Acting: Lumiere Audition

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Lumiere Audition

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Topic: Lumiere Audition

Posted By: robbrown
Subject: Lumiere Audition
Date Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:36pm

hi, I have received a callback for Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast. I just want to know if there is a study guide for this character development. Also how do you all prepare for callbacks?

Thanks
Robert P. Brown

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Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 4/21/08 at 10:17pm

If you have't done so already, get some dialect tapes and brush up on your French accent. It's practically a requirement for this role.

Rent the movie "Gigi" and learn from Maurice Chevalier, a famous French actor, on whom the character was based. He is very suave and charming, with a perpetual glint in his eye, like he knows how suave and charming he is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyBffCiGr8c

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