Hi again! I'd like to say thanks to those who helped me last time as I got every role I wanted. And I decided to reach out for y'all's wisdom and advice again.

I have an audition coming up for Bat Boy, which is a dream show of mine! I'm in the 20s-30s acting range, it's an adult theatre, and I am going for either Shelley or Meredith. As stated I usually play characters in the 20s30 range, while being passable as both 3 years older or younger. So really the range is 17-33, with my actual age being 20, it's wide I know but they way I dress is usually what affects it. That's why I'm having the issue of how to market myself in this audition. Shelley and Meredith are different types, with different qualities, but that's where y'all's advice comes in.

I need to find one song in the style of the show and will perform a cold read at the audition. So I'm asking for song suggestions for this audition that could hopefully cover both Shelley and Meredith. However if you've read this and decided I should just aim for one and have a song suggestion, please say so as well!

TLDR; I (20f) need song suggestions for a Bat Boy Audition. Going for Shelley or Meredith.

Hello! I am doing a high school audition of Beauty and the Beast in two weeks. My vocal range is E3 to B5. (according to this video: Find Your Vocal Range In 1 Minute.m4v). I am going for Belle/Mrs. Potts. are there any songs for them or to show off my vocal range in general. It's 16-32 bars of music. Thank you so much for your help!!!!!

in middle school and high school, i made it into a named role in everything i signed up for and also made it into select choir and other auditioned groups. in college, i didn’t major in it and didn’t get cast in the non-major performances i auditioned for despite sometimes getting called back.

i took some time off and recently have been working really hard and starting to audition again. i got a callback for one show for ensemble, but im not a strong dancer (though mostly due to lack of opportunity to learn) and im preparing for some more auditions, but i guess my question is - is it always really hard to break into community theatre? is 28 too old? am i just bad at this or not working hard enough?

basically anything that isnt a musical theater song. Im a 16 female, wide range.

Recently my local community theater decided to do a Jr. Show, however the competing theater decided to do the same show, but the adult version. I got cast as the lead (they even gender bent it) and my competition is someone thirty years older than me, and we open two weeks before they do. As far as I know we are winning on ticket sales!

What audition song should I do for highschool musical?

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Hello! I need your help. I study Musical Theatre and I will be singing “Kiss me part 1” from Sweeney Todd as a duet for a performance class. Part of the brief is that it needs to be a spoken text scene, into a song, however, there is no scene beforehand between Anthony and Joanna that is just spoken text. Im looking for a play that has a scene between two forbidden lovers that we could use before the song? I doesn’t have to be long! Any play/ scene suggestions that would lead well into this song? Thanks!

I get callbacks are a chance to see how different actors play off each other, dance, etc. But, if as a director, you have already told someone they will have the role, why hold a large callback? It seems like a waste of everyone's time.

So my community theatre revealed their season today and Sweeney Todd Auditions are next weekend. I have listened to the soundtrack many times, but I’ve never actually watched it so I’m unfamiliar with the actual characters. Are there any roles that I have a shot at getting as an 18yo male, or am I too young for most of them? (Vocal range is approximately Db2-F4 if that helps)

Hello, I know I posted about monologues earlier but I just found out that I need to sing an uptempo mainstream song and a musical theater song for Spring Awakening. I am going to do All Grown Up from Bare for the musical theater song but I'm not sure what I should use for the uptempo mainstream song. Any recommendations?

Hello! I currently work full-time as a customer service associate at a job I really enjoy actually. I have been mainly working this job to grow my financial wealth and I have a good amount of money in my savings, to help support me for at least a year. I have recently been contemplating full on pursuing my career in musical theatre starting this summer. For more background, I have recently graduated last May with a BFA in Musical Theatre, therefore I have the training and experience since I’ve also been in a good amount of musicals.

I do feel secure financially at this time. In August I am planning to either quit my day job entirely, or switch to part-time to be able to audition and be in any sort of projects in the performance industry, weather that’s commercials, films, musicals, plays, etc.

I have found when I first started my day job, I was part-time for 4 hours a day, 6 days week. But it sucked because I found that I felt like I wasn’t able to audition at any point really. Therefore, I switched to full-time to focus more on making money since I was limited on auditions and being in projects.

If I were to quit my day job entirely, I do know a lot of promotional work companies that offer 4 hour shifts on the weekends, it’s more of a gig style job however, so I would have to pick up the hours I would be able to get.

If I were to go back to part-time, I would ask if I can just work 3-4 days a week for about 20 hours a week, instead of the old schedule I had.

Or is it possible to audition with my current full-time schedule? I work from Tuesdays-Saturdays, from 9:30-5:30.

I just need help figuring out the most realistic choice. I would really appreciate it :)

TLDR; I am figuring out if I should stay full-time, switch to part-time, or quit entirely (while doing promotional gig work) to pursue my dream as a professional performer. What would be most realistic?

i’m a teenager and i’ve been doing musical theater for awhile now, I need to make a resume but every time I look it up it’s for professionals or adults. how do I make a resume and what info should I include?

I am auditioning for a production of Spring Awakening and it is requiring a monologue with the song. I am new to musical theatre, and don’t have a good monologue for Spring Awakening. I’m early 20s female and would love to be cast as Ilse. Any suggestions? Should I use a monologue from the show?

But the past tense of cast is cast.

So this is something I can't really share with anyone irl (except my kids who've never trod the boards) so I thought this would be an appropriate venue. After rehearsal last night, while I was still sweaty from singing and dancing with everything I had (which isn't much compared to my talented, trained, and much younger cast mates) the director smiled at me and said "good work tonight"! I'm just really happy and wanted to share without boring my friends and family who don't do theater!! Also, for anyone who's afraid they are too old, or don't have formal voice and dance training, just try it. It brings so much joy into my life! (Although in this subreddit, I'm surely preaching to the choir.)

I just wanted to come and share my excitement for the show I got casted in. I sent in a self tape to a theatre I had never auditioned for doing Bonnie & Clyde (a show I've wanted to do for so long) and I was shocked and excited to see I got a callback for Buck and a few other roles. I didn't care who I got, cause again I just love this show and wanted to just be in it, but I ended up getting Younger Clyde, which I love. I'm just really happy about this and wanted to share!

Hey does anyone know where I can find/ can send me a backing track or karaoke version of three gigs from Amelie the musical? There’s nothing on YouTube sadly

Whenever I try to use breath support I feel my and tense up. Is this bad? If so how do I fix it and use support correctly?

My 10yo is auditioning for a theatre group, needs up to 32 bars of a musical theatre song in the style of matilda or mean girls (but not from those shows).

She mostly knows disney jr numbers which I dont think suit. She does a great Mama Im a big girl now from Hairspray from another performance, would this be ok? Or she can learn something new, noting only a week.

I know for me it was probably a production of Peter Pan. I haven’t been able to even watch the Disney movie since I was in it.

I’ve been rehearsing for a show for the past 1.5 months or so, and I’ve become increasingly frustrated with one of my scene partners. It is a show with a very large main group- there is almost always at least 5-10 of us on stage as once. Anyway, there’s one girl that I almost always move around with. She is taller than me. While I feel like she is generally uncooperative, unresponsive, and disruptive, the thing that bothers me the most is that she always stands right in front of me and others on stage, completely blocking our view of the audience and vice versa. In the past when I have tried to kindly say like “hey, could you scooch over a little bit so im not in this awkward space behind you”, I was ignored and she did not move. I just don’t know how to approach her about it. She’s kind of “popular” if that makes any sense- pretty cliquey and will close you out if you aren’t in it. She has completely ignored me more times than I can count, so I’ve kind of given up trying to converse with her.

Hello! I am doing a high school audition of Beauty and the Beast in two weeks. My vocal range is E3 to B5. (according to this video: Find Your Vocal Range In 1 Minute.m4v). I am going for Belle/Mrs. Potts. are there any songs for them or to show off my vocal range in general. Thank you so much for your help!!!!!

hi all! i’m new to the group so please let me know if this question isn’t allowed. but i’m looking for help finding an audition song!!

i’m auditioning for the role of natalie goodman in next to normal in about a month and i’m trying to find a good audition song. this is my all time dream role, so i really want to make sure the song is perfect.

so far i’ve considered fight for me from heathers, but i know heathers teeters on “do not sing.” i also considered all grown up from bare, but the theatre company im auditioning in is doing bare later this year, so it feels kind of sneaky to use one of its songs in an audition lol.

shows i’m familiar with because i’ve done them, seen them repeatedly, or obsessed over their soundtracks are:

• in the heights
• les miserabls
• heathers
• legally blonde
• urinetown
• 13! the musical
• high school musical (the stage production not the movie lol)
• the sound of music
• hamilton
• bare

but obviously i’m not limiting myself to these shows. it would just be ideal to find something i already know like the back of my hand. if anyone has ANY suggestions i am so open to them!! thank you!

Hello fellow theatre enthusiasts and thespians!! I am about to be a freshly graduated musical theatre major, so naturally I’m starting to really pay attention to paid shows. That being said, I have a backstage account and I’ve been looking for shows there. I’ve come across quite a few that ask for a cover letter in the audition requirements. I have never written a cover letter for theatre and was wondering if it is the same or different than writing one for a non theatre job. I’ve done some research and have found some examples of theatre cover letters, but I’m still apprehensive. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to writing a good theatre cover letter?

Hello,

I'm going to be auditioning for Spring Awakening and Grease in the next few weeks and was wondering if anyone has monologues that would be good for these shows?

Hello! I have auditions for beauty and the beast (high school) coming up in 2 weeks. The auditions are in the spring but the musical and rehearsals are in the fall. I was wondering if I should try to audition for belle or mrs. potts with my audition song. You don't say who you want to be or anything. I just wonder which person I should go for because their songs are different. I am a bit heavier but I want to lose weight before the school year comes around again. I believe I could sing both parts but I might not get belle. What do you think? (And if you have any ideas for what songs to sing that would be great too.) Thank you for your help!