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maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#25re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:46amI auditioned for the many-a-tours. In my auditions: I signed in, waited, waited, waited and was then taken into a holding room where I waited, waited, waited, and was THEN taken into a huge rehearsal room where there was an X on the floor and they ask you questions... and then if you'd like to sing or do your mono first... and then you chose and either way, eventually they'll give you time to breifly fill in the pianist & give him/her your cut or sheet music and then you sing and when your done they say something nondistinct or particulary comforting to the effect of "Go home now." in a completly monotone voice that it seems like they practice, and then you leave.
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#27re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:53amIf possible, try to go first, or as close to the beginning as possible. They will remember you better that way. I know, it doesn't sound like it makes any sense, but towards the end, directors tend to play less and less attention. I didn't believe it myself at first, but then I directed a one-act during my school's student directed one-act play festival. I had to sit through FOUR FREAKIN' HOURS of people doing the same three monologues over and over again. To be honest, when the last person went, i was thinking more about going home and eating that i was about their audition!
VeuveClicquot
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/04
#28re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:01am
This thread reminds me of my favorite audition story.
It was for some Disney thing (an industrial? I don't remember). Anyway, it was at the old Minskoff rehearsal studios, and in the waiting room, I was sitting among a whole bunch of people (as you do), looking over my sheet music. There was this girl who was obviously totally freaked out, and appeared as if she had never been to an audition before. She paced back and forth, back and forth across the room, literally tugging on her hair.
When the monitor came out and announced her name, she had paced herself over to the far side of the studio. She ran back to him, screaming "I'm (Susie So-and-So), I'm here! I'm here!" and then proceeded to vomit. All over the monitor.
The monitor then deadpanned, without dropping a beat, "So, was that your up-tempo or your ballad?"
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#30re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:09am
I'm glad we had (are having) this conversation. This is actually making me less FREAKIN' TERRIFIED about entering into the audtion world of broadway in a few years. I always had perceptions of it as being like...the epitome of scary audition.
I don't remember who said it, but i heard a quote along the lines of, "as actors, our primary job is to audition...sometimes we get to be in plays, too." I liked that.
whimsical
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/04
#32re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:40amYeah, I've heard lots of people say to think of auditioning this way: Go, have fun, and look at it as a [very short] performance. After awhile it adds up to quite a bit of performance time!
bbroadwaybb
Stand-by Joined: 10/12/04
#34re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:58amYou should read a book called AUDITION by Michael Shurtleff
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#35re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 3:00am
"Yeah, I've heard lots of people say to think of auditioning this way: Go, have fun, and look at it as a [very short] performance. After awhile it adds up to quite a bit of performance time!"
Definetly! And after all, performing is what we love to do! It makes one much less nervous if one just goes into an audition thinking, "whoooo! i get to perform!" instead of, "oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh! what if they don't like me! what if i mess up!"
whimsical
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/04
Beautifulsong24
Swing Joined: 12/30/04
#37re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:25pmI'm only trying out for a production at a local theater company, but how do you hear about the Broadway auditions? Is there a website somewhere or something?
jjdude2000
Broadway Star Joined: 12/1/04
#38re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:29pmWell, theres backstage.com. It's the website for a very good audition newspaper called BACKSTAGE. They sell it at a lot of newsstands or you can subscribe or see about auditions on the website. There's also ShowBusiness Weekly.
#39re: broadway audition
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:35pmThey post some auditions on Playbill.com, but I'm not really sure if you could trust that.
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