Audition Horror Moments - 2008/03/16 17:23I'm sure I'm not the only one with an experience like this...
I was at an audition for Cabaret (going for a Kit Kat girl) and it was going pretty well. I sang my song basically on pitch (which was a HUGE accomplishment for me) and I had the dance combination down by the second time the choreographer went over it. We were all going over the dance to the music and it came to a kick to the back when WHAM! I had kicked one of the best singers, probably the strongest candidate for Sally, right in the jaw! Felt so terrible!
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Re:Audition Horror Moments - 2008/03/17 22:17wow! i have never had anything that bad happen to me in an audition, but when i was singing at an audition when i was about 11 my voice cracked horribly, then i did the worst thing possible (maybe not the worst)... i stopped singing to apologize!!! Lesson learned: don't stop to apologize or make excuses (like for example,"i have a cold!") when you mess up in auditions!-Laura
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Re:Audition Horror Moments - 2008/03/22 18:43TinyDancer2oo8 wrote: I'm sure I'm not the only one with an experience like this...
I was at an audition for Cabaret (going for a Kit Kat girl) and it was going pretty well. I sang my song basically on pitch (which was a HUGE accomplishment for me) and I had the dance combination down by the second time the choreographer went over it. We were all going over the dance to the music and it came to a kick to the back when WHAM! I had kicked one of the best singers, probably the strongest candidate for Sally, right in the jaw! Felt so terrible!
And she had to get an operation, which got rid of her TMJ and also alleviated her deviated septem, not to mention the fact that she can now magically sing an octave higher!
If the choreographer was worth her salt, she would have been impressed by your great kicks!
The worst thing that I ever did at an audition is to get up and sing with my fly down.
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Re:Audition Horror Moments - 2008/03/22 21:07My biggest bad habit is just to get myself worked up so much that I really can't do well. And then, when I know it's going far worse than it should and that I still have the power to stop, compose myself, and start again with an effort that isn't going to waste the panel's time, I push myself to keep going and just get worse.
But my downright stupidest moment was when I auditioned with my hearing aids on the same day that I got them with no prior rehearsal. My voice teacher should have smacked me upside the head for that one.Briana
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Re:Audition Horror Moments - 2008/03/23 03:20So...this one time while I was at an audition, I was waiting to go into the audition room and was going over my music cuts with the accompanist, who was hired help. I was doing Love Changes Everything and When I Get My Name In Lights. He hadn't heard of the latter one, so I politely explained it was from The Boy From Oz. He then looked at my sixteen bar cut for Love Changes Everything and was like "well, I think you should do this part..." and rambled on about the changes I should make to my cutting. I tried singing with the changes he suggested, though messed up the end. I then, once again politely, said that I should probably just sing what I had practiced and was comfortable with. To this he replied "Whatever, it's your audition." UH....OKAY.
So we go into the audition and slows the tempo down a lot for Name In Lights DURING the song, so I had to adjust accordingly. And then he didn't play my intro measures for Love Changes Everything, simply starting where I started singing. After a few moments of me trying to catch up and adjust, I turned and ask to start over, because something was just not sounding right. He played my starting note again, and I asked him if he was sure that was it. He said yes, but it did NOT sound right. So I walked over to the piano, looked at the sheet music, and played the correct note, which was not the one he had played. The second time went perfectly.
Needless to say, that was the worst audition I have ever been to in my life.Micah--- [Not the boy who lives next door] Current Role: The Baker in Into the Woods!!!!!
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Re:Audition Horror Moments - 2008/03/23 21:31This is such an awful story and I feel so lame just remembering it! But I'll share anyways...
So it was a while ago(maybe a couple years...jeez I'm lame) and I was auditioning for a play and it was my first audition for like a real CT play. So of course I was nervous. I had my monologue down(or I think I did XD) but then at the auditions they brought you to this big, basically empty room with the three auditioners at this long table and you were in front of them. Well, I got so nervous that I stuttered over a lot of the words and then couldn't remember the second half of my monologue and had to stop!! And the worst part is I knew I did a ridiculously awful job so I was nearly crying in front of them, and I'm certain they could tell.
Oh and then they were also doing auditions for a musical, but I hadn't planned on auditioning for the musical, just they play. Then they asked me to sing something anyway! So I just went through a verse of a song I barely knew but thought might be appropriate.
And I'll repeat that jeez I'm lame!! Needless to say I didn't get it... Luckily I don't get so nervous anymore!The opposite of Rent is Oklahoma!!! Why didn't I think of that?
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Though I do a lot of plays, i was never in a real (read: non-elementary school) musical until I was fifteen. So when I was thirteen or fourteen, there were audition for the musical version of Miracle on 34th Street. I love that movie, so I prepared (*cringe*) Tomorrow. Unfortunately, I had zero vocal training beyond chorus at that age, and I couldn't project to save my life while singing. So I got up there and sang the song. I was TERRIBLE. The song was not really in my range, and they stopped me to tell me so. Worse, when they gave me a second chance, the pianist just stopped playing, so I was singing it a capella, which I'd never done before. I was pretty much in tears by the end... and I've never set foot in that theatre since.
The audition for my first musical was for Annie Get Yur Gun. I had selected, with the help of my voice teacher, Turn Back, O Man. I know now that that wasn't the best choice for many reasons, the most prominent being that I am a soprano. That song caused me almost physical pain as I tried to reach the low notes. When it was my turn to sing, I gave the music to the pianist and sang a little bit for him. He was like, "I don't know this song, but I'll try." He was super super old and wasn't the best piano player. I went center stage and opened my mouth to say my name- and he started playing. So I just started singing... but he was playing my song sooo slowly that I couldn't hold out the notes that long. Pretty much, it was awful. I did get ensemble, though, which is the highest I will ever get in a musical directed by my school director- I auditioned for last year's musical and a lot of people congratualted me on how well I'd done... and I got ensemble again. But it was still fun.
It sounds like I'm bashing pianist, so I will regale you with an almost-horor stary that turned out well:
I went to audition for The Fantasticks at one of my favorite theatres. For my audition piece, I sang Where is Love, which is really good for my voice. The audition started off very weird because one of my old teachers was there, and he didn't seem to recognize me and sat almost turned completely around while I was singing. So I'm singing, singing, and I realise that I've skipped half a verse. But Super Pianist on my right completely covered it! It was so awesome, because no one would ever know that I skipped anything! I still didn't get the part, but it waspretty cool.Auditioning for: Brigadoon, theatre season, American Music Theatre, Into the Woods, Sound of Music, and AMDA.
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Re:Audition Horror Moments - 2008/03/24 14:00I've never had something so bad as accidentally kicking someone in an audition happen to me but, I was auditioning for a role and the accompanist was the wife of one of the guys I was up against. I'm sure it was an accident but she messed up my song something fierce. I stayed on key and just went for it but needless to say I did not get cast.
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Lesson learned: don't stop to apologize or make excuses (like for example,"i have a cold!") when you mess up in auditions!
So I just went through a verse of a song I barely knew but thought might be appropriate.
