From The Thespian's Mouth

Help with auditions?

I’m sending in a video audition for a tv show that’s going be like The View but with teenagers.

This is the audition info:

Are you between the age of 11-17 with a BIG personality and strong opinions about the environment, politics, sports, music, and lifestyle? If so, we want to meet YOU.

Please send us a 5 minute or less video clip showing your commentary of one of the above subjects, or you can create your own subject that you are passionate about. Topics should showcase current issues and should be structured like this:

Introduction: Name, age and city
Identify the topic/issue with the facts
Identify both sides of the issue
Give your personal opinion on the issue
Finally, is there a solution?

So basically, I need help with choosing a subject? I don’t want to go mainstream and I want something that shows my personality (quirky and outgoing, but thoughtful).

So yanno. Help?

1. What Broadway/off-Broadway song do you relate to?

Let Your Freak Flag Fly - Shrek

2. Favorite female voice? Favorite male voice?

SUTTON FREAKING FOSTER. Male, I’m not sure. Maybe Christian Borle or Brian D’arcy James or Aaron Tviet?

3. What is your favorite show based off the music?

Shrek.

4. What’s the most overrated show?

Mary Poppins. Sorry. Not a fan.

5. What’s the most underrated show?

13 easily.

6. How many cast recording albums do you own?

None like…physically. But TONS on iTunes.

7. What was the first cast recording you owned?

Either Cats or Sound of Music.

8. Favorite choreographed number?

Story of My Life - Shrek (I freaking love Shrek if you can’t tell)

9. What do you think of shows based around the music of other artists? (i.e. American Idiot, Mamma Mia)

Meh. I’m not crazy about jukebox musicals.

10. Favorite song cut from a show?

MORE TO THE STORY

11. Most powerful song you’ve heard in a show?

I Dreamed A Dream

12. Saddest song you’ve heard?

Thank Goodness…There’s just something about it that’s heart breaking.

13. Do you reenact/sing in front of the mirror/pretend you’re the character when you’re singing along to a song?

I put on fully staged productions in my head while I’m doing this.
^^Just gonna leave that answer there cuz it’s pretty much me. 

14. Top five broadway/off-Broadway songs?

Not in order:

Show Off - Drowsy Chaperone 

Anything Goes - Anything Goes

No Good Deed - Wicked

Poor Unfortunate Souls- The Little Mermaid on Broadway

Suddenly Seymour- LSOH

15. Can you sing?

Decently enough.

16. What shows have you seen on Broadway?

Wicked only :S

17. If you could play any role on Broadway, what would it be?

GALINDA. I don’t care if all thespians hate Wicked. I love Galinda. Or Ursula from The Little Mermaid.

18. Name some stars you’ve met at the stage door.

None

19. If you could go up to New York and see any and every Broadway show you want to, what would you go see?

All of them. But more specifically, Book of Mormon, Shrek, Newsies, Anything Goes, I’m not sure what else….Really all of them though.

20. Which Broadway star do you want to see live more than anyone else?

Sutton Foster, Meghan Hilty, Ariana Grande.

21. Favorite Tony Awards host?

NPH obviously.

22. Least Favorite Musical

ohmygod. Like, South Pacific or Carasoul (idk how to spell it) 

23. What is your go to shower song?

Whatever is in my head.

24. What does Broadway mean to you?

Everything.

So my YouTube isn’t working so the musical theatre challenge will be on pause…

here’s a picture of Nick Jonas failing terribly at making a heart to make it up to you.

List of songs I have to choose from for the showcase:

• Shy - Once Upon a Matress
• Let Me Be Your Star - Smash
• Don’t Let Me Go - Shrek
• Beautiful - Christina A
• Too Darn Hot - Kiss Me Kate
• Somewhere That’s Green - LSOH
• Suddenly Seymour - LSOH
• I Won’t Say I’m In Love - Hercules

Help me choose??

JEANINE TESORI JUST RESPONDED TO MY FAN LETTER TELLING ME TO KEEP COMPOSING WHICH BASICALLY MEANS SHE LOVES ME. I AM DROWNING IN MY OWN TEARS.

Updated dream castings…

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I’m thinking about giving up the performing, Broadway dream

I think my potential to be a performer on Broadway is about 0%. Sure I can act but I know that I just can’t sing. It bugs me no one’s really told me this and I kept convincing myself I can. A few years down the road, I realize it’s not worth it.

But I’m not completely unhappy with this. Granted, I out of my mind love performing. The rush and the thrill. I can’t imagine living without it…but what if I did something else that would make me almost just as happy?

What if I became a director? Or a playwright? Something else I love about theatre is the backstage work. The nitty gritty work, getting into everything, creating an experience versus a show. For both the team and the audience. I would be apart of the casting, making others’ dreams come true. I would still have friends in the cast, and I would still be around those crazy theatre people I love to be around.

I just love being around my weirdos and the life they get to live if they’re lucky enough.

Who can blame me for hoping?

I mean honestly, who could really blame me for dreaming? That maybe one of these 3 dreams could come true? That maybe, and just maybe people here—my own FRIENDS who KNOW how much this means to me—could commit? I figured someone would see my hard work and help out a bit. 

It frusterates me more than anything when my best friend dropped out. She knows how important this is to me. And she just dropped out giggling like it was no big deal. It is. This means everything to me.

Believe it or not, I’m still pushing. E&N will be on stage. Or maybe I’ll have to write another play. I don’t care. I’m not afraid of a little hard work and sweat. 

I will work hard and it will pay off. Excuse me while I go live my dreams.