Callback

by Ginger Friedman

Book Overview

A veteran casting director, playwright, and teacher shows aspiring actors how to give an audition the energy of an opening-night performance and discusses what producers and directors look for in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 055328956X
• ISBN13: 9780553289565
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Excelent

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.

More than just Callbacks

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.