Boom Chicago Auditions

Dave · Post by **Dave** » October 5th, 2007, 7:48 am

Dear Valued Boom Alumnus,

Itâ€™s audition time again. Time to find the next generation of Boy Band performer.

Iâ€™m looking for your recommendations. You know the kind of performer Iâ€™m looking for: Big, bold, charismatic, funny. And interested in moving to Amsterdam for at least two years.

The auditions are 28 & 29 October (callbacks 30 October) in LA;
31 October, 1 November (Callbacks 2 November) in Chicago .

Best is you have them email me, and Iâ€™ll send them the how-to-sign-up information.

Thanks in advance!

Pep
"Jon Rosenfeld" <jon@boomchicago.nl>

Got an email from the artistic director from Boom yesterday.

If you have any interest in being a working improvisor and sketch writer in Amsterdam for at least two years...and can get yo' self to LA or Chicago in the next 4 weeks Send him an email for sign up info.

Boom's list of alumni is a who's who of up and coming famous people:

SNL's Seth Meyers, Jason Sudeikis, and writers Joe Kelly and Liz Cackowski
MADtv's Ike Barinholtz, Nicole Parker, Jordan Peele, Josh Meyers and Dan Oster, and writers Tami Sagher, Colton Dunn and Jim Woods
Aspen Breakout Awarded Rebecca Drysdale
Urinetown's Spencer Kayden
Colbert Report's/Sonic Commerical's Pete Grosz
plus an EZpass to working at Second City when you return

Dave's Unofficial Prerequisites for auditioning: getting yourself to l.a. or chicago
Dave's Unofficial Prerequisites for getting a callback: tons of confidence/charisma on stage, can get a laugh in any situation,
Dave's Unofficial Prerequisites for getting the job: freestyle rapping/improvised singing, tons of confidence/charisma on stage, a cool rockstar look, not crazy

If'n you have any questions about the audition process and/or the paradigm shift of moving to europe...

my office hours are: always.

db

slappywhite · Post by **slappywhite** » October 5th, 2007, 11:01 am

Wow, that would be an awesome job...

maybe in a few years ...

Lindsey · Post by **Lindsey** » October 5th, 2007, 12:55 pm

Yes. What an opportunity. Very interested, and very broke. Probably no Chicago for me right now.

apiaryist · Post by **apiaryist** » October 5th, 2007, 1:11 pm

What a great opportunity.

Lindsey wrote:Yes. What an opportunity. Very interested, and very broke. Probably no Chicago for me right now.

There's always:

York99 · Post by **York99** » October 5th, 2007, 2:14 pm

apiaryist wrote:What a great opportunity.

Lindsey wrote:Yes. What an opportunity. Very interested, and very broke. Probably no Chicago for me right now.
There's always:

That's a rough ride to Amsterdam.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » October 5th, 2007, 2:38 pm

York99 wrote:
apiaryist wrote:What a great opportunity.

Lindsey wrote:Yes. What an opportunity. Very interested, and very broke. Probably no Chicago for me right now.
There's always:

That's a rough ride to Amsterdam.

Yeah! You drown!

TexasImprovMassacre · October 5th, 2007, 3:18 pm

Dave wrote:a cool rockstar look, not crazy

aww, I should be more cool and less crazy.

...not auditioning for this will haunt me for a thousand years.

slappywhite · Post by **slappywhite** » October 5th, 2007, 3:25 pm

The Brigadier wrote: Yeah! You drown!

Only if you breathe AIR pssah

Milquetoast · Post by **Milquetoast** » October 5th, 2007, 4:50 pm

Ah, if only...

erikamay · Post by **erikamay** » October 5th, 2007, 6:24 pm

i highly recommend this. good peoples, and friends have said good things about their experience.

believe in yo-self!

scook · Post by **scook** » October 6th, 2007, 2:04 am

DollarBill · Post by **DollarBill** » October 19th, 2007, 9:32 am

Ace and I are all signed up. It sounds like it's gonna be fun... Except for the beginning: The audition starts, everyone introduces themselves, and they immediately cut 6 people and THEN the audition REALLY starts. No pressure.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » October 19th, 2007, 9:46 am

DollarBill wrote:Except for the beginning: The audition starts, everyone introduces themselves, and they immediately cut 6 people and THEN the audition REALLY starts. No pressure.

What the fuck? Just reading this fills me with rage.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » October 19th, 2007, 10:07 am

kbadr wrote:
DollarBill wrote:Except for the beginning: The audition starts, everyone introduces themselves, and they immediately cut 6 people and THEN the audition REALLY starts. No pressure.
What the fuck? Just reading this fills me with rage.

Well, almost...

The panel also watches you do a scene or two, and maybe play hitchhiker before they cut.

But I can assure you, after seeing hundreds of auditions for Boom and Second City Touring Co. that it is very obvious after 20 minutes (and in some cases, immedaitely) if an auditionee does not have a shot of getting hired, and if that is the case, why waste everyone's time while someone who obviously isn't ready is taking up stage time from people who have a legitimate shot? It's a business decision, not a workshop.

Conversely, just cause you get "excused" first doesn't mean you don't get a callback. If I know I already want to give someone a callback, I might excuse them right away and spend the rest of the audition time looking at people who I am on the fence about.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » October 19th, 2007, 10:18 am

Dave wrote:Well, almost...

The panel also watches you do a scene or two, and maybe play hitchhiker before they cut.

OK, that's a little better.

I had pictured this:

"Hi, my name's Robert."
"Thank you, Robert. You can go home."

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