character role audition
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Topic: character role audition
Posted By: lola
Subject: character role audition
Date Posted: 7/28/07 at 5:15pm
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I'm auditioning for "your a good man charlie brown", and I really want the part of lucy. I can do the voice well and I really look the part, but I'm not shure what song would be good for the audition. the director hasent been picked yet due to a strange set of cercunstances, so i dont know if i should use a song with a charactor voice, or a song from the show, or what. i know to do eith would brake major lines with most directors, but like i said i really only want the part of lucy. and even if i did use a song with a character voice, i'm not shure which song would be best. any sugestions?
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Posted By: eveharrington
Date Posted: 7/28/07 at 6:08pm
ok, I've said it before, I'm no musical expert and I can't carry a tune in a bucket, however, I would think that you should use the reading to display your Lucy voice, and the singing audition to show you can project and keep to the beat. I would go for whatever song will best display your voice and kill at the reading. Any director worth their salt should be able to make the connection. break a leg :-D
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"If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights."
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 7/29/07 at 1:16am
I don't know the show & less about 'Peanuts', as it does not realy rate here in Oz?
Eve is correct leave your Lucy vioce for reading & act which ever
song vocaly, by employing some 'speak sing' to sell it! Even
incorporating a smiggen of Lucy as & only if apropriate to the
song, with her gestures or inclinations.
But step out side yourself & deliver your vioce &/or range, to knock thier socks off!
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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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Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 7/30/07 at 11:27am
Just a quick chime in from me. I have always found it to be bad form to sing an audition song from the show you are auditioning for. Just a tradition around here. However if you realy have big brass ones, walk in tell them Lucy has arrived and hit them with her song.
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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse
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Posted By: lola
Date Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:11pm
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wouldent that make me seem like a diva? i really dont want a bad rep.
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you know you work in community theatre when your couch has been in more shows than you have.
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Posted By: Gaafa
Date Posted: 7/31/07 at 9:38pm
If you want to succeed in this game, it takes 80% attitude & the
balance made up with apitude, emperical skills & talent.
Something I always suggest, is before your about to enter, keep a tune
in your head that best depicts or suits the character - a regal tune for a Queen
& you will become one.
Don't worry about being a diva, just prove by your actions, your not a Drama Queen!
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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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Posted By: lola
Date Posted: 8/01/07 at 12:10am
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is that really aceptable? i mean, it does fit the character. if you personally were directing a show and someone pulled that, how would you respond? i like the idia, i just want to make shure i'm not sending the wrong impression.
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you know you work in community theatre when your couch has been in more shows than you have.
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Posted By: eveharrington
Date Posted: 8/01/07 at 3:18am
I once directed a show where an actor (I knew him but he was new to the group) had a specific role in mind and asked me before the auditions if I would pre-cast because he had to decide between this and another project. Needless to say I declined, I don't believe in precasting (unless I'm the one being pre-cast of course ;)He then asked if he should dress the part, or if there was anything else I might be looking for in auditions. I told him that "look" is the easiest thing to change and therefore the least of my concerns at an audition and to just come prepared to read. He showed up in full costume complete with darkened hair and gold chains looking like an extra from Barney Miller. I cast him, but I also knew him as a fellow cast member and knew he was not crazy. That could have gone either way. Showing up to an audition completely in character is a risky risky move, that depends completely on who is making the decisions and whether or not they think you're crazy. Besides, would you turn down another good role? You don't want to paint yourself into a corner and end up not getting to do the show at all because they don't think you're interested in anything else.
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"If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights."
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