Audition

The casting director for Chicago, Pippin, Becket, Gypsy, The Graduate, the Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar tells you how you can find your dream! Absolutely everything an actor needs to know to get the part is here: What to do that moment before, how to use humor; how to create mystery; how to develop a distinct style; and how to evaluate the place, the relationships, and the competition. In fact, Audition is a necessary guide to dealing with all the "auditions" we face in life. This is the bible on the subject.

Praise

"Absolutely indispensable to any aspiring or even mildly ambitious actor. There is no book of which I am aware that gives such first-rate, clear-cut, no-nonsense advice."—Bob Fosse

"What a book! What an achievement! The only book ever written that makes the reader understand the theatre."—Joshua Logan

"Immensely useful . . . a distillation of broad how-to-do-it wisdom."—Variety

"The subject matter is surprisingly universal (everybody has to audition for something sometime) and the inside tales are terrific . . . What Stanislavsky was to acting, Michael Shurtleff is to auditioning."—New York Post

"Extraordinary. No actor will want to be without it."—Estelle Parsons

"An education—in theatre savvy, in self-knowledge."—Publishers Weekly

About the Author(s)

Michael Shurtleff