After enduring Oklahoma! auditions just a couple of weeks ago, the Pineda team once again found themselves munching Doritos and chugging diet Coke behind the table for another round of pitchy singing and bad acting. To be fair, there were several very good auditions sprinkled throughout the weekend. Friday night was for the opera company’s Young Artist production of Pirates of Penzance. Definitely, a lot of unrefined talent and enthusiasm on display, but not much lead material. More surprising was the attendance. Though we didn’t advertise the audition in any publication other than the opera company’s yahoo group list, over 30 kids showed up! We were expecting around 15. I mean, it’s Pirates?
Sunday was the first day of auditions for our new Summer Theatre Conservatory. We deliberately held only a specific number of audition spots for each day (there are three days total) so we didn’t have to rush anybody and so that we could really spend time with each kid. I don’t know what parallel universe we auditioned in, but we actually had an equal number of boys and girls sign up. On top of that, the boys far out-sang, out-acted and plain out-auditioned the ladies. It will definitely be an interesting summer. Unfortunately, there are so many male parts in the show, we will never have too many boys audition. Hopefully, today’s audition will reflect the quality of our next two audition days later in the month. One thing is clear, people still LOVE Les Mis.
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