Fall 2024

Audition Announcement

THE OUTSIDERS

Adapted by Christopher Sergel

from the novel written by S.E. Hinton

All students are welcome and encouraged to audition for the Outsiders. You can prepare a memorized monologue that is dramatic and under 2 minutes long or you can choose to use the cold read which will be provided after school on Tuesday, 9/3.

Sign-up sheets will be posted outside the HC door in the morning on Tuesday, 9/3. You only need to sign up for your time slot but be prepared to arrive 20 minutes early and to stay late. Sign up directly under the person above you.

Great Job on Your Auditions!

Over 70 students gave amazing performances.

The cast list will be posted on the HC door Friday, Sept 6th. There will be rehearsal after school.

Anyone interested in tech/crew can come to the lunchtime meeting on September 11th.

Be prepared - either be memorized or be ready to do a great cold read with the provided script.
Ensure your piece fits the time limit.
Be on time for your appointment.
Dress appropriately.
Do vocal and physical warmups.
Introduce yourself and your scene.
Look just above the director, into the audience.
Mistakes happen, just keep going.
Have Fun!

Audition Tips

Audition Form

Fall Play Performance Dates

11/1-11/10 Weekends:Fri/Sat/Sun

If you didn't fill out the audition form but did have an audition - please fill it out asap.

THE OUTSIDERS - Synopsis

Christopher Sergel’s play is a faithful adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age-novel about rival teenage gangs in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Greasers come from troubled working-class backgrounds, contrasted with the Socials, whose members are from upper-middle-class families. Like the novel, the play centers on 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis, a member of the Greasers gang, as he recounts the violent aftermath after his friend Johnny fatally stabbed Socials member Bob.

About S.E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her mother worked in a factory and her father was a door-to-door salesman. Hinton attended Will Rogers High School and graduated in 1966. While she was a student there, she wrote her first book, The Outsiders, which was published in 1967. Following the suggestion of her editor, she wrote it under the name S.E. Hinton, in order to deflect attention from her gender. Centering on a confrontation between rival groups of teenagers and its fallout, the novel was inspired by an incident that happened to one of her friends. The book was immediately successful with critics and young readers, and it won several awards. Though the level of violence in the novel and in some of her subsequent works aroused controversy, Hinton was praised for her realistic and sometimes explosive dialogue.