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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Auditioning for a Play

Auditioning for a play is always stressful, and usually nervewracking. Whether it's for a drama, comedy, tragedy, or musical, it's alway tough. But as I learned this week, while auditioning for Bye Bye Birdie, (fingers crossed that I get the part) musicals are usually the msot stressful and the most work. We had three different audition days. One for acting, one for dancing, and one for singing. Each of them lasted around three hours, depending on when they called the people auditioning for your part. By the end of each day I had a massive headache, and didn't feel like doing much else, but I also felt like i had accomplished something just by auditioning. I also have to say that dance auditions are the hardest. You have about a half hour to learn a dance routine that they show you. Then you go and wait outside while they call you in. I did pretty well in acting and singing, but I must say I totally bombed my dance audition. That right there could mess the whole thing up for me. So make sure if you are auditioning for a musical you can also sing and dance. It's also a good idea to read the whole script for the play at least once through, because then you familiarize yourself with the plotline and the characters. I certainly wish I had done that. But come tomorrow I will find out if I did good enough to get the part or not. Look for my post around 3:30ish, but it might not be till as late as 6.

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