Callback: How to Prepare for the Callback to Succeed in Getting the Part [Paperback]

Ginger Howard Friedman (Author)

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Publication Date: July 1, 2004

"Ginger Howard Friedman is one of the most innovative and important teachers of our time."--Jerry Orbach You got the audition. Now how do you get the part? What can you do to ensure getting a callback? And what can you do at the callback to demonstrate that you're the one for that role? In this invaluable book, veteran casting director-playwright-teacher Ginger Howard Friedman shares her trade secrets for successful auditioning. Through creative visualization techniques and exercises, she prepares you for that first, all-important cold reading, and using those same techniques, she enables you to tap into the dreams and goals of your character - and give the strongest audition you can. With her guidance, you'll learn: What tools to bring with you to a cold reading, how to prepare for a callback at your first audition, how to give your audition the energy of an opening-night performance, and how to get the part - and keep it. The author's exercises in creative visualization utilize scenes from such classic and contemporary plays as A Doll's House, Born Yesterday, Equus, The Lisbon Traviata, and Six Degrees of Separation. The techniques developed from these exercises can be used to prepare for virtually any role, whether on stage, screen or television.

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Ginger Howard Friedman is one of the most innovative and important teachers of our time. -- Jerry Orbach, Actor

Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Limelight Editions (July 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087910077X
• ISBN-13: 978-0879100773
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,600,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #37 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Theater > Acting & Auditioning

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More than just Callbacks, July 1, 2001

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Amanda Goldman (Jacksonville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Callback: How to Prepare for the Callback to Succeed in Getting the Part (Paperback)

Ginger Howard Friedman's book, "Callback", is about more than just what to do once you've got a callback. She tells you how to audition in the first place to succeed in getting a callback, and then how to sinch getting the part.

Through explainations, examples, and anecdotes, Friedman shares with her readers what directors are looking for, what they hate, what they love, and even gives brief overviews as to how the whole process of auditions and callbacks work. The fact that the book was all-inclusive is what made it such a wonderful find from my point of view. Friedman leaves almost nothing unanswered, including how to audition for a potential manager or agent, and the secret as to just why most young actors impress directors at the actual audition, but then blow it completely at the callback.

For a young acting student such as myself, this book gave me information that I didn't get from my college theater classes, making it an invaluable addition to my personal library.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent, September 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Callback: How to Prepare for the Callback to Succeed in Getting the Part (Paperback)

This is a real "go to the point" book. Full of clear examples, exercises, anecdotes, that shows the expertise of the author. This book is like going to an expensive class in audition, because you can really feel what she says. She knows what she is talking about. The only thing I don't agree with her(but still I give you five stars, because it is a personal comment), is when she say that if we are about to begin the audition and the auditor talk to us, and it seems that the talk is going to extend, we must ask in the most polite and subtle manner to the auditor to postpone the talk after audition ends, because it could make the concentration to flaw. I don't agree, because not all auditors are the same. Very few show friendly, and cutting their good will could turn against us. In my case, I get better results when the auditor shows friendly to me. But as I wrote before, as this is my personal opinion, I can't judge the author's point of view as good or bad just because I disagree.

Thank you.