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Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
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Biz Bestseller!
Author: Michael Shurtleff Introduction by: Bob Fosse Publisher: Bantam Books Format: Softcover # of Pages: 264 Pub. Date: 1978 ISBN-10: 05532729250 ISBN-13: 9780553272956
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About
the Book:
What Stanislavsky was to acting, famed acting coach Michael
Shurtleff was to auditioning. His legendary course on auditioning
launched hundreds of successful careers.
Michael Shurtleff speaks from the experience of more than
14,000 auditions and the casting of over 200 Broadway shows. He
worked with David Merrick, Bob Fosse and Andrew Lloyd Webber, casting
shows such as Irma la Douce, Chicago and Jesus
Christ Superstar. He also worked in Hollywood, casting various
television and film productions, including The Graduate and
The Sound of Music.
His inspiration for the now-classic book Audition:
Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part came
while casting the 1966 Broadway production of The Lion in Winter.
Michael Shurtleff was frustrated by many talented actors who
didn't know how to audition for the play and created a class to
address the problem. The book, which came from his experience as a
teacher, tells the all-important HOW for all aspiring actors, from
the beginning student of acting to the proven talent trying out for
that chance-in-a-million role! One the book's best-known aspects is a
list of "12 guideposts" actors must follow in monologue and
scene work, such as "Relationships – how to create them
onstage" and "Conflict – what are you fighting for?"
This straightforward, practical handbook gives sound advice about
basic acting techniques and covers every conceivable auditioning
problem: What to do that moment before, how to use humour; 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.
What people say:
"Shurtleff's legendary book
has been an audition bible for over 35 years. The Broadway casting
director's famous 12 Guideposts are carefully laid out in this
easy-to-read manual, and incorporated into actor training all over
the country." — Back Stage
"His advice is hard-headed and
commonsensical." — Vancouver Sun
"I would like to go on record
as saying that I consider this book to be absolutely indispensable to
any aspiring, or even mildly ambitious, actor. There is no book of
which I am aware that gives an actor such first-rate, clear-cut,
no-nonsense advice." — Bob Fosse,
Director-choreographer, in foreword to the book
"What a book! Yet it's so
simple that you learn without feeling it happen. Thank you, Michael;
we needed it." — Joshua Logan, the director of some
of Broadway's most enduring and prestigious hits
About the Author:
Michael Shurtleff (1920-2007) had a long career on Broadway
as a renowned casting director, and wrote Audition: Everything
an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part – a cherished bible for
aspiring actors. The year the book was published, he moved to Los
Angeles, where he taught classes based on the lessons in his book,
often travelling internationally to give master classes. He also
wrote numerous one-act and full-length plays, including Call Me by
My Rightful Name.
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