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Your rep book : how to find, choose, and prepare successful audition songs / Adam Wachter.

By: Wachter, Adam [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2024Description: 184 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350417663 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Musicals -- Auditions | Performing Arts | Theatre studies | Children's / Teenage general interest: Drama & performing | Music of film & stage | Acting techniquesDDC classification: 792.6028 LOC classification: MT956 | .W25 2024
Contents:
FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE RULES -- CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS -- CHAPTER 2: THE CATEGORIES -- CHAPTER 3: THE LISTS -- CHAPTER 4: THE CHOICES -- CHAPTER 5: THE SHEET MUSIC -- CHAPTER 6: THE CUTS -- Part 1: The Sections -- Part 2: The Markings -- Part 3: The Cutting-and-Pasting -- Part 4: The Bookends -- Part 5: The Finishing Touches -- CHAPTER 7: THE ACCOMPANIST -- CHAPTER 8: THE PERFORMANCE -- FINALE: THE END -- AFTERWORD -- FURTHER RESOURCES -- APPENDIX A: THE SHOWS -- APPENDIX B: THE ARTISTS
Summary: Prepping songs for Musical Theatre auditions can be more stressful and confusing than a bad production of Sweeney Todd... but this book can help. How do you find the right songs, and in all the various genres? Where do you get the sheet music? How do you edit it down to make your 16- or 32-bar cut? What even is a 16-bar cut?! Relax, diva: Your Rep Book has the answers to all these questions and so many more. Adam Wachter has taught courses on audition repertoire selection at top conservatories in the US and UK and spent years accompanying and sitting "behind the table" in auditions for everything from university programs to Broadway shows. This friendly and accessible guide is designed to answer all your questions and help you stock that rep book with tight cuts of great songs so you can walk into your next audition and totally nail it. Including a foreword by Broadway casting director Rachel Hoffman and an afterword by Broadway and West End star Caissie Levy, Your Rep Book takes its readers step-by-step through the strangely mysterious process of building your audition repertoire portfolio (or "rep book" in industry jargon). Leaving no stone - or showtune - unturned, it helps you identify what songs you need in which categories and explains where to find them, how to source and cut the sheet music, and even how to communicate effectively with the accompanist and act your song. Whether you're a high school student auditioning for college MT programs or the ink is still wet on your recent BFA, or even if you're a seasoned pro dusting off those old charts, Your Rep Book is here to help!
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FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE RULES -- CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS -- CHAPTER 2: THE CATEGORIES -- CHAPTER 3: THE LISTS -- CHAPTER 4: THE CHOICES -- CHAPTER 5: THE SHEET MUSIC -- CHAPTER 6: THE CUTS -- Part 1: The Sections -- Part 2: The Markings -- Part 3: The Cutting-and-Pasting -- Part 4: The Bookends -- Part 5: The Finishing Touches -- CHAPTER 7: THE ACCOMPANIST -- CHAPTER 8: THE PERFORMANCE -- FINALE: THE END -- AFTERWORD -- FURTHER RESOURCES -- APPENDIX A: THE SHOWS -- APPENDIX B: THE ARTISTS

Prepping songs for Musical Theatre auditions can be more stressful and confusing than a bad production of Sweeney Todd... but this book can help. How do you find the right songs, and in all the various genres? Where do you get the sheet music? How do you edit it down to make your 16- or 32-bar cut? What even is a 16-bar cut?! Relax, diva: Your Rep Book has the answers to all these questions and so many more. Adam Wachter has taught courses on audition repertoire selection at top conservatories in the US and UK and spent years accompanying and sitting "behind the table" in auditions for everything from university programs to Broadway shows. This friendly and accessible guide is designed to answer all your questions and help you stock that rep book with tight cuts of great songs so you can walk into your next audition and totally nail it. Including a foreword by Broadway casting director Rachel Hoffman and an afterword by Broadway and West End star Caissie Levy, Your Rep Book takes its readers step-by-step through the strangely mysterious process of building your audition repertoire portfolio (or "rep book" in industry jargon). Leaving no stone - or showtune - unturned, it helps you identify what songs you need in which categories and explains where to find them, how to source and cut the sheet music, and even how to communicate effectively with the accompanist and act your song. Whether you're a high school student auditioning for college MT programs or the ink is still wet on your recent BFA, or even if you're a seasoned pro dusting off those old charts, Your Rep Book is here to help!

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