Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board : Acting http://www.communitytheater.org/forum This is an XML content feed of; Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board : Acting : Last 10 Posts Copyright (c) 2006 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 02 May 2026 22:35:45 +0000 Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:03:59 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 8.05 30 www.communitytheater.org/forum/RSS_topic_feed.asp?FID=19 Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_images/CTGRlogo.gif http://www.communitytheater.org/forum Acting : Negative impact on day job http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5615&PID=29153#29153 Author: edh915
Subject: Negative impact on day job
Posted: 4/21/18 at 1:03pm

It's not like he's actively endorsing the negative aspects of the Emcee's character and lifestyle. I've had several teachers in my shows over the years and it's never been an issue. Face it, there are always going to be naysayers. So my response is, "Let the naysayers say nay, then tell them to bug off."]]> Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:03:59 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5615&PID=29153#29153 Acting : Negative impact on day job http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5615&PID=29117#29117 Author: drose
Subject: Negative impact on day job
Posted: 4/28/16 at 4:23pm

Anybody have any thoughts on how to handle negative feedback regarding choosing to perform a certain role? (The Emcee in Cabaret or the Wolf in Into the Woods, for example?) There is an actor who is also a teacher and is receiving some negative push back about having accepted such a role. Show hasn't even opened, so it isn't about his actual acting...it's about choosing to perform a role that has what the critics deem to be negative moral content.]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:23:46 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5615&PID=29117#29117 Acting : Audition question http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5599&PID=29064#29064 Author: edh915
Subject: Audition question
Posted: 6/14/15 at 12:33am

I think the video option is a bad idea all around. Try to go for the live audition. After all, if you get a part, you'll be doing a live performance. Video just doesn't have the same impact. - Them's my two cents worth.]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2015 00:33:19 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5599&PID=29064#29064 Acting : Audition question http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5599&PID=29063#29063 Author: SMarshall
Subject: Audition question
Posted: 6/11/15 at 3:52pm

Hello!  I am new to the board and glad to be here.  Tongue  I did theater many years ago and now have a family of a husband and three kids.  However, I really have missed doing theater, so it happens there is a local community theater practically within walking distance.  And they have a great kids program too.  I have auditioned for four shows, but was only cast in one. I know of another theater nearby I am thinking of trying that is having auditions at the end of this month.  Also, they give the option of sending in a video audition instead.  This is the first time I have seen this option for auditions.  What do you recommend...the one in person or send a video?  For the video, they are requesting two songs, instead of just one.  So that would give me more opportunity for the director to hear me sing.  But at the same time, I don't think people "look" the same on video...it really adds pounds, which I certainly don't need.  Plus, in the "live" audition, there is a possibility you will be cold reading from the script if asked.  Obviously, you can't do that on the video.  Since this option is new to me, I was wondering if anyone had experience with the video option and what your recommdations would be?]]> Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:52:40 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5599&PID=29063#29063 Acting : Which show? http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5574&PID=28990#28990 Author: edh915
Subject: Which show?
Posted: 11/21/14 at 6:55pm

"a lead role in a show you weren't in love with"

Do you mean a "show" I'm not in love with? or a "lead role" I'm not in love with?

One of the things I try to do is push myself beyond my comfort level as an actor.

There are roles that I know I can play, and play well. But there are others that represent a challenge.

I can play Neil Simon and Arthur Miller.

Shakespeare is a challenge. So is Samuel Beckett. Also Sarah Ruhl. Even playing Von Helsing in a production of Dracula had elements of challenge to it. Then there's the time I was the entire Second Act, a 45-minute, 19-page monologue.

I tend to go for the challenges.

Edited by edh915 - 11/21/14 at 6:57pm]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:55:53 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5574&PID=28990#28990 Acting : Which show? http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5574&PID=28989#28989 Author: Majicwrench
Subject: Which show?
Posted: 11/18/14 at 3:50pm

 "Life is supposed to be an adventure" is how I live my life. It would be a tough decision, but I would enjoy the new people and new challenges.
 
I have a tiny troupe in our tiny town, yet once a year or so I end up with a bit part in some nearby town for some other tiny troupe. Is always great fun and I learn new things.
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Subject: Which show?
Posted: 11/17/14 at 9:53pm

I'd go for the smaller role. I don't need to play the lead, and I love it when everything clicks together.]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:53:23 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5574&PID=28988#28988 Acting : Which show? http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5574&PID=28987#28987 Author: hobbyactor
Subject: Which show?
Posted: 11/17/14 at 9:24am

A friend of mine posted the following question in another place and I thought I'd see if this community had any other insights to add.

Would you rather have a lead role in a show you weren't in love with, with unknown directors, and in a new place where you aren't sure how good the quality of the show will be OR a smaller role in a well-known theater company, with people and directors you love knowing the show will be spectacular?]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:24:43 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5574&PID=28987#28987 Acting : Overlapping Auditions http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5529&PID=28871#28871 Author: bnk01
Subject: Overlapping Auditions
Posted: 2/04/14 at 12:08pm

I assume every actor is going on multiple auditions - perhaps a result of being based in a larger city - and there will always be scheduling conflicts. When the offer of a role is made, you need to either accept it and stick to that or decline it; but there's no reason to turn down an audition because you're also auditioning for other productions.]]> Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:08:41 +0000 http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5529&PID=28871#28871 Acting : Overlapping Auditions http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5529&PID=28855#28855 Author: Rorgg
Subject: Overlapping Auditions
Posted: 1/23/14 at 12:45pm

This is a tricky situation I've run into a few times myself.  I do a LOT of shows -- generally, I don't like having time "off", and while there's practically nothing in my town  (meaning I need to go at least 20 mnutes away), I've played with something like 25 different companies within an hour drive, so the options are usually many.

Given my track record of usually getting cast in the shows I target (>50%), I tend to keep track of the ones that I/we (my wife and I generally do these together) really want to do and schedule around those.  Early on, I had a situation where I auditioned for show A, which didn't have a scheduled callback, then auditioned for show B, which did, but that would be after the decision on show A.  I told the staff of B on my audition form that I was waiting to hear on show A -- with no indication on how they'd interact.  As it turns out, I didn't get A, so when the staff of B asked me at callbacks what the status was, it was easily resolved.

Something a little stickier has come up with my wife a couple times.  We had one time we'd auditioned for and GOT a show with roles we were dying for opposite each other, accepted, and that day, on the way to the theatre to pick up our scripts, she got a call from a non-equity professional theatre offering her a part that we'd gone to a callback for a few weeks prior.  She let the call roll to VM and later called back and declined, as (1) I didn't land a role as well; (2) It was a show she (actually both of us) had done with them previously; and (3) the show/parts we got at the CT were ones we were VERY excited about.  But if circumstances were different, she might have decided to take it and dropped out of the CT production.
The other was very recent.  She'd gone to a callback in early November for Show C, but they'd announced that the show would be cast by the end of the year (?!).  As I was out of contention, I found another audition for Show D in late November, and we both auditioned.  The whole process from audition to callback to casting happened in about 48 hours.  We both got show D, and she just mailed the staff of show C the next day to withdraw from consideration -- It was on her dream role list, but show D could have been halfway through rehearsals by the time C cast, and it would have been eminently unfair to withdraw from D that late.

That does remind me of one other incidence I had personally -- I had an audition for show E, then a callback for E, then auditioned for F, and then the next morning, E offered me the part.  I just immediately contacted the director for F and pulled out before he got to announcing the callback lists.

Point to the last one (or two, I suppose) is that I've stopped alerting directors to possible other opportunities.  They know that there are other activities (both other shows and different things) competing for peoples' times.  There's no promise of participation until you accept the part -- while I've considered what I would do if X, Y, and Z happened at times, and it's included dropping out of a just-accepted role to do another, it's never come to that, and for that, I'm thankful.
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