Overview
High Note: D5
Low Note: A3
Analysis
10 years old, British accent. Raised mainly by servants in British Colonial India, Mary lacks refinement and social grace. She has not yet learned to be a refined, British young lady and instead has been reared as a spoiled and entitled child. When her parents die of
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When auditioning for Mary Lennox, it is vital to showcase her dramatic arc from an unloved, sour orphan into a resilient, passionate force of nature. At the start of the musical, Mary protects herself with a cold, "contrary" exterior to hide intense grief, isolation, and trauma from losing her parents to cholera in India. Avoid playing her as merely throwing a bratty tantrum; instead, ground her prickly behavior in a deep-seated defensive mechanism. Show the casting directors that beneath her
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