Horner had to re-arrange the original “gospel-y” score to suit her voice.

“I think out of all of them, he is probably the hardest one to pull from the comics, just because he’s always staring at his piano.” “My Schroeder character, I keep him pretty much to the comic, like he’s a very eyebrows-down kind of guy,” Horner said, scrunching her forehead into a scowl. Luckily they ended up letting her read for Schroeder. “There were no other first years in the room, I don’t know any of these people and I’m like ‘oh no, why’d you have to give me this one.’ So I’m pretty sure my audition was terrible … I was not expecting to get in at all.” “The monologue they gave me, it was like ‘pretend you’re an airplane and run around the stage for a minute and half,’” she said, admitting she was nervous going into it. Her first-round audition went well - she sang “I Know It’s Today” from the musical Shrek - but during the call back, she was asked to read for the role of Snoopy, which didn’t quite fit. “Like in the Broadway cast, it’s this big black guy with this beautiful voice and I’m like, ‘What the heck? I can’t do that!’”Īfter auditioning with director Alysha Bernstein and her team, Horner was sure she didn’t get the part. “It’s funny because in almost every production, they always cast a gospel-y man ,” said Horner. The former HBO actor - she played Kate Unger in two seasons of the television series Living in Your Car - snagged the role of the piano-playing youngster at Blue Canoe’s auditions in December. Try being an 18-year-old girl and doing it.įirst-year student Mariah Horner sings, dances and acts as the Peanuts character Schroeder in the upcoming production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. It’s not easy channelling a six-year-old boy who’s obsessed with Beethoven.

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