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elizabethjaneforrest  Tony Winner
Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Total posts: 288 Location: Ashland, OR Primary role: Performer |
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Have you ever been in the room for an audition that was just so wrong on so many levels that you had to excuse yourself from the room to laugh?
Last week, I sat in on some auditions for "Sweeney Todd," and a tall, pale, redheaded girl hands the pianist her music and then starts singing "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess" in an operatic voice as if it were something straight out of Gilbert & Sullivan.
I nearly died.
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LisaKitty Broadway Legend
Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Total posts: 1340 Location: The Emerald City (that's Seattle, not Oz) Primary role: Performer Current obsession: Chocolate!!!!! |
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Oh boy, have I ever! The most bizarre one that comes to mind was when I was vocal directing a production of "Dracula - The Musical?" and one young man came in for his audition and sang both parts of the Elephant Duet from Moulon Rouge. Yeah ...
Actually, there is still one that my husband and I laugh about to this day (the audition was over 5 years ago). A woman sang The Lonely Goatherd for an audition for Pirates of Penzance. Complete with a choreographed dance. We still joke about the Lonely Goatherd Dance. Though in that particular case, her gamble paid off, and we ended up casting her as one of the daughters.
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| DontDoSadnessxx Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Total posts: 1906 Location: An Island that may be considered Long Primary role: Performer Current obsession: Le Nozze Di Figaro |
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Being one of the people that used to be laughed at, I don't think this thread is right...
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elizabethjaneforrestTony Winner
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| DontDoSadnessxx wrote: | | Being one of the people that used to be laughed at, I don't think this thread is right... |
Did you do something worthy of being laughed at or was it just malicious?
If the laughter was warranted, you should learn to have a sense of humor about your past mistakes. I sure do.
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candlestickjay Off-Broadway Lead Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Total posts: 204 Location: TN/KY Primary role: Performer Current obsession: Next to Normal, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd |
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In high school we had a girl sing Rihanna for Guys and Dolls....
D-:
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| kozafluitmusique Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Total posts: 7122 Primary role: Performer Current obsession: Getting better |
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| candlestickjay wrote: | In high school we had a girl sing Rihanna for Guys and Dolls....
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Rihanna? For Guys and Dolls?
Ha. I've probably been laughed at before...but I seriously want to kill anyone who didn't sing in the right style that got a better part than I did for 42nd Street.
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| DontDoSadnessxx Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Total posts: 1906 Location: An Island that may be considered Long Primary role: Performer Current obsession: Le Nozze Di Figaro |
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| elizabethjaneforrest wrote: | | DontDoSadnessxx wrote: | | Being one of the people that used to be laughed at, I don't think this thread is right... |
Did you do something worthy of being laughed at or was it just malicious?
If the laughter was warranted, you should learn to have a sense of humor about your past mistakes. I sure do. |
people just didnt like me. lol.
anyway I do have one story. just one! when I was at les mis callbacks this kid was singing red and black, and he had the paper with the words right in front of his face. like blocking his entire face and he was still messing up the words. it was rather entertaining.
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elizabethjaneforrestTony Winner
Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Total posts: 288 Location: Ashland, OR Primary role: Performer |
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I just thought of another one. For "Crazy For You" auditions, a girl was singing "Someone To Watch Over Me" and she sang the following...
"I'd like to add his initials to my mammogram..."
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psych_out Chorus Member Joined: 14 May 2007 Total posts: 67 |
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| elizabethjaneforrest wrote: |
"I'd like to add his initials to my mammogram..." |
Well, that changes the meaning a bit. 
I heard some crazy ideas when people were auditioning for my school's musical this year, but thankfully didn't witness any of them to see if they followed through. I swear at least two seperate freshmen mentioned that they were singing 16 bars of "It's a Hard-Knock Life." |
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sunraeBroadway Legend
Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Total posts: 884 Location: California Primary role: Performer |
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Just yesterday I was sitting in on auditions for Meshugga-Nuns (a Nunsense musical) and this girl was dressed in sparkly heeled shoes and a red party dress and she sang a song that she said she "learned at camp" and it was called.....Suffocation.
Each verse then told about a different way that a person or animal could be suffocated, including putting a hose in your mouth, or being bowled over with a bowling ball.
It was a little scary, but oh my goodness so funny! I had to try really hard not to burst out in laughter!
One that my friend told me about was someone who came into auditions with an old school CD player and proceeded to put her headphones on and rock out to whatever music she was listening to and singing along with it.
Wish I could have been there.......
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| MuzikalThetrFreakXtrodina Primary role: Performer Current obsession: A Chorus Line, Les Mis, Once Upon a Mattress |
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| We were doing auditions for a school medley of musical theatre pieces and this guy Jamie sings the reprise/end of Who Will Buy from Oliver. He forgot to tell the directors his name, age and what he wanted to do in the medley. Plus he sang off key, AND off beat. This other guy Thomas did the first section and told the directors what they wanted to know, but then..he starts singing in a nasely southern accent. And mind you he doesn't not talk like that and the fact that he was a short, nerdy Asian kid. I was trying so hard not to laugh for the whole 45 minute class period. |
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| MuzikalThetrFreakXtrodina Primary role: Performer Current obsession: A Chorus Line, Les Mis, Once Upon a Mattress |
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We were also doing dance auditions and one guy, Brandon, couldn't do a coffee grinder and did like one in the time that everyone else had done about six.
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