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Alll in this Together!

Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:42pm

I posted this on the main board also - but for all the performers here who've been to auditions - you've got to read this article. I think I've met every type described in this article and I've always tried to fight the whole stereotype of auditions being a competition - because they simply are not. I say, Kill 'em with Kindness.
Audition Assassins

"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!

re: Alll in this Together!

Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:50pm

Hideous hideous people!

I, too, have met every one of them. Thank GOD for the invention of the iPod!

"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

re: Alll in this Together!

Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:54pm

Yep. These lowlifes are around.

But, I find most people to be very cool and respectful and supportive. I don't feel like it's a competition. I feel like all of us are doing our best to get work. I can't be concerned with "what do the casting people want" or "I'm not as tall or cute or muscular etc as these guys".

One time, I was next to go in and the guy behind me was asked by the guy behind him what he was singing. Turns out--it was the song that I was going to sing! There was no way he would have known that that was my choice. Well, I didn't freak out--I just went in and sang a different, yet similar song. I didn't want to seem like the song stealer!! It wasn't vital for me to keep the song. If it had been--I don't know WHAT I would have done.

There's another type I see in auditions--the braggard. The one that loudly proclaims to his friend who only asked how he's been that "oh, I just got done playing so and so at so and so. And, I probably can't even take this show as I will likely be doing so and so at so and so." Blah blah blah.

And, I do make fun of one audition pet peeve I have in JERBY: FULLY LOADED. But you gotta see the show for that!

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re: Alll in this Together!

Posted: 9/12/05 at 4:03pm

I have always tried to be very supportive of my fellow actors because, quite frankly - we've all been nervous, unsure of ourselves and we all have fragile egos, not to mention a lot of insecurities in this business. I've made it a habit, for many years, to say something positive to the person in front of me just as he or she exits the room after auditioning,and just before I go in. Even if maybe they cracked on a note or sounded weak, I try to find a way to compliment them somehow - because so many people (myself included) begin to beat themselves up the moment they exit that room. Once, I was sitting in a restaurant in Chelsea, and a fellow actor strolled past the window, noticed me, entered the restaurant and came straight up to me and said "sorry to disturb your lunch, but I had to tell you that once, I was having a really crappy day and you were in line behind me at an audition. I sang my piece, and as I was exiting the room, you looked me in the eye and told me I had a beautiful voice. It changed the whole situation for me and I had a great day after that - I just wanted to thank you." and with that he walked out. I was really happy that I could do that for a fellow performer. I think that's really what being on this earth is all about. Finding ways to make life a little easier on each other and making life's experiences joyful ones, if possible.

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