Auditioning/tips?

College Majors Theater/Drama Majors
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<p>Alright first off heres a little brief history and description of me to help further anyones opinions/advice on what to do. I live in a small town in Missouri. I am a senior high school, I have been doing Mixed Martial Arts and Rugby all four years of high school and theatre for one year(regret not doing it longer). It was kind of a new discovered passion for me my senior year, when a bunch of my friends thought I should try it out.....so I did, got a part in a play and absolutely fell in love. It is far past deadlines to apply for colleges currently so I am stuck at Mizzou for a year. I did apply and audition for Webster, but I was a dumb*** and spent maybe a week on my monologues and well.....you probably know what happened...<em>rejected</em>. I didn't exactly realize how hard competition was going to be and what not, I was naive.(I had no real direction except for two-one hour sessions with the HS theatre director) Now with that being said, I'm basically putting full dedication these next months on getting as much experience in the theatre world as I can get, and have a plan on what schools I want to audition at and what-not. I'm going to do a fair amount of on-campus an go to the National Unified Auditions in Chicago next February. My problem is...finding the right monologues. I want to prepare six monologues to be on the safe side...but I have not a very good idea of what kind and how diverse of monologues I should have(like modern,historic,Shakespeare..etc.). So any tips? (oh and if anyone is planning on typing an elaborate explanation of why I shouldn't audition or pursue this passion, because I got into theatre so late in my life or something along those lines.....just save your time and don't bother. I'm a stubborn individual and I will work my a** when I know I want to do something with my life, and I know I want to do this.)</p>

<p>I really appreciate it.</p>

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<p>Captainawesome, nobody on this forum is going to tell you not to audition and not to follow your dream. We are here to lend support.</p>

<p>Actually, there are many people like you. Somebody posted just recently about how a lot of guys come to acting later than girls.</p>

<p>The first thing you should do regarding monologues is go to the websites of all the schools you are even remotely interested in and look at their monologue requirements. Some schools even have lists of recommended monologues, or lists of overdone monologues to avoid.</p>

<p>You might also want to search monologue threads in this forum and the MT forum. You’ll find lots of good advice.</p>

<p>Best of luck to you!</p>

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<p>And as a college student, you will be in a great position to find wonderful advice and probably coaching at your university. A big school like that surely has a theatre dept and you could try to find classes or at least an individual who can help you. A course in theatre literature and/or history would be a great idea, too.</p>

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<p>Read as many plays as you can of all sorts. Try to determine what it is you do best–what emotions come out best in you on stage and then find the monologues that match that within the criteria of the schools you are applying–for example, if you need Shakespeare and you are good at eliciting smiles and chuckes, find that mix in your monologue, perhaps your physicality is your greatest strength–find the monologues that allow you to use that to your greatest advantage.</p>

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<p>Six is way to many, you cannot nail them all, three to four max. Every school has a time limit from 1min. thru 2 min.it can drive you crazy making each change work for you,try and find a great mono. that you can cut to cover all the time limits each school has.</p>