auditioning(402)

No matter what you are into, sports, singing, dancing, or anything really there will always be a time when you just get so nervous you feel like you are going to throw up and you are going over things in your head over and over and over again. Your palms start to sweat, and the rest of your body fallows soon after. I am speaking, of course, of when you have to audition or try out for a spot on the team or to be part of the group. Auditioning and trying out can be the most nerve wracking parts of the year for anything. In my school you have to try out for show choir every year, and any plays or musicals you want to be a part of, if you want to be an actual performer.

            Auditions for show choir at my school are called “Blind Auditions.” This is because the directors sit behind our costume “cows;” large boxes on wheels we use for our costumes during the show, so they can not see you. Until you sing. You walk in, sign a sheet next to a number so the directors can match up your scores later, and sing “my country tis of thee.” If they want they have you sing a second song of your own choice. People tend to get really worked up about how much they had to sing thinking too far into it. It could me quite a few things; that they don’t like your voice, which they are thinking about you for a higher choir, they might even be thinking about you for a special or jazz choir. No one really knows except the directors. Then after that you have the dance audition. After that you wait for a month and see if you made the choirs you wanted.

To try out for musicals and plays you sing for the directors and musical directors.  There can be dancing and there could not be. There is always an acting part of an audition. This I personally to be the hardest part of the whole audition. It can be awkward with people you don’t know so well. Some thing I do to help get ready for this audition is read over the lines the directors give you with my parents or my sister. You could also do it with any one at your house that is willing.