audition nightmares

[lizheartsu]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 8:17pm

Well, I had a very important audition today, and thought i did well, until I was walking down the stairs and i felt my heel from my padini's buckle under me. So I stumble and then fall down the stairs and then i get my blance when my dance teacher catches me. This is all in front of 7 judges and 100 other auditioners. Wow, it was bad. Any other horror stories from auditions?

[Sporti2005]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 10:46pm

i got food poisoning the day of my audition for syracuse university. i thought i would be able to deal, but i had to leave the dance audition to go puke, then return to audition on the dance that i had missed 75% of!!!

the students from SU and the faculty running the audition were very friendly and supportive about it, but the girls who were auditioning were awful!! they were all talking about me and saying that if i was that nervous for just a college audition i should consider quitting theatre and moving into backstage/tech projects and not waste my time on trying to get a degree in such a competitive field.

i ended up on my knees in front of the toilet for a solid hour and a half, and (needless to say) i couldn't sing. i didn't even finish my audition because i was so dizzy and weak from vomiting.

it sucked.

mags

[Raggy Q poo]

Posted: 2/27/05 at 10:51pm

awww...Sporti- that really sucks. I'm sorry. Where are you now in life?? Are you going to SU?

My brother graduated there 2 years ago... not in theater but computer engineer.

And, if you truley passionate about theater, don't let some nonsence girls bring you down, especially for reasons that weren't nessasarily tue.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 12:42am

Wow. Talk about girls you *wouldn't* want to work with in a production!!

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 12:57pm

lizheart- one of my acting teachers had the EXACT same experience. She auditioned for Juilliard, and as she was leaving she fell down the stairs!

A student there caught her and said "If it's any consolation, I don't know if I want to continue studying here."

[stylinbohemian]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 3:42pm

I was about to start my song and as I stood on the top step just before the stage I looked down into the smiling face of one of the teachers adn for some reason i started to hyperventalate and had to sit down to sing my song cause i nearly passed out I was mortified!

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 4:15pm

liz-Where were you auditioning?

[lizheartsu]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 5:20pm

thanks guys.....it was really bad, but i think sporti's was worse...

[oxdreaminxo]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 5:41pm

I have a pretty good one. I have horrible stage fright when it comes to singing. Acting, however, is another story. I had to do a cold reading for my school musical and I got so into character (I was supposed to be really ticked off) that I took a chair, pushed it over (don't worry...it went with the monolouge) and it almost broke. That shook me up a bit because people were getting creeped out. Then we had time to practice it alone and then I did it again. By then I was kinda out of breath and then it was singing time. I was like, the 5th person to go. Things started out bad...my CD was spazzing out and my director was getting pissed b/c he had to fix it. So it finally gets working and I start shaking. There was about 30 seconds of intro music and I was just shaking. It looked like I was having a seizure. I fell into the wall and everyone was like, "Sit down!" but I didn't. My voice shook so bad that it was just...terrible. I somewhat regained myself about halfway through the song. But I leaned into the wall super hard until my song was over, when I almost collapsed and fell back into my seat. To make matters worse, I was almost crying because I had been so nervous! After, my director who I've worked with before comes up to me and goes, "I have never seen you so scared before!" and he was laughing. I had nightmares after that, lol. The next day he starts imitating me b/c I have him for Social Studies and he was just mocking me. It ends happily though, I ended up making the musical. My only problem is, we have missed drama practices due to snow and have yet to get our parts. I have no clue what I'll do if I make it...if I can't sing in front of 15 people I don't know how I will sing in front of the whole school! =P

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 5:42pm

the worst one I have is messing up song lyrics. emcee will love this. I was signing "Radames' Letter" and I sang:

I'm sorry for everything I've said
and for anything I forgot to say to you
when life gets so complicated
I stumble at best - muddle through
I wish that our lives could be simple
I don't want the world only you...

(and then I blanked and couldn't remember the second verse so I sang again...)

I wish that our lives could be simple
I don't want the world only you...

(which doesn't quite fit so I had to extend some vowels... and then I finished...)

so this letter will have to do
I love you...

horrid...

and for anyone wondering the next line was:

I wish that I could tell you this face to face
but there's never the time
never the place...

I never forgot it after that...

I blame adam. I was thinking about him while singing it... Updated On: 2/28/05 at 05:42 PM

[elphieisperky]

Posted: 2/28/05 at 5:53pm

Not really, just that I cracked so bad, the second I got offstage, I started crying! And right in front of my crush!

[lizheartsu]

Posted: 3/1/05 at 5:35pm

ooo, thats bad, too. i thought of another bad audition i had in august. i sang johnny one note, but my voice teacher just taught it to me like a week before. so i sang:

poor johnny one note sang out with gusto and just overloaded the place

poor johny one note sang will nilly until he was blue in the face

hmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhumhmumhmuAce!

lol, it's supposed to go for holding one note was his ace! haha, that was bad, not as bad as falling, though

[lizheartsu]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 9:42pm

i made it! even with the fall! on to part 2 of the auditions...

[Elphaba]

Posted: 3/2/05 at 10:33pm

I was 20, ans wad trying out for Lancelot in the Karlsruhe US Army Stagedoor Playhouse production of Camelot.....(can't get much more regional than that).
They wanted someone else (frankly they wanted a blond), but told me to try for Mordred.
So....as butch as I could muster I tried out for Mordred. They kept telling me to "nelly" it up....which at 20 I wasn't prepared to do,
so the director finally said, "Dammit, ACT GAY!"
And way in back of the theater a tiny voice yelled 'C'mon Mary, just be yourself'.......it was the director of the theater center who knew me well.

I was a GREAT Mordred.