friends in theater
friends in theater
#0friends in theater
Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:29pmHow do you guys deal w/ having friends in theater- especially if you audition for the same part?
#1re: friends in theater
Posted: 8/28/06 at 10:50pm
say, "I hope you do well"
but give it all you got, casting is about talent, not friendship
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
~Cymbeline
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#2re: friends in theater
Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:47pmIts really difficult. When you find out they got the part over you its really hard. But you take a couple minutes then call them and congratulate them. Say you did an awesome job and I'm happy you got the part. If you are their friend you will be happy but of course, jealous. Its always really difficult but you have to deal. Write about it in a journal or to a parent. Don't talk about it to another friend. Its dangerous talking about jealousy or really anything like that to others. Keep it pretty private and on the down low. Make sure though that you realize that although your audition might have been the best but that director saw something in your friend and there was a reason she/he cast him. There was probably nothing you could do to change their decision and just tell yourself you gave it your best!
#3re: friends in theater
Posted: 8/29/06 at 12:14am
wow. that's a really hard thing.
you absolutely have to 'give it all you got' like EmieMarie said, or you'll always wonder whether you would have gotten the part if you hadn't felt bad about competing with your friend. You can't always be wondeting or kicking yourself for not going for it.
I remember in Grease this year me and my best friends were all competing with/against each other for all the pink ladies. A lot of tears were shed. But-- It ended up being how it was supposed to be.
I guess that's the attitude you have to take. Not that the "best man for the job" will be cast because, honestly, who's to say who the 'best one' is? But that the person who, at that time, in that cast, is meant to play that character.
Sometimes it's awkward because there's all this unspoken competition.
Sometimes you need to bring it up and just say, 'hey - I really hate that we both want this part. But let's just not let it become personal or affect our friendship."
usually your friends are cool about it and things turn out alright. occasionally they aren't, but then, who wants to be friends with someone like that anyway?
Never expect things to be fine and dandy during the audition process, but a couple weeks into the show when people have accepted that their part is their part and they can't go back and change anything, friendships turn out just fine.
#4re: friends in theater
Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:21amIt happend to me, we recently did a show that had to parts for people to be cats and my fiends really wanted to be the cats becuase they were twins.Well what happend was i got casted as a cat and they got casted as another lead but something else. I allways say if they are your friend (s) they will be happy for you no matter what.
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