Celebrity Auditions Gone Bad
By Fred Topel, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Megan Mullally
"I've auditioned for four Broadway musicals, and I got cast in three of them. The other one was the worst audition I ever had. It was for the revival of The Sound of Music. It was after I had done Grease and How to Succeed on Broadway. I was back in Los Angeles, getting a divorce and I get a call like, 'Oh, they want you to come in and audition for Maria in The Sound of Music.' I'm like, 'I'm not right for that.' 'Well, they're going a different way. They want it to be fresh and new. They don't want it to be cookie-cutter like Julie Andrews. They want it to be new.' I was like, 'I can do that.' So I worked my ass off on this audition. There were three songs, like "Cliiiimb eeeevery mountain …" this crazy amount of audition material, four scenes. It was ridiculous. I worked so hard. I go in, I get halfway through the first song and they're like, 'Thank you, Megan.' And I was like what? You don't even want me to read? They were like, 'Nope, that was good, thanks.' So I left the room, shut the door and the whole room of people who were in there that I just sang for burst out laughing. Like hysterical, derisive laughter."
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