Deal was the only person to respond, but arrived at the audition without a bass as she had never played the instrument before.

Several " tall, slim, black actors " auditioned for Worf before Michael Dorn came along, walking into the audition in character and not smiling ( Indeed, Michael Dorn found the seriousness of the role, especially during the audition, at first to be uncomfortable, since he considers himself a comedian at heart ).

When a backers ' audition failed to raise any money for West Side Story late in the spring of 1957, only two months before the show was to begin rehearsals, producer Cheryl Crawford pulled out of the project.

He did not audition actors until Spring 1969, a few weeks before the five test shows were due to be filmed.

According to Brooks, late on the night before shooting began, Hoffman begged Brooks to let him out of his commitment to do the role so that he could audition for the starring role in The Graduate.

In a flashback, we learn that during her audition, she had met and talked to the puppets before meeting any human being.

Like Seiwell before him, English won the job at a secret audition before McCartney.

Students from high schools throughout the state of Massachusetts were encouraged to submit audition videos of musical theater vocal works for solo, duet, trio, quartet, or quintet to the Boston Pops before May 9, 2008.

Rhoads got the call for the audition just before his final show with Quiet Riot.

had persuaded Sara and Maybelle the day before to make the journey from Maces Spring, Virginia, to Bristol, Virginia, to audition for record producer Ralph Peer, who was seeking new talents for the relatively embryonic recording industry.

Following the failure of Showgirls and being awarded two Razzie awards for her performance in the film, Berkley decided to audition for smaller roles in quality films, hoping to improve upon her acting skills before accepting another leading role.

" LaMorte spent a few minutes before the audition speaking and joking with Head, assuming he was a producer.

The Saturday night primetime show initially followed the audition process, as hopefuls sang before four judges ( record producer and music executive Pete Waterman, music executive and music manager Simon Cowell, music promoter and music manager Nicki Chapman and Radio DJ and television personality Neil " Dr " Fox ) at various locations around the UK.

Nana Visitor had just given birth to a baby boy barely a couple of months before she was called to audition for the role of Kira Nerys, and her becoming a mother actually shaped her decision process for accepting or turning down roles.

TBS's Lopez Tonight used a similar picture in a skit making fun of American Idol Contestant Jimmy Kennedy, claiming the movie was a sighting of Kennedy before his Idol audition.

Church was also under consideration to appear in the 2004 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera as the leading female character Christine Daaé but elected not to audition as it was specified she would have to lose weight before she could try out which she declined to do.

The show, for which Powell auditioned, was originally titled " Yours Truly, Lloyd London ," although the name of the show and its lead character were apparently changed before the audition tape of December 6, 1948, was actually recorded.

His high school teacher had encouraged him to audition for a Broadway part, which resulted in his selection for a starring role on Broadway in 1953 from among 200 other actors well before he entered NYU.

Britta Phillips, who had never before worked professionally as a singer, was cast as the singing voice of Jem after obtaining an audition through her father who worked on jingles in New York.

After almost rejecting the group due to him not being initially impressed with the looks of Patsy Holt before Holt and the group sang to him during an audition, which prompted Robinson to change his mind, signing the group and changing the name of both the group ( into The Blue Belles, based from a Newtown subsidiary, Blue Belle Records ) and Holt's own name, from Patsy Holt to Patti LaBelle.

According to Time, she studied acting for ten years before landing her first audition.

Hosted by Brian McFayden ( Ryan Seacrest's double ), people first audition before three judges ( the sarcastic Briggs, who also produces the show and could be considered the " Simon " of the show ; rapper Tone Lōc, the show's answer to Randy Jackson ; and singer Vitamin C, put into Paula Abdul's role ) in four cities across the United States.

Tennant also attended Saturday classes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ; at 16, he passed an audition for the Academy, one of their youngest students, and studied there between the ages of 17 and 20, taking his stage name from the Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant after reading a copy of Smash Hits magazine because there was another David McDonald already on the books of the Equity union.

In early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records, whose executive Clive Davis was impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to produce an album.

Thanks to his association with Jackson, Broonzy was able to get an audition with Paramount executive J. Mayo Williams.

O ' Connor first came to the attention of Xena: Warrior Princess executive producers Robert G. Tapert and Sam Raimi with an " over-the-top " audition that won her the role of the young Deianeira in their two-hour " Action Pack " adventure " Hercules and the Lost Kingdom ".

An old Army friend, who was an executive with NBC, asked James to audition for a new game show, Concentration, hosted by Hugh Downs, which needed an announcer.

Jim Shearer ( born January 3, 1977 ) is a MTV2 VJ who was hired in 2002 after catching the eye of the executive vice president of MTV with a homemade audition tape.

" At the end of the audition, Max co-creator and executive producer of the show said ' That was perfect.

" " Director Kevin Connor and I arranged a lunch, not an audition ," said executive producer Lester Persky.

Impressed with the group, Taylor personally brought them to Detroit and the Motown offices, arranging an audition for them with Motown executive Suzanne de Passe.

Barry Levinson, co-creator and executive producer of Homicide, said Belzer was a " lousy actor " during his audition when he first read lines from the script for " Gone for Goode ", the first episode in the series.

Following her audition before series creator Agnes Nixon, director David Pressman, and executive producer Doris Quinlan, Quinlan remarked to After Noon TV magazine of Slezak, " You've got to meet this girl — she's going to be a star.

Alexandra ( full name Alexandra Cabrera de la Cruz, born 19 October 1978 in Santo Domingo ) was attending a university in 1998, but her studies were put on hold when the opportunity arose to audition for arranger / producer Martires De Leon and executive producer Victor Reyes, who were looking for someone to pair with Monchy.

They are put through four sets of audition challenges, including monologues, improvisation, and scripted auditions in front of well-known Hollywood directors, casting executives and executive producers.

Nicholson cast her in the female lead role after a Paramount executive offered to allow her to audition at the studio.

Barry Levinson, executive director of Homicide, said Belzer was a " lousy actor " during his audition when he first read lines from the script for " Gone for Goode ", the first episode in the series.

The audition was held a few minutes later in somebody's apartment.

Undoubtedly helpful was that some of the university ’ s strongest programs were in the areas of music, speech, and art, disciplines in which ability could be measured by audition or portfolio rather than through paper qualifications.

In 1997 Flockhart was requested to audition for the starring role in David E. Kelley's Fox television series, Ally McBeal.

Though Flockhart at first hesitated due to the necessary commitment to the show in a negotiable contract, she was swayed by the script and traveled to Los Angeles to audition for the part, which she won.

It was during her performances in the carnival that Day first caught the attention of Barney Rapp, who sought a girl vocalist and asked if Day would like to audition for the job.

Sylvia was an audition pianist at the time.

A significant invention, which later had a profound effect on electronic music, was Lee DeForest's triode audition.

Kay was the impetus behind the formation of Jamiroquai, deciding to form the band after an unsuccessful audition to become the singer of the Brand New Heavies.

When Lee made one final appeal to audition, Neil accepted and was hired April 1, 1981.

Brando sought out that role, driving out to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Williams was spending the summer, to audition for the part.

In 1999, Katrina Bayonas, Cruz's agent, commented, " She was absolutely magic the audition.

Abdul was present at the initial audition of the eventual winner, Leona Lewis.

Desmond once told Marian McPartland of National Public Radio's Piano Jazz that he was taken aback by the chord changes Brubeck introduced during that 1944 audition.

Despite Ethan Phillips getting the part, Picardo was asked by the producers to come back and audition for the Doctor — something that shocked him, because usually actors would be passed over completely.

During his audition for the role of the Doctor, Robert Picardo was asked only to say, " Somebody forgot to terminate my program.

" ( Picardo was initially afraid that he may have ruined his chances — ad-libbing, he explained, was something that one just " did not do " in an audition.

" Roddenberry was very pleased with Burton at his very first audition.

Tinker passed the first audition, but could not attend the second because her train was delayed due to a bomb scare, and she did not want to go in late.

At the time, it was atypical for an African-American man to be the hero of a film when the rest of the cast was composed of whites ; but Romero said that Jones " simply gave the best audition ".

At the time of audition, O ' Dea was in Hollywood seeking to enter the movie business.

Duchovny's audition was " terrific ", though he had talked rather slowly, and while the casting director of the show was very positive toward Duchovny, Chris Carter thought that he was not particularly bright.