A Series of Unfortunate Events, Audiobook 1: The Bad Beginning (ON LENGTHY HIATUS)

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Audiobook 1: The Bad Beginning (ON LENGTHY HIATUS)

Project Overview

I would like to put together an Audiobook of the book series: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Which will be posted on youtube. This will be a rather long project and I would like to be present (Via voice chat) To direct you while you are recording your lines. Hopefully when all of the actors are cast, we can do a group reading and recording which I can help direct.

More roles will be added at a later date, since I am not a gold member I can't push the date as far back as I would like.

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  • Cancelling for now

    I would like to sincerely apologize to all of the people who put their valuable time and effort into auditioning. I am simply overwhelmed at the moment. This was my fourth project to be put up on this website and not only have I realized that I should only do one at a time, but that life gets busy at the most inopportune occasions. So I will be canceling this project for now. However, once my schedule clears up and I finish my remaining projects, you can expect this project to open once more. Once again, I would like to apologize to all those who auditioned, I listened to every one, and I have to say there are some very talented individuals out there. So if you have the patience to bear with me, you may reaudition when this opens once more, or even audition for the other projects so they may get done faster, I'm always looking for more auditions. Thank you

  • Pushed update

    I have pushed the update back another month because I will not start this project until I have all of the roles cast and right now I don't think there are enough auditions in. Most likely, no one will be cast until I'm ready to start the project which might not be for a while. But while you're waiting, spread the word. Tell everyone you know to audition, the well's running dry

Project Roles: Sunny Baudelaire (Main Protagonist) Violet Baudelaire (Main Protagonist) Narrator Klaus Baudelaire (Main Protagonist) Arthur Poe (Reoccurring Character) Justice Strauss (Supporting Character) Fernald, The Hook Handed Man (Supporting Antagonist) Count Olaf (Main Antagonist)
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Sunny Baudelaire (Main Protagonist)
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Sunny Baudelaire is an "Infant", a word which here means: "A small child whom is so young they can only speak in a series of indistinguishable shreiks and noises which most people find difficult, if not impossible, to understand."
"Indistinguishable" Is a frighteningly long word whose definition I will not say, for I fear I have found myself, in this moment in an antique celebrity chandeleir museum clicking away on my typewriter, too overwhelmed with the utter sadness and despair of young Sunny's life, as written in these books... That I cannot bring myself to write the meaning of such an obscure and lengthy word.

Sunny Baudelaire is one of the main characters, and though her lines are often short, they are common.

  • "Gack!"

  • "Hux!"

  • "Marschwee!"

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Violet Baudelaire (Main Protagonist)
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Violet Baudelaire is rather intelligent for a 14 year old. She has a very inventive mind, and as such, is a very inventive person. She is consistently tinkering with different gizmos and gadgets of her own creation. The word "Gizmo" is a word which here means: "A Gadget, specifically one whose name the speaker does not remember or care to specify."
Violet Baudelaire is one of the three main characters, and as such, will have many lines.

  • "Like most people, I am right-handed. But I signed the document with my left hand."

  • "Count Olaf... Father, I'm not sure I'm talented enough to perform professionally. I would hate to disgrace your good name and the name of Al Funcoot. Plus I'll be very busy in the next few weeks working on my inventions—and learning how to prepare roast beef,"

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Narrator
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    I would like the Narrator to be very well spoken. Like an intelligent man, which Lemony Snicket is... Of course. I also (For whatever reason) think it fitting that the Narrator speak with an English accent. So, unless you naturally have an English accent, I would like you to record each line twice. Once with your regular accent, and once with the previously described dialect. Of course, if you are not capable of immitating the rather intellectual sounding speach pattern made by our dear friends to the East, you may record in your natural voice only. No doubt recording these lengthy lines are quite the hastle, let alone recording them twice.
    If you lack the skill of mimicing accents, you are still capable of earning the role... I will merely consider you as a lesser being than myself as of course, If I cannot find someone who I deem fit I shall take it upon myself to become the Narrator since it seems like less of a hassle than sending an entire book to someone and waiting for their recording to come in. "Hassle" Is a word which here means, "An irritating, annoying and pestering inconviniencing task that could be easily avoided." That is all


(Sidenote, whomever recieves the role of Narrator, will also be playing the role of Lemony Snicket, as they are the same person.)

  • "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle."

  • "Violet Baudelaire, the eldest, liked to skip rocks. Like most fourteen-year-olds, she was right-handed, so the rocks skipped farther across the murky water when Violet used her right hand than when she used her left. Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped it into the ocean."

  • "It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and it you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it."

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Klaus Baudelaire (Main Protagonist)
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Klaus Baudelaire is a rather intelligent child. Despite his age, 12 years old, he has a rather impressive lexicon. "Lexicon" is a word which here means: "The vocabulary of a person"
The word, "Vocabulary" is a word which here means: "The body of words known to an individual person", and since the two words' definitions are so similar, the two words' are synonymous. The word "Synonymous" here means: "Having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or phrase of the same language."

What I have just written is a very long and complicated series of descriptions that might have bored some of the simpler minds reading this, but it is a very long and complicated series of descriptions that a boy such as Klaus Baudelaire.
Klaus Baudelaire is a main character and as such will have a great many lines

  • "You're going to marry my sister to gain control of the Baudelaire fortune! Or at least, that's what you planned to do. But when I show this information to Mr. Poe, your play will not be performed, and you will go to jail!"

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Arthur Poe (Reoccurring Character)
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Mr. Aflred Poe is a banker who works for Mulctuary Money Management. He is the executor of the Baudelaire fortune, meaning, he is in charge of looking after the money left behind by the now deceased Baudelaire mother and father, and making sure it passes to the eldest baudelaire child, meaning, by proxy, he is in charge of the children and assigning their guardians as well. The term "By Proxy" is a phrase which here means: "Because of it's relation to". So because the fortune is related to Violet, the eldest Baudelaire child, he is also in charge of the children's wellbeing. And I regret to inform you, that if Mr. Poe were more concerned with the children's safety, and less concerned with the Baudelaire fortune, perhaps many if not all of the unfortunate events that occur in this book and it's twelve sequels, would never have occurred.

  • "Now that you are in his care, the Count may raise you using any methods he sees fit. I'm sorry if your parents did not make you do any household chores, or if you never saw them drink any wine, or if you like their friends better than Count Olaf's friends, but these are things that you must get used to, as Count Olaf is acting in loco parentis. Understand?" 

  • (Let Out Some Terrible, Hacking, Wheezing Coughs)

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Justice Strauss (Supporting Character)
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The woman known as Justice Strauss is a delightful and wonderful woman who lives just nextdoor to the vile and disgraceful Count Olaf. She has often dreamed of a life in theater as an actor, but due to some rather rude opinions from people she trusted, instead she found herself applying in the judicial system where she became a judge of the high court. And dare I say that if the Baudelaires had found themselves under the ownership of this lovely woman, rather than her dreadful neighbor, their lives would have almost certainly been brighter.

  • "You seem like very intelligent people, I daresay you would have thought of something. But it continues to strike me as odd that Count Olaf has asked you to prepare such an enormous meal."

  • (Justice Strauss's face lit up.) "Oh yes, I've always wanted to perform onstage, ever since I was a little girl. And now Count Olaf has given me the opportunity to live my lifelong dream. Aren't you thrilled to be a part of the theater?" 

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Fernald, The Hook Handed Man (Supporting Antagonist)
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Fernald is Count Olaf's most trusted associate, (So trusted in fact that he is the only member of Count Olaf's acting troupe that we ever learn the name of). I'm getting tired of writing Lemony Snicket-esque descriptions because when I'm writing this, typing on my father's laptop without his knowledge, it is 1:05 AM.
I would like Fernald to have a gravelly, smooth, english voice if possible, but feel free to put your own spin on it... I just realized I asked for gravelly and smooth at the same time... Styrofoam.... Give him a styrofoamy, english voice.

  • "Now listen here children and listen well. The only reason Count Olaf hasn't ripped you limb fromb limb is because he hasn't got your fortune, now, I ask you this; when he gets his hands on your money... What will be keeping you alive?"

  • (Improvise something stupid he says to Olaf)

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Count Olaf (Main Antagonist)
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Count Olaf is a vile, and terrible man. A man whose acquaintance I have had the misfortune to endure several times in my life. He has planned and attampted to execute, several plots to gain the Baudelaire fortune, and the Baudelaires themselves. The word "Execute" here means: "to carry out or put into effect a plan or course of action". However, this word, like many others, may have to meanings. The word "Execute" here, also means: "To carry out a sentance of death upon a condemned person."
So when I say, "Attempted to Execute several plots to gain the Baudelaire fortune, and the Baudelaires themselves." I mean that Count Olaf has not only attempted to steal the enormous fortune belonging to the Baudelaire orphans, but he has also attempted to kill the Baudelaires themselves.

His voice has haunted my dreams for many months and as such, In my attempts to bring the history of the Baudelaire orphans to the public, I am looking for a voice as accurate to the real thing. He speaks in a wheezy growl, like a growling, wounded animal. As if sandpaper, a tool normally used by carpenters to make wood smooth and soft, had been scraped across his vocal chords.

However, if you wish to take your own spin on the character, feel free... I guess
Count Olaf is one of the main characters, and as such has many lines. Speak with malice and "Iniquistiousness", a word which here means, "Absence of moral or spiritual values or an unjust act"

  • (Wheezy Whisper) "Hello hello hello," 

  • "I may be a terrible man, but I have been able to concoct a foolproof way of getting your fortune, which is more than you've been able to do. Remember that, orphans, you may have read more books than I have, but it didn't help you gain the upper hand in this situation." 

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