May 16, 2007

Auditions, auditions, auditions. That's what we worked on this class. And callbacks, callbacks, callbacks. Since that is the direction everyone is quickly heading in. It's very exciting to see everyone's hard work moving them forward. We started out practicing slates, entrances and exits, and feeling good about ourselves through the entire audition process. Then we did some actual auditions - a car thief, ladies looking for insurance, a flight attendant and his rude cell phone downloading passenger, a salesman and his lazy-boy customer - we had it all! Then we did theatrical auditions for a soon-to-be-produced comedy. We practiced tone, holding our space in the lobby while waiting with others and in the room itself, figuring out story based on the text and making strong character choices based on that story. It was a lot of fun. We did the first audition with the casting associate and then did the third callback with producers. The characters we saw were a frustrated high school principal firing a substitute, a kid fighting to keep his horse, a girl being offended by a clumsy guy, a dad giving his son some tough love, a girl testing a guy's belief in himself, a depressed kid getting encouragement from his totally un-p.c. landlord, and a sexually-minded doctor diagnosing a horse! It was a crazy, wonderful, educational evening! What a joy! What a joy!