on campus audition schedule flexibility

MichaelNKat
Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:31:24 +0000

All of my daughter’s auditions were on campus. We scheduled them all on Saturdays except for one school that did not have formal audition days and you just picked a day during the school week. The advantage to a Saturday was that we could travel on Friday, arrive early enough to scope out the campus, see where the theatre building was and figure out on campus visitor parking. Arriving the day before, being able to decompress, knowing in advance where to to go and to park and getting a good night’s sleep took so much stress out of the process. Depending on the travel logistics, we either returned home Saturday after the audition or on Sunday. In this manner, we also minimized the number of school days missed. The one school that we did other than on a Saturday was a little over an hour’s drive from our house and we scheduled a late morning audition and department interview. There was another college only a 40 minute drive from our house but even that we scheduled on a Saturday to avoid missing a school day.