How to Get the Part...Without Falling Apart!
Featuring the Haber Phrase Technique for Actors
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2013
360 pages
978-0-307-87517-4 (ISBN)
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How to Get the Part...Without Falling Apart! is the answer to every actor's audition prayers. Acting coach Margie Haber has created a revolutionary phrase technique to get actors through readings without stumbling over the script. The book helps actors break through the psychological roadblocks to auditioning with a specific, 10-step method for breaking down the scene. Actors learn to prepare thoroughly, whether they have twenty minutes or two weeks. With a client list that includes Halle Berry, Brad Pitt, Kelly Preston, Heather Locklear, Vince Vaughn, TAA(c)a Leoni, Josie Bissett, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Laura Innes, and Tom Arnold, among others, Haber encourages and leads the reader through the audition process with helpful and oftentimes humorous examples. Includes script excerpts, celebrity photos, audition stories from today's hottest stars, and tips from top industry professionals.
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Margie Haber is regarded as one of the top audition specialists in the country. For the past twenty years, she has taught many of Hollywood's rising stars at her own Margie Haber Cold Reading Workshops in Los Angeles. Ms. Haber also holds ongoing workshops in San Francisco and New York, as well as seminars in other cities nationally and worldwide.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Audition Story-Heather Locklear
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part 1: Getting Out of Your Own Way
- Chapter 1 / You are Your Own Worst Enemy
- Audition Story-Gabriel Byrne
- Your Friend, The Casting Director
- The Success/Failure Syndrome
- It's a Numbers Game
- It's Out of Your Control
- Commitment, Commitment, Commitment
- Chapter 2 / How You Present Yourself
- Audition Story-Halle Berry
- First Impressions
- Should You Enter as the Character or as Yourself?
- Audition Story-Brooke Langton
- Photographs (Head Shots)
- Resumés
- Resumé Layout
- The Big Taboo-Don't Touch The Casting Director!
- It's Never How You Expect It To Be
- Use What You're Not Given
- Stop Apologizing for Yourself
- Coming From the Character's Point of View (POV)
- The Actor's Barometer
- Chapter 3 / The Interview
- Audition Story-Kelly Preston
- Audition Story-Steve Downing, Executive Producer
- The Interview
- Taking in the Room
- What They Really Want To Know
- Audition Story-Vince Vaughn
- Chapter 4 / Guide to A Healthy Instrument
- Audition Story-Pierce Brosnan
- Audition Story-Corey Allen
- A Healthy Instrument
- That Old Backpack
- The Five Ego States
- Turn Up the Volume!
- Part 2: Breaking Down the Scene
- Chapter 1 / Relationship
- Audition Story-Stephen Collins
- Types of Relationships
- Scene Excerpt-Thelma & Louise
- Relationship Q&A
- Changing Relationships
- Scene Excerpt-Thelma & Louise
- Relationship Contract-Hannah and Her Sisters
- Scene Excerpt-Hannah and Her Sisters
- Applying the Relationship Contract
- Siblings: Where is Your Character in the Food Chain?
- Love Relationships
- Stages of a Love Relationship
- Chapter 2 / Intention
- Audition Story-Eileen Davidson
- Second Read-Through
- Scene Excerpt-Thelma & Louise
- Action Verbs
- Opposing Adjectives
- Physical Behavior
- Obstacles
- Types of Obstacles
- Scene Excerpt-Julia
- Adjustments
- Scene Excerpt-The Silence of the Lambs
- Key Phrase
- Chapter 3 / History
- Audition Story-Bibi Besch
- Creating the Past
- Scene Excerpt-The Goodbye Girl
- Different Histories
- Scene Excerpt-In the Line of Fire
- Chapter 4 / Personalization
- Audition Story-Tom Arnold
- Personalizing Thoughts and Feelings
- Senses and Imagery
- Blood and Guts
- Stanislavski's Magical "As If"
- Substitution
- Scene Excerpt-Thelma & Louise
- Chapter 5 / V.I.P.S.
- Audition Story-Steve Guttenberg
- Scene Excerpt-Beaches
- Scene Excerpt-Beaches
- Chapter 6 / Opening Beat
- Audition Story-Josie Bissett
- The Five "W's"
- Where Am I?
- When Does the Opening Beat Take Place?
- Scene Excerpt-Kramer vs. Kramer
- Who Else Is in the Environment?
- What Am I Feeling?
- What Is My Physical Action?
- Scene Excerpt-Thelma & Louise
- "Help, I'm Next!"
- Chapter 7 / Units and Transitions
- Audition Story-Vondie Curtis-Hall
- Scene Excerpt-Thelma & Louise
- Scene Excerpt-The Prisoner of Second Avenue
- Baby Beats
- Adjustments
- Scene Excerpt-The Goodbye Girl
- Closing Beats
- Chapter 8 / Core and Masking
- Audition Story-Michael Easton
- Layers of Core and Masking
- Period Pieces
- Masking With Anger
- Masking With Indifference
- Masking With Humor
- The Vulnerable Moment
- Scene Excerpt-Thelma & Louise
- Scene Excerpt-Ordinary People
- Chapter 9 / Sense of Humor
- Audition Story-Tony Roberts
- Personality
- Breaking the Stereotypes
- Humor vs. Lightness
- Action/Adventure Films
- Buddy Films
- Scene Excerpt-Thelma & Louise
- Likability
- Daytime Dramas (Soaps)
- Chapter 10 / Moment to Moment
- Audition Story-Robert Newman
- Tennis, Anyone?
- The Coverup
- Mistakes Are Your Friends
- Crazy Things That Throw You
- Audition Story-Lar Park Lincoln
- Audition Story-Marga Gomez
- Audition Story-Cheryl Richardson
- Audition Story-Don McMillan
- Audition Story-Tim Quill
- Audition Story-Keith Alexander
- Audition Story-James Harrison Lurie
- The Callback Syndrome
- Making Adjustments
- Chapter 11 / Sample Scene Breakdown
- Audition Story-Traylor Howard
- Meeting Gene Hackman
- Scene Excerpt-I Never Sang for My Father
- First Read
- Second Read
- Third Read
- Scene Excerpt-I Never Sang for My Father
- Part 3: The Haber Phrase Technique®
- Chapter 1 / Reading in Phrases
- Audition Story-Cree Summer
- The Trap of Memorizing
- Developing the Phrase Technique
- The Haber Phrase Technique®
- Putting the Technique into Practice-L.A. Law Closing Argument
- Scene Excerpt-L.A. Law
- Put your Thumb into Action
- "That Darn Paper"
- Commonly Asked Questions Regarding the Technique
- Chapter 2 / Using the Haber Phrase Technique® in a Scene
- Audition Story-Lisa Rinna
- Audition Story-Michael Easton
- There's No Such Thing as a Monologue
- Working with a Partner
- Landings
- Resolutions
- Comedy Resolutions
- Scene Excerpt-Thieves
- When Do You Get Your Next Line?
- Scene Excerpt-I Never Sang for My Father
- When to Turn the Page
- Repetitive Phrases
- Eye-Staring Contest
- Throw It Away!
- Joining Sentences
- Putting It Together-I Never Sang for My Father
- Scene Excerpt-I Never Sang for My Father
- Don't Lose Your Life!
- Silence is Golden
- The State of Confusion
- Part 4: Words from the Pros
- Chapter 1 / Meet the Pros Seminar
- Audition Story-Garrett Wang
- Chapter 2 / Do's and Don'ts
- Audition Story-Edafe Blackman
- Pictures and Resumés
- Agents and Managers
- Getting in the Door
- Preparation
- The Audition
- Callbacks
- Screen Tests
- Feedback
- Afterword: An Interview with ED ASNER
- Epilogue
- About the Authors
