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Summary: How To Be Memorable! How To Stand Out From The Crowd!
Review: This is an outstanding book; practical, insightful, patient, and wise. The author is dead on; he thinks well and he writes well. Although advertised as a book for actors, this is also a very useful book for writers. And, it is a useful book for anyone who ever has to be interviewed for any reason, anywhere, anytime. Bright readers will skim through, skipping examples and devouring the text because it is so useful and so wise. But bright or "slow" - all readers will find that they return again and again to reread this veritable font of creative wisdom.
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Summary: Get the Part!
Review: Want to get the part? Read "Audition" by Michael Shurtleff/Bob Fosse. Want to see everything wrong with theatre? Watch "Waiting for Guffman" (very funny film). Want to be famous? Are you sure? Read "My Fractured Life" by Rikki Lee Travolta.
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Summary: The best acting book EVER!!!
Review: When i was assigned to read this book by my college professor i thought oh not another fluff filled crappy bokk. I bagan to read and this in my 6 years as a theatre performance student it should be the actors bible!!!! It told yo ueverything you wished to know even down to the auditors eating while you are auditioning. Every question answered!!!
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Summary: A most critical must read
Review: Whether one is an actor, director, writer or teacher, Shurtleff's book is simply a critical must read. Shurtleff who spent many years as a top casting director possessed an absolute love for the brave souls who dare to place themselves on the stage. His ultimate legacy to his beloved craft is this indispensable "How To" bible.Much has been written already about his twelve guideposts, and I have nothing new to add to those already glowing (and well deserved) comments. What I did find most illuminative and refreshing is his comments on how to behave at the job interview. It is in this chapter that this book becomes helpful to even the non actor. In this chapter/section, Shurtleff urges all people to realize that ultimately the pressure in the job interview is on the employer and that a good prospect will immediately put the interview board at ease. All too often actors become so self centered and fail to realize that their performance is really about their audience, not them. The same is true therefore of the job interview. It is about the employer, not the employee. As a teacher, Audition has been most helpful to me as it has provided objective certainty to an area filled with far too many subjective judgements. In other words, Shurtleff has helped define the skills and tasks necessary to train actors in a manner that will help them transition successfully from the educational venue to the professional market. He has given us clear, active objectives to teach toward. In Audition, Shurtleff articulates what constitutes good, effective acting. Once that becomes defined clearly, then success becomes not a nebulous ideal, but rather a concrete proposition. If this is not in your theatre library, it is time you add it now.
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Summary: This book has all the info. an actor needs to get the part.
Review: With the simple steps of the guideposts, it most definitelymakes it alot easier to play the most challenging roles. I wasconfused on what traits a good actor/actress should have, now, I feel comfortable in every aspects of acting.
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