I LOVE playing for auditions. I literally get a thrilling high from it. A rush of adrenaline zooms through my body on audition day. It's like surgeons get a high from operating, blood, and saving lives. I get a high from accompanying on the spot and helping people's dreams come true. If you think about it, we are the next important people to the casting people. While the judges, understand that the singer and the accompanist are just meeting and the pianist is usually sight reading, it's helpful to have a good audition accompanist. I think of all my skills, my sight reading and audition accompanying is the best. Part of that is probably because I know so many songs and have so much experience now that it's like I'm not even sight reading.
I can't fully explain what the audition process is like. I'll try, but nothing would be able to convey it as if I were doing one of my in person acting outs of the story. Anyway, each accompanist would work for thirty minutes unless requested by somebody. I worked with so many the day before that I had a lot of requests. However, a lot of people wanted to prepare with me in the holding room before they went in to audition. Most of them, if I hadn't already practiced with them, gave them to one of the other accompanists because they were most likely going to be playing for them. The stage manager, Lizzy (Bless Her), she stayed on top of my schedule and timed out my running back and forth between the audition and the holding rooms. There was serious cardio, lol. She would say that I could run a song with somebody but then I would have to go play so and so's audition. Then I would play a couple more and then go back to do a final runthrough with someone else.
What a thrill to work with such talent helping them get cast by accompanying their audition and at the same time getting experience in doing what you love.
I LOVE IT HERE!!!!!!!
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