Grease National Tour Auditions

Here is the scoop from the Grease call today.

I got there at 7:00am, and was done at 5:00pm.

The first thing they did was type-cast everyone because there were over 500 people there in the end. After they typed, we guessed there were about 80 people left.

They brought us in to dance in two groups for 40 people each.
The combo was fast-paced but technically easy, it was to the hand jive. We performed the dance in smaller groups of 4.

Then they made another cut, and I was asked to stay and sing 16 bars of a pop song appropriate to the show. I sang a cut from "One Night With You" from All Shook Up, and I felt that it went really well. They were cutting some girls off early, but they let me sing the whole thing. Not sure what that means, but they asked me to stay and dance again!

It was now down to 39 people I counted in the room. The choreographer added on to the dance combination we learned earlier, about 4 8-counts more. Added a high kick, some more rhythm stuff, and after each group was done, each person was asked to do a double pirouette. We performed the dance this time in groups of 3.

After we were done dancing we gathered in the holding room. A casting assistant called up some girls to read and sing tomorrow, mostly Jan-looking, none of them my type as far as I could tell. Dave Clemmons came out with two groups of headshots. I was in the first group, and a friend of mine was in the second. Dave told my group that that's all they needed today, he's not sure where we'll go from here but he is putting us in his file for this show and for future shows as well. The second group was told that they needed to sing for the director because he wasn't there when they sang before. Not sure if he saw me already or not...

So I'm concluding that I didn't get anything, at least for now, because I got the impression that they weren't looking for all the roles, although I think they were looking for ensemble, but I'm still confused. You never know, I guess.

The choreographer happened to be the assistant to Kathleen Marshall from the workshop that I did just about a month ago! She is super cool and it'd be amazing to work with her, she's been on Broadway since she was 18! Not sure if she recognized me or not, but she kept me for a long time.

I am proud of myself for getting that far, it was definitely a big step for me, and I feel like it was a great audition day. Back to the grind tomorrow.