In April, Aisling Quinn saw a casting notice in Back Stage for a staged reading of "The Day the Music Died," a musical based on Don McLean's song "American Pie."
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After submitting to a casting notice she saw in Back Stage, Tara Henderson auditioned and was one of five people cast—out of approximately 700 submissions and 250 auditioning performers.
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Phil Cutrone has learned a few things about auditioning: Be nice. Be humble. If the casting people are unpleasant, leave.
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Every new opportunity can give an actor a chance to do something he or she hasn't before. Such was the case for Patty Rivera.
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From a March notice in Back Stage, L.A. actor Chris Reese got cast as a 17-year-old piano player in writer-director Sharon Graine’s play “Truck Stop Café.”
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A combination of flexibility, training, and careful preparation helped Laura Cook land the role of Fruma-Sarah in the AIM Management tour of "Fiddler on the Roof."
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As a rule, actors shouldn’t fear playing unlikable characters, as Nick Raio has discovered.
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Jeff Asbell calls himself a novice performer, but in reality he had been practicing improv for decades before being cast as a member in aNew York City improv troupe.
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Is punctuality the key to booking the job? Well, that—along with being prepared and having diverse interests—certainly helped Lisa Keppel.
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"I love the moments where you feel like you are the character. They're not even lines coming out of your mouth, but you are speaking them. You are in a moment in their life."
