audition

[CourtneyM]

Posted: 7/8/03 at 11:21pm

this is a really funny thing that happened to me today so i am going to post it here.
today i went on an audition for an off-off broadway play about 9/11. so i get there sign in on this sheet someone started because the guy there didn't have one. after we have all signed in we went inside and sat down. the writer (if you can call him that) came in with his guitar, now remember this is for a play not a musical. then he starts telling us about these public t.v. things he has on t.v. and articles he writes, which at that time didn't seem to weird. after that he lit a candle and said "ok we are going to say a prayer" yes thats right we had to say a prayer (for people here who act i'm sure you know that most auditions aren't like this) after the prayer he hands us these things about tstuff he has and one of the things was to go to some event he has where you donate $5 and drink the blood of jesus christ. after all this he fainlly gets to the point of the show and says he has a cast of 13 and how it is a comedy about 9/11 (that right there was a red flag, you know if you hadn't already gotten one from everything else he said). then he said he was going to have 3 people come with him and read the roles of annie, connie, and bunny, and about half of the people there were men and none of those roles were cross-dressers. right before he called the first 3 people in he said "heres a guitar and a piano so you can warm up if you would like", and once again i will state that this is a play not a musical. i fortunately was to young to play any of the parts (even though he said he wanted all ages it turned out he didn't really, thank god) anyway as i was leaving i talked to three people who had gone in to read the parts with him and they said he asked them all if they had a dog, spoke arabic, and belly danced. at least we had a good laugh.
it was the most intresting experience i have ever had at an audition...actually anywhere. anyway i just thought i would share this sorry if i bored you.

[BrdwyThtr]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 7:23am

Hmmmmmmmm. Interesting.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 7/9/03 at 9:44am

I assume this was an Equity audition?