How To Audition For Broadway

How can I audition for Broadway?

For Broadway theatres - for Broadway shows, if you are going to have an audition for it, generally you want to go into an agent submission. There is also what they call the cattle call, an open call, and I'll talk about both of them. The agent submission for an audition is your agent going through the breakdown and saying, "Ok, here's this part, I got a guy who is perfect for that, and I'm going to send him over there". So he'll call you up and say, ‘We've got this audition for you, it's next week”, and you go. The other type of audition that you'll have is what they call an open call. These are generally listed in trade newspapers. In the acting trade here we have 'Backstage'. There are other different trade papers that list open call auditions for Broadway shows. These usually take place in Midtown, at the Actors Equity Building, and what happens is, is they'll say, "We're having an open call for the revival of, say , ‘The King and I‘, and we're looking for all of these different type of actors. Somebody to play the King, somebody to play Anna, somebody to play Louis, all the different actors And so, people will show up from the appointed time, say it starts at nine and goes till five. Well, you show up and you get a number, and you have your opportunity to go in there and audition for the artistic staff. The difference between an open call and an agent submission is that, probably ninety-nine times out of one hundred, the people that show up in the play opening night were sent through an agent submission. But, there is that often time chance that somebody comes into an open call, and they are just so together, so confident, so really wonderful for the particular part, that the artistic staff will say, "Hey look, this guy showed up, and was amazing”. “He's been amazing at every audition that we've had him for, let's put him in the show. That does happen, but not quite as often as you would like. Most the time it's an agent submission that is going to get you in to a Broadway play.