Active Audition Book

Active Audition Book


Your audition book is different from your “storage book”. Your storage book is just that – a place where you store material. My monologue storage book looks like this

Front panel – Clear so I can slip in the title page and a different color binder than my Active Audition Book .

Title Page – Bradetta’s Audition Material –( Name this anything you want – except Active Audition Book).

• 1st Tab – Comic 
• divided classic and modern - in all 5 sections
•  2nd Tab – Dramatic 
• 3rd Tab – Serio-comic
•  4th Tab – cross gender 
• 5th Tab – for others

These may be monos I liked, grabbed, stuck in, noted the source and forget about until I am looking for something specific. I don't know exactly what I have in storage until I look through it.
I have a separate storage book for Music. I copy the entire song and note somewhere in the book the source especially if the music was hard to come by.

I do the same tabs – My title pages says Audition Songs – it’s the same color binder as the other storage – because these stay in the house I don’t panic about confusing them

My Active Audition book I don't divide these into classic/modern monologues- beacuse I know them, I'm familair with all. They are Monologues are  that: -

• I know cold and after a focus exercise I could do right now – Performance Level

– I currently have 8 of those 

•  I could do if I ran through it in my head a couple of times – Performance Level -

– I currently have 6 of those

•  I have done my work, I have memorized them – I may have even done them before in an audition but I need to look it over, remind myself who the character is, maybe go over a couple lines I have forgotten- Performance level – IF I HAD TO

- I have 6 of these

• Monologues I want to use in the future – I don’t have them memorized, I have read the play, I have started character worked – they are nowhere near performance level -

-I have 6 of those –

The tabs are thus – Performance Level – Take A Moment – Take Two Moments - Soon

This shorthand works for me - do what works for you.

That is my monologue book. We’ll talk about songs in another post. Here is also what I keep in my Active book before the tabs start- Blank sheets of Audition Reflections, This includes a Mileage Log. I also have a pocket for any parking receipts or any other expenses I might have encountered on my outing. I do this later part for tax purposes. Take a look at the Audition Reflections. After I fill them out I put these in a three ring binder named – you guessed it – Audition Reflections.

More on that in the next post!