Audition

by Shurtleff, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780553272956
• ISBN10: 0553272950
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-12-02
• Publisher: Bantam

Summary

Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows likeChicagoandBecketand for films likeThe GraduateandJesus Christ Superstar.His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important HOW for all aspiring actors, from the beginning student of acting to the proven talent trying out for that chance-in-a-million role!

Author Biography

Besides working as a casting director with Joshua Logan, Bob Fosse, Tom O’Horgan, Mike Nichols, Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Stuart Ostrow, David Merrick, and others, Michael Shurtleff still finds time to write plays and novels, direct films, teach his famous auditioning course, and regularly see at least a dozen plays and films every week. He does as he advises his readers: “Everyday learn. Learn enough so you can do good theater.”

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Bob Fosse
Prologue	1	(8)
1 Practical Aspects of the Audition	9	(24)
2 The Twelve Guideposts	33	(110)
Guidepost 1 -- Relationship	33	(9)
Guidepost 2 -- What are You Fighting For? Conflict	42	(25)
Guidepost 3 -- The Moment Before	67	(7)
Guidepost 4 -- Humor	74	(3)
Guidepost 5 -- Opposites	77	(4)
Guidepost 6 -- Discoveries	81	(6)
Guidepost 7 -- Communication and Competition	87	(5)
Guidepost 8 -- Importance	92	(13)
Guidepost 9 -- Find the Events	105	(9)
Guidepost 10 -- Place	114	(3)
Guidepost 11 -- Game Playing and Role Playing	117	(14)
Guidepost 12 -- Mystery and Secret	131	(12)
3 Consistency	143	(2)
4 Some Things an Actor Needs to Know	145	(42)
5 Monologues, Soliloquies, Style	187	(8)
6 Pace	195	(2)
7 Romance	197	(4)
8 Musical Theatre	201	(6)
9 Comedy	207	(8)
10 Simplicity	215	(2)
11 Observations from a Life in the Theatre	217	(38)
Epilogue	255	(4)
Index	259