If you want to see a taping of the show and you haven't auditioned yet, keep this in mind.
Both selected students by audition or portfolio, yet standards for academic subjects were high, too.
I loathed almost every minute of the audition episodes, and yet, seeing the collage of the chosen that ended Thursday's show, I had to admit that somehow, a respectable amount of intriguing talent emerged from the ordeal.
Where else can you find a first rate community chorus that doesn't require an audition to join, yet so skilled, disciplined and accomplished that it performed Dvorak's Requiem in, not just Berkeley, but Prague?
Yet auditions are what led him to create the play.
Notably at the time of the initial auditions, AMC had yet to establish itself as a network where Emmy-winning original dramas could survive.
The actor was 18 when offered a role in "Hocus Pocus" and holding out hope for a lead part in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" That might sound just dandy in retrospect, since we know he landed the gig, but it turns out DiCaprio hadn't even auditioned for "Gilbert Grape" yet when he said no to "Hocus Pocus".
More practice, more study, maybe third time's the charm with yet another audition for The Greatest Show On Earth.
In Part I of this interview we discussed Andrea's horrifying yet wonderful audition for Ender's Game and other delicious details about her life including her recent trip to Iceland with her husband of 20 years and her Cherokee Indian family history.
Yet that auditioning committee of 1959 was right: Mr. Domingo was a tenor.
The YouTube Symphony, a global orchestra assembled from online audition videos, may sound like yet another groan-inducing attempt to make classical music hip.
