Audtion rudeness

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:40pm

Hey all...I'm just wondering if anyone has any horror stories about horrible audtion ettiqute...I ask because a friend and I are fighting because I heard her talking about me and other performers while we were on stage at audtions. She was saying REALLY nasty stuff, too. Anyone else??/

[Amneris]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:44pm

well, when i was 18 this notorious bitch who i always see @ auditions here and some how ALWAYS winds up in front of me..i am cursed, told me that I had nothing on my resume and maybe I should gain experience before coming to another open call... she was typed out :)

Then at every other audition shes been at with me since then, she comes out of the room to tell all the other girls that the piano players sucks.. she said at the last audition "I told him I AM A SINGER and he messed up MY time" this girl is beyond wacked.

Also at the "Fiddler" Hodel call, the room was PACKED and dead silent and ONE girl was vocalizing on TOP OF HER LUNGS..and this other girl walked up to her in front of everyone and goes "for the sake of the room, can you please shut up"

[jezzebelle]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:46pm

I think at every open audition I have ever been to, there's been rudeness. People talking during others' auditions, loudly unwrapping candy, the director, of all people, not paying much attention at all. And catty behavior, as far as saying nasty and unkind things about the person performing, is quite common in my experience. A few of these are at a semi/professional/professional level, where you'd think people would know better !

A closed audition situation is far less stressful, at least for me.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:50pm

Hmmm..she does sound whack!! Anyway, this same girl, I should mention, and not to be mean, but it's the truth...sucks. She's god-awful. She can't act, sing or dance..in fact, I know this is mean, but it's really funny to watch her think she's going to get a part and then be all disappointed when she's not....gee...I wonder why. But anyway, I digress..so, I prepared for this audition, and memorized a scene from the show (because i'm a nerd and do stuff like that) . So I get up there, and in the heat of the moment, I slam my script down on the floor and keep going..not to show off, but it was one of those times when it just felt "right"..you know?? So this girl gets up to do the scene right after me and copies EVERYthing I do. EVERYTHING. Smae moves...same script throw...then she realizes she dosn't know her lines..so she bends over, (shooting me a nasty look like it's MY fault she's a poser) and flips to the right page and continues reading.
She also hit someone during a scene becuase "he was acting evil"...she's a little odd

[allamarane]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 11:59pm

I don't think I've ever been to an audition before where there wasn't at least one person being rude on one side of the table or other. My favorite was the pizza delivery that a director signed for in the theatre while a gal was onstage auditioning (I was mortified for the young lady and wish I had been in a position to say something). I'm sure I've got more, though...

[OrdinaryJukebox1]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 12:00am

Every time I go to an audition, I sit by myself, read/go over music. I try not to make much noise, if any at all, and I'm ALWAYS pleasant to people. What goes around comes around, people, and I fear that if I'm nasty to someone, that someone will kick ass and I'll bomb. I know, I sound nuts, but it won't harm us all to be kind to other people. Gay men are the worst (speaking as a gay male) they're just so bitchy!!! lol

-Vincent

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:29pm

hmmm.. I dunno...all the gay men at the theatres I audtion for are always really nice and supportive..but this is Illinois..so maybe there's a difference lying therin, perhaps...unless they are just killing me with kindness?? hmmm...

[TheatreRatinBlue]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:36pm

In high school i auditioned for the role of Audrey II the voice, and a guy came up to me and said "well you did okay you just didn't sound Black enough" this guy was a freshman and i was a senior, i wanted to sucker punch him. I dropped out of the show anyway because i was cast in Chours for the fourth time in a row.

[LittleBitRacist]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:38pm

Ugh, i hate when directors dont watch you. One time, at a callback, the director totally ignored me and i had to ask to do anything, and when i did she was ruffling papers and looking around, and then she said i could go. if you arent interested, why would u tell me to come back for a callback? surprise surprise, i didnt get in...but the way she handled it was sooo unprofessional.

[Charactress!]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 5:39pm

OH man this one was bad. I had an audition that I had been working on my stuff for FOREVER! A girl that I always run into at auditions (and not to toot my own horn, but i always get the roles over her.. lol shes just not that good). But anyways, so we're friendly aquantainces, I THOUGHT. She leaned over to me in the lobby and asked me what I was singing, so I told her. SHe asked if she could see the music just cuz she "thought she knew the song but wanted to see to make sure..." so she was like oh ill be right back. and she took my book with her.. i was like uh ok? she came back like 10 minutes later and was like, "thanks!" and she handed me my book and left. that BITCH went in and used MY DAMN SONG for HER audition!!! and OF COURSE i was right after her.. i didn't know what to do. i was SO STEAMED!!!!!! i did the song anyway. and i got the role.. she came to see it, stayed after to say hi to someone else she knew in the show and i walked up to her and said "nice try bitch." very calmly and walked away. UGHH!

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 7:19pm

wow! omgoodness charactress, that girl is such a bi**h! I can't believe someone would do that...wow....I've had people ask to borrow my music (songbook not a song) and I've let them borrow it, but they didn't use my song....wow....what show was it, and what part did you get?

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 8:35pm

That's happened to me before, too..only the girl who did it to me was my BEST friend (at the time)and the worst part about it is that I helped her for WEEKS with another song and she lied to me the whole time about what she was doing...we go to the auditions and she goes right before me and sings MY song...ugh I was LIVID. BUt the good news was was that she didn't get a part and I did so ha ha ha.(I'm so mean) and she's tried since then to sabatage me more than once! ARghh...

[maybethistime]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 9:41pm

I was at the OLIVER tour open call and I was on the extreme left side of the back row, and other the extreme right was the unbelieveably unprofessional and untalented "actor". They told us to sing as we were trying to blow the wall off the theatre, basically. All they said was to sing loudly, or belt as long as it sounds good. And this idiot SCREAMED everysingle line and made every consanent sound so overblown everyone wanted to turn around and murder him. the casting people cut him first. All alone. they didn't even let him sing alone... thank god.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 9:45pm

forgive my ignorance and I know the minute you tell me I'll remember, but what's your little icon of, maybethistime??

[becca0o]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 9:54pm

During Grease Audtions last year a girl that was trying out for Sandy would loudly confess her dislike for the people who were sining. Needless to say she didnt get into the show at all and when she came to see it she told everyone that she was asked to be Sandy and turned it down.

[maybethistime]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 10:58pm

its **shudders** eden espinosa.

[RumTumTugger22]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 11:21pm

The director of all my high school musicals never looks atme whether its auditions, or callbacks, but that usually means I doin well.

[leefowler]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 10:16am

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Directors get really bogged down when they're seeing hundreds of people in one day, and it's very difficult to keep track of who's who. So when someone comes in who's good, the director thinks "O.K., we'll call that person back," and moves on, probably in shuffling papers around and trying to get organized. The director isn't trying to be rude, but just trying to cope with keeping hold of their sanity while watching 250 auditionees sing their songs. YOU try listening to "This Is The Moment" 50 times and see how frazzled you get!

Here's an interesting topic for a thread: Does anyone have an idea for an alternative to the audition process, which everyone, on both sides of the table, seems to detest?

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:27am

I have to make comment here that even if you are feeling frazzled at an audition be nice to everyone and do not say a bad thing. Sometimes assistant directors or other high up people in the show help work the tables or play the piano to save money/get a picture of the people who are auditioning. If a person working the table turns out to be the assistant director or the person playing piano is the musical director and you are rude to them, you can bet they will make it known before they do casting and odds are you wo't get cast. No one wants to deal with a diva.

[kitkatgirl54]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:33am

i'm prefacing this by saying a CD or director SHOULD be cordial to everyone but no matter how good or bad they think you are. however, unless they've never seen you before and you are the next ... i hesitate to use this but, idina menzel, or something they are not going to be hanging on your every note. they can tell whether or not you are good or what they're looking for in a callback within the first 5-10 seconds of your audition. which is something good to think about while auditioning because usually people are so frazzled that they skim over that part and it takes a minute or so to get into it.

[Liam]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 11:36am

someone called the derector the B word

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 12:09pm

This wasn't actually at an audition,but I'm sure the attitude came thruogh during it. My friend was auditioning for A Midsummer Night's Dream and he wanted to be Lysander. He auditioned (I dunno how well). The next day he was offered the role of Demetrius. He refused that part, saying if he wasn't the lead, he wasn't going to bust his ass in rehearsals for people who don't appreciate his talent. I really hate that "If I'm not the STAR I'm not anything" attitude. After the casting was posted, he called and to complain and told me the busting his ass line. Before I go on, let me say that he really can't read Shakespeare. To him, "...that the appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again" became "...that the apettite may sicken and so DIE that strain again?" So yea, he complained to me and when he got to the talent part, I, who was fed up with him and his attitude, just said, "Wait...what talent?" He shut up after that and got over himself. :)

[GypsyRoseLee]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 4:29pm

Well, the joke is on your friend. Lysander and Demitrius are almost exactly equal in "size". I hate the whole "big part, small part" mentality. Every role in a play, from the lead right on down to the shortest cameo require time and thought.

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 5:01pm

I was about to start singing and the director's phone starts to ring. He then picks it up and turns his head and chats with this person for like 10 minutes before he seems to realize I'm standing there and then he just waves his hand to tell me that I should begin and gets up and leaves to talk on the phone. It was pretty rude in my opinion.

[actress_06]

Posted: 1/15/05 at 5:30pm

I wasn't originally given a part in my last high school musical, but then so many people were dropping out cuz they didn't get the part they wanted. So the director who is a family friend text messaged me asking if I could be part of the chorus to try and fill it out.