*HELP! On Golden Pond Auditions!*
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Topic: *HELP! On Golden Pond Auditions!*
Posted By: Thespian_4_ever
Subject: *HELP! On Golden Pond Auditions!*
Date Posted: 7/24/06 at 10:34pm
| I need to know anything about Billy Ray in On Golden Pond auditions are Saturday! HELP! |
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Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 7/25/06 at 9:28am
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What do you want to know? He's a brat. He's never met his grandparents, because his mom and grandpa have been at loggerheads for years over absolutely nothing. (Which, by the way, my own family mirrored for years, so I have a bit of a soft spot for this show.) He's a good kid, really, but he's inherited the Thayer bullheadedness. Don't play the negatives, they're written. Play the positives: he's fascinated by his surroundings, he's intrigued by everything, but he has a limited way of expressing that. Now, a question for you. Are you auditioning for a play you haven't read? Which fairly closely tracks a widely available movie, that perhaps you haven't seen, either? Why? As the board veterans might remember, I did Hedda Gabler several months ago. At auditions, a college student, bright, very involved in theatre, a good kid in every way, said, to fellow auditioners: "So, this is some kind of tragedy, right?" This was not some obscure avant-garde piece nobody's ever heard of. It was Hedda Freaking Gabler. Now, I'm not going to say that Ibsen invented the modern realistic play, but, well, he did. Thespian_4_Ever, I'm sorry for the rant. It's really not directed at you. Break a leg at auditions. But it can only help you to read the play, okay? ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
So how does somebody (smart, interested in theatre) show up at auditions with no idea what that play is about?Posted By: theaterbrat
Date Posted: 7/25/06 at 1:23pm
I want to tell that to SO many people in my community theater! I am a teenager, and very into theater. I try to act as professional as possible, reading the play beforehand, knowing the characters, having a headshot and resume, etc. Then I get labled a "snob' and a "know-it-all" by other teenagers, and that makes me so mad. 
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Posted By: B-M-D
Date Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:25pm
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Three things to suggest Matt: READ THE PLAY! READ THE PLAY!! READ THE PLAY!!!
------------- BD 
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard." |
Posted By: castMe
Date Posted: 7/26/06 at 5:17pm
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To elaborate on BMD's comment. I don't believe he's repeating the
phrase for emphasis, I think he means to read the show at least three
times. That is how I was trained and that is what I do.
------------- Investigate. Imagine. Choose. |
Posted By: B-M-D
Date Posted: 7/26/06 at 11:10pm
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Uuuhhh......ok that too. LOL ------------- BD
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard." |
Posted By: Shatcher
Date Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:28am
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Theatrebrat, just keep doing what you are doing. don't worry about what the other teens say. If that is the way they think they will never have a chance in geting a real theatre job. sounds like you have a good attitude you should go far. Besides it just means you will get better parts Rock On!! |
Posted By: Thespian_4_ever
Date Posted: 8/17/06 at 10:23am
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Well I ended up not auditioning for the show becuase another show I'm stage managing conflicts with On Golden Pond... ------------- |
Posted By: TonyDi
Date Posted: 9/13/06 at 3:21pm
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Just for the record..........
Billy Ray WAS NOT a Thayer. He is Bill Ray's son and Chelsea Thayer is his step-mother (to be until she and Bill get married). About the bullheadedness though, he COULD easily have been a Thayer - which is why he probably gets along with Norman. But it's a moot point now since you didn't take the role. TonyDi ------------- "Almost famous" |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 9/14/06 at 9:53am
Oops, you're exactly right -- I had forgotten that. Please imagine that I said that "he HAS the Thayer bullheadedness" instead of "he's INHERITED" it.  ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: Nanette
Date Posted: 9/14/06 at 12:17pm
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Are you auditioning for a play you haven't read? I would have to say nearly the same thing for audiences! At least read the background info on performaces before you go see a show you're unfamiliar with. I attended a production of "Chorus Line" at a Philharmonic Center for the Arts (NOT cheap tickets ... wealthy patrons ... the whole she-bang) and half the audience left at intermission because of "Tits and A--". Good for me, though, as I moved into better seats for the second half of the performance! ------------- In a world of margarine, be butter! |