Audition

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1979-12-02
Publisher(s): Bantam
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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

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