Waiting in the Wings : How to Launch Your Performing Career on Broadway and Beyond

It took seventy-two auditions-and rejections-before Tiffany Haas landed the role of Glinda in Broadway's long-running smash hit Wicked. Now Tiffany draws back the curtain and shares her hard-won wisdom with others who wish to pursue a career in the performing arts. Waiting in the Wings is a one-of-its-kind guidebook offering up-close-and-personal, behind-the-scenes advice on how to: Audition. Tiffany will help prepare you for a casting call-from researching, training, and rehearsing for a role to answering the most common question of all: What should I sing? Find an Agent or Manager. Plus, resources and reliable information about joining a trade association or union, and the best means of support in the field. Play the Good Witch. Learn how to make-and keep-friends and contacts on and off stage in the face of competition, performance anxiety, social media overload, and other everyday realities. Win the Role of a Lifetime. Tiffany's rise to fame was anything but easy, but she learned how to hold her head up high and never give up-and so can you. Master the Business of Broadway and secure the career of your dreams ... for years to come. Make a Living as a performer-not just on Broadway but in the many other professional opportunities on stage, film, and TV she'll teach you to find and create for yourself. Book jacket.