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How to Prepare for an Audition
What's the best thing you can do for your audition?
Live your life.
That's right.
Live your life.
If your audition is on Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 PM, you make sure that you have four other appointments before or after.
These appointments don't have to be other auditions (which, of course, is nice, if they are). They can be meetings with
friends, phone calls to your agent, gift-shopping for Mom's birthday, or your dance class. Either way, the point is, you
must fill up your life every day, but especially on the days when you have an audition. If the audition is 9:00 AM, then
make sure you have just met with your best encouraging friend (and we all need those) at Starbucks at 7:30.
The worse thing you can do on the day you have your audition is to show your sweat to those for whom you are auditioning - or
to be overly-attached to the audition. You have to walk in there confident (but not cocky), carefree (but not careless), and
more than anything, being as pleasant as possible (but not sickeningly so).
Everything else is secondary. Uh, huh: secondary.
Knowing more about the character for whom you're auditioning is secondary. Who's directing the movie, TV-show, play is
secondary. How much the role pays is secondary. Secondary, defined here as too many details.
Stop worrying about the details, be professional, and know your stuff, as you do for every audition. The latter is a given,
not even an option. One audition - and this audition in particular - may be more important than another. But you cannot and
you should never let anyone know that.
Just go to the audition prepared. Prepared with a full life, with something to talk about beyond your career.
In fact, nothing prepares you more for an audition or for any character you are to play than your life - for it is from
actual living your life (and not waiting for it to begin after your career) that you gain the emotional and psychological
experience that you can then apply to not only the creative end of acting, but also to the professional end.
Now, go knock 'em dead.
Herbie J Pilato is an Actor, Writer, Author, Producer, and Singer/Songwriter.
Herbie J has appeared and/or produced hundreds of radio and TV shows, including
Bravo's hit five-part series, The 100 Greatest TV Characters, E!
True Hollywood Stories on Bewitched and David Carradine,
A&E Biographies of Elizabeth Montgomery and Lee
Majors, Entertainment Tonight, The Learning Channel's Behind
the Fame specials on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob
Newhart Show, LA Law and Hill Street Blues, and the Syfy
Channel's Sciography series. He's served as a consultant for the special
DVD releases of Bewitched, CHiPS, and Kung
Fu, as well as on Nora Ephron's Bewitched feature film. As an
actor, Herbie J has appeared on everything from Highway to Heaven to
The Golden Girls to General Hospital and
The Bold and the Beautiful. As a director, he's guided mainstage productions
of A Phoenix Too Frequent, Leonard Malfi's Birdbath, and Little
Shop of Horrors. Herbie J's books include: NBC & ME: My Life As A
Page In A Book (BearManor Media, 2009), The Bionic Book: The
Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman Reconstructed (BearManor
Media, 2008), Life Story - The Book of Life Goes On: TV's First and Best
Family Show of Challenge (BearManor Media, 2007), Bewitched
Forever (Tapestry, 2004/2001, Summit/1996), The Kung Fu Book of
Wisdom (Tuttle, 1995), The Kung Fu Book of Caine
(1993) and The Bewitched Book (Dell, 1992). He's toured with
Nik and Nice Guys (America's #1 Party Band) as "Frankie Vallie,"
and also performs as "Frankie Vallie" with Frank's Rat Pack.
He released his first music CD, Two, in 2008. To order the CD, or any one of
his books, email hjpilato@aol.com or visit
www.herbiejpilato.blogspot.com. You
could also visit Herbie J through Twitter, LinkedIn,
or Facebook via
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