Be yourself, speak loudly and clearly. Act natural with your body motions. Just really get into the monologue. Pretend that you are that character, get inside their head. Also, maybe fifteen minutes before the audition, rehearse the monologue, try out different moods and characters that you think fit the monologue. Figure out who you want to be saying this monologue. With the improv, do the same thing. Whatever the director tells you, just react as if you were a certain character. Like, if you were a ballerina with emotional distress, how would you react to getting kicked off the ballet team? (bad example, too tired to be creative. :P) Just relax and don't fret. If you don't get in the play this year, there's always four more years of high school and the rest of your life after that. Break a leg!!!!I'm auditioning Monday for a school play. Any tips or advice? improvisation?
Well i auditioned for highschool musical and i made it.It was very pressuring because you had 100 other people auditiong for the same part.Just be yourself,be funny,and if you mess up.get back up and keep on moviing
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Let me try to throw out some pointers to ya. If the monologue has to be memorized then just go in as well prepared as possible. Meaning, have it prepared as if it was an opening night of a show. If you just have to read it, then ask if you may have some time to read over the monologue. This is typical, to ask for time, if you don't get the material before the audition. Take a couple of minutes to read over it, don't memorize it, but just get familiar with. With this you will be able to keep eye contact with a partner or just keep your eyes out of the script so you can be seen.
As far as improv goes it depends on what you have to do. But for a general introduction I would say just stay true to the character you develope. If you are given the suggestion of being a bear, then you might walk slower and make your voice deeper. The main thing is make a choice!!!! Because if you go for something and it doesn't work the crowd it will look worse if you try to change what you are doing. Another thing is build off of things you already know. If the suggestion is a crazy old person, then you might say well that sounds like the old cat lady down the road. So you build a scene by being that lady, because you have seen her and you know what she is like. If you want to further educate yourself in improv I would check out the book Truth in Comedy. It helped me out a lot.
Last thing, MAKE SURE THEY CAN HEAR YOU! Be seen and Be heard and you will be fine. Go Luck!
improv isn't that hard, just go over your line and practice what your gonna say or what you might say, make sure you breath too, it can get pretty scary up there so don't forget to breath, when its all done you'll be OK, its like getting a shot, your scared before you get it but after, it wasn't that big of a deal.
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