Family and non-theatre friends (“Civilians” as my friend Jay calls them) are essential supporters in our lives. We’re in a high sacrifice, low payout career. Having normal human beings around can be the key to maintaining sanity and perspective. Still, we occasionally have to translate our odd experiences to those, the fully functional, who have [...]
Archive for the ‘Auditions’ Category
Be Confident. Be Yourself. Gee, thanks.
Posted in Auditions, Career, Chicago, Inspiration, Projects, Theatre, tagged acting, Auditions, Confidence, Preparation, Theatre on April 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Posted in Auditions, Career, Projects, Theatre on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I have this philosophy that being open about the closed-door process of auditioning demystifies potentially intimidating situations and help us all learn from each other’s experiences. I know, I know…grab some s’more supplies and we’ll all gather around the campfire and sing “Kumbaya”. But on the real, something I am intensely interested in is audition [...]
11 Things I Have to Tell Myself About Theatre…and Nachos
Posted in Auditions, Career, Chicago, Inspiration, Midwest, Musical Auditions Series, Network, Projects, Theatre, Uncategorized on April 13, 2012 | 5 Comments »
A castmate and I were musing about our respective moves to Chicago and how our 21 year old selves would view our current lives. While I sort of wrote this blog post to my 21 year old self, I also know that I couldn’t have learned these things by reading a list. I really had [...]
Kiss Me Kate (The Musical Project)
Posted in Auditions, Movies, Music, Projects, The Musical Project, Theatre, tagged Cole Porter, Kiss Me Kate, Movie Musicals on April 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was just recently in a production of Kiss Me Kate, so my proximity to this material will be much closer than most of the musicals I cover in The Musical Project. Kiss Me Kate is so very fun to sing. I’ll get to the score and the actual meat of the musical itself [...]
Movie Hero of the Week – Ray Liotta*
Posted in Art, Auditions, Career, Inspiration, Movie Hero of the Week, Movies, Projects, Uncategorized, tagged acting, actors, Goodfellas, Movie Hero of the Week, Movies, Ray Liotta on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Jay sent me THIS GQ article on the making of my favorite movie, Goodfellas. (My second favorite movie is What a Way To Go which, I feel, in combination with Goodfellas reveals nothing about my personality whatsoever. Except maybe a love for a dance number, the color pink, with an undercurrent of gritty [...]
Musical Auditions: Part 2: The Audition Day
Posted in Art, Auditions, Career, Chicago, Music, Musical Auditions Series, The Musical Project, Theatre, tagged Chicago, Musical Auditions, Musical Theatre, Musicals, Theatre on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Part 2 of a series about Musical Auditions. (Click here to view Part 1: Preparation) We all have our own little rituals when it comes to stressful situations. Some people do a little yoga, some meditate, others pray. Some people seem to be immune to audition nerves and bully for them. For me, I like [...]
Every Little Step
Posted in Art, Auditions, Career, Inspiration, Movies, Music, The Musical Project, Theatre, tagged A Chorus Line, Auditions, Broadway, Every Little Step on January 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Every Little Step sat in my watch instantly queue for quite some time. Meanwhile, I was recently promoted to admin from receptionist so I’ve been getting to know the executives I’m assisting. Living in a big city like Chicago means you really don’t have the luxury of making a lot of assumptions about people. I [...]
Auditions: Musicals – Part 1: Preparation
Posted in Art, Auditions, Books, Career, Chicago, Music, Musical Auditions Series, Projects, The Musical Project, Theatre, Uncategorized, tagged acting, Advice, Auditions, Chicago, Musical Theatre on January 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This is the first post (sort of) in a series about how I prepare for auditions. I actually enjoy auditioning now, but for years it caused me much stress. Was I doing it “right”? Why was I so nervous? How do other people do it? I’ve been lucky enough to experience both sides of the [...]
Extra Extra! Read all about it!
Posted in Auditions, Chicago, Movies, Theatre, tagged acting, Extra, Film, How To Be An Extra, Movies on November 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Let me just say this straight away, in order for being an extra to be a good experience, you have to love movies. I have been an extra six times. Some for commercials, once for a tv show, and twice for a movie. In fact that movie is actually presently shooting. I don’t know how [...]
The Musical Project – The List
Posted in Auditions, Movies, Music, Projects, The Musical Project, Theatre, Uncategorized, tagged Movies, Musicals, The Musical Project, Theatre on June 16, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Updated with a few new musicals to represent George M. Cohan and the introduction of successful playwrights such as George S. Kaufman PART TWO of a SERIES (Find Part 1 here) Who else would run a musical library, I ask you? (I mentioned in the last post that I would start with The Broadway Melody [...]
