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The Actor's Audition Paperback - 1990 - 1st Edition

by David Black

Here is a practical and enlightening guide that picks up where most acting texts end. The author offers insights on how to approach the monologue, the cold reading, the musical audition, and the interview, along with techniques that will help actors impress prospective employers even before they step into character.


From the jacket flap

The audition is the first -- and most essential -- test of any actor's craft, one that is typically performed for a very tough audience, under conditions that are always less than perfect. This practical, hands-on guide by a veteran producer covers every aspect of the auditioning process: the monologue, the cold reading, the musical audition, and the interview. It shows actors how to see their performance through the eyes of prospective employers, how to sell themselves even before they step into character, and how to Interpret roles without outside direction.

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  • Title The Actor's Audition
  • Author David Black
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990-10-03
  • ISBN 9780679732280 / 0679732284
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.25 x 0.4 in (20.27 x 13.34 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Acting - Auditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90050153
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.028

Media reviews

"An invaluable book for the whole theater community."

-- Bernard Jacobs, The Shubert Organization

"This book tells you what a lot of acting schools never get to -- the nuts and bolts of how to audition." -- Deborah Brown, casting director

"This lovely book is about the power of communicating your own truth, and the wonder of recognizing your choices."

-- Liv Ullmann

"An absolute must for actors...I wish it had existed when I started."

-- Jerry Orbach

"The best and most important common sense way to approach an audition. I wish I had it for the many I lost" -- Maureen Stapleton

About the author

David Black is a violinist, an opera singer, an award-winning salesman, a CIA covert intelligence officer, an actor, a Tony Award-winning producer of 20 shows, a director, a playwright, and the author of The Actor's Audition and The Magic of Theater. Hillary Rodham Clinton called David Black "an honorary diplomat" for introducing Tunisian Collaborative Painting to the United States.
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