Worst Audition- Page 2

[hypertruffle]

Posted: 5/22/05 at 1:15pm

Mine's not really acting related, more like for the pit.

I decided last minute that I'll audition for my high school's production of "Annie" pit orchestra.

Conductor: That's great Lins, *slaps book on desk* You got tomorrow

I practiced the whole night. It turns out that the violin part was a bit tricky, so I practiced my shifting and fingering.

The next day, audition time!

I sounded like poop. You're just gonna have to believe me. I was off-key. Since I was shaking, my bowing made the notes more unbearable. After the audition, I quickly left.

Suprisingly, i got in. Go figure.

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 5/22/05 at 2:28pm

my first audition, I ended up trying to belt a song; it turned out so bad
I just walked out of the audition room and started crying

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/22/05 at 2:32pm

My LSOH, we had to sing the beginning of Skid Row (the Ronette solo). And this was my first audition. I tried to belt it out, even though at that point, I definitely couldn't reach the B. So I switched to head voice. Dear lord. I feel so sorry for the auditors.

[aspiringactor]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 9:40am

I went to audition for North Central College, and when I went in for my vocal audition, I had the wrong key sheet music for my song; The lady that had picked out the song for me had told me that any good piano player would be able to transpose it up to a higher key - Well the accompanist at the audition was not too happy to hear me say that I needed it transposed up, and was even more unhappy (after I was asked why i didn't have the propper sheet music) when I told her what the lady had told me. Needless to say, the song was a BOMB! (somehow I still got the scholarship - I must have been the only guy auditioning for the vocal scholarship)

[bwaybaby891]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 9:53am

My worst one was when I had to do a whole dance combo. I am not a dancer at all. I almost landed in a trash can off in the wings. Don't ask me how I do that stuff. Luckily I can sing...

[mikewood]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 10:10am

Harsh.

Not being a singer, my bad auditions tend to be om own fault. If I don't prepare, my auditions tend to be bad. If I prepare, they tend to be much better.

My all time worst audition was actually two auditions. On back to back nights, I auditioned for Our Town and Simpatico. This was after taking a year and a half off from theater, I just showed up. I was stiff and ill-prepared. The director from Our Town was suffering no fools and dismissed me right after my half page of dialogue. I'm sorry, but not be cast in a community theater production of "Our Town" is a humilating experience. With a cast that size, I could have been at least cast as a baseball player. The next night, I auditioned for Simpatico, I was so stiff and the director tried to pull stuff out of me. Even giving me a couple of chances...I don't know what was wrong with me! It all worked out for me, a week later I prepped and gave one of my best auditions and got cast as Marco in A View from the Bridge.

So that was the worse audition based on my own hubris.

Last summer, I auditioned for an original play, and I did every thing you were supposed to do...read the play in advance blah blah blah...the director took a break and when we came back, of the eight actors auditioning, one was told his services were no longer required.... me! Obviously what I was giving her was not what she wanted...but to be the only one of eight actors the director had no further interest in seeing was not a good experience.

[musical medea]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 10:34am

i had three horrid auditions and cant decided which was worse. one was for hair when i was 12 and i sang castle on a cloud...ahd no idea what the show was about and performed my song on the floor like i was scrubing the floors. the second one was for BTP this year...the piano player had no idea how to play my song even after i said just play the chords if you get lost...lastly i auditioned for j/h and i sang when i look at you from scarlet pimpernel. you would think since it was a fairly known song from the same writers of j/h, the piano player woudl know it...ahh not so much..she butchered everyone who sang that song, but mine was much worse since i was the first to go.

[Kathleen2]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 5:37pm

wow some of these make my expierience seem pretty OK..hahah I feel for ya..

[fossemoves]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 5:58pm

I was auditioning for a review...they were looking for someone with my body type and my vocal part. A tenor...a Belting Tenor! Now, I was trained classically and loved singing opera, etc. But have always enjoyed Broadway music more. So I had been working on belting for over a year and knew I could give them what they wanted. So I chose to do the last part of "Wheels of a Dream"

"BEYOND THAT ROAD! ... And we'll travel on from their CAAALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR WHO KNOWS WHERE! AND WE WILL --"

Ride suddenly clamped around my throat and i croaked. Litterally. LIKE A FROG. I CROACKED. I wasn't able to recover and the last two lines of the song came off more like me screaming then actually singing. It was terrifying.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 5/23/05 at 6:22pm

Updated On: 2/7/06 at 06:22 PM