"Aren't you going to drive for Director Parker?" Meg was behind Ronald, putting an arm around her boyfriend's shoulder, holding a Coke in the other hand, and feeding Ronald a drink.
"No, I'm not going. The director has to prepare for auditions and has already checked into the Ambassador Hotel. I also have my own work to do, and I'm writing a script."
Ronald was typing away on the typewriter while dealing with Meg.
"Which character are you writing now?"
"I'm writing a play about Hillary, a rich girl in the dance department, and Lisa Monroe, who is in the same department as her." Ronald stopped, pulled the letter paper off the typewriter, and handed it to Meg.
After the black character Lydia was eliminated from the lead role, the director added a role for the white character Lisa from the dance department and became the starring role.
"Which role are you going to audition for, Meg? Hilary or Lisa?"
Meg has always wanted to go further, and she also has the ambition to be the protagonist. Hilary and Lisa, the two white roles in the dance department, are the most suitable for Meg. Ronald has been spending his thoughts on her these days.
Above the two of them.
"I mainly prepared for Lisa. Hilary and I have very different family backgrounds. I performed for Irene several times at Stella Acting School, but it was not ideal. But she thought I should challenge myself and find ways to find out.
Hillary’s motives.”
"I asked my sister Jennifer, and she felt that Lisa's middle-class background is more in line with ours, and she has a lot of roles. It would be a good choice for her first movie to choose a character with a similar background to her own."
Ronald frowned. He and Meg had quarreled twice because of Jennifer's various suggestions. Perhaps because of their deep relationship when they were young, Meg believed Jennifer more, even though Erin was a professional acting teacher.
, her suggestion is more appropriate.
"But Lisa Monroe was a lazy girl. In the end, she was dismissed from the dance department by her teacher because she was not good at dancing. You are such a good ballet dancer, can you play her well?" Ronald agreed from another angle.
Acting teacher Erin.
"Well, what you said makes sense. Maybe I can try both." Meg continued to look down at the play written by Ronald.
"Hey, why did you copy what I said into the script?" Meg read halfway through the script, raised her hand and pinched Ronnie's waist hard.
Ronald smiled. This was what Meg told her about her dream when she went to the Statue of Liberty with her. Ronald thought it was very suitable for the scene where Hillary went to have an abortion, so he slightly changed it and put it in.
This is Hillary's monologue while waiting at the door of the clinic.
"(Hands crossed and pressed on the abdomen, monologue to the little baby in the belly)
You see, I got an offer from the San Francisco Ballet, and I decided to accept it.
You see, I am a good dancer, better than average, the best in the school. If I were to become a dancer with the New York City Dance Company, everyone would think that I bought my way there with money.
You see, my dream is to dance all the classical ballet roles before the age of 21, including Giselle, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, and Black Swan...
I hope to hear audiences shout Bravo to me on stages in New York, Leningrad, London, and Paris! There will even be a ballet written just for me.
You see, there is no room for a baby in my dream. (Sobbing quietly)
"
"(clinic nurse asked) Do you pay with MasterCard, or American Express, Honey?"
Meg hit Ronald again:
"Ronnie, what you write like this is too cruel to Hillary. I don't allow you to write like that."
"Why? This scene happens to be the ending of Hillary's story. I think it's a good way to handle it? Giving up the baby for the sake of career is Hillary's character."
"Besides, you can get more familiar with this scene. I feel that director Parker will like it and maybe use it in the final script. Moreover, he is used to auditioning actors in scenes with strong emotions." Ronald hopes that Meg will win over Sheila.
role in.
"No, I don't want everyone to know my dream." Meg shook her head.
Ronald remembered what he had heard when interviewing the painter in the same apartment. Don't tell others about your unrealized dreams easily. He nodded, crumpled the letter into a ball and threw it in the trash can.
"Oops, I'm going to be late for class at the Academy of Performing Arts," Meg exclaimed and hurriedly picked up her bag and left.
"Take my car." Ronald handed over the keys.
"Thank you, Darling." Meg kissed Ronald and went out.
Ronald looked at the waste paper in the trash can. He took it out again, spread it out on the table, and carefully smoothed out the wrinkles.
I read it twice and found it to be really well written. This section is the best scene I have ever written. The dialogue comes from real life and is very powerful.
Ronald carefully folded it and stuffed it into the plastic cover of the notebook to keep it as a souvenir.
"Ronnie, how many audition applicants do we have now?" Margaery asked.
"There are more than 620 registrations in total."
"In that case, about 500 people will show up (appear at the scene), but it's still not enough."
"Is there anywhere else we can do some advertising?" Director Parker asked.
"No more. We have sent them to all the places we can. In addition to the Academy of Performing Arts and other art high schools in New York, we have posted audition advertisements." Margery shook her head in distress.
"Would you like to try newspapers? In addition to placing casting advertisements in professional newspapers and magazines such as The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Variety Show, Backstage, and Show Business, we can also try mass media.
Many students read the New Yorker, Harper's Style, and the New York Post, and the entertainment section of the newspaper is also good." Ronald had an idea and remembered the time he advertised in Los Angeles.
"It's too late for magazines, let's publish it in newspapers. Since the Post was acquired by an Australian tycoon, gossip news can appear on the front page." Producer Da Silva decided.
"Our audition is scheduled for next Saturday. It is divided into two interview groups and is held in the two business rooms of the Ambassador Hotel. They are headed by the casting directors of Margery Simkin and Howard Fehr respectively.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Each group has 4 preliminary auditions with casting directors, mainly based on their talents: musical instruments, singing, dancing, acting, etc."
Producer da Silva begins assigning work
"The candidates who pass the preliminary examination will go to the room on the second floor, where the director, Margery, Fehr, and I will check them together. The candidates who pass will be selected for a re-examination."
"Our goal was eight protagonists, now we have seven, 16 minor characters, and 24 resident actors. That's 48, 47, no, minus Meg Tilly, that's 46.
"
"Based on the ratio of 20:1, we need to accumulate approximately 1,000 audition candidates, and now we are still short of about 400."
"Think about it, think about it, where to find these people."
The producer asked those present to brainstorm.
"How about contacting art schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts and arranging auditions?" Casting director Howard Fehr came up with an idea.
"It's troublesome to cross state lines, and they are minors. Different states have different regulations and may need to be accompanied by their parents. It's best to solve the problem in New York." Margery expressed different opinions, "Of course, if you have a good candidate,
That's another thing."
"So? What's going on in Hollywood?" Da Silva asked the director again.
The director has been back and forth between Los Angeles and New York twice, and no one has been finalized yet.
"We're not optimistic. We can organize an audition there, but right now throughout America, there's a shortage of young actors who know how to act. When using adult actors, we have to consider the close-up of their faces and not wear them, so we can only look for those with tender faces.
"
"Who else has a good idea? Ronald, how about you?" The producer called Ronald's name.
"I don't have any ideas. We can't get in except the Academy of Performing Arts. We've been to all the other places in New York."
In fact, the solution is very simple. Everyone knows it, but no one says it.
The biggest selection base was the New York Performing Arts High School, which had a falling out with the crew after hearing the director's leaked content of the script. There were thousands of students in the graduating class, and all the problems had been solved.
However, after the last lesson, Ronald does not speak easily now and is cautious in his words and actions.
"Ronald, try to sneak in secretly and think of a way to spread the news about the audition." The producer directly assigned the task.
"Okay, I will. You have to give me some funds. I may need to bribe security guards, bribe teachers or something." Ronald said angrily. Producer Da Silva was still dissatisfied with him and asked
This task was entrusted to him.
If it's done well, it doesn't necessarily mean he's successful; if it's not done well, it's a matter of his ability.
But Ronald also had his own way of dealing with it.
"I'll give you a US$100 limit, and you can bring a few bottles of wine. If the gatekeeper likes this, you can sneak in," Da Silva said, "Remember to give me the purchase receipt for reimbursement."
"Giving alcohol to the janitor and sneaking into the middle school dormitory? Could it be the producer's own experience? Do you really think that you will go to an acting college alone and stupidly kill people?" Ronald thought to himself.
After the meeting, only Margery consoled Ronald with a few words, "Do you remember the last time Julia Taylor invited you to join us? Please consider that you will also be responsible for auditioning some actors for this audition. You can also come to the studio after school starts.
practice."
"Thanks, Margery, I will." Ronald replied.
The next morning, Ronald drove to a parking lot opposite the Academy of Performing Arts, then turned off the engine and waited.
After a while, Gene came over with the two boys, "Hi, Ronnie, these are my good friends from high school, John, and Morgan."
After saying hello, Ronald got out of the car and opened the trunk. It was full of advertisements for "Hot Lunch" auditions. Ronald typed them out yesterday and went to the Xerox copy shop to copy them. A total of 2,000 copies.
.
"Help me move in together." Several people moved the audition advertisement near the cafeteria on campus. Gene's two friends are senior dance students, and they know almost every department leader. Every leader
Distribute one or two hundred copies, and soon it will cover all graduating and senior classes.
In fact, it is the school board of directors that prevents students from performing arts colleges from auditioning. As for students, or even teachers, who doesn’t want to be selected by the crew and become famous overnight?
The producer did not understand the complexities of class in public schools. Public schools are no longer as strictly managed as when his generation went to private schools. It took at least a few days for the high-ranking school directors to get the news, but once the news spread,
Who could stop them from auditioning?
"Here," Ronald handed Gene five $20 bills to distribute to his buddies.
What Ronald also didn't expect was that the news was not only spread in the performing arts college, but also spread throughout New York's art schools and performing arts venues through the network of classmates between schools within a few days.