<p>Ok...so...are schools flexible with auditions due to weather?</p>
<p>Flying to Oberlin tomorrow and then NYC Saturday night (we hope!). </p>
<p>Just curious...before I start truly getting extremely worried!</p>
<p>THANKS!</p>
<p>If you can’t make the audition, some schools will let you use the prescreen as your actual audition. Others may let you change your audition date. My D had to audition (for musical theater) during snowpocalypse in DC 3 years ago - auditions went on as usual, but there were many no shows. Just ask each school what their policy is.</p>
<p>I plan to if we can’t get there. THANKS!</p>
<p>My daughter auditioned in 2010 and we had a blizzard before each of her audition weekends. We drove from Philadelphia to CIM-- others we knew from our area flew. It turned out to be easier for us (7 hours on reasonably plowed highways) than those who flew (cancelled flights-- stress!) But the show went on. I don’t think schools tend to cancel auditions for snow. </p>
<p>Which leads me to my favorite rant: why must audition season be during blizzard season??</p>
<p>Son is in Boston now and still waiting to hear if his audition is tomorrow, as scheduled. I was thinking the same thing, GH…a few days makes a huge difference. But…it’s out of our control.</p>
<p>Is it okay to say G–d L–k to musicians? I have been saying it for years but I was told, in no uncertain terms, on the MT forum that we should only say “break a leg.” In any case, crossing my fingers for all of you!</p>
<p>Anyone flying to the East Coast for auditions this weekend MUST check the airline schedule and contact the school. Blizzard warnings are posted from Maine to NJ and airlines are already cancelling hundreds of flights into Boston, the NYC area, Philly, etc.( The public and private schools in Boston have already been closed for Friday). Some forecasts are saying that this could be the worst blizzard to hit the region in a century. This is also impacting regional auditions: my D has one scheduled for this weekend and was contacted by the school this morning and told that they had decided not to come, but that she was expected to go the designated site and that they would be providing accompanists and conducting the auditions via Skype!!
Airlines have waved fees for changing flights during this storm so please, do yourself a favor and check to see what the state of affairs is where you are heading. If locals get stuck in cities due to bad weather, they will fill the hotel rooms and your reservation may not be honored. This is why I consistently wonder WHY schools insist on this time of year for auditions…</p>
<p>Safe travels to all!</p>
<p>We ended up spending an extra night in Boston due to predicted weather when D3 was auditioning…because extra stress always adds to audition season!</p>
<p>Safe travels to everyone auditioning in the northeast this weekend. I am so thankful that we are going to Rochester and Cleveland next weekend and not this. For the life of me, I do not understand my daughter’s attraction to these northern schools. She already has a school in the south willing to do almost anything to get her but she is so set on a few of the northern schools.</p>
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<p>Those who don’t check with schools and try to travel anyway could find themselves trapped airports for days.</p>
<p>We are in Rochester for D’s Eastman audition. She got an email this afternoon saying that auditions were on as scheduled but saying they understood that travel was an obstacle for many.
They asked students to call if they found they could not make it…</p>
<p>Her Ithaca audition is Saturday but we haven’t heard from them yet.
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<p>Rochester is now expecting 4-7" of snow during the daylight hours on Friday and could get a lot more if/when Lake Effect snow kicks in! Ithaca is a crap shoot because it’s surrounded by hills and sits farther inland where it doesn’t get buried in Lake Effect.
Another concern is that airports inland from the East Coast will be “catching” the planes that can’t land along the coast, which will cause further delays since gates aren’t available- that’s why flights are being cancelled now in advance of the storm.</p>
<p>Wow - where I live, we have gotten hit so many times this month - with snow, ice, -30 degree temps, you name it! We’ve had five snow days in January alone. In fact, I realized today, that between snow days, conference days and sick days, I’ve missed TEN days of school in January! And I’m about to miss 4 more for my D’s upcoming auditions - she has 3 in a row, two of which we have to fly to. But luckily, it all starts next weekend, on the 15th, so I’m hoping and praying that the weather is quiet by then!! But for those of you traveling this weekend, good luck and safe travels (yeah, good luck is fine - what else are we going to say - break a reed?)!</p>
<p>We live in Syracuse so I am not worried. That isn’t enough for a snow day in our district unless it all falls in two hours. We go to private lessons at Ithaca College every week too, so my biggest worry is them canceling, not the weather, because we don’t have anymore free weekends to reschedule on. I think an earlier poster is correct. My husband’s employees from the DC area who are in town for work already have has their flights for tomorrow canceled.</p>
<p>People flying will have it worse.</p>
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<p>Oh ho. I spoke too soon. New snow update from the news here in Rochester is for 12+ inches. Oh well. I guess we will be taking it sloooowwww on the road</p>
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<p>To everyone, drive carefully! Hope those of you flying don’t get stuck at the airport!</p>
<p>Last Friday it took us 4 hours to travel the usual 2 hr 15 minute drive to Eastman. People were late and Eastman was FANTASTIC and thanked the parents for braving the weather and getting their children to the auditions. Class act all the way around. Tomorrow we travel the 2 hrs to Ithaca. I looks like the weather should be cleared up by morning. I do live in the snow belt in the foothills of the Tughill Plateau so snow is a common thing for us here. Safe travels.</p>
<p>I know that all of Boston is shut down. NEC and Berklee and BU are closed tomorrow and probably Saturday. The city has taken to insisting that people stay home during big storms because they find that it is then a lot easier to get crews out to clean up. Also if you are in Boston and you have rented a car be warned Boston is SERIOUS about their parking ban and will tow.</p>
<p>Good Luck to everyone whose audition is postponed or altered by this snow-storm. I keep saying to my DH that I am so glad that our son auditioned during last year’s mild winter. We did have a harrowing drive back from NYC after NYU’s audition. But that was mostly because CT does not clean their highways. Once we got to MA we were fine.</p>
<p>Berklee may be closed, but this is from their web site:</p>
<p>The college is closed Friday, February 8th. Please note that all audition and Interviews scheduled for February 9, 2013 will take place at their scheduled time, even if the rest of the college is closed.</p>
<p>Good luck to everybody!</p>
<p>sopranomom92, this is the kind of announcement we encountered during the snowy winter of 2010. It think it must be so difficult to reschedule auditions that the show goes on. (That’s why we drove everywhere we could instead of flying, reasoning that the highways would be plowed, so at least we would have a chance of arriving, whereas we had no control over flight schedules. Of course, those coming from thousands of miles away are at the mercy of the elements and the airlines.) Fingers crossed for all of you!`</p>