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Author Berry, Denny

Title Auditioning for Musical Theatre
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (173 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Before we begin; Introduction; Chapter 1 Audition fundamentals; Section 1: What is an audition?; Section 2: How do you get an audition?; Union or non-union; Aliens/foreign actor rules; Having an agent; Getting an agent; Section 3: Basic kinds of audition; Audition categories; Section 4: The process of casting a show; Initial call; Callback; Final callback; Singer's open call; Dancing for a singer's callback; About workshopping; Dancers open call; Feedback
Section 5: Choosing appropriate musical materialGeneral search; 16-bar songs; Specific search; Best song in your book; What else do you have in your book?; A note about your audition book; Exercise #1: 16-bar song selection; Chapter 2 Audition research; Section 1: Who is the buyer?; Exercise #2: How to find an audition; Section 2: Examining the commodity; You and your skills, talent, and look; What are your skills?; What do you look like?; Who are you?; What are your strengths?; What might you continue to work on?; Part One: Describe your instrument; Exercise #3: Who are you?
Section 3: FeedbackAudition Research; Chapter 3 The presentation preparation; Section 1: The audition performance; Section 2: Choosing audition material; Choose appropriate material; Don't sabotage your own audition; Choose shorter songs; Learn the song correctly; Don't sing the song at the panel; It's never a good idea to sing new, untested, under-rehearsed material; Section 3: Types of voices; Section 4: Your voice/your song choice; Considerations when selecting audition material for your songbook; Section 5: Styles of musical theatre songs
Do you have a sufficient variety of styles represented in your audition book?Exercise #4: BSIYB Song Selection; Section 6: Working your chosen material; Interpreting the text; What to do with a musical interlude?; Humor; Monologuing; Staging your song; The moment before the song begins; Use of the graph; Lyric/textual changes; Final moments (the play-out); Exercise #5: Staging your BSIYB; Section 7: Discovering your tics; Section 8: The obligation to move your audience; Exercise #6: WEDYH song selection; Chapter 4 Speaking in the musical theatre; Section 1: Monologues; Preparation
Exercise #7: Prepared monologue practiceSection 2: Cold reading; Exercise #8: Cold reading practice; Chapter 5 The dance call; 1. Vocabulary; 2. Weight changes; 3. Time; 4. Direction; 5. Arms; 6. Have fun!; WHAT TO WEAR; Clothes; Shoes; Hair; Chapter 6 Other audition considerations; Section 1: Your book; Exercise #9: Cleaning up your book; Section 2: Headshots; Exercise #10: Take new headshots; Section 3: Résumés; It should be clearly laid out and easy to read; It should be truthful; Exercise #11: Rewrite your résumé for review; Section 4: What to wear/makeup/hair; Basic tips for dressing
Summary Auditioning for Musical Theatre demystifies the process of giving the best possible professional audition for a role in a musical. It is the result of Denny Berry's own experience, sitting "behind the audition desk" for 30 years of professional Broadway auditions, as well as teaching newcomers and coaching established actors. The book coaches performers on how to be their best selves-and avoid the pitfalls of nerves and poor preparation. To do so, it offers: An in-depth, practical approach to a professional audition that gives readers detailed suggestions about how to identify their vocal strengths, choose the material most suited to it, and present the entirety of their "product" with confidence. Rules to guide the actor through the audition process, along with sample homework assignments. A comprehensive list of musical material, genres, and commonly-referred-to categories of songs designed to help auditioners select the right material for any given audition. The book is intended for the talented newcomer as well as the experienced actor who wants to deliver a more effective audition. Ultimately, Auditioning for Musical Theatre takes the reader through the parts of auditioning that they can control, and helps them tailor every situation to show their individual best
Notes Exercise #12: Wardrobe choices for all songs
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Subject Musicals -- Auditions.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
PERFORMING ARTS -- General.
audition video.
BSIYB.
broadway.
callback.
cold reading.
headshot.
monologue.
resume.
showtune.
song selection.
tics.
triple threat.
west end.
Musicals -- Auditions
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429789571
0429789572
9780429789564
0429789564
9780429789557
0429789556
9780429435966
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