If you have a great book on auditions, please share. ( Audition Michael Shurtleff, Bantam Books, 1980, pp.205-206) Your chief drive should be to create a relationship with your chosen partner that is warm, loving, needful. I’ve been listening to actors sing for many years, and I know there is nothing more wearing on the auditor than being sung to! It means I have to be the other half of your love duet if you do that to me I have to smile encouragingly and send back feelings, when what I want as an auditor is to watch you objectively and judge you, not be the other half of your intensely personal relationship. However, do not sing the whole song directly to the auditors (unless they specifically ask you to). Occasionally, you may indeed include the real auditors who are actually there: include them when you feel you’re doing well, so that they get you at your most secure. Not to the auditors, not to an audience, but to real people who mean something to you.
Place these life people in the theatre and sing to them. He should pick highly sympathetic people (like his sweetheart or his music teacher), who are on his side, rooting for him, anxious to approve, and offering emotional response when he sings well to them. He wrote Audition,1 a book for actors on the audition process. He needs to create relationships of strong need to these two people, so that his singing is asking for their response. Audition by michael shurtleff free pdf Want more Advanced embedding details, examples, and help Michael Shurtleff (Jin Oak Park, Illinois Januin Los Angeles, California) was a major force in casting on Broadway during the 1960s and 1970s. In his imagination he needs to place out there in the audience a person in the balcony and another in the orchestra section. Since most of us are inexperienced with relating to groups, the singing actor needs to make a relationship that is highly personal and real to him. “Most audition singing is out front, into the theatre, toward the audience.
The great singers of popular music are not those with the greatest voices but those who know how to communicate feeling….
Audiences are concerned far less with the quality of voices than with the emotional life that is being created. Most singers don’t which is why they are dull and lifeless, concerned as they are with making notes and pear-shaped vowel sounds. Singing the Song: “The most important element in singing at auditions is not the forming of sound but the creation of a relationship… To wet your appetite, here is an excerpt about singing in auditions. This is a must read for anyone interested in being on stage. He said that even though it’s about auditions, it was a great book on acting too. I had a director recommend this book to me.