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Rock musicals are an increasingly dominant force in contemporary musical theatre. Rock the Audition focuses in on this quickly growing area and defines what is required of a performer and their teacher to succeed in the audition room and on stage. With guts, love, and her finger on the pulse, rock musical audition coach Sheri Sanders shares all the essential tools for artists to interpret rock material with openness, sensitivity, creativity, and authenticity. It includes tips and interviews with industry insiders and innovators to explore the significance of inclusion, diversity, and self-acceptance with us in the theatre. This book shows performers and teachers how to holistically embody the essence of the show for which they are auditioning or coaching and teaches them how to: Create their own appropriate audition cuts and successfully communicate the feel of their cut versus the tempo. Have a keen understanding of style and time period and relate that knowledge to how they perform or coach. Use tools and tricks to nail all the vocal styles and understand how they changed with time. Synthesize the body, voice, and emotion in their performance (which requires a very different approach than traditional musical theatre). Learn how to perform or coach any style of pop/rock music.

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"""I admire Sheri Sanders so much, for she graces us with her knowledge and experience in a field where there is not a lot of solid literature and pedagogy. She's one of the important ones out there."" --Alex Lacamoire, Tony Award-winning orchestrator of In the Heights, Hamilton, and Dear Evan Hansen ""Rock the Audition is the most comprehensive guide to understanding how to perform pop/rock material for auditions. It gives you all the info you need to choose the right song and prepare it from every frame of reference. This is a must-read for anyone interested in performing musical theatre!"" --Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Drama Desk Award-winning orchestrator, music director, and supervisor: Mean Girls, The Prom, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, Company, The Addams Family ""It's our job as storytellers to constantly push our craft to the next level--this is what Sheri excels at. If you aren't actively coaching or singing pop music, you aren't interested in being hired in the new direction of the American musical theatre. Sheri Sanders for the win, ladies and gentlemen."" --Robert Hartwell, actor and founder of the Broadway Collective ""Sheri's passion for performing and music fuels her message and connects her with students in the most unique way. I'm thrilled that she is continuing her exploration of this material while sending out the inclusive call to all performers dreaming of rocking that audition!"" --Gavin Creel, Tony Award-winning actor ""Those of us teachers and students who have been fortunate enough to learn from Sheri Sanders have become artists who appreciate more music, understand music better, perform more confidently, make clearer and more compelling interpretive choices, sing more expressively in all styles, and think more creatively. I cannot imagine my life in music and music theatre without Sheri Sanders. She truly is the real deal."" --Toby Yatso, Arizona State University music theatre coordinator and faculty member, Artist-in-Residence at the Phoenix Theatre Company ""Sheri is an enthusiastic and passionate teaching artist. Her knowledge of music and its history ranging from Motown to the hip-hop era is extensive and formidable. But it's the care with which she inspires her students that makes her a masterful teacher. She is at the same time nurturing and challenging, encouraging mistakes, wonder, and play."" --Michele Pawk, Tony Award-winning actress and singer ""Rock the Audition will rock your musical theatre life. Sheri's book is not only terrific, it's a 'jagged little pill' (Alanis) that can help turn you into a 'beautiful mess' (Jason Mraz). 'So what' (Pink) if you're nervous? This book will make you 'Fearless'! (Taylor Swift)."" --Andrew Lippa, composer, lyricist, and book writer: Big Fish, I Am Harvey Milk, The Addams Family, and The Wild Party"

I admire Sheri Sanders so much, for she graces us with her knowledge and experience in a field where there is not a lot of solid literature and pedagogy. She's one of the important ones out there. --Alex Lacamoire, Tony Award-winning orchestrator of In the Heights, Hamilton, and Dear Evan Hansen Rock the Audition is the most comprehensive guide to understanding how to perform pop/rock material for auditions. It gives you all the info you need to choose the right song and prepare it from every frame of reference. This is a must-read for anyone interested in performing musical theatre! --Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Drama Desk Award-winning orchestrator, music director, and supervisor: Mean Girls, The Prom, Finding Neverland, Big Fish, Company, The Addams Family It's our job as storytellers to constantly push our craft to the next level--this is what Sheri excels at. If you aren't actively coaching or singing pop music, you aren't interested in being hired in the new direction of the American musical theatre. Sheri Sanders for the win, ladies and gentlemen. --Robert Hartwell, actor and founder of the Broadway Collective Sheri's passion for performing and music fuels her message and connects her with students in the most unique way. I'm thrilled that she is continuing her exploration of this material while sending out the inclusive call to all performers dreaming of rocking that audition! --Gavin Creel, Tony Award-winning actor Those of us teachers and students who have been fortunate enough to learn from Sheri Sanders have become artists who appreciate more music, understand music better, perform more confidently, make clearer and more compelling interpretive choices, sing more expressively in all styles, and think more creatively. I cannot imagine my life in music and music theatre without Sheri Sanders. She truly is the real deal. --Toby Yatso, Arizona State University music theatre coordinator and faculty member, Artist-in-Residence at the Phoenix Theatre Company Sheri is an enthusiastic and passionate teaching artist. Her knowledge of music and its history ranging from Motown to the hip-hop era is extensive and formidable. But it's the care with which she inspires her students that makes her a masterful teacher. She is at the same time nurturing and challenging, encouraging mistakes, wonder, and play. --Michele Pawk, Tony Award-winning actress and singer Rock the Audition will rock your musical theatre life. Sheri's book is not only terrific, it's a 'jagged little pill' (Alanis) that can help turn you into a 'beautiful mess' (Jason Mraz). 'So what' (Pink) if you're nervous? This book will make you 'Fearless'! (Taylor Swift). --Andrew Lippa, composer, lyricist, and book writer: Big Fish, I Am Harvey Milk, The Addams Family, and The Wild Party

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Sheri Sanders is an actor, singer, and founder of Rock the Audition. In 2004, Sheri noticed that the radio was changing the climate of musical theatre and created a masterclass in auditioning for rock musicals. The class became a hit in New York City, and Sheri immediately became the world's preeminent popular music repertoire coach. In 2011, she was the first author to publish a book on the new relationship between popular music and musical theatre. The first edition of Rock the Audition brought her to over eighty musical theatre programs in seven years, providing students, teachers, and coaches the skills to successfully research, prepare, and perform all styles of popular music currently represented on Broadway. Four years ago, Sheri took her book and turned it into a new interactive online rock musical theatre training program. This program continues to make it possible for individual professional performers and coaches, entire musical theatre programs, and now teens, to study directly with Sheri from every corner of the world. Sheri's performance techniques have led her students to the Broadway, touring, and regional productions of Mean Girls, Oklahoma! (2019 revival), The Lightning Thief, Jagged Little Pill, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Hamilton, Waitress, SpongeBob Squarepants, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, A Bronx Tale, Kinky Boots, School of Rock, Spring Awakening (2015 revival), Motown, The Last Ship, Jersey Boys, Diner, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Memphis, Rock of Ages, Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, American Idiot, Wicked, Rent, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, and Regina Spektor's Beauty, among others. Her students have also booked a variety of television shows and television musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, The Wiz Live!, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, Grease: Live, Hairspray Live!, The Voice, Empire, The X Factor, American Idol, Glee, and The Glee Project; and most recently, the film West Side Story, directed by Stephen Spielberg. Sheri professionally arranges audition cuts on Musicnotes. She lives in a treehouse in Brooklyn. Ezra Menas is a trans actor who received his BFA from the University of Oklahoma. Since then, he has appeared in national tours, performed at 54 Below, and in the world premiere of Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill musical. He has also been cast in Spielberg's new West Side Story movie.

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