DO:

• Read the audition posting carefully, and follow all instructions
• Arrive early
• Be prepared to wait, and bring something to keep you busy
• Bring water and a snack
• Warm up
• Use material well within your grasp and understanding.
• Use material in which you have been carefully coached.
• Choose clothing that is simple, professional, and comfortable.
• Introduce yourself politely.
• Behave yourself until you've left the building.

DON'T:

• Select material that is too young or too old for you
• Choose a role in which you could not feasibly be cast
• Select material written before 1900 unless asked
  
• Use costumes
• Use dialects
• Use props

The following is a musical theatre rubric used by a highschool to score musical theatre auditions, and it is a very good example of what musical theater audition panels are looking for. See that level 4 is the highest and most desireable.

• Auditioning For The Musical Theatre
• How to Audition for the Musical Theatre : A Step-By-Step Guide to Effective Preparation
• The Ultimate Audition Book
• Next : Auditioning for the Musical Theatre
• How to Audition : For Tv, Movies, Commercials, Plays, and Musicals
• The Actor's Audition

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