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How to Audition for a Musical
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
- 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.
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