So Jane suggested we get a copy for my son to read and since we had it, I read it too. This is a guy who saw eight or nine plays a week, every week, and sat through thousands of auditions. He discovered young actors like Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, and Bette Midler he cast the unknown Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate he worked with David Merrick and with Bob Fosse. I had never heard of him before, but during the 1960’s and 1970’s, he was an important and influential casting director in New York. Written in 1978, the book is subtitled “Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part” and Shurtleff certainly seems to be the guy who knows. Jane happened to notice a book on doing auditions that was one of Amazon’s monthly $3.99 or less books: Audition, by Michael Shurtleff. My sons are both in drama class, and the elder of the two recently auditioned for the high school’s production of Sweeney Todd (he was not chosen).
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