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Thespian_4_ever
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Joined: 9/16/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 43 |
 Topic: *HELP! On Golden Pond Auditions!*Posted: 7/24/06 at 10:34pm |
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I need to know anything about Billy Ray in On Golden Pond auditions are Saturday! HELP!
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POB14
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Joined: 7/01/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 349 |
Posted: 7/25/06 at 9:28am |
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What do you want to know? He's a brat. He's never met his grandparents, because his mom and grandpa have been at loggerheads for years over absolutely nothing. (Which, by the way, my own family mirrored for years, so I have a bit of a soft spot for this show.) He's a good kid, really, but he's inherited the Thayer bullheadedness. Don't play the negatives, they're written. Play the positives: he's fascinated by his surroundings, he's intrigued by everything, but he has a limited way of expressing that. Now, a question for you. Are you auditioning for a play you haven't read? Which fairly closely tracks a widely available movie, that perhaps you haven't seen, either? Why? As the board veterans might remember, I did Hedda Gabler several months ago. At auditions, a college student, bright, very involved in theatre, a good kid in every way, said, to fellow auditioners: "So, this is some kind of tragedy, right?" This was not some obscure avant-garde piece nobody's ever heard of. It was Hedda Freaking Gabler. Now, I'm not going to say that Ibsen invented the modern realistic play, but, well, he did. Thespian_4_Ever, I'm sorry for the rant. It's really not directed at you. Break a leg at auditions. But it can only help you to read the play, okay? |
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POB
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theaterbrat
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Joined: 3/27/05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 7/25/06 at 1:23pm |
I want to tell that to SO many people in my community theater! I am a teenager, and very into theater. I try to act as professional as possible, reading the play beforehand, knowing the characters, having a headshot and resume, etc. Then I get labled a "snob' and a "know-it-all" by other teenagers, and that makes me so mad. 
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B-M-D
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Joined: 11/03/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 346 |
Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:25pm |
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Three things to suggest Matt: READ THE PLAY! READ THE PLAY!! READ THE PLAY!!!
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BD
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castMe
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Posted: 7/26/06 at 5:17pm |
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To elaborate on BMD's comment. I don't believe he's repeating the
phrase for emphasis, I think he means to read the show at least three
times. That is how I was trained and that is what I do.
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Investigate. Imagine. Choose.
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B-M-D
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Posted: 7/26/06 at 11:10pm |
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Uuuhhh......ok that too. LOL |
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BD
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Shatcher
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Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:28am |
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Theatrebrat, just keep doing what you are doing. don't worry about what the other teens say. If that is the way they think they will never have a chance in geting a real theatre job. sounds like you have a good attitude you should go far. Besides it just means you will get better parts Rock On!! |
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Thespian_4_ever
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Joined: 9/16/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 43 |
Posted: 8/17/06 at 10:23am |
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Well I ended up not auditioning for the show becuase another show I'm stage managing conflicts with On Golden Pond...
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TonyDi
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Posted: 9/13/06 at 3:21pm |
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Just for the record..........
Billy Ray WAS NOT a Thayer. He is Bill Ray's son and Chelsea Thayer is his step-mother (to be until she and Bill get married). About the bullheadedness though, he COULD easily have been a Thayer - which is why he probably gets along with Norman. But it's a moot point now since you didn't take the role. TonyDi |
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POB14
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Posted: 9/14/06 at 9:53am |
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Oops, you're exactly right -- I had forgotten that. Please imagine that I said that "he HAS the Thayer bullheadedness" instead of "he's INHERITED" it.
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So how does somebody (smart, interested in theatre) show up at auditions with no idea what that play is about?
