October 5, 201015 yr Alright, so, my friends really want me to do theater. I have to audition with a broadway-ish song, and my friend recommended Dancing Through Life from Wicked. I don't know anything about Wicked, theater, or singing. Please help. I really want to do well, and as much as I understand this is a 'it's your first time, you'll fail/learn/blah', I want to pwn as much as I can. I don't want to be the awkward kid who goes up there and sings off key who looks like a fool in front of who's opinions I care about (which, is the situation). If any of you have advice on theater, singing (at all); or specifically Dancing Through Life for my audition, that would be awesome. Thanks guys. --- Additional Info: I'm not new to music, just singing and theater. I've been a musician for about 10 years (basically all of my life) and I'm multi-instrumental. My friends say that I'm a good singer, I don't believe them. I want to be awesome. My very honest friend said if I could 'drop the nasal' [tone, I'm assuming] then I would be great.
October 5, 201015 yr I did choir for a few years while in high school. If there's anything I learned about performing in front of people it's that they aren't really paying attention to you per se, they're really paying attention to what you came there to do, which in my case was sing.
October 5, 201015 yr Dancing through life is basically a song sung about taking life easy, not caring for school...You're trying to make people have fun, ignore school work... It's sung with a cool sort of attitude, you'd have to act as larger-than-life as possible to get it right. If you don't get a few notes, they'll be fine if you can make it up with your attitude and your understanding of the emotion and role that is needed in the song. <3 Rach's the Bern to my Lambda, Req's the Erika to Rach's Bern. It works.
October 6, 201015 yr Theater is fun. Good idea. The one thing I notice everyone lacks in (yet I excel in, apparently) is making the relationships between characters very obvious. Expressions. Be ridiculous and large and confident when you need to be, then head to the other extreme. Know your body language. Enunciate well. I'm surprised that they have you sing for theater. Ours is solely acting, choir handles the musicals (although both departments are very close to each other). But I'm bad at giving advice on how to act. You can really just do it or you can't. Then again, I don't care for so-called "method acting." Just make it natural, think "What would this character feel?" and feel it. catch it now so you can like it before it went so mainstream
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