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7 Steps to Smoother Show Auditions

By: Zoe Dillard Published on: 20/07/2025

It being audition season for a lot of folks for their spring musical, I want to share some ideas about those famous auditions. The first is that, if you don’t already do this, you might consider doing a pre-audition read-through of the show, maybe more than one, so that your students can find out who all of the characters in the play are, not just the leads, and get to know just what it is, other than wanting to be in the show, to know who’s there, and what the storyline is, and if there are any problems that they could anticipate, or roles they haven’t thought about that they would love to have. If it’s a musical...