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biggertigger
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Joined: 4/16/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 188 |
 Posted: 9/26/07 at 10:01pm |
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Joe, You do live closer to the Gold Coast then I do.
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The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes.
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Gaafa
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Posted: 9/26/07 at 10:39pm |
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I'm not sure?
 I think we are over 7000KM's? away from Ozywood on the Bananna coast? {which is further then from London to Moscow}  The only difference between there & here, besides the glam 'n glitz, is our Surf meets the Sun at night!  |
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Joe
Western Gondawandaland turn right @ Perth. Hear the light & see the sound. Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"} May you always play to a full house} |
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RoseColored Gla
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Joined: 8/15/08 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 27 |
Posted: 9/03/08 at 4:28pm |
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I was auditioning people for Drakula: the rock opera. Its one that nobody had ever heard of, so i just asked people to sing a song from a rock opera, or an original song. So i get a guy who thinks he is gonna wow me. He does some song from JCS. If he was good, I would have remembered it. He does it in a cape. He ends it by turning his back to me, then turns around with a flashing smile. and i do mean his smile was flashing. red, blue, green, sparkly.
Would YOU have cast him? |
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Dennis Dippary
Artistic Director Songs for a New WorldRoseColored Glasses May Dionysus smile upon your every performance! |
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TonyDi
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Posted: 9/04/08 at 7:47am |
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Gosh where to begin - I've had so stinking many bad auditions...!! Well the MOST prominent ones in no particular order.... 1) Auditioned for JCSStar AND they were auditioning another theater company's play at the same time at the same building location (a paying gig). I REALLY WOULD have been given the part I wanted in JCSS BUT had to consider the $$. Took the money. Turned out to be one of the worst experiences of my life with a director who was a High School theater teacher - BAD BAD experience. Not that HS Theater directors are bad - just this one WAS.
2) Then the time as director I had almost 100 women in 2 days to audition for Steel Magnolias. I had a GREAT stage manager who was totally organized and kept things flowing well. BUT I was exhausted by one woman who kept begging me to do Truvy's role as therapy to help her forget that she had just buried her teenage son (for real) who had died. I NEVER promised her a thing. BUT she GOT the role and was great in it so I luckily made the right choice. My Shelby was the very very last, should have been the first then the rest could have gone home who wanted that role. But she was patient. I cast her, SHE was great.
3) Oh God, the time I went through Fiddler auditions for Tevye. No-one else auditioned for the role, I was qualified, knew the role front to back, kept reading with all kinds of people in the other roles. I had been publicly and privately promised the role for almost two years before many times (people still to this day come up and tell me they thought I was supposed to do that - this has been about 18 years ago). After auditions people thought I was a shoe-in, I mean, ONLY one auditioning for Tevye....you'd think. THEY HAD PRE-CAST THE ROLE two weeks prior and didn't tell anyone. Offered me Lazar Wolf. Devasted!! CHEATED? LIED TO? Oh yeah, but I TOOK the role, blew the Tevye off the stage at every performance (he was drunk at EVERY show), saved his butt (and the show) on many occasions, was heaped with praise by everyone, including the critics, was told by the guy who played Tevye that had HE known I was promised the role he would have never accepted it (yeah right). But it cemented MY position in our theater community and he never did another show in town. Go figure.
There are many more - but too long now. Oh the memories, some fond, some not too fond at all. But the good out-weighed the bad I must say.
TonyDi
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greenphoenix
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Posted: 2/04/09 at 4:12am |
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One that stands out is when I was about 19. I must say that I HATE auditioning with a monologue. I am a GREAT cold reader--just give me a script. But I had prepared a piece from a movie monologue book. My monologue was from The Breakfast Club! What was I thinking? There were about a half-dozen auditors (why?), and they kept asking me to do my silly monologue in different ways. "Do it in slow motion." "Sing it like an opera singer." It was so awkward and strange. Then they had all the actors gather onstage together for an acting exercise. We all had to pretend to be parts of a machine. I guess this was to judge us on teamwork. It was very "Improv Class 101", and I was quite bad. Again, just give me a script to read!! ------- Another bad one is when I had a callback for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and the director grouped us with scene partners. He specified to NOT attempt the fight choreography, just to focus on the lines. My partner insisted on flinging and spinning me about the stage, scripts in hand, while I was trying to keep my place and not fall down. An example of how a scene partner can make or break you. |
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Linda S
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Posted: 2/04/09 at 3:53pm |
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The worst for me is when people audition for me in public places. They see me in the grocery store and start singing. One guy followed me through the Mall singing at the top of his lungs. I mean really . . . Do they honestly think that I will cast them in the frozen food aisle!
Linda
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Nanette
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Posted: 2/04/09 at 10:51pm |
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I think I had a couple of the "worst auditions ever" tonight! God bless those kids, but they do try!
EG: The shy, soft-spoken child who auditions monotone EVERY TIME who wants to play the wicked queen. When asked to "show me the queen" gives me exactly the same thing. She's a dwarf now. :o) We'll be working on expression and character development a little more.
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In a world of margarine, be butter!
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ooliemartha
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Joined: 3/13/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 3/18/09 at 8:12am |
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okay. I know you wrote this a YEAR ago, but wow, I HATE when people bring props to an audition. Totally sad. Sorry you had to see that!
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TonyDi
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Posted: 3/19/09 at 7:10am |
OR how about the actor who comes to auditions in full costume and makeup for the role they THINK they're good enough to walk right into....just because they have the costume and did the makeup? Yeah, that's happened more than once. I am just too scared of people quite like that.
TonyDi
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Scott B
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Posted: 3/19/09 at 3:25pm |
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Guys ... gals ... stop it ... you're scaring me.
This will be my first time directing a larger cast this summer and auditions are in 6 weeks for Bye Bye Birdie. Please don't let these things happen. ;-) |
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