University Daily Kansan / Friday September 2, 1988
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Arts & Entertainment
Mike Moore, Wichita freshman, auditions for a role in one of the University Theatre fall productions
The art of surviving stomach butterflies
By Cindy Harger
Kansan staff writer
keen kann and Kurt Breckel man hurried out of their acting audition at Murphy hall nervous and excited.
"It was nerve-racking. I was shaking up there," said Kaiman, Sioux City, Iowa, freshman.
"Chalk this one up to experience," said Broeckelmann, St. Louis, Mo. freshman."
Kaitman and Broeckelmann were of about 100 students who audited at the open-call auditions Monday and Tuesday night. The open-call auditions were for five fall University Theatre productions, "Take in Marriage,"
"Charlotte's Web," "Whose Life is it Anyway?" "A Lie of the Mind" and "Amah! and the Night Visitors."
Throughout the trouts, the Murphy Hall lobby and corridors were quiet. Many students waited for auditions. Many were pacing or standing in a corner prac-
When their time came, they had to stand on the Crafton-Preyer stage before a panel of directors.
The students auditioned for two minutes alone or in pairs. They had the choice of reading cold or doing a prepared monologue.
"Although it is a terrifying experience, everyone has the same goals—the students and the directors — to
show their wares," said Ronald Willis, director of the University Theatre. Willis will direct "Theose Life is it Anyway?"
Willis said auditioning got easier with experience, but there would always be some nervousness.
"There is a quickening of your pulse and a nervousness in your stomach that is always there." Willis said.
Scott Reeves, an Olathe junior majoring in theatre, who was at the auditions know how that feels.
He said that occasionally someone would get so nervous that they would forget their memorized piece.
'It was the worst, most embarass
ing thing in my life.” Reeves said.
“My freshman year, I got up and forgot it and had to stop and ask if it could do it again,” Reeves said.
Wills said that people often lst roles for things over which they had no control. For example, they often have to cast people who have certain physical characteristics so they can play the roles of relatives.
Willis said that actors and actresses usually learned to accept that.
"More are not cast than cast, but usually not for anything they have anything to do with," he said.
"They learn how to deal with pressures, with anxiety and with the depression of not being cast," Willis
Kelly Sloan, Olathe junior, reads through a script before her audition
said.
When the call-back auditions end, the directors will decide on their
said
cases all at once so that no actor or actress is cast in more than one role at the same time.
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