<p>Is anyone else headed to on-campus auditions at Syracuse tomorrow? I am having to stay home with this broken leg but my D and husband will be there.
After you finish up with auditions, head up the hill to The Varsity for some great pizza and gravy fries if you are a fan of such things. I went to Syracuse so I can vouch for The Varsity! It's on South Crouse Ave.</p>
<p>How did it go?</p>
<p>Actually we think it went really well. Her auditor was one of the “quiet types” who don’t give much feedback but after her two required monologues he asked her what else she had. She offered two, and he choose one and she did that. Then he asked her to do that one again with an adjustment. She thought the adjustment was an odd choice that didn’t work for the character, but did the mono again quite differently than the first time, which I hope is what he was trying to get her to do. So I think the fact that he spent extra time with her and did four instead of two is good!</p>
<p>Often an auditor will offer an adjustment that seems “wrong” primarily to test your ability to take direction and to make changes to what you are working on.</p>
<p>Sounds like your daughter did everything perfectly!!!</p>
<p>KEVP</p>
<p>Haha Kevp. She was a bit righteous about it, as if he was wrong to suggest that adjustment for that character. She said that adjustment would have been better for the other mono she offered. When I said I think he was testing you she said well I don’t think it was a good test.
Oh, to know it all at the ripe old age of 17!
I’m going to have to talk to her again about adjustments to be sure she leaves her opinion out of it.
In her defense all her teachers love her and say she’s a pleasure so I am probably the only one getting any attitude from her. :-)</p>
<p>This is an important point dramamom0804. An adjustment is not about whether it is the right or wrong one for the character. What they want to see is if the person will commit entirely to the approach whether it is right or not. </p>
<p>A slightly off topic experience my daughter had was auditioning for a drama at Frenchwoods. She really prepared for one of the dramas but not so much for the other. She thought she understood the objective of the character but she had it completely wrong. She got the part anyways. When she realized during rehearsals that she had it totally wrong, she asked the Director about it. He said it didn’t matter to him. He loved how well she committed to an objective even if it wasn’t the right one. I don’t know I’d recommend this approach as a matter of practice not knowing the objective of a character you are auditioning for. On the other hand, I’ve heard several times who important it is an audition – particularly with sides where there is less info sometimes about objectives – is to commit to a choice whatever choice that is that you pick.</p>