The worst audition stories.- Page 2

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 12/1/06 at 5:47pm

Every year, my high school puts on a sort of comedy/ musical that makes fun of life at our school, its entierly student produced, and being such, is very difficult to be cast in, you have sing a song, learn a dance and preform it, and preform a comedic monologue. well, I can't dance, i knew that. then, came the song, due to the louder-than-expected acompaniment (sp?) half the song, i realized i couldn't hear myself, the other half was just plain shouted... I rounded it all off with screwing up my monologue no less than 3 times...

[lilprima2b]

Posted: 12/2/06 at 12:56am

Going off the person who said they messed up the cold reading with the script right in front of them... yeah, at my callback for Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie last year, I definitely made up lyrics with the music in front of my face. THAT was embarrassing. hahaha, but oh well.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 12/2/06 at 1:04am

Oh, goodness. I was auditioning for Joseph...Dreamcoat last year, and during the dance audition, I managed to stub my toe and rip off my toenail, while getting a bloody nose halfway through. Needless to say, I screwed up just about every dance step after that. I wound up getting Potiphar's Wife, probably because she's on stage for about 7 minutes...they were anxious to get rid of me!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/2/06 at 1:05am

Any time I auditioned for anything. I am worthless.

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 12/2/06 at 1:45am

Cruel-to-yourself-Sandwich, you sit on a throne of self-afflicting toppings.

You obviously are not worthless if you've followed the idea of being an actor, if you were actually worthless you would never have persued it.

I mean sure, I happen to think I suck something awful too, and I am drowning in the sea that is the favoritism my judging panel of teachers have for a certain few at my school, so that doesn't help my confidence either.
Thinking you have no talent is the worst feeling in the world.
But get up for a second, deep breath, and you'll realize there IS something to you.

=)

That's my words of wisdom for the day.

Posted: 12/4/06 at 3:17pm

i had an audition for a solo in my choir. we have a new director who is really young and basically, doesn't know what she's doing. anyhoo, there were 2 songs and 2 solos, i came in prepared for one of them and right before i began i realized i couldn't be that soloist because i was going to miss one of the performances. so she offered to have me audition for the other. i was freaked out cuz i had only heard the other song once before, knowing that, she played through it ONCE for me, and then said, "ok, now i'll be judging you" it was AWFUL! and honestly, i am one of the main soloists for the choir, and since she was a new director, wasn't aware, so she just thought i sucked. i ended up cite reading the entire thing- i missed enterances, notes, and words- needless to say it went terribly.

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 3:20pm

Did you get the solo by any chance?

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:14am

I was auditioning for Torch Song Trilogy at The Gallery Players (people in NY knows how big of a deal it is to be in a Gallery Players show!) and I was told by Harvey himself to go audition for it. So I go and figure out I was supposed to prepare a monolouge and I didn't know. They were extremly nice about it and let me read one from the script. So I was sssssssooooooo nervous and while I'm holding the script with one hand I start shaking...so of course the book stars jiggling everywhere and then I start stumbling over the lines...worst audition of my life! And it didn't help that I HAND WROTE my resume. (My laptop was down.)

It's playing now off-off-broadway...I'm going to see it! Starring Seth Rudetsky!

[maui_diver21]

Posted: 12/7/06 at 1:39am

Today I had an audition for Charlie Brown. It's just our small high school, so it's not that competitive. Anyway, our director asked us to READ the song "The Doctor is In" which is not exactly easy if you're used to singing it. So I'm reading the lines, then randomly belt out: OH HOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW could there possibly be...! It was pretty funny. Then when our director asked a friend of mine and me to switch parts, we automatically exchanged scripts with each other. The director was like: "you could've just kept the same paper." It was great.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/7/06 at 2:24am

But was that your WORST audition ever?

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 12/7/06 at 6:49pm

My worst audition ever was never for a musical, it was for a part in a ballet that my studio was putting on. They took us into a room one at a time and called out a combination. We had one minute to practice the combination then perform it. We also had to perform it to whatever music they decided to put on, you had to follow the correct tempo. Imagine being a 9 year old girl and not really knowing many ballet steps because you only started dance 2 years ago.

[maui_diver21]

Posted: 12/8/06 at 2:09am

"But was that your WORST audition ever?"
Yup! But it was only audition number three for me. It's not that horrible I know, I just felt like sharing . Actually, the worst part of the audition was when the piano player neglected to note a key change in my song, and my voice and the piano clashed. Still not very bad. I'd be really lucky if that's the worst audition I have.

[katieface]

Posted: 12/8/06 at 5:08am

so the other night i was at my audition. feeling well prepared, confident ready to do my thing.

now right before i go on stage i said to a friend of mine " i hope my whole looking kind of young for this theater show doesnt effect how they cast me"

so i go up on stage wait for the pianist to start.

the second i open my mouth out comes...

a hiccup.

i was like oh no you did not.

and i couldnt stop for a good 10 minutes. and wouldnt you know all of the adults starting filing into the auditiorium as this was happening and i heard loud and clear from one of them " oh my gosh how cute is that."

blah!

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/8/06 at 2:23pm

I just had my worst audition ever last night. Three measures into my song I just totally forgot all the words and so I kinda hummed most of it. It was pretty terrible. Then I had to do a monologue right afterwards, which actually went decently well, but by then it was too late.