Audition Horror Stories

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:21pm

What would YOURS be?

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:26pm

Singing "Ill cover you" and being a baritone and having a AWEFUL head voice, LOL

[dietcherryemma]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:34pm

Ok, so this one just happened last night.

We have, in my hometown, a resturant where the waiters and waitresses get up onstage and sing while you're enjoying your meal. They alternate singers so the wait staff can have time to be servers.

I need a job, so I decided to audition. They asked me to come in around 9:15 and bring a song.

So, I show up at 9:00 with my accompaniment CD for "Wherever He Ain't" from Mack and Mabel, one of my favorite audition songs, and meet the manager who asks me to wait a few minutes. Of course, this is just fine. He then brings me a book of songs and asks if I could pick one or two to sing with the band so he could get a feel for how I worked with other musicians.

This caught me a bit off guard, but you know, ok, i'm up for it. So, I look through the book and there are literally no showtunes. So, I pick Patsy Cline's "Crazy", which I know well.

So then, he says I can do "Wherever He Ain't" while the band is on break since its on CD... I was a bit shocked, because I thought I was going to go in a back room and sing for the manager, but nope - I was singing onstage in front of the whole resturant. Great.

So I do the song, and it goes well, then the manager calls up to me from a table to see if I have any other songs on the CD... well, the only other song I had accompaniment to was "And This is My Beloved" from Kismet, so I do that. Then, he asks if I want to do something acapella. I went ahead and did it. All this time i'm onstage entertaining the random diners in the crowd.

So, I finally get offstage and he asks if I know anything in the book, and I told him that I knew a few, especially "Crazy" (but one waitress right before me sang it). So the only other thing I can see in the book i'm confident on but wasn't quite my style was "Don't Speak" by No Doubt, so I do that and then "Crazy".

So after 5 songs... come on, who's heard of an audition where you do 5 songs... he asks me what else I know from the book, and gives me three songs to do the next night, if I can come back.

So tonight I go back and do "Fancy" by Reba McEntire, "Lets Hear it For The Boy" from Footloose, and the Titanic theme.

[nmartin]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:39pm

Dietcherryemma, here's your one chance, Fancy,don't let me down.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:40pm

Perhaps he's hiring you...but in a pseudo-clever way?

[Mythus]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:40pm

Well, he wouldn't tell you to come back if you were a terrible singer, Diet. So you must be good!

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:43pm

all the best for the next step of your audition!

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:44pm

Let's hear some more horror stories, eh?

[dietcherryemma]

Posted: 7/6/05 at 6:46pm

heh, thanks dudes. Some of my friends think he's just being clever and using me as a filler while someone is on vacation. Eh, I can hope though. Hopefully Fancy won't let you down, nmartin!