Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #musicaltheatre
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Listen. It took me years to realize I stopped auditioning for musical theater not bc I was lazy, but bc I was in pain. It wasnât the rejectionâit was walking into a room & being made to feel like your body was unreasonable, that by showing up you were wasting everyoneâs time.
It was standing in a row with 30 girls in leotards and LaDucas and watching the casting directorâs eyes skip over you as he scanned the line, or mindlessly push your headshot to the rejection pile with without even looking at you long enough to see your face.
It was the urge to walk up to the only other big girl in the holding room & sit in silent camaraderie, while secretly hating she was there. There were only so many âold ladyâ (or âfat friendâ or âclueless teenâ or âsassy villainâ) roles to go around and theyâd never cast you both
Memory Monday, from Broadway star Stephanie J. Block on THE GRASS HARP (2001-2):
"MTG is incredible, in the sense that artists come together, trusting each other, lifting each other up, supporting each other, and allowing each other to be complete fools in a safe space."
"MTG is incredible, in the sense that artists come together, trusting each other, lifting each other up, supporting each other, and allowing each other to be complete fools in a safe space."
"We all run fast and furious to make the art happen, and those nights that we do get to perform the material, itâs complete magic, because itâs all so fresh â itâs literally at the tips of our fingers and the tips of our tongues, and itâs exciting and wonderful."
"With THE GRASS HARP, my ridiculous character got to make people laugh, got to surprise people, and I wasnât necessarily given those opportunities before. It was this wonderful glimpse into what I wanted to be and do more often. "
Since it seems that Iâve been remiss with issuing my usual bits of #audition advice before the annual Unified Professional Theatre Auditions @UPTA, and the Spring Southeastern Theatre Conference @SETCTweet Pro-Div Auditions, here is a quick guide in 9 tweets:
#singers #actors
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#singers #actors
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Hereâs a recent column I wrote for @BroadwayWorld about preparing your sheet music, your âbookâ.
"How To Prepare Your Audition Book"
broadwayworld.com/article/How-ToâŚ
#auditions #singers #musicaltheatre
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"How To Prepare Your Audition Book"
broadwayworld.com/article/How-ToâŚ
#auditions #singers #musicaltheatre
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If you head to Instagram, you can view gems such as this by searching for the following hashtag:
#JCS20UPTA25SETC
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#JCS20UPTA25SETC
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A Shoutout to @AAPlay (aka a thread about small theatre companies) When @thatjuliacho read FOUR IMMIGRANTS and shared it with the folks at AAP, they could have easily said âWe donât do #musicaltheatre and this one is especially too big for us to ever produce.â 1/10
@AAPlay @thatjuliacho Instead, they came back to me with âWhat *can* we do together?â Instead of seeing barriers, they wanted to create an opportunity. Thatâs what led to connecting with @VisionsnVoices and producing the concert reading that happened on Wednesday. 2/10
@AAPlay @thatjuliacho @VisionsnVoices That question âWhat *can* we do?â can be SO valuable for playwrights. So often, we are told âthat doesnât quite fit what we doâ and then the onus is on playwrights to then come back with something that might fit better. 3/10
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