Audition Rules and Expectations:
1. Arrive at least fifteen minutes before auditions are to begin. This is to ensure you have time to fill out your audition form, if you don't already have a completed form with you, and to make sure you aren't late.
2. Always bring a photo with you. The director may see a number of people during auditions, and attaching a photo to your form helps her remember who you are.
3. Fill out your audition form in a very neat and professional manner. If the director has difficulty reading your information that does not create a favorable impression.
4. Keep all conversation and noise to a minimum while you wait. Your audition begins the moment you walk into the building. You are being watched and assessed even when you think you are not. You must be ready, willing, and able to follow all directions you are given as long as you are on the premises.
5. When it is your turn to audition, find your spot on stage, take a deep breath to relax, introduce yourself using your first and last name, introduce your monologue by stating the name of the character and what show it is from, perform your monologue and when you are finished say "thank you". An example of how this would sound is: Hello, my name is Shirley Temple and today I will be performing Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz", Please do not recite your monologue. Reciting is standing and delivering. You need to perform your piece which means you need to find places to move within the monologue. Always remember to say "thank you" when you are finished. This says a few things to the Director: Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to audition for this show and considering me for your cast and I am now finished with my audition.
6. Remember to practice your introduction as much as you do your monologue. You need to be heard, understood and move during your audition and being heard and understood applies to your introduction as well. So slow down, speak up and enunciate.
7. If you do forget your lines, don't panic, it is important that you keep going, just as you would during an actual performance. Try to improvise some lines or skip ahead to something you remember. If you find you are really stuck, just say "thank you" as if you had planned to stop where you did. There is no need for the Director to know you made a mistake or skipped lines. And never ask to start over.
1. Arrive at least fifteen minutes before auditions are to begin. This is to ensure you have time to fill out your audition form, if you don't already have a completed form with you, and to make sure you aren't late.
2. Always bring a photo with you. The director may see a number of people during auditions, and attaching a photo to your form helps her remember who you are.
3. Fill out your audition form in a very neat and professional manner. If the director has difficulty reading your information that does not create a favorable impression.
4. Keep all conversation and noise to a minimum while you wait. Your audition begins the moment you walk into the building. You are being watched and assessed even when you think you are not. You must be ready, willing, and able to follow all directions you are given as long as you are on the premises.
5. When it is your turn to audition, find your spot on stage, take a deep breath to relax, introduce yourself using your first and last name, introduce your monologue by stating the name of the character and what show it is from, perform your monologue and when you are finished say "thank you". An example of how this would sound is: Hello, my name is Shirley Temple and today I will be performing Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz", Please do not recite your monologue. Reciting is standing and delivering. You need to perform your piece which means you need to find places to move within the monologue. Always remember to say "thank you" when you are finished. This says a few things to the Director: Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to audition for this show and considering me for your cast and I am now finished with my audition.
6. Remember to practice your introduction as much as you do your monologue. You need to be heard, understood and move during your audition and being heard and understood applies to your introduction as well. So slow down, speak up and enunciate.
7. If you do forget your lines, don't panic, it is important that you keep going, just as you would during an actual performance. Try to improvise some lines or skip ahead to something you remember. If you find you are really stuck, just say "thank you" as if you had planned to stop where you did. There is no need for the Director to know you made a mistake or skipped lines. And never ask to start over.
Rules once one is cast in a show:
1. Always be prompt for rehearsals. Tardiness is not tolerated and may result in recasting parts or dismissal from the show.
2. Come to rehearsals prepared to work. Study your part at home as well as when you are at rehearsal and not on stage.
3. Leaving rehearsal before the director dismisses you and you are signed out is not allowed and may result in recasting of parts or dismissal from the show.
4. Co-operate with all cast and crew members. There are no "stars" in a show; each person is needed to create a good production. Avoid a display of temperament. Be patient and pleasant. Be kind to all involved in the show.
5. Allow the Director to direct. When given a direction, listen to it and do as you are told. It is never a cast members place to try to instruct or direct a fellow cast member. Accept direction from your Director cheerfully and do your best to do as you've been directed. When the Director interrupts rehearsal for another actor, stand quietly in character, ready to start again when the interruption is finished.
6. Be quiet back stage when a rehearsal/show is in process.
7. Be ready for entrances without having to be called. Never be late for an entrance.
8. If anything accidently falls on the stage floor during a show, pick it up unobtrusively.
9. Remain in character whenever on stage. Never break character and laugh and never "mouth" lines of another actor on stage.
10. Appearing in make-up or costume, except on stage and backstage, is not allowed.
11. Visiting with anyone outside the cast and crew before or during the show/intermission is not allowed.
12. Touching anything that does not belong to you (especially items such as lights, props or costumes as well as your fellow actors or their personal items backstage) is never allowed. You must always respect the space, the items in it and your fellow actors.
13. Peeking through the curtains, doors or anywhere backstage at the audience is highly unprofessional and is not allowed.
14. Give your best performance for every audience.
15. Never wear anything scented (perfume, cologne, lotion, and the like) to rehearsals or shows. Stay away from cigarette smoke.
16. If you are having any problems of any kind do not hesitate to talk to the director before or after a rehearsal.
17. If you can't participate in the theatre and simultaneously maintain other commitments, don't accept a role. School work is your first and most important commitment.
18. Have fun.
1. Always be prompt for rehearsals. Tardiness is not tolerated and may result in recasting parts or dismissal from the show.
2. Come to rehearsals prepared to work. Study your part at home as well as when you are at rehearsal and not on stage.
3. Leaving rehearsal before the director dismisses you and you are signed out is not allowed and may result in recasting of parts or dismissal from the show.
4. Co-operate with all cast and crew members. There are no "stars" in a show; each person is needed to create a good production. Avoid a display of temperament. Be patient and pleasant. Be kind to all involved in the show.
5. Allow the Director to direct. When given a direction, listen to it and do as you are told. It is never a cast members place to try to instruct or direct a fellow cast member. Accept direction from your Director cheerfully and do your best to do as you've been directed. When the Director interrupts rehearsal for another actor, stand quietly in character, ready to start again when the interruption is finished.
6. Be quiet back stage when a rehearsal/show is in process.
7. Be ready for entrances without having to be called. Never be late for an entrance.
8. If anything accidently falls on the stage floor during a show, pick it up unobtrusively.
9. Remain in character whenever on stage. Never break character and laugh and never "mouth" lines of another actor on stage.
10. Appearing in make-up or costume, except on stage and backstage, is not allowed.
11. Visiting with anyone outside the cast and crew before or during the show/intermission is not allowed.
12. Touching anything that does not belong to you (especially items such as lights, props or costumes as well as your fellow actors or their personal items backstage) is never allowed. You must always respect the space, the items in it and your fellow actors.
13. Peeking through the curtains, doors or anywhere backstage at the audience is highly unprofessional and is not allowed.
14. Give your best performance for every audience.
15. Never wear anything scented (perfume, cologne, lotion, and the like) to rehearsals or shows. Stay away from cigarette smoke.
16. If you are having any problems of any kind do not hesitate to talk to the director before or after a rehearsal.
17. If you can't participate in the theatre and simultaneously maintain other commitments, don't accept a role. School work is your first and most important commitment.
18. Have fun.