Category: Auditions

Audition Notice. Notes from my auditions experiences.

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Audition Notice: Home for the Holidays

Stage Door Players will hold auditions for it’s upcoming holiday presentation, Home for the Holidays, on September 26th and 27th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Appointments not necessary. Stipend paid. Casting 3 men and 3 women. All ethnicities encouraged to audition. Please bring headshot and resume, prepare 16 bars, and a contemporary 30 second monologue. The show will begin rehearsals October 11, and the show runs November 18th through December 19th. Show will be directed by Robert Egizio, with Musical Direction by Linda Uzelac. For directions or more information, please visit http://www.stagedoorplayers.net

Thanks, and we’ll see you at the Stage Door!

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Audition #4

Yesterday I attended an audition for Auntie Mame at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Decatur. While waiting who did I see, none other than Cynthia Cobb from the June-July class. Hope you did well!

We were setup in groups of 2 to 5 people for various scenes. The first scene I read was for Badcock. Badcock is in his 50’s and a rather belligerent character. In the second scene, I read Mr. Upson, also in his 50’s and socially inept.

Each audition I do I learn something else. This time it was in how I performed. I think I did well on reading, but that was just reading. The director is watching all aspects of your performance. For instance, when I read Claude Upson?s lines, I read them well, but I did not maintain body posture or facial expressions during the scene. I read and went back to my blank face till my next line. Nor did I approach the director with enthusiasm as I stated in Audition #3. It is a leaning process.

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Audition #3

Last night I auditioned for Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPietro at Stage Door Players. The 16th was the second day of auditions and the crowed was very light. I think I like that. For non-scheduled times, I think I will start showing up on the second night. Hmm, but how rested is the director on the second day of auditions. Something to think about.

This theatre is very nice and very large. I was very relaxed for this audition. I read yesterday about one’s attitude when going in for an audition. You should great the director and assistances with a smile and confidence. Chris is right about first impressions. So I did. I went in and out with a smile, shook hands, and tried to act (actors can act can’t they) as confident as possible.

We were required to have a 30 second comedy monologue prepared. Remember Lesbian Spanking Inferno? Well that is what I did. I stumbled at first, but eventually made it through. I did OK on that. I was then handed a monologue and a dialogue to read over and I went back out in the lobby. After a few more people went in for their prepared monologues, I was called back in with another lady to read the dialogue. I thought we did very well together. There was good pinch and react. I was then allowed to go back into the lobby for a little while longer before doing the monologue. The character I was auditioning for was the lead.

I feel really good about this one, but I will not get my hopes up. I do not have a lot of experience, but I am getting better at this auditioning thing.

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Audition #2

This morning I had an audition for the Atlanta Classic Theatre at the 14th Street Playhouse. Unlike my first one where all I had to do was show up, this one I had to make an appointment. There were two plays being auditioned for: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams and I Am a Camera, by John van Druten, adapted from The Berlin Stories of Christopher Isherwood.

After filling out the necessary application, I was given a dialogue from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to read with my “wife”. We had about 10 to 15 minutes to prepare before being called in. As it turned out, there were a lot more women than men (which I hear is typical) so I read my lines twice with two different wives. When I was rehearsing my lines, I kept stumbling over the words. When I actually performed I did well enough, lost my place the second time.

After the first reading, the director for I am a Camera gave me some instruction? sort of: He explained that the character was a lawyer. Well I gathered that, but what did he mean. Well I read my lines again and was dismissed. Thinking back on what he said, I realized that he meant I should be more logical about my reading. There is a monologue within this scene where I, the lawyer, am stating item by item what is going on. It is more logical and less emotional. I did read it with controlled emotion, but, I did hear other guys reading the same lines and were really putting a lot of emotion and volume into it.

I thought I did well and I am more hopeful than my first audition, but alas I do not thank I will get this ether.

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First Audition

Auditions were held last night for H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man at the Kudzu Playhouse in Roswell. This version of the play by Larry Larson and Eddie Levi Lee, takes place not in England, but in Charleston, South Carolina. Matt and Jeff from class auditioned as well.

If possible we were to use a Charleston gentile southern accent. It’s just doing it during a reading. We were also to show interaction with an invisible figure. I did not put a lot of effort into that. I was reading the part of Marvel interacting with Griffen (the Invisible Man). We had about 45 minutes to read over the lines and prepare. With that much time, is it still a cold reading? I don’t think I did that well, but it was not exactly what I was expecting or, the more I thought about it, not exactly what I wanted to do (a stage production of The Invisible Man).

I arrived early and as I was waiting in the lobby, I could hear people rehearsing a play on the stage. I could not see the stage, all I could do was listen. My thoughts were, while I was listening, was “That is awful”. It was terrible. Did I want to audition for a playhouse where the current production was that bad? It was not until later when they finished up rehearsal and left, that I noticed it was all kids. So you see the beginnings of my mindset as I went into the auditions.

First, this was my first audition. Second, I thought the rehearsal I could hear was awful from what I could hear. And, third, as I was waiting to read with my partner, I was watching some of the others read their lines and some of them were overacting very noticeably. Even my partner said “overact and let the director tone you down”.

So with all that, I was not in the right mindset to read lines to the director. I know I did bad and I know I will not land a part. But it was my first audition and really did not know what to expect anyway.