Rent Audition

I feel very positive over all with my audition, and feel that I responded well to the feedback and the questions asked during the audition. I first went in to the audition and sang my prepared rent song 'One song Glory'. I felt that this went well as I thought about what I had done before the audition when preparing for my audition. I was given advise to think more about the start note and then it set me off for the next song. I also thought a lot about the character of the story and really sold it out to the audition-er. I felt that this bring more to the song and brought it to life. I then went on to sing a bit of my west side story to show my softer side and what I could do in my slightly higher range. We then began our interview bit and i was asked some questions about what characters I liked in the play? I said that i was interested in the part of Mark, he was character I thought best suited me and my style, but i also saw a challenge in the character with his views and what he went through and why he loves to film. I was then asked to sing any of the mark songs that i knew from the show, so i sang 'What You Own' as i thought that i could show the style that i would like to give to the character.

When doing my preparation for my audition that character that I was most interested in playing was Mark. Having known the play prior and understand the characters relationships with each other. I feel that I would use my characterisation skills the best for this character, for example the character of Mark has a tone that is always quite perky and he has a lot of energy within the scenes. I would show this by raising my pitch at the end of each of my sentence, and also I would say every line as if it was a question, to portray a positive attitude.

Out of all of the character in the script I think that mark is different to all of the others as he goes on the biggest journey in my view. At the start of the text Mark doesn't have a lot in life but he still seems to make the most of it, and then as the show goes on he begins to lose a lot in terms of friendships with roger and the passing of angel. He also loses his house in one point of the show. The character of Mark could be compared to modern poverty in England, where families don't have a lot but seem to make the most of what they do have. During the audition I think I showed these emotional state best through my physicality, I kept all of my arms close to my body, to show that my character was scared and timid with what I did. But as the song went on I came more open as a character and made some more gestures. I think this showed my characters change in heart and this could be linked to the rest of the play, that as it comes to the end of the show, he learns to accept what has happened and deals with it.

I tried to show that Mark had been through a lot in my portrayal of the song, I felt that One Song Glory was a good song to pick for this as it has a lot of emotion in the lyrics, about wanting to accomplish on thing in life.

My other song that I was preparing for my audition was a song from West Side Story, this song was 'Something's Coming'. I thought that this was a good song to contrast the other song. This song was very positive and could give me the chance to move around the stage in the song. When singing the song I would reach out infront of myself and have a happy tone to my voice. The character that I was interested in playing was Tony, I thought that this was the best person to explore as I thought I really complimented the character of Mark really well, mainly because they follow

I feel that i could have done better is my response to the questions about the themes and meanings behind the play. I thought that i could have answered the questions with more detail and imaginative answers rather than the basic yet correct answers to do with the play. I felt prepared when going into the audition as i knew a fair bit about the themes and plots and the characters of the play, and when i was asked my thoughts i had some answers prepared. I felt that this audition was a very different style to what i had done before as it was a different style, as it was quite relaxed. But it meant that we could work on my audition and try out different things during it. And i think that this is a good experiences to do different auditions that might come up in the future.