CALLING ALL THEATER PARENTS! With the auditions coming up soon, your kids may be getting a bit nervous – especially if they have never auditioned for a musical before. Well, every scary thing they are imagining . . . IS ABSOLUTELY GOING TO HAPPEN ! ! !
Calm down, just kidding. There’s really nothing to worry about. Let me give you quick rundown of the audition process. It often helps to know what you are walking into
Auditions are being held on two different days – Thursday the 3rd and Saturday the 5th. You only need to come to one or the other. We’re expecting that the bulk of the kids will come Saturday morning, so if you want less hassle, you may want to consider coming Thursday evening. Just my opinion.
When you get to the auditorium, you will get an audition form to complete. If you’d like to help us out, you can download the form beforehand (right HERE) and bring it to the auditions already completed. That will be easier for you and will save everyone lots of time.
As you come in, each auditioning child will be given a name tag with a number on it. That will help us remember each kid – with the large number of children we expect, keeping everyone straight gets hard. We’ll take some pictures and video the auditions. (These pictures will NOT be used for the show program – we’ll take those at a later date.)
The first thing we will do is take the kids and teach them a relatively simple dance routine. Depending on the size of the group – we may do this in several sessions. The kids (in a group) will then demonstrate their ability to remember the dance.
As groups are finished with the dance, they will go and learn the audition song. Everyone will sing the posted songs from Winnie the Pooh regardless of which show they will be cast in. We just need to find out how well they sing in a group and by themselves. (If they are not auditioning for a solo role they only have to sing with the group.). Once again, learning the song beforehand will save a lot of time so please check out the song links in a previous post.
The final step will be running the kids through a script read IF they want a speaking role. If not, they can skip this step.And that’s it! Easy, right? So no more stressing. This will be easy and fun.
Once we decide on the casting, the results will be posted right here on our web site. We fully expect to post the list no later than Monday. Probably sooner. And we will try to accommodate all special casting requests you put on the audition form. “Can my three kids all be in the same show?” “My daughter want to be in the same show as her friends.” “We’re going to be on vacation during the first show” “My son wants the lead.” (OK, maybe we can’t promise to satisfy that last request.)
And while the kids are going through the process, the producers will meet with the parents to let you know how you can help out and to answer any questions you might have.
Any questions? Any answers?
OK, then we’ll you at auditions!