Chapters 16 - 20 Summary

Jake rides with Randolph to the auditions for The Sound of Music. When they arrive at the theater, Jake is surprised to see that the building resembles a library and not a grand Shakespearean theatre. When they enter the theatre, everyone turns toward Randolph with a hushed quiet anticipation and a woman quickly approaches to say that she hopes the audition period will come to a close soon. Randolph has been auditioning people for too long without casting a single role. Today, Jake is here to audition for Rolf alongside a seventeen-year-old redheaded boy. Jake is pleased to see that while the red-headed boy is undeniably a better actor than he is, he cannot sing. As they drive back to Wit's End, Randolph says that he's decided to cast Jake as Rolf with Jeannie Ng, a Vietnamese girl, as Liesle because...