Full Description
In The Ultimate Musical Theatre College Audition Guide, author, acting teacher, and musical theatre program director Amy Rogers offers an honest, no-nonsense guide to the musical theatre audition. Written for high school students and their parents, teachers, and mentors, the book demystifies what can be an overwhelming process with step-by-step explanations of audition checkpoints to answer every student's question, "where do I begin?" Chapters explore degree types, summer programs and intensives, audition coaches, what to sing, what to wear, headshots, how to prepare your monologue, the dance call, the university and program applications, prescreens, on-campus auditions, Unifides, resumes, acceptances/waitlists/rejections, and more. The book also includes advice from over 10 top-tier program directors and faculty, as well as examples from students, parents, and experts currently working on Broadway. Written with compassion, experience, and a love of the industry, Rogers' essential all-in-one guide is guaranteed to prevent surprise throughout the audition process.
Contents
Preface: Let's Start at the Very Beginning
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Find Your Grail
Chapter 1: Learn Your Lessons Well : Applying to Programs
Chapter 2: Summertime: Ways to Prepare
Chapter 3: No One is Alone: The Audition Coach
Chapter 4: Sing Me a Happy Song: Audition Songs
Chapter 5: Say it Somehow: Monologues
Chapter 6: Putting it Together: The Application Details
Chapter 7: Look at Me Now: Prescreens
Chapter 8: Another Hundred People: National Unified Auditions
Chapter 9: Handful of Keys: Ask an Accompanist
Chapter 10: From the Top...a 5, 6, 7, 8: The Dance Call
Chapter 11: The Room Where it Happens: Auditions: The Day Of
Chapter 12: Something's Coming: Making the Decision (Acceptances)
Chapter 13: Whatever Happens, Let's Begin: Waitlists and Rejections
Afterword: I Chose Right
Appendix A: Musical Terms
Appendix B: Headshots and Resumes
