Jasmine & Lolo Audition Material
(Setting: Lolo sadly walking in the hallway with tray of food after attempting to talk to Jeremy.
He stops and overhears Jasmine crying and enters her room)
Lolo: Jasmine? Jasmine, what’s wrong?
Jasmine: (holding piece of paper) uhh... nothing (shoves paper under her pillow)
Lolo: Would you like a cheese sandwich? I made it for your kuya but he’s busy…
Jasmine: No thank you Lolo.
Lolo: You sure? (noticing something is wrong, places tray on her nightstand) It’s a good
sandwich.
(as Lolo is talking, Jasmine fidgets, picks up pillow and hugs it, trying to conceal the paper)
Lolo: (breaks the sandwich in half to offer her) I used the cheese from that new whole foods
market and (notices the paper) what was that?
Lolo: Ano yan? What are you trying to hide?
Jasmine: Nothing Lolo (hugs the pillow trying to conceal the paper)
Lolo: Come on… I saw it. Don’t try to be sneaky like your kuya. Let me see…
Jasmine: No.
Lolo: Give it….
Jasmine: (crosses arms over pillow) Uh uh.
Lolo: Give it to Lolo.
Jasmine: No.
Lolo: (raises his hand menacingly, as if to bitch slap her) Nako…. don’t make me—
Jamine: (flinching) Lolo DON’T!!!!!!!
(Lolo quickly begins to tickle her as she tries to wrestle away from him. After a few seconds,
Lolo finds the paper and reads it)
Lolo: Hoy Jasmine… what’s this?
Jasmine: (sadly) I’m sorry Lolo.
Lolo: This says you were fighting? With one of the kids at school?
Jasmine: He started it…
Lolo: (slightly amused) One of the boys at school? Why what happened?
Jasmine: Well… Tommy said that his mom works at the hospital with mommy… and he said
that he hears her talking about mommy all the time… (voice breaking) and… (fights back tears).
Lolo: awww (comforting tone, gives her tissue from his pocket to dry her tears) and what? You
can tell Lolo.
Jasmine: (fighting back tears, voice sad and whispery) He started saying bad things about
mommy.
Lolo: Oh.
Jasmine: So I punched him.
Lolo: (fighting back laughter) Punched him?
Jasmine: In the face. His nose started bleeding, but he sucked it back up really quick so no one
would see that he got hit by a girl, and told everyone that I pushed him when his back was
turned.
Lolo: I see (shakes his fist in a “yes” motion).
Jasmine: I was trying to tell mommy, but she was busy on the phone while daddy and kuya were
fighting. I wanna show mommy… but I don’t want her to know why I was fighting.
Lolo: (hugs her and rocks her gently) Awww iha it’s okay… I understand.
Jasmine: The note says I have to get it signed by one of my parents… but I don’t want daddy to
know either. It’ll just make him mad at mommy.
Lolo: Don’t worry anak… I’ll sign for it.
Jasmine: But the teacher says mommy or daddy had to sign it?
Lolo: It’s okay… what your teacher don’t know won’t hurt her. (signs the note) Think of it like a
harmless trick. It’s okay to be a little trickster every now and again.
Jasmine: A trick?
Lolo: Yeah like Juan Tamad (gives her half the sandwich) You remember those stories I used to
tell you and your kuya when you were little.
Jasmine: (takes a bite of the sandwich) But I thought you said Juan Tamad was the laziest man
alive?
Lolo: Well yes… he was.
(Lights brighten on other side to reveal Juan Tamad, sleeping under a tree with his mouth open
and his hat on his stomach, snoring comically loud)
Jasmine: Yeah I remember… you used to say that he was soooo lazy, that whenever he was
hungry he would fall asleep underneath a guava tree with his mouth open… waiting for the fruit
to fall in his mouth so he can eat!
(Fruit falls from tree and lands on Juan’s head. He wakes up abruptly from his snoring, He looks
around, picks up the fruit and takes a bite. With an “Awww yeah” and triumphant fist pump, he
falls back asleep with a smile. Folk music starts again.)
Lolo: That’s right iha… but that is not to say that he was stupid. Juan Tamad was actually very
crafty and very clever. The only reason why we say he was lazy was because he, like most
people, did not like who he was working for.
Jasmine: Who was he working for?
Lolo: Like all Filipinos at the time, he had to work for the Spanish… who, in 1521, invaded our
country, and began to steal everything that was once ours.
Jasmine: But in school, they taught us that the Spanish were explorers, who sailed across the
seas, looking for new worlds and people, and helped them become civilized.
Lolo: Well some people believe that… but
Jasmine: The teacher told me that Christopher Columbus sailed for Spain… and he even
discovered America.
(Juan Tamad comically offers the Spaniard a bite of his fruit. The Spaniard uses his gun to knock
the fruit from his hand)
Lolo: (Insert Tagalog expression here) when it comes to history, you shouldn’t believe
everything they teach you in school. Let me tell you the story of how Juan Tamad earned his
name.