Theatre Doc

Calls are being held for extras in LA, Chicago and Washington, DC. There are also auditions for principals in LA. IF you are in one of these cities, contact me for more info.

Now that I know the name of the show and it's purpose the best song would be "

Brush Up Your Shakespeare from Kiss Me Kate.

I was a stage director for 45 years. I directed lots and lots of musicals and plays from Neil Simon to Will Shakespeare, NEVER did I ask those auditioning to present monologues. It seems such a huge waste of time, to run fifty or sixty people through monologues one at a time, when you could read them from the script several at a time. Have directors forgotten how to cast? Where and when dd this practice originate?

You are not really helping them and you are indicating your disdain for education. People wanting others to do their work are symptomatic of a lack of morals (like no honesty) in our society. Individual effort, not hand outs improve people. Do you agree or disagree and why?

I was a university theatre department head and theatre program director for 28 years, and I never liked the way the tech director insisted that actors had to do tech, but did not require techies to attend rehearsals. The actors then had to put in twice as much time on a show as did techies. I solved this problem by creating a company class in which everyone worked tech until the set was finished and props gathered, then rehearsals began. But this was a general theatre major, not an acting major. I think theatre programs which require acting majors to do more than act are bogus. What say you?