Show business is one of the hardest careers you can enter. My quickie advice? You have to love the journey. All its disappointments and joys. If you can’t love it all, don’t do it. The path (unless you’re Tommy Tune and you get a gig the first time) is long, tiring, and very competitive.
Ask any veteran in the business and they’ll tell you of the zero dark thirty wake up calls, running down Broadway yelling for a cab while also singing to warm up your voice, loaded down with a sack full of music and every dance shoe they own (plus three changes of dance clothes).
But then you trudge your way to and through auditions, enduring endless waiting on line while Equity members get seen. When you finally get waved in, you sing your best 32 bars (sometimes only 8). You get a call back to the dance call for the next day. You nail it and believe it or not, you’re offered the gig! After all the waiting, wanting, praying, and meditation…you got it!
If this is you, I’m just in time. Here are seven things to consider on your first job (so it’s not your last). These are my top priorities when looking for performers, as well as what some established, wonderful
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