Thorn's last book was a memoir that began with her, a terminally shy 16-year-old, auditioning for her first band from inside a wardrobe.
Berenson's recruiters did not see Hagelin again until he attended the Big Rapids Camp as a 17-year-old, auditioning for a possible spot with a team in the junior-level North American Hockey League.
Her break came in 1981 when the 21-year-old auditioned for an improvised play called Four in a Million at the Royal Court in London.
The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, but Lennon initially thought Harrison was too young to join them.
"Even when we were 15 years old and auditioning for Motown Records, we were wearing pearls we bought from Woolworth.
If you're 43 years old and auditioning for one of the student roles in a "High School Musical" sequel, you're just going to embarrass yourself.
When Cynthia Nixon was eleven years old, she auditioned for a workshop with the director Mike Nichols.
I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.
It was something of an epiphany when, at 10 years old, she auditioned for a middle-school performance of Fiddler on the Roof.
Ms. Martin, who is too old to audition for "Idol" next year and whose ambitions to make the show have been complicated by a series of personal difficulties, was crestfallen.
But after a nice video intro that showed the thirteen-year-old Bieber auditioning for Usher, the performance bordered on silly, overcooked to the point where it looked like the stage effects were covering for him.
