Auditions Procedures

The following are the procedures for Auditions with PPTOPA

1. A monitor will be present at official PPTOPA auditions.
2. Monitors will report violations of rules to PPTOPA board of directors.
3. Monitors are not permitted to have any discussion regarding anyone who is auditioning with casting personnel during the audition period.
4. The monitor will sign up performers only on official PPTOPA Sign Up Sheets.
5. The monitor will arrive 1/2 hour prior to the scheduled start of the call. The only official list of performers will be the one established by the monitor.
6. Should performers who are present before the start of the call choose to establish and honor an unofficial list/order among themselves, the monitor will sign up those performers in the order in which they present themselves. This order must be established before the official start of the call. However, monitors take no responsibility in organizing and/or coordinating any such unofficial list/order.
7. Appointments will be scheduled only on the day of the audition in the following manner:
8. Performers will be scheduled in ten minute blocks of time. The length of each performer's audition will be at the discretion of the casting personnel, with a minimum of two minutes given to each performer. Any time left over within the ten minute block will be assigned to "alternates" (see below).
9. When you choose a 10 minute time slot for the audition, you will be issued an audition card with the time slot indicated on it. Time slots are available on a first come-first served basis.
10. There is also an open-ended alternate list. This list will help to accommodate those who arrive after all time slots have been filled. The alternates will be "filtered" into the auditions as time permits. "Open-ended" means that you may sign the alternate sheet at any time. You could, for example, choose to be an alternate instead of choosing a specific time slot. Should you choose, however, to be on both lists, you must sign the first list and go to the rear of the line to sign the other list.
11. You must arrive and check-in with the monitor ten minutes prior to your audition time slot (as calculated a clock with the monitor). If you are not present on time, an alternate will be given the appointment, time permitting. There can be no exceptions to this procedure.
12. If you are an alternate, you must be available when your name is called. If you are not present when your name is called, you will lose the alternate slot.
13. If you miss your scheduled time or alternate slot, you are permitted to re-sign on the alternate list.
14. A time slot insures an audition during that 10 minute time period. If the audition process moves quickly, you may audition earlier than the scheduled time slots. However, your time slot will be honored, provided that you arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled time.
15. When there is a break, the monitor will post a Break Time Information Sheet with the time of break and time the monitor will return.
16. Sign-in sheets will not be "carried over" to the next day.
17. At the conclusion of each day's auditions, the monitor will provide the casting personnel with the pictures/resumes of the performers not seen.
18. Food, pets, large packages, friends and/or relatives will not be permitted access to audition area. Noise levels should be kept to a minimum. Please also try to keep the waiting area neat and clean, as a courtesy to all others, and place trash in the proper receptacles. Smoking is not permitted in either the audition or waiting area at any time.
19. After completing your audition, please leave the area quietly as a professional courtesy to the other performers who are still waiting.
20. We ask that you conduct yourselves as professionals. Should there be a problem or disturbance, however, please note that PPTOPA and the Audition Committee has affirmed the policy whereby, if necessary, anyone who creates a serious disturbance shall, at discretion of the staff, be removed from the audition area.
21. The monitor will also advise you as to what the requirements may be for the audition. For example, "up-tempo," "ballad," "16 bars," and so forth.
22. "Typing" is the method used by casting personnel to audition only those whom the casting personnel determine to be physically right for the production.
23. The length of the audition is at the discretion of the casting personnel. This will be announced as performers prepare to enter the audition room. The length of the audition time may be changed throughout the call. For example, the call may begin requiring 24 bars of a song, and afterwards, the requirements may be changed to 16 bars, and so forth.
24. For dance auditions, you may be called in groups to learn combinations. You may also be auditioned in groups. The size of the dance group is generally determined by the size of the audition room.
25. If you receive an audition card and have not left the audition room, you must be seen (or typed, if typing is used). If you leave the audition site and are not present when called to audition, you may lose the right to the audition. You may, if you choose, wait until the end of the call, but there can be no guarantee of your being seen.
26. Video/pictures of your audition are permitted by the casting director of designee.  Said video/pictures are the sole possession of PPTOPA and may be used at its discretion.