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I have a call back tommorrow and am extremely nervous. For my audition all I had to do was read a monologue. We are doing a musical tommorrow so I know I am going to have to sing, HELP!!!

GAH! I have a really bad throat problem and we have DAYS before our first performance! I don't care if my throat hurts like hell, just how can I bring it back to sounding normal before opening night! HELP!

*bows in utter submission* Thank you, thank you and thank you. You saved our opening night and the three performances after that. And the cast party, now that I think about it. I can't speak now to save my life, but I was able to perform. Gracias, Grazie, Merci, Danke, σας ευχαριστούμε, 너를 감사하십시요, Obrigado, ありがとう, вы, 谢谢 and thank YOU!

Maybe go to our audition song forum? We've got some there you could look at.

Some musical directors also have osngs already preset for you to sing, so check in with that before you go through all of that.

Um, my recommendation also.

NEVER EVER EVER use a song from the same show.

Example?

You're auditioning for Grease and you sing "Freddy My Love"
BAD.

Oh, and if you have a specific part you want to go for then you want to act exactly like that sort of person when you audition.

For example, for Once Upon a Mattress, if you want the part of Winnifred, the princess, who is a very...loud person, you want to act that way when you're reading off a script or if you're singing ^^

*sighs*

Well, I was going to go out for our program's cabaret company, but when my friend and I tried to practice our duet, we figured out we needed much more time than we had (a week). We decided to just audition next year, but then today (a day before the audition) she said we should audition anyway but with solos instead of the duet. We were going to do "What Is This Feeling?" from Wicked, and she's trying to talk me into doing "I'm Not That Girl." I decided that since I know the song and can fake it and that the worst that could happen is that I could end up doing what I was planning to in the second place that I would go for it.

This isn't much of a Help Me! ... more of an endless rant. But I feel better. I'm a little bleeeeeh!!! because auditions are tomorrow... EEK!

This could either be an amazing miracle or a horrible disaster...

I'm struggling with crying in the show. I can't do the whole "feel the character's pain" thing I usually do because, well, this character isn't part of the action enough. That's kind of the point. My character, who dosen't have a just cause to grieve, is bawling while the character who's world just ended isn't. Contrast. But that makes it almost impossible for me! I also only have about twenty seconds backstage before that scene and I have a costume change. Anybody have any special little tricks to start crying fast?