Do you give great performances but terrible auditions?
Are you singing well but not getting the recalls?
Are you in danger of sabotaging your own career?

You need to discover the secrets of

Successful Singing Auditions

Auditioning is a part of everyday life for an actor, singer or dancer. Learning how to deal with the challenges of the audition is one of the greatest gifts you can give your career.
 

Successful Singing Auditions works on many levels

The authors of the comprehensive book ‘Successful Singing Auditions’ get together to bring the the book to life. Take part in this one-day workshop and witness expert coaches Jeremy Fisher and Gillyanne Kayes work with performers to improve their chances of getting that elusive job.

During the day we may coach vocal technique, song focus, performance style, or job targets. We may give technical advice, we may offer musical style tweaks, we may give repertoire advice.

We WILL change what a singer does.

This is a live and spontaneous course

Successful Singing Auditions course content changes as we respond to and work with the energies and talents of the people on the stage. 

Here are some of the things we expect to cover (depending on the singers!)

• Discover your own audition targets - they’ll change for each audition, so finding out how to recognise them is vital

• Ballad? Uptempo? Contrasting? Finding a song to fit the audition

• The 16bar audition (how do you show everything you do in 16 bars?)

• The song journey – the full song, the cut version, the 16bars.

• Answers on a postcard… the quickest, most effective way to get into what you are doing, even when you’re nervous (we show you exactly how to use the vital 3 seconds before the song starts)

• Shake, gabble and roll… What happens to you in the audition itself and how to deal with it

• But I need to show them the whole of this 6-minute song! Panels can make their minds up in seconds – sometimes even 16 bars is too much. Learn to hit the ground focused

• When I’m famous I won’t do auditions! "Of course not. This is not an audition, let’s just have a chat and a singthrough to see how it goes", or why you never stop auditioning.

• Duetting with a stranger – dealing with the pianist

• Setting the speed of the song – and changing it if it isn’t right

• Suit you sir! Finding the version of the song that fits you

• "I’ve just found this great song for the audition tomorrow…" How well do you know your material?

• I haven’t got a thing to wear! Full slap or as you are?

• When does the audition actually begin? (and it’s not when you start singing…)

• Your range, your voice, your skills - matching your strengths to your material.

• Dealing with the panel. How do you come across?

• If you’re singing two songs, you're being at least three people – techniques to change character in full view

• Focus! Where are you supposed to look?

• More focus. Who’s on stage with you?

• Even more focus. Carrying your space with you

• How to sabotage your own audition, and how to stop.

Taught by two acknowledged experts in musical theatre

Vocal consultant Gillyanne Kayes (author of Singing and the Actor) and performance coach Jeremy Fisher (veteran of more than 8,500 West End auditions). Both are freelance coaches with numerous West End clients. Both are dedicated to clarity in teaching and the sharing of information. Both work on the Musical Theatre MA course at the RSAMD - Gillyanne as course consultant and vocal technician, and Jeremy as Portfolio and Performance Preparation tutor.

“Jeremy's strength is his ability to interpret the music and his innate talent for grasping the "feel" of the material. Gillyanne is simply brilliant at putting really technical information into accessible, practical terms that one can apply immediately.
I LOVE this way of working and I believe that this is Gillyanne and Jeremy's true trump card because each song you work on, truly becomes yours.” SuAnne Braun, Mamma Mia 2006.

Here's what previous participants have said

“Assisted me greatly in walking into the next audition with a different mental attitude and feeling much more in control, especially when the nerves started to set in on the day. I was much better equipped to handle the whole situation and I got the job!
SO a HUGE thank you to you and Gillyanne – you’ve really helped me a great deal and hopefully I’ll see you for a session or two if and when I get some time off in between Darlington and Kuala Lumpur!” Julia Glass

“I now understand the process (as far as the panel is concerned) is not something for me to get personally offended by. I can control my nerves and take off some of the pressure which auditions give to you. I feel that the way the information was given to me on the course has given me a new confidence and trust in myself in an audition situation.” Scott Harrison

“I brought a couple of my 6th form students to one of your first "Successful Singing Auditions" workshops. Well, I heard last week that Leann Jones (the lovely girl who came with me) has landed the Lead in the West End transfer from Broadway of "Hairspray" that opens in October!! I am so excited about this, and I know you will share in this excitement, especially knowing how helpful she found your workshop” Julia Caddick

"Had to let you know that K with all the confidence issues has only gone and landed her first professional job in panto. Successful Auditions does work!" Gillian Archibald, Motherwell College, three days after the workshop

"Yipee! I have an audition tomorrow and I'm looking forward to it!" Verity Ann Meldrum

Can I afford to do this workshop?

We know that acting is a vocational job and often doesn't pay well. We're passionate about getting you to the place where you can shine, so we've created two price levels for this course to reflect different levels of urgency and of budget - singer and participant (see below).

Actors will often say that they cannot afford to come to courses. But if you fall at the audition hurdle, you might be wasting what you've already spent on your training. You can’t express your talents in the job (and earn a living doing it) until you’ve GOT the job.
If you don’t know how to handle auditions, if you don’t come across well, if you’re doing something really odd, the question is can you afford NOT to do this workshop?

Teachers can often end up working in a professional vacuum, doing excellent work in their own studio but being cut off from the realities of the working circuit. In this workshop we offer the opportunity to find out what the musical theatre performer is aiming at, what the requirements for the task are, and how to gear vocal technique and expression to the job of getting the job.
If you have students who want to be musical theatre performers, bring your young singers with you and help them discover whether the musical theatre life is the one for them.

The participant places are open to anyone with an interest in understanding the audition process. We’ll be working with participants as a group to clarify the challenges and the goals of singing auditions, and you'll get a comprehensive look behind the scenes of the auditioning process.

To book your place as a participant click on this link to go to the Vocal Process secure shopping cart.

Book me a participant place on Successful Singing Auditions
 

The singing places (a maximum of 10) are open to singers who want specific and individual input and are happy to be coached in front of others. We’re welcoming those new to Vocal Process and old friends. If you want to be one of the singers that we coach live, there is a preliminary audition process (are you surprised?).
1. Send us a tape, CD or email us an mp3 of you singing two songs you would use in musical theatre auditions. They don’t have to be polished or recorded at a high spec – we want to hear what you do normally, so they can be recorded at home, with friends or in your lesson.
2. Let us know what type of jobs you want to be auditioning for, and at what level (theatre, national tour, cabaret, cruiseline, fringe, west end, recording studio etc etc.

To join the workshop as a singer, click on this link to email us straight away letting us know that you want to be considered for the singing places. We’ll then give you time to send your audition recording.

Reserve me a singing place on Successful Singing Auditions

We’re looking forward to helping you move on in your career.
To your success

Gillyanne and Jeremy
Vocal Process

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

Sir Winston Churchill