Worst Audition

I was just curious what each of your worst auditions were.
Mine probably would be when I was auditioning for Once Upon a Mattress and I chose to sing On My Own. I was concentrating so hard on not messing up any of the notes, that I completly blanked out on all the words. So the piano was playing, and there I was standing up on stand humming to the song. It was a disaster..one of the Directors ended up singing the song to me so I could get the words correct.

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I was auditioning for the Broadway Theater Project and I was singing "A Christmas Lullaby" from SFANW

DO NOT SING A SONG THE ACCOMPANIEST DOES NOT KNOW!

I gave him the tempo... well... he didn't get it. He played it as if that was cut time and played it twice as fast as it's supposed to go. I got so flustered that I tried to keep up but ended up singing the wrong note and then spoke part of it. I got back to singing it by the end... but I definitely cried after I finished my monologue and had walked out.

Updated On: 5/21/05 at 02:37 PM

I was called in to an invite-only audition for a tour of "A Chorus Line" in the early '90's. There were only 12 of us there. Everyone, I mean EVERYONE, had done the show either on Broadway or on tour...everyone except for me. I'd never done the show anywhere. The choreographer asked if anyone needed to review the opening number choreography. No one raised their hand, and being 19 and green and not wanting to out myself as a novice, neither did I. Word of advice: Always raise your hand if you don't know or have never learned the choreography. About half way thru the audition, it became painfully obvious that I was pretty darn lost. I was asked to leave. Still to this day haven't done the show. Don't know if my body could dance it anymore anyway.

Auditioning for Jekyll and Hyde with 'Everything's Coming up Roses' WHILE Gypsy was still on Broadway. Not to mention I can't sing well.... that was a bad audition. The director caught me off five words in, he just new there was no hope, lol.

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Updated On: 5/21/05 at 03:15 PM

My friend was trying out for a part and she was so nervous, she was shaking and she fell into a wall.

I auditioned for "Seussical" singing "Unexpected Song" from "Song and Dance"... the whole thing was a disaster. For some reason I was really jittery and just messed the whole thing up, losing my voice halfway through, etc... then I forgot half the dance they taught us. Fortunately however I didn't fall into any walls... ouch.

another- this is actually a general problem in the theater by me, the pit of the theater's acoustics are horrifically offset so that if someone or something is making noise in the pit not only can the audience not hear the actors onstage (mics help alot) but when you're up there you cannot physically hear yourself either, so particularly rhythmical audition songs (a puzzlement comes to mind blaringly) were impossible

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I was auditioning for the role of the Beast, and we were doing a cold read, it was the scene after the Beast gets attacked by wolves. Well we were reading and I acidentally said Belle's line which was something along the lines of " thank you for saving my life", and I said it all like beastly, and me and the girl both just started laughing. It was very embarissing.

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IMsooHyprToday - just watch Parker set up that scene and you know you're in for a treat. I think Chris Guest said it was her first shot at improv. It's hard to believe.

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1. We had to learn "Gotta Have Heart" from DAMN YANKEES for DAMN YANKEES. This was a few years ago and I wasnt as serious about theatre as I am now, so I didnt have a voice teacher. I went up there t sing it, and I could NOT hit the high notes! It was SOO imbarresing! I did get cast though...cus of my dancing.

2. I think this is one of those "you had to be there moments", but oh well. So we were doing "It's a Wonderful Life" at my local theatre. I was handing out the forms to fill out and stuff. I wasnt suppose to aud., but I did. So I get up on stage to do a cold reading with a LONG line of ppl. One of my friends that I hadnt seen in FOREVER was next to me, and when we were done reading and just standing there, we started talking. SO then the director ,who I am friends with, called my name and sayed something. I thought she was cracking on for for aud. when I wasnt supposed to. So I walked across the stage to put my script down. Then she says, "What are you doing? I told you to say your nme and number." I felt SOOOO stupid! But I just walked very fast, back to my place and said my name and number. What made it so bad was that this all happened in front of someone I had a crush on! The person even asked me about it! But, we were friends so I just made a joke about it, we laughed, and moved on. I'm sure they've forgotten about it by now.

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Mine was when I auditioned for a high school production of "Noise is Off" For the audition our director wanted to see that we could multi task while speaking our lines (because the show has so much physical comedy and intricate physical and comedic timing) So he gave each person a task to act out while we spoke our lines. So he handed me a card that said alphabatize. Then he took a bunch of cards that had last names of the people auditioning and threw them on the stage. Instead of alphabatizing them...like I was supposed to...I thought I had to pick one card and pretend to be like one of those people on the cards (I knew most of the people). So I picked one that had my friend Dan's last name, and started pretending to be like him. Fifteen seconds into it, my director stopped me, gave me an evil glare, and said "What the hell are you doing....ALPHABATIZE!" He usually isn't that mean, and I still managed to get an understudy role in the show, but that will be in my book...the worst most embarrasing moment of my life.

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Updated On: 5/22/05 at 11:27 AM

My worst audience was for Guys and Dolls at my school, which has now been canceled because the director didn't know that it was playing in London.
Anyway... I had been sick for the past two weeks and still am sick now, and the day of the audition I was losing my voice and I could barely speak. By the time my audition came, my throat was completely shot. I sang 'Bewitched' from 'Pal Joey' and I didn't crack or anything, it just wasn't the best sound - besides being feverish and shakey. I'm sure it was a disaster to watch. lol.