Audition Tapes

Audition Tapes

Carrie Hope Fletcher Audition For Forbidden Broadway

In Carrie's audition she comes into the room well spoken and appearing confident. After being asked a few questions she was asked whether she can act, sing and dance, saying yes to these 3 disciplines the Casting Director asked her if she could perform a combination of all 3. She did this by dancing on the spot whilst singing the well known line from Hamlet 'To be or not to be, that is the question'. This looked shocking her doing that as it was unprofessionally and it didn't appear she was taking this audition seriously as she was very much mockingly doing these bizarre combinations.  If someone did this in an audition for lets say a drama school and I was on the audition panel I would ask the auditionee to leave as I would feel they are not taking the audition seriously and it is a joke to them, The casting director then asked for her to sing a song which she replied she had prepared 2  songs. 'On my own' - Les Miserables and 'Memory' - Cats. Both these songs are very well known musical theatre songs and are extremely popular choice which isn't the most wise choice as choosing these songs can bore your audition panel as they have heard these songs lots of times before. Also by choosing a big song like 'Memory' Elaine Page is the original cast of playing Grizabella who is the character that sings 'Memory', and by choosing a big song to sing for your audition song you are at risk of being compared to the original person who sings the song. Along with the musical 'Wicked' and the song 'Defying Gravity' it is just such an overdone song and such a big well known musical number by Idina Menzel that it it would be ridiculous to even think about singing that song as an audition song because you will always be compared to the original unless you can blow the original out of the water.
Carrie then starts to sing her song and she is getting the songs mixed up by singing the words to 'On my own' to the music of 'Memory' and vice versa. This shows how unprepared she is for the audition and she is getting the songs wrong and getting embarrassed that she is getting it all wrong. This video is clearly how a bad audition would be.