Broadway pianist and music director, Austin Cook, is guiding you step by step through building the perfect musical theater audition book. In this 4 part series, you will learn how to choose the right songs for your book, why you should choose them, how many to have, how to assemble them, how and why to mark cuts and notes for the accompanist, and how to rehearse and ultimately audition with your book. In part four, Austin finishes the series by showing you how to mark the music for dynamics, special markings, cuts, start and stop points, and gives general advice for preparing the music for a successful collaboration with your audition accompanist.
This episode was a long time coming. Self-tapes are now an industry standard, and it's expected that you submit a professional one. There are so many areas to discuss concerning self-tapes, and we've hit them ALL in this 48 minute video! If you stand a chance to book the role of your dreams, you need to stand out in the crowd. Let's get your self-tape updated and ready for success!
Broadway pianist and music director, Austin Cook, is guiding you step by step through building the perfect musical theater audition book. In this 4 part series, you will learn how to choose the right songs for your book, why you should choose them, how many to have, how to assemble them, how and why to mark cuts and notes for the accompanist, and how to rehearse and ultimately audition with your book. In part three, Austin continues the series by giving his advice on how to act a song.
In part two, Austin continues the series by helping you with where to locate the right style of sheet music for your audition. He shares his favorite sites for locating music and demonstrates how to print and assemble them. Then, he shares his equation for determining the correct number of bars to sing for your audition type. Last, he shares his thoughts on constructing the best arc for the audition cut.
There are a lot of things out of an actor's control, but there are a few things that are. Not doing the right things in your audition can cost you the job! On today's episode, Austin is giving you 10 ways to NOT book the audition.
Broadway pianist and music director, Austin Cook, is guiding you step by step through building the perfect musical theater audition book. In this 3 part series, you will learn how to choose the right songs for your book, why you should choose them, how many to have, how to assemble them, how and why to mark cuts and notes for the accompanist, and how to rehearse and ultimately audition with your book.
We've all been there. You work really hard on prepping for your audition only to have the audition accompanist wreck your hard work! How do you respond in the moment and how do you prevent it from happening ever again? This week Austin is revealing his top 10 tips to deal with a bad audition pianist. Let us know how you respond to this situation in the comments!
We've upgraded our setup for you! We are very excited to launch our new series "10 Audition Tips" where each week, Austin will give you 10 of his best tips for different aspects of your musical theater audition. On this week's episode, Austin is helping you nail your collaboration with the accompanist! If you implement these tips, you are guaranteed to have a much better experience with the dreaded audition pianist!
Broadway is BACK y'all and we are 100% in! We went to see Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over at the August Wilson theatre, directed by Danya Taymor and we are giving our review. Spoiler Alerts throughout... so if you have plans to see the play, wait to watch this episode after and give us your thoughts! So glad we got a chance to see this show before Adrienne went back to The Lion King!
Watch as Adrienne Walker (Nala in The Lion King) and her husband Austin Cook (Hamilton music associate) chat about their opening night experiences!
