In "The Choice," four celebrities will sit in the chairs and listen to what amounts to an audition from the contestants (they will pitch their backgrounds, likes and dislikes, turn-ons and turn-offs, sort of like the bios of Playboy playmates of old).
And even though some network executives assumed Ms. Oh's hypercompetitive character would be white, Ms. Rhimes did not -- in the pilot's script she wasn't even given a last name -- so all it took was one "fabulous" audition from the "Sideways" star to christen the character Cristina Yang...
The filmmakers reinforce the notion, filming a new candidate's audition from inside the ring; every time a wrestler flings himself through the air and lands on his back, the jarring thud on the soundtrack is matched by the harrowing shudder of the frame.
If any single thing keeps "Audition" from achieving the stature of Katharine Graham's "Personal History," the book that set the high-water mark for memoirs of the politically and socially well-connected, it is the excess decorousness built into Ms. Walters's conversation.
Don Greene, a performance psychologist, gives regular sessions on dealing with the stress of auditions from the University of Hawaii.
After conducting auditions from the University of Arizona in February, it conceded that even the wonders of Internet2 couldn't adequately convey all the nuances of performance that had to be taken into account in such an evaluation.
It is this annual familiarity that allows us to present a video round-up of the best and worst auditions from the first week of The X Factor 2014: The good Thirty-year-old Jay James is a navy man who discovered his musical talents while on sick leave due to a damaged knee.
When it came time to cast "Amour," he said that at the auditions, "from the very beginning Emmanuelle Riva was my favorite, not only because she's a great actress but because she forms a very attractive and believable couple with Jean-Louis Trintignant". Jean-Louis Trintignant
Boot camp continued in Las Vegas for a second night of auditions from the Judges' Favorites -- a whirlwind spectacle of magicians, comedians, child prodigies, and various musical acts.
Here are my five most memorable auditions from the "Idol" premiere, with a couple of honorable mentions thrown in. 1. Schyler Dixon (and Colton Dixon) Sure, "Idol" was doing its darndest to make country boy Phillip Phillips their breakout star of the night.
The producers tend to cut the normal "no" auditions from the actual episode and keep the ones with the swearing, crying idiots in them.
