Audition Process

What is a Monologue

• A speech given by one actor alone on stage.

• How an actor tries out for a part

• A speech given by one actor, with or without others on stage.

• The term for where the audience sits, or refers to the audience as a whole

What is Stage Presence

• Being confident standing on stage, commanding audience attention

• Standing on stage

• The term for other actors on stage with you

• Being scared to perform

Describe an Open Audition

• Anyone is allowed to come audition, everyone can see others’ auditions

• Only select people may audition, small groups taken in at a time.

• Auditionees have 60-90 seconds to perform, Auditonees have numbers, huge groups audition.

• Actors have been narrowed down from the initial audition

Describe a Closed Audition

• Anyone is allowed to come audition, everyone can see others’ auditions

• Only select people may audition, small groups taken in at a time.

• Auditionees have 60-90 seconds to perform, Auditonees have numbers, huge groups audition.

• Actors have been narrowed down from the initial audition

Describe a Cattle Call Audition

• Anyone is allowed to come audition, everyone can see others’ auditions

• Only select people may audition, small groups taken in at a time.

• Auditionees have 60-90 seconds to perform, Auditonees have numbers, huge groups audition.

• Actors have been narrowed down from the initial audition

How do actors get roles?

• Interviews

• Being famous, people call them up

• Auditioning and showing they're the best fit

• Bribing the director

The words to a song.

• closed audition

• cuttings

• open auditions

• lyrics

You receive the cutting just before you walk on stage to an audition.

• cold audition

• cuttings

• open audition

• call-back

You receive the cutting in time to rehearse before the audition.

• cold audition

• open audition

• closed audition

• prepared audition

It is important to be punctual for an audition, if not early.

• True

• False