<p>Wow, everyone on this thread truly is so helpful and encouraging of one another! (One of the MANY reasons I love the theatre community...)</p>
<p>Dr. John, thank you SO MUCH for the info on the dates, places, and other details about the Unifieds. You have seriously made my life for the coming year much less stressful. :)</p>
<p>Happy to help!</p>
<p>Would anyone have any input as to which of these Unified locations would be preferred-NY or Chicago?</p>
<p>If you plan to be an acting major (not MT), what do you prepare for a unifed?</p>
<p>swrw...I think it doesn't matter much whether you attend Unifieds in NY or Chicago or any of the other cities. It is a matter of which is more convenient for you in terms of location and schedule. </p>
<p>Jaymster, the audition requirements for Unifieds are not universal. At Unifieds, you audition for EACH college separately by appointments arranged ahead of time through EACH college. So, like ON CAMPUS auditions, the requirements for the audition for EACH college are their OWN requirements that you must follow. What you have to do for college A's audition may differ from what you have to do for college B's audition. So, the answer to your question is the same as on campus auditions.....follow the requirements stipulated by each college's program, as well as make the audition appointment through that college. Many acting programs tend to want two monologues. Some stipulate a certain period such as classical or contemporary. Most stipulate a length (varies from school to school). Most are advised to do contrasting monologues such as comedic and serious. All requirements are usually on each program's website. Check with each school.</p>
<p>Let me try to understand this, are ANY schools stopping in San Francisco?? It's not as convenient as one may think for students to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles</p>
<p>Broadwaybelter:</p>
<p>The group of 21 schools known as the Unified Auditions are doing two days in Los Angeles this year instead of one day in SF and one day in LA. For the list of schools and the audition locations, go to <a href="http://www.unifiedauditions.com%5B/url%5D">www.unifiedauditions.com</a>. Incidentally, the dates for 2008 are now posted.</p>
<p>I'm checking on the plans of the four schools in the Consortium of Conservatory Theatre Training Programs--Purchase, Carnegie, NCSA, and Boston University. Last year all but Carnegie did two days in San Francisco and two or three days in Los Angeles, but they haven't posted next year's dates yet. Carnegie is the only one of the four that offers a degree in Musical Theatre, and they did not stop in SF. I'll post the Consortium schedule as soon as I find out.</p>
<p>I emailed CCM and they mentioned February 5th as their tentative date for San Francisco Auditions</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon never stops in San Francisco, perhaps they should.</p>
<p>I know I saw a web address last year for a company that would put your songs on CD in the same key as your sheet music. I have been looking for hours, and trying to use the search engine, and have had no luck. It's 4:21 AM, and I'd really like to order these before I go back to work Monday. Can someone help me?</p>
<p>HappyMom, we hired a local accompanist to put my D's music on to CD. We gave the music to him in her binder with sticky notes indicating cuts. He was able to get her music onto CD very quickly for a price that I see as more than fair.</p>
<p>HappyMom, I know you asked me for help on this and I do recall someone posting about it and I have done a search and can't seem to find the post. I never paid a lot of attention to it myself because when my kid applied to college, she needed an accompaniment tape for just one school and her piano teacher recorded it. I think many kids get either their voice teacher, music teacher, or piano teacher to record it or any local accompanist (call around to theaters and schools). My D, who is now in college, records accompaniment for others (she is a pianist/accompanist). If you can find someone local, that may be your best bet.</p>
<p>I'm so glad I'm not the only person who cannot find this post. We have one person who will do this around here, but my S really wanted something professional. He says this person is fine, but their rhythm is sometimes off. Since they have a degree in music, and he's a HS student, he didn't want to have to confront if it's not right. He wants it as perfect as possible, obviously.</p>
<p>When he goes to voice lessons, doesn't his teacher accompany him? That person should know just how he needs his songs to be played and could record it. </p>
<p>You also could contact local theaters that do musicals and see who their accompanist is for rehearsals or shows.</p>
<p>I think I'd rather a live person record it who knows just how your son wants it to be played (just like you'd tell a live accompanist at an audition).</p>
<p>I'd love it if his voice teacher would do it, but she says she is not good enough on piano to do it. I think I'm going to work on her, though, since S says she's the best one around here, and she doesn't realize the other "accompanists" don't add all the fills and frills, either. Thanks for looking, though!</p>
<p>I prefer to record the accompaniments myself, plugging the recorder directly into my synthesizer, while my students sing along. This way, their voice is not recorded on the tape or CD, and the accompaniment is exactly at the tempo the singer is comfortable with. This doesn't require very sophisticated equipment -- any good pianist who has a synthesizer should be able to do it.</p>
<p>Happymom, it doesn't matter how expert the pianist sounds as that is not going to be evaluated. What is most important is that the accompanist follows your son's voice and plays the song the way he plans to sing it. If you buy an accompaniment tape, it may not be played the way your son wants (tempo, etc.), even if the pianist is a virtuoso. So, if it were me, I'd go with the voice teacher who normally accompanies your son. We went with my D's piano teacher. Who accompanies auditions for your school musical? That person is worth asking. Same with at a local theater...who accompanies there? These folks are used to this kind of playing.</p>
<p>I've just begged his voice teacher to do the CD's. I hope she does. We don't have local professional theatres, and the same person who is a little shaky with rhythm plays for the musical and religious community theatre. His ex-girlfriend who's at Tisch is better than that person, but EX is the problem there! Just another step up the mountain to success!</p>
<p>Here is a site to order music. You can either download or order it in another key. I have only downloaded. </p>
<p>Have you tried anyone from a local church? Also any piano teachers working with HS students? We have quite a number of piano teachers around who do accompaniment. DD has found one that is perfect for her for recordings and recitals. It took a couple of tries. voice teacher would not do it for more than lessons since he did not feel comfortable with it either and he wanted to coach her not accompany when she was recording.</p>