We want your audition for the ACU Theatre Department to be the best it can be! Here are some tips and tricks for an amazing audition.
Choosing Material:
A…My Name is
A…My Name is Still Alice – bridal registry speech
Baby with the Bathwater – Daisy’s speech about being a baby
Blue Window – falling off the balcony
Boy’s Life – “No one should need anyone that much…”
Camelot – Guenivere’s speech about running naked in the palace
Dinner with Friends – various
End of the World – father with baby at the window
The Fantasticks – Luisa’s monologue
The Food Chain – anything
A Girl’s guide to Chaos – variations of the “dating” monologue
The Glass Menagerie – Tom’s “you think I like the warehouse?”
I Hate Hamlet – the “to be or not to be” speech
It Had to be You – opening monologue
Jack & Jill – “nice”
Lakeboat – (Mamet) the jock who always wanted to dance
Laughing Wild – tuna fish monologue; Cary Grant monologue
Little Footsteps – the sperm monologue
Lone Star – the
Long Day’s Journey into Night – Edmund’s speeches
Marriage of Bette and Boo – Fr. Donnelly
‘Nuts – “what went wrong, mama?”
PS, Your Cat is Dead – auditioning for the commercial
Passion Fish – “I didn’t ask for the anal probe”
Picasso at the Lapin Agile – woman getting swept away
Sleeping Beauty – “this womb is closing in three months…” or “the hair on the back of Ricky Lardner’s neck”
Spike Heels – Teresa Rebeck’s car monologue
Star Spangled Girl – “Mr. Cornell” speech
Suburbia – strip monologue
Waiting for the Parade – going away “one piece at a time”
Wit – various
Overdone Songs
Annie – “Tomorrow”
Anyone Can Whistle – title song
Candide – “Glitter and be Gay”
Carousel – “Soliloquy” & “When I Marry Mr. Snow”
Chess – “Anthem” & “Someone Else’s Story”
Children of
City of Angels – “You Can Always Count on Me”
Company – “Being Alive”
The Enchantress – “Art is Calling for Me”
Fantasticks – “Much More”
Fiddler on the Roof – “Rich Man”
…Forum – “That’ll Show Him” (it always sounds flat)
Funny Girl – “I’m the Greatest Star”
Grease – “Worse things I could Do”
Guys & Dolls – “Jet’s Song”; “
Gypsy – “All I Need is the Girl”
Jekyll & Hyde – “This is the Moment”
Les Miserables – “On My Own”; “I Dreamed a Dream”; “Empty Chairs”
Little Mermaid – “Part of Your World”
Lucky Stiff – “Times Like These”
Miss Saigon – “Why, God, Why”
My Fair Lady – “On the Street Where You Live”; “I Could Have Danced All Night”
Night Music – “Clown”
Once on this
Ragtime – “Daddy’s Son”, “Wheels of a Dream”
Rent – “Take Me or Leave Me”
Seesaw – “Nobody does it Like Me”
She Loves Me – “She Loves Me”; and “Vanilla Ice Cream”
Showboat – “Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man”, “
Sophisticated Lady – “Hit Me With a Hot Note”
Titanic (the movie) – “My Heart Will Go On”
At the Audition:
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