I'll only have a week to get ready for my school's musical auditions! Help, please?

Question

Well, the meeting where they give us the scripts and sheet music is the first day of school at lunch (uber lame, right?), but after that we'll have like, exactly a week to prepare. We're doing Cabaret, but I don't know which version, and I don't know which songs are going to be given for the auditions (I'm a girl, so I was thinking Don't Tell Mama, but what if we don't do it? Maybe This Time?) or anything, and I'm freaking out.

I actually know which musical we're doing beforehand this time, unlike last time, so I'll be a little bit better off, but still.

After I get the script and sheet music, how can I be as prepared as possible in a week?

(Beside practicing a lot, that one's obvious...how can I practice properly? Do you have any tips on how to appear in my auditions? How do I get ready for the dancing portion when they teach us for 20 minutes and we're expected to know it?

Answer 1

My best advice to you would be to spend a lot of time with your sides and just get comfortable with them. Once you learn the material the most important thing is just being comfortable in the audition room- make sure when you go in, you carry yourself with some confidence- you don't want to seem full of yourself, but at the same time you want to appear confident in your abilities!

Also, if you can, I would recommend trying to practice your audition materials as you will perform them. this means that if you will be accompanied on a piano, see if you can get someone to play it for you ahead of time so you know exactly what it will sound like. Also on that note- remember to do your best to keep your cool- more often than not audition rooms tend to bring up surprises and when that happens, just roll with it and rock out!

break a leg!

Answer 2

The dancing part is easy.  Just rehearse it on your own for about 60 minutes a day.  You will get it.  Scripts you just make choices, appear confident(but don't do a costume), look at the auditor/s but don't audition to them.  Audition as if it were a real performance, looking over the heads of the audience.  Do not get too close to the auditors, and do not stand still and look at the script the whole time.  Memorize the lines, but it is ok to keep your script and sheet music with you.  Even professionals sometimes get nerves.  Make it work for you and break a leg.

Answer 3

Well when you audition make sure you have lots of energy and if your auditioning with other people in a scene make sure you react to them.

Oh and it wouldnt hurt to practice in front of a mirror and/or tape yourself.