Faithful reading audience, all 4 of you, this past weekend we hit over 200 Facebook "Likes." Now as everybody knows "likes" are the fuel that drive modern society...or something like that. I'm not sure that I actually know 200 people (well. I don't know them well). So that is pretty cool.
This past weekend we also had auditions for our next production "Boeing, Boeing." It will be directed by 906 co-founder Ashley Stein and it is sure to be a blast. If you have never read the play or even seen the movie version of it, go and do so. It is a classic French farce with a "chic" twist.
This weekend was also my first time monitoring auditions. I must say it was an exciting and terrifying experience. As I am auditioning for the show myself, it was extremely nerve-racking to watch my fellow actors step up to the plate. I have to give them tremendous credit for their hard work. I have no auditioned for a while and I know that I am extremely nervous...and it is my theatre company (partially).
Auditions are never completely relaxed, which is why the best directors and companies always take the extra time and effort to make the experience as stress free as possible. Want to know a secret? If you are at an audition and everybody in the room watching you perform is somehow making you feel bad about yourself; you are auditioning for the wrong people...or you are crazy sensitive. Either way, maybe stay away from there. Actors feed on confidence and auditions have a way of draining that. Either a little or a lot. This is not to say that a great audition can't imbue you with amazing confidence. It can and every once in a while it will. But that will only come from a great amount of preparation, luck, timing, and semi-constant self-doubt. Latch onto those companies that make you feel good about yourself, even if they never cast you. A company can be both challenging and friendly. I have left an audition feeling like I have done my best, I was well received, and yet I never heard back from them. This does not mean the company is trying to play games with me. It means that they wanted to see the best from me and maybe my best didn't fit a particular spot in their show. It just means they care about human feelings. And isn't that what theatre is about? (with the exception of Charlotte's Web...pig feelings.) Be humble, remember that you aren't right for everything, but believe that you are right for something. Go out, and find that something.
This past weekend we also had auditions for our next production "Boeing, Boeing." It will be directed by 906 co-founder Ashley Stein and it is sure to be a blast. If you have never read the play or even seen the movie version of it, go and do so. It is a classic French farce with a "chic" twist.
This weekend was also my first time monitoring auditions. I must say it was an exciting and terrifying experience. As I am auditioning for the show myself, it was extremely nerve-racking to watch my fellow actors step up to the plate. I have to give them tremendous credit for their hard work. I have no auditioned for a while and I know that I am extremely nervous...and it is my theatre company (partially).
Auditions are never completely relaxed, which is why the best directors and companies always take the extra time and effort to make the experience as stress free as possible. Want to know a secret? If you are at an audition and everybody in the room watching you perform is somehow making you feel bad about yourself; you are auditioning for the wrong people...or you are crazy sensitive. Either way, maybe stay away from there. Actors feed on confidence and auditions have a way of draining that. Either a little or a lot. This is not to say that a great audition can't imbue you with amazing confidence. It can and every once in a while it will. But that will only come from a great amount of preparation, luck, timing, and semi-constant self-doubt. Latch onto those companies that make you feel good about yourself, even if they never cast you. A company can be both challenging and friendly. I have left an audition feeling like I have done my best, I was well received, and yet I never heard back from them. This does not mean the company is trying to play games with me. It means that they wanted to see the best from me and maybe my best didn't fit a particular spot in their show. It just means they care about human feelings. And isn't that what theatre is about? (with the exception of Charlotte's Web...pig feelings.) Be humble, remember that you aren't right for everything, but believe that you are right for something. Go out, and find that something.