How To Prepare For A Broadway Audition

How do I prepare for a Broadway audition?

I think the first thing to do is to know what you are auditioning for. If you are auditioning for a musical, you're going to want to know what the request is of you to bring to that audition. Generally, they will ask you for a piece of a song and a piece from the play, or a monologue. If you're going to have an audition next week for “Hello Dolly” or whatever it is, you want to have your song down. You want to have it cold, you want to have it memorized, you want to have sung it with an accompanist. Most of the time, you're going to be asked to sing with accompaniment. Or you are going to want to know what key you sing in. If you have music that goes with that song, you want to bring that music in and have the accompanist play it. They'll generally follow whatever tempo you're on, but you're going to need to have a piece of music with you. They may ask for a monologue, in which case you would bring something that you've got in your hip pocket that you do really, really well; that shows you off in the absolute best light. And then, also, they may ask you to read from a particular play. So, you'll want to read the play. You'll want to read it from the start to the finish and certainly, you'll want to focus on the scene that you're going to be reading. You'll want to have an understanding of where the scene starts, what happens in it and where it ends up and you'll want to try to communicate that arc throughout the course of your audition.