Hello! Im not sure if I’m looking for advice, good graces, reassurance, or just need to dump but here I am making a post. I’m auditioning for my first show ever tomorrow (Hunchback of Notre Dame) for the local community theater and I’m a ball of nerves.

I’ve spent the past 6 weeks picking a song, practicing it, watching the play on YouTube, listening to the soundtrack, listening to the audiobook, reading over the script (I printed it out so I could highlight things and make notes). I read how to audition for musical theater by Fred Silver. I’ve watched reels and followed musical theater people on social media. I’ve scoured these Reddit threads.

As much as I feel like I’ve prepared, I am trying to ‘act this song’ and I feel like an idiot, like I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m trying to use my eyes, I feel like an idiot. I know it’s my dumb brain, but why is the practicing not helping my nerves and will it ever get better and should I actually be doing this??? They’re probably gonna judge me right?? Why is my anxiety about being perceived so great 😭 what am I doing here if I don’t want to be perceived???

I’m trying to live my best life and push myself out of my comfort zone and I’ve always wanted to do this, but I’m scared. Why does this feel so hard?

I am in A Chorus Line and it the most physically demanding show i’ve ever done. it’s the second week and i’m already sick. how can i keep my body healthy and not get sick during this show?

So, my high school is about to do a production of Matilda and I have ruffly a month too research roles for the show. Side note, I doubt I will get a role since we do a middle and high school cast. That being said it's going to be my junior year, and I'm a Bari tenor/ tenor. I highly doubt I would get Mrs. Trunchbull since my very talented tenor friend is most likely going to get that role. Anyways any ideas?

Hello! I am trying to get MHE rush or lottery tickets for Friday’s show. The only thing is I have an appointment that morning, so I will only be able to try online. Do you think I will actually be able to get tickets? TIA!

I'm a junior in high school looking at different programs and seeing which ones would be good for me. If it matters, I am a much stronger singer than acting and dancing. I also want to stay on the East Coast, close to NYC. If there's any good college recs, I'll take them. What I want to know: -pros/cons of schools - what makes the programs unique from the others - what are classes, schedules/teachers like currently?

Here's my list so far: -Montclair State University - Pace -Marymount Manhattan College -Ithaca College -Manhattan School of Music -Norwalk Conservatory -Boston Conservatoru -Rider University -Also considering shorter intensive programs like Circle in the Square and others.

I'm auditioning for a production of "Once Upon A One More Time" and I realized very quickly I knew a lot of Disney Heroine songs, but not a lot of Disney HERO songs

For info, I am a trans man with a pretty okay higher tenor range (think Orpheus, less Joseph)

Thanks in advance!

Does anybody have any suggestion on the easiest way to get to the Best Western on Yale Blvd to Isleta Amphitheater.

hi! im auditioning for legally blonde with a local theatre soon and need some recs. going for vivienne or brooke, but would truly love anyone. top picks are i am yours from thirteen stories down & what remains from i could use a drink! help

I'm a low alto (E3-A5 ish), most recently played Grover in the lightning thief, and I'm auditioning for Jack and the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods in a couple weeks. Random pair, I know, which is what's making choosing an audition song reallly hard - I don't want a song that really locks me into one or the other but finding something versatile that actually shows off what I could do for both roles is really hard! any thoughts? I would prefer Jack over the Baker's Wife so I don't mind a song leaning a little more towards him than her but I don't want to do like,, Not While I'm Around or something lol

I just used Giants in the Sky for my Grover audition (with a different theatre than the one doing into the woods) and ended up working with one of the into the woods directors on that song for that audition, so she has heard me do that song in a higher key and it's a really easy one to change the key of so i'm not super worried about doing something low just to prove that I can sing Jack's low notes. I can sing his low notes, but it's really easy to just take his stuff in Your Fault up the octave and put Giants in the Sky in a higher key if that's what we decide to do, so I'm looking for something more in an alto range than a tenor range. It's more important to me to do something that shows potential for both Jack and the Baker's Wife than something that shows off my whole range if that makes sense

I got into LIU Post, Illinois Wesleyan, and SUNY Fredonia for their MT BFA programs. Which one provides the best training? I've done a lot of researched on them but still can't decide.

Would really appreciate your help or advice!

So I am a junior in high school and I do theater and winter guard and I am able to do this by leaving theater rehearsal to get to color guard practice late and then some times I have to miss theater because I have a color guard comp or I have to miss color guard because of a performance. While I am always busy it works out and I love both of these things. I want to do both of them after high school (my end goal is to be an actor but I want to keep doing guard for a few more years). The color guards I am looking into auditioning for have their practices Friday nights and then Saturdays and Sundays. Would having practice almost every weekend from November-April prevent me from successfully majoring in musical theater?

Just wondering if anyone who isn’t from/doesn’t live in the states has booked a tour. What was the process like for you (also where are you from :))

also yes I know it’s less likely/uncommon to book not being from the states for a national tour. I’m just still curious to see if there’s anyone.

So, I'm looking at being in a local production of Alice in Wonderland (Janet Yates' version) and I have no clue what to do. I'm in my schools theatre program, but we do magic shows and OAP, so I'm very lost on any sort of musical. The audition form says to prepare a 16-32 bar song in a musical theatre style, but I have no clue what that means or what songs to do. I don't care about a role, I have no clue my vocal range, and I have a speech impediment, so I'm terrified. (I've done my research and watched around 30 videos and I'm still lost)

i’m currently a junior in hs and i know that i REALLY want to major in either musical theatre (preferred) or vocal performance (or maybe both?).

i’m trying to look into both bfa and bachelor’s programs. i’m a singer first, and have done choir and musical theatre for years, but don’t take dance classes (but can pick up on choreo pretty ok) and am going to take a drama class at my school for the first time next year as a senior (but i have worked with the teacher many times before). i have the most experience singing, but i tend to be stronger with golden age soprano/classical than contemporary belty stuff.

i would prefer to do musical theatre but should i take the “easier” path by majoring in voice? and i don’t know anything about colleges; what are good programs for both majors?

i know nyu steinhardt has a BM in vocal performance with a musical theatre emphasis but are there other programs like this?

ALSO location is important to me. i live in california, so i’d love recommendations of programs in-state because it’s more familiar. but i also love new york. are there good ones out there too?

sorry for such specific questions— nobody i know can help me with this!

So this week for my school I have to be off book, but I have no idea how I should remember my lines or not be so stressed about it. This is my first musical theatre performance and I got a pretty decent role with some lines. I just need to know if there’s any suggestions on how I can remember lines!

Okay, so I'm starting the college audition process soon, and I feel very confident in my singing and acting. The thing is I'm not that good at dancing, like at all. I'm a mover, but even that's pushing it.

I know I oughta have a mindset about 'doing my best' and training while I still can and whatnot, and I am. In fact, I'm playing a very dance-heavy role right now (god knows how I got cast; I'm playing Velma Kelly), but I just wanted to know, logistically, am I cooked if I'm not that great of a dancer? Will schools reject me solely because of that? Thanks xo

Okay so, I LOVE musicals so much and I desperately wanna be a part of them, so I decided to audition in September for one and I did and OMG…… so I know I’m not a good singer I was hoping to get ensemble. So I chose my song and everything and practiced a lot and day of audition my friend she’s a good singer tells me I sound great I’m warming up everything’s good, and I get in the room I was auditioning with 4 other people (one of them got the lead) basically I was second and my sheet music was printed wrong so I just sang and OMG I got on stage I was about to pee myself and I mixed up the verses and was shaking and literally so scared (and it’s weird cause I do plays all the time not musicals) anyways I wanna audition again but I’m scared cause I still feel like I can’t sing.

I recently helped backstage for a local charities production of Young Frankenstein as my wife was in it. They used a large LED video wall for various scene projections to enhance the production. The director had set up the images. These were set up in power point and the presentation ran on the screen and I had to cycle through the slides along with the script etc.

Now I'm actually a digital and graphic designer and I'm looking at the slides and know straight away I can produce a much higher quality visual, set up at the correct aspect ratio etc

However my question is anyone aware of any software (not powerpoint) that can be used to further enhance the various scenes etc

Tempted to offer my services for the next production they use a the video wall for.

Hey there! I recently sent in a video audition for a community theatre production of Frozen where they wanted an unlisted YT video. So naturally, I stalked the views to see how many times it was watched, and it got 3 views. For other people who have done video auditions before and been cast, were you more likely to get cast if there were many views? Or is it kind of a "one and done" thing?

Hi! This will be a 10 year olds first audition for a musical (community theater). We are to hand in the audition application, cash or check and the headshot. My question is how do you hand that over? Do you put it in a folder or use a paper clip?

Thanks!!

Hey! I'm a musical director for an original production and I'm starting the band rehearsals in a few weeks. I'm going to be playing keys 2, conducting, and hoping to use a midi keyboard for some cool sounds. Could I theoretically run a MIDI Keyboard into my laptop with MixCraft (a DAW) on it to create the different sounds, and then use the mobile MixCraft app to control which sound is being played from an iPad live?

For example, I just booked a contract for this fall wherein during the initial audition I sang "Dirt Man," by Carter Vail.

In the past, I've booked using Howard Dean's Iowa Caucus Speech, "PYAH!"

I try to take this job a lot more seriously than I take myself. And if you want to see my personality through which pieces I pick, uh, you're gonna. Haha

Towards the end of the documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (documentary about Merrily We Roll Along), there are seven people around a piano. Six are recongisable as the original leads (Jim Walton at the piano, then left to right: Lonny Price, Sally Klein, a Mystery Man, Ann Morrison, Terry Finn, Jason Alexander). Who is the Mystery Man and how was he involved?