Did I Get the part in the Audition? What your opinion?
I just did my audition and to be honest i can't remember what happened that well. To my best friend the person at the audition was all over her saying she was really good. I consider her really good aswell. She is going for Helena in mid summers night dream, and i am going for Hermia. I practiced for three hours! But i am not sure i did that well. But i guess i did pretty well... but after i said one part they did not ask me to do any other scripts and did not say "great job!" or anything like that.... will i get the part?
2008-12-09T07:43:09Z
My friends all think i am the best out of all the 8th grader, they have seen my acting and some actually got scared when i yelled the part when hermia was angry at helena. ): ALL OF MY FRIENDS THINK I WILL GET THE PART BUT I THINK THE AUDITION PEOPLE DONT!! is there somekind of secret thing going on with audition people? Do they hide how they feel on people who they think are really good?? :( i HOPE!!
Joe H2008-12-09T09:00:12Z
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Casting in school productions can be a strange thing, from junior high school things like you're doing now all the way up through college. And even if you remove the weirdness of the school setting, there's still a lot of factors to casting a show that may or may not even have anything to do with how well you did at the audition. For instance, your director may have some specific guy he or she wants to cast in the role of Lysander, and if you don't look like you would be in a relationship with him or don't have any visible chemistry with him onstage then the role of Hermia would have to go to someone else. Or maybe you walked into the audition and the director took one look at you and thought, "She simply MUST play Titania." Or maybe your director's boss's daughter is dying to play Hermia and if he wants to keep his job he has to give the role to her. It's an unfortunate fact that the talent of the people auditioning is almost never the sole deciding factor in casting any sort of show.
I wish you the best of luck, though. A few years ago Midsummer was one of my few experiences performing Shakespeare at a "Shakespeare in the Park" event, and I had a fantastic time with it. Even if you get a different part than you wanted, you should have a great time. (The fairies in the production that I did had some hilariously over-the-top costumes, and they all had a blast.) And if the unthinkable happens and you don't get cast at all, there will be other shows in the future.
While it might be typical to stroke the egos of fragile 8th grade hopefuls, the fact that it's a school production, might still not promise what you define as fair.
The idea, even for a school piece is to have to be a success and those involved best suited for any part. With all due respect, so much of LIFE is about acceptance, tolerance, some non degrading compromise, and believing that rejection happens, but not strictly as a personal attack.
A casting director has a job, that better not be connected to emotion, in a personal sense. Assume for a moment, it's Broadway, and there are $$$ involved. That might be a factor in who gets a call back. In a school situation, and not knowing how many also auditioned for that part, you might accept patience, then after the fact ask for feedback and some kind of positive reinforcement, even if it sounds lame, such as "Better luck next time, but don't give up."