Pre-Area Info #3

REGION 7 – Pre-Area Information #3

Directors,

Please read the following very carefully. There is a PDF version below that you can print.

FRIDAY – AUDITION – North Crowley HS – 9100 S. Hulen, Fort Worth, TX 76123

Let me know immediately if you have anyone not participating in the audition!!

Make sure students and parents understand and will abide by the cell phone/electronics rules!!
Every school must have a chaperone. If you can’t find a parent, talk to administrators and teachers.

Host Information

Enter on the north side of the building. Students will enter the auditorium. Directors will proceed past that entrance, through the picnic area and into the building. We will meet in the library, which is up the stairs on the left. There is also an elevator just past those stairs in the hall to the right.
Cars and vans can park in the teacher lot on the north side. Buses should use the part of the lot that is further from the building – marching band practice area.
We will need a few parents to help as monitors.
Director food – Dinner should be ready when you arrive. We will have “Fancy Nachos” – the load ‘em up yourself type. Snacks will come around during the audition as well.
There will be a student concession area in the cafeteria after students audition – pizza, nachos, and candy. Water can be bought before in the auditorium.
Alternates who are at the audition but are not called to sing will accompany the singers to the holding area in case someone becomes ill and has to leave. If they were to go to the cafeteria, they could no longer be called to audition.
Try not to arrive before 3:00 since school is still in session until 4:00.

The Procedure

Students will register, receive cuts, and warm up in the auditorium.
After singing through the cuts, all singers will be taken to holding rooms at the same time. They will be escorted from that room to warm up rooms in small groups.
Singers will go to one audition room to sing the cuts. There will be 4 singing rooms. 2^nd parts will audition first, followed by 1^st.
As students finish the music, they will be taken to a separate sight-reading room. There will be one SR room for Soprano/Tenor and another for Alto/Bass.
The cafeteria is the post-audition holding area.
We will also rehearse “Set Down Servant” a little after the audition, so please make sure your students bring that music.
We usually finish around 8:00, but you know that there is a lot of variation from year to year.
Students will take all their stuff with them from point to point. No swimming back up-stream!