A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent
The word 'audition' is a correct and usable word in written English. You can use it when referring to a trial performance or audition, such as when trying out for a stage play or musical. Example: I was so nervous before my audition, but I felt relieved when it was over.
But the audition stages of the X Factor have been given a makeover.
Billy Elliot winningly forsook his mining heritage to pursue a post-industrial career in ballet, pirouetting past the picketlines, but his dream was ultimately embraced by the community, whose whip-round gets him to the big London audition.
A babysitter took her, aged four, to an audition for a commercial.
She was one of the first to audition for the part.
His girlfriend is performing an audition, singing her talentless heart out for some Hooray Henry producers, who are laughing at her, and simultaneously gossiping among themselves.
Throughout the audition process, she explained: "I was never quite told what I would be dancing to or as with Miley".
Similarly, when the stricken community bonds together to pay for Billy's travel expenses to the climatic audition despite their own obvious hardship, the scene smacks of cliché.
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