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2 unusual facts about audition


Audition

Most performers do have a range of audition pieces and select something appropriate; an actor auditioning for Hamlet would have a dramatic Shakespearean monologue ready, and not perform a monologue from an Oscar Wilde comedy, or a contemporary playwright.

Audition: A Memoir

Walters discusses her work and personal life, confessing to an affair with Senator Edward W. Brooke and describing her relationship with Alan Greenspan.


Actors Student Alliance

After working closely with Najan Ward who joined the group in September 2008, Aml Ameen quickly spotted his talent and helped him improve his audition techniques which led to Najan being cast by Ted Dowd for the new BBC comedy Home Time by Baby Cow Productions.

Al Letson

In 2007, Letson produced a short film which he released on the internet; this got him a call to audition for the Fox Network film-themed reality show On the Lot, though he was ultimately not selected.

András Kállay-Saunders

During his visit in Hungary he noticed a TV commercial urging talented singers to audition for the nations talent competition Megasztár.

Arthur Upfield

When he suddenly became unavailable, Fauna's John McCallum flew to London in panic and was lucky enough to audition New Zealand actor James Laurenson on his last day there.

Audition Day

During her audition, Kathy sings as Scottish amateur singer Susan Boyle who gained worldwide attention for her performance of the song "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Misérables on the reality show Britain's Got Talent.

Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014

The call back show will take place on 16 February 2014 at the Videohouse in Vilvoorde where eight artists that were selected during the casting will have another opportunity to audition.

Ben Mills

Mills' audition song for The X Factor was "Bring It On Home To Me" by Sam Cooke, which impressed the panel of judges; Simon Cowell thought he sounded like a young Joe Cocker, whom, incidentally, Ben names as one of his musical influences along with Tom Waits, Rod Stewart and David Bowie.

Brian Does Hollywood

Meanwhile, the Griffins have Stewie audition for Kids Say the Darndest Things to gain a free trip to Los Angeles in order to see Brian (although Stewie has the motive of using this opportunity to unleash a mass hypnosis device on national television, a plot which inevitably fails).

Caitlin Carmichael

A couple of months later, John Robert Powers (JRP) talent agency gave the Carmichaels a call for her to audition for The Disney Channel.

Callum Francis

In his audition in London in January 2009, he performed "Consider Yourself" from the musical Oliver!.

Chikayo Nagashima

Instead of continuing her amateur wrestling career in a university, Nagashima took part in an audition held by professional wrestling promotion, Gaea Japan, which she passed with flying colors.

Colin Bates

In November 2005 at preliminary auditions for Billy in the U.S., he went to the audition, being 15 when the cut-off age was 14; but director Stephen Daldry, realizing Colin would be too old for the Broadway production but also realizing his potential, brought Bates to London a few weeks later with his family to start rehearsals and debuted on March 13, 2006.

Colin McCormack

While still in school, at the age of fourteen in 1955, he was chosen after an audition to play a young crime victim on an early episode of BBC TV's Dixon of Dock Green.

Ellen Wong

On her second audition director Edgar Wright was surprised to find out that she had a green belt in taekwondo and was intrigued by this "sweetfaced young lady being a secret badass".

Erina Mano

She's sent to Japan as a spy for the Queen of England, and ends up passing an idol audition, so she has trouble with her espionage duties.

Ernest Lee Thomas

It was during the taping of the show that he learned of an audition for the upcoming comedy sitcom What's Happening!!, loosely based on the 1975 film Cooley High.

Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir

Among her most recent solo exhibitions are My Gift, Your Excellency in ASI Art Museum (IS 2011), Audition in Ace Art Inc (CA 2008) both in collaboration with writer Kristin Omarsdottir and Cultus Bestiae Reykjavik Art Museum (IS 2008).

Heather Parisi

Born in Los Angeles, Parisi worked some time in the United States, including the San Francisco Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre in New York, then, during a vacation in Italy, she was noticed by the coreographer Franco Miseria who made her do an audition in RAI; in 1979 Parisi debuted in the show Luna Park hosted by Pippo Baudo.

Ian Michael Smith

This time, his audition tape won over the director and the novice was hired to essay the title role of Simon Birch (1998), suggested by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Jay White

Now 1989, after an audition and a seven-week run in Reno, Nevada, Jay moved with his wife and three children from Utica, Michigan to Las Vegas to perform with Legends in the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino.

Jón Jónsson

In August 2012, Jón traveled to New York with his friend, Kristján Bjarnason, and after an audition with L.A. Reid was signed to Reid's Epic Records label.

Kyle Reese

Michael Biehn almost did not get the role of Reese because, at his audition, he spoke in a Southern accent after having just auditioned for a role in a stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof earlier that day and couldn't shake the accent, and the producers did not want Reese to seem regionalized.

Lee Jong-hyun

On his way to his audition, he met his current fellow CNBLUE member Jung Yong-hwa at the Seoul Station.

Let Me Be Your Star

In the first episode, the song is performed by characters Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) as they each prepare for and then audition for the role of Marilyn in front the production team.

Lola Jonze

In Episode 4, Fame, Lola is photographed by a newspaper journalist when she kisses Matt Willis, and gives an exclusive interview to a magazine, telling lies about her relationship with Matt Willis to get an audition to dance in a Boyzone video.

Love of the Loved

Oddly, the Beatles audition version was left off Anthology 1, even though the other Lennon–McCartney originals from the same session, "Hello Little Girl" and "Like Dreamers Do", were included.

Lukas Rossi

While Rise Electric was on hiatus in the spring of 2006, Rossi competed in Los Angeles, California, on the television show Rock Star: Supernova, as an audition for a new band composed of Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe), Jason Newsted (Metallica), and Gilby Clarke (Guns N' Roses).

Madonna Decena

Madonna found Steve, a manager based in Prescot, and went to an open audition he was putting on for cruise ship singers.

Matthew Humphreys

Matthew has said that he usually can get a "feel for" what the producers and directors want for a character when he goes in for an audition, but he was given very little information as to the personality of his Bar Karma character Doug Jones when he went in for the audition.

Michael Vale

He got the Dunkin' Donuts gig by chance: Vale was told that another actor was to be cast in the role of the baker, but he was encouraged to come to the audition anyway in case he was needed as an extra.

Miki Fujimoto

After failing the audition to join girl group Morning Musume with the fourth generation members, Fujimoto debuted as a solo artist within Hello! Project in 2002 with the single "Aenai Nagai Nichiyōbi".

Multi-Facial

Mike does the reading with her in a heavy urban accent, but the casting directors cut the audition short, saying they’re looking for more of a “Wesley-Type” (presumably Wesley Snipes).

Oona Garthwaite

Their music has been featured several times on the reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance, including an audition by Stephen "Twitch" Boss and a routine choreographed by Sonya Tayeh and performed by Ellenore Scott and Jakob Karr.

Pat Dixon

In 1951 Dixon agreed to a request from Spike Milligan to record an audition tape which included Milligan, Sellers, Bentine and Secombe; he passed the tape on to the BBC planners and stressed that a series would be an asset to the corporation.

Pori Theatre

Pori is considered as the home of Finnish-language theatre as the Finnish National Theatre gave its first audition in Pori at the Hotel Otava in 1872.

S Club Search

S Club Search is a CBBC reality television show that documents the audition process and formation for the pop group S Club Juniors in 2001.

Shah Indrawan Ismail

Tomok went in to the audition with his guitar and a new image, but one of the judges, i.e.; Paul Moss commented that his new image is like "a busker in the LRT station".

Sukrit Wisetkaew

During his college years, he decided to audition for the third season of The Star.

Tabby Callaghan

The panel of judges, Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne, advised Callaghan to re-audition as a solo singer in order to proceed in the competition.

The National Pastime

In the episode, Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) performs this baseball number, choreographed by director and choreographer Derek Wills (Jack Davenport), with a male ensemble in front of producer Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston), Derek, Tom and Julia as an audition for Derek to see if Tom and Julia want to work with him.

The Reason 4

After sailing through their audition and bootcamp stages, The Reason reached the judges houses stage and sang in front Simon Cowell's house in his residence in Marbella, singing Daniel Bedingfield's song "If You're Not The One", but were dropped by Simon, the mentor for the groups that year, in favour of One Direction, F.Y.D, Belle Amie and Diva Fever

The Secret Sisters

Laura traveled to Nashville, Tennessee for an impromptu audition at Hotel Indigo where music business record executive Andrew Brightman and producer Dave Cobb were present, looking to create a new singing group.

The Selection Box

The Selection Box hosted an open audition in the RDS in 2001 in a search for a new TV presenter.

Tokyo Sonata

The final scene depicts Kenji performing "Clair de Lune" from the Suite bergamasque at his audition with Megumi, Ryūhei, and his piano teacher watching.

Tomo Yanagishita

In 2006, Tomo won the Watanabe Entertainment´s 3rd official D-BOYS audition with the Grand Prix and became an official member of the group.

Totally Jodie Marsh

Totally Jodie Marsh: Who'll Take Her Up the Aisle? was a British reality television show, which saw glamour model Jodie Marsh audition a potential husband in London, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bournemouth.

Yoon Yeo-jeong

When Yoon was a freshman at Hanyang University majoring in Korean literature, she was chosen as a TV actress in a public audition by TBC.

Young Steff

After the controversial Roc-A-Fella split, Steff was led to super producer Rich Harrison (who produced hits such as Amerie "1 Thing ", Jennifer Lopez "Get Right", and Beyoncé "Crazy In Love") who offered to sign the young performer to his growing Richcraft label through Atlantic Records after an impromptu audition, with dancers in tow.


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