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How to Have a Bang-Up Audition

How to Have a Bang-Up Audition. Be a Good Host. Interact with the auditors using confidence and graciousness. Set up a relationship with your auditor the second you take the stage. Sincerely greet your auditors at the beginning and Sincerely thank them at the end. Take Care of Your Audience.

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How to Have a Bang-Up Audition

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  1. How to Have a Bang-Up Audition

  2. Be a Good Host • Interact with the auditors using confidence and graciousness. • Set up a relationship with your auditor the second you take the stage. • Sincerely greet your auditors at the beginning and • Sincerely thank them at the end.

  3. Take Care of Your Audience • You’re not showing off your talent, you are telling a story. • Be easily seen and heard. • Make your monologue seamless. Your vocal and physical transitions should be fluid to the point of invisible (conversational). • Take 100% responsibility for what you show your audience.

  4. Take Care of Your Audience • Grab your audience from the beginning. • Don’t hold back or “warm up” into your monologue, start STRONG. • Don’t wait to commit until you feel “comfortable.” • Find a point just above the audience on which to fix your gaze (the “person” your character is talking to.

  5. Keep the Audience WITH You • Play each moment of your monologue HONESTLY. • Live truthfully in an imaginary situation. Your monologue did not happen to YOU, but it did, truthfully happen to your character. Be true to the character. • Let go of moments you “didn’t get” in your monologue.

  6. The Show Must Go On • If you make a mistake, do NOT stop to break character and apologize. • Do not stop and break character to regain your focus. • People really mess up conversation sometimes, so making it look like your character may have truthfully messed up their words looks MUCH better than admitting it was your mistake as a performer.

  7. Be a Hero, Not a Victim • Your character may feel strongly about something, but their feelings are less important than what they are doing about them in your monologue. • Nobody likes a self-victimizing character. • Give your character room to pull themselves out of any bad situation by the words they say and the actions they perform within a monologue.

  8. Drive for the Curtain • Don’t be slow with your words just to elongate a monologue that is technically too short. If you’re straining to make it longer, the audience/auditors can tell you are straining. • Don’t rush so that you are hard to understand, however. Just speak conversationally and naturally, and the curtain will come.

  9. When It’s Over • Make no more interactions with your auditors than they wish to make with you. • Do not ask to see their opinions if they do not wish to share them. • Do not show displeasure if you do not agree with their opinions about yourself.

  10. When It’s Over • Don’t apologize for missing anything, for your vocal quality, or any other aspect of your performance. If you did well for yourself, take pride no matter what. • Be ready to move onto your next project in theatre, no matter what it may be.

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