ him?
TINMAN
I – well – well, I hardly know him.
LION
Well, I’ll get you anyway, Pee-Wee.
DOROTHY
Oh, shame on you!
LION
(crying) What did you do that for? I didn’t bite him. (crying)
DOROTHY
No, but you tried to. It’s bad enough picking on a straw man, but when you go around picking on poor little dogs…
LION
(crying) Well, you didn’t have to go and hit me, did you? Is my nose bleedin’?
DOROTHY
Well, of course not. My goodness, what a fuss you’re making! Naturally when you go around picking on things
weaker than you are --- why you’re nothing but a great big coward!
LION
You’re right, I am a coward! I haven’t got any courage at all. I even scare myself.(crying) Look at the circles
under my eyes. I haven’t slept in weeks.
TINMAN
Why don’t you try counting sheep?
LION
That doesn’t do any good – I’m afraid of ‘em.
SCARECROW
Oh, that’s too bad. Don’t you think the Wizard could help him, too?
TINMAN
And him a brain.
DOROTHY
I’m sure he could give you some courage.
SCENE 2
WEST WITCH
Who killed my sister? Who killed the wicked witch of the east? Where’s my sister?
DOROTHY
It’s my fault. I’m so sorry. My house dropped on her.
WEST WITCH
The ruby slippers! They’re gone! What have you done to them?
GLINDA
See for yourself. Step forward Dorothy.
WEST WITCH
Give them back to me or I’ll -- --
GLINDA
It’s too late! There they are, and there they’ll stay!
WEST WITCH
Give me back those slippers! I’m the only one that knows how to use them. They’re of no use to you. Give them
back to me. Give them back!
GLINDA
Keep tight inside of them. Their magic must be very powerful or she wouldn’t want them so badly.
WEST WITCH
You stay out of this, Glinda, or I’ll fix you as well!
GLINDA
Oh, fiddle-faddle! You have no power while I’m here. Be gone, before somebody drops a house on you, too!
WEST WITCH
Very well, I’ll bide my time and as for you, my fine lady, it’s true I can’t attend to you here and now as I’d like. So
you best try to stay out of my way. Just try! I’ll get you, my pretty… And your little dog, too!
GLINDA
It’s all right. You can get up. She’s gone. It’s all right. You can all get up. I’m afraid you’ve made rather a bad
enemy of the Wicked Witch of the West. The sooner you get out of Oz altogether, the safer you’ll sleep, my dear.
DOROTHY
Oh, I’d give anything to get out of Oz altogether. My Auntie Em is missing me. She may even be ill. But – which is
the way back to Kansas? I can’t go the way I came.
GLINDA
No, that’s true. The only person who might know would be the great and wonderful Wizard of Oz himself!
DOROTHY
The Wizard of Oz? Is he good, or is he wicked?
SCENE 3
OZ
I am Oz, the great and powerful. Who are you? Who are you?
DOROTHY
I ---- if you please, I – I am Dorothy… the small and meek. We’ve come to ask you…
OZ
Silence!
DOROTHY
Ohh – Jiminy Crickets!
OZ
The Great and Powerful Oz knows why you have come. Step forward Tin Man!
TINMAN
Ohhhh!
OZ
You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk!
TINMAN
Ohhh – yes… yes, sir, -- Y-Yes, Your Honour. You see, a while back we were walking down the Yellow Brick
Road, and…
OZ
Quiet! And you, Scarecrow, have the affrontary to ask for a brain ---- you billowing bail of bovine fodder!
SCARECROW
Y-Yes ---- yes, Your Honor ---- I mean, Your Excellency – I – I mean ---- Your Wizardry!
DOROTHY
Oh – oh – oh! You ought to be ashamed of yourself – frightening him like that, when he came to you for help!
OZ
Silence whippersnapper! The beneficent Oz has every intention of granting your requests!
LION
What’s that? What’d he say?
DOROTHY
Are you alright?
LION
Just a little deaf? What’d he say?
DOROTHY
He’s going to help us after all.
OZ
But first, you must prove yourselves worthy by performing a very small task.
SCARECROW
A small task? Is that all?

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