Auditions!!! - Page 6

Sarahsmom42 · 02-02-2007, 10:39 AM

Great, Brendan. We'll let you know!

Rathersing · 02-03-2007, 08:32 AM

My D auditioned yesterday and apparently had The Tough Dance Professor. She said the dance wasn’t really hard, but they had to pick it up really fast, and she could tell he had very high expectations. Sounded very intense. She did get to sing both of her songs. They told the group not to read anything into it if you sing one song or both, but this mom thinks they wouldn’t ask to hear more if they didn’t like you. Wishful thinking?

BreatheEasy · 02-03-2007, 08:40 AM

I think it's true that being asked to sing the second song is a good sign- but it may not be a bad sign to only sing one- it can mean that you nailed it (this happened once to my s).

kyle style · 02-03-2007, 10:42 PM

In my opinion, if they ask to hear another song, that means just that: they simply need to see more. The first song didn't strike them as yay or nay. . ? Or maybe, in a girl's case, they need to hear belting or legit quality..?

SeeImSmiling · 01-25-2008, 05:11 PM

At the audition, they only had me do one song. For some of the other girls, they did two songs, some girls did TWO monologues in the same room. I did my monologue after my dance audition and at that point the girls who already did their monologues immediately after singing could leave. I know I shouldn't read into any of it, but it's just weird how they had a few girls do their monologues in the first part of the day and other girls in the same group later. Ahh.

MomOfAPrincess · 01-27-2008, 04:57 AM

My daughter was asked to do a second song. She only did 1 monologue - and she knew she nailed it. I think you are right that to be asked to do a second song or monologue just means they want to confirm how they assessed you in that area from the first one or see a different side to you - legit, belt, dramatic or comedic. What I'm saying is I think you could nail your song and monologue and not be asked to do a second of either one and be in good shape.

She said the dance was fast, difficult, strange and discouraging - dancing is not her strength. We talked to a current student and asked how they felt after they did their dance audition. They said they had little dance and after doing their dance audition KNEW they didn't have a chance of going there - so there you go - they became a SU MT student.

winston · 01-29-2008, 03:57 PM

Thank you to Sarahsmom for your post regarding the dance audition for SU. I believe my daughter had the difficult instructor.Although my daughter moves well and has never had any difficulty picking up the choreography in the shows she's been in; she definitely found the SU audition challenging and she happened to be in a group of accomplished dancers. He did ask her a question regarding her dance training and she was positive that he completely wrote her off. It was the first part of her audition. Amazingly (after that )her songs and monologue went well but she felt that they weren't interested after her dance audition. You gave us some hope with your post regarding your daughters experience and subsequent acceptance but who knows what they will accept this year.

winston · 01-29-2008, 04:03 PM

Sorry to Sarahsmom...I meant my previous post to thank MOMOFAPRINCESS for sharing her conversation with one of the SU students who was accepted in spite of their minimal dance training.

MomOfAPrincess · 01-29-2008, 04:33 PM

Actually I asked my daughter about the dance instructor and she said he was nice. She also said he was the same one that did both groups. Yes, as some
one that did not have years of dance, she found the dance audition totally intimidating. That was the nice thing about being here at CC though and talking to other people at these auditions that have been to schools you have yet to go to - you are kind of forewarned. The accompanist messed up one of her songs. I'm not sure you can predict anything from auditions. I think it could go either way no matter how you think you did.

You see posts on here of acceptances to schools most consider as a "top" and the same people rejected at what most consider "2nd tier". No rhyme or reason. Reminds me of fishing...just keep throwing your line in and see what you catch.

NotMamaRose · 01-29-2008, 06:24 PM

Did your kids have Tony Salatino as their dance guy? I found him to be very funny, nice and pleasant in the information session that the faculty gave before the audition itself began. He is got his degree from Juilliard. My D said the dance was challenging but she seemed to have fun with it. Of course, because of posts made on this forum, she was expecting the dance combination to be challenging. She had heard that Syracuse has really upped the ante as far as dance in the past few years, and that they expect girls who want to enter the dept to have at least some technique. We did notice that on the sheet they had the kids fill out beforehand, there was a section where the adjudicator would fill out which one the kid is: a natural or not a natural.
That said, as others have noted here, it's impossible to predict who is going to be admitted and who is not based on kids self-reports from the audition. Truly, all they can do is their best at the audition and the rest will be decided for them. Best of luck, everyone!