Art of Audition and Casting

OCVarsity Arts is following Sunny Hills High School's Theatre 3 students over the summer as they create an original show for the fall. They meet three days a week to write, rehearse and eventually perform their show. Every other week, we will chart their progress with photos and written reflections submitted by the participants.

The first part of our summer was focused on writing pieces for our show, "Traditions: Running Loose." From those scenes, 25 were chosen to be included. 

Except for our student director, Val Yontz, all the students auditioned for roles in the scenes we wrote. On the first day, copies of the scripts that were picked were set on the stage in random order. 

There was little time to be disappointed over which of our pieces didn't make the final cut. We had to move on. We looked over the scripts and chose the ones we wanted to audition for. Then we waited to be called.
As we stood outside the audition room, most of us read our lines to each other, talked about the scripts that were picked and fretted over whether we would get the parts we wanted. 

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To learn more about casting calls please visit the International Truffles Casting Fair