2021 — Auditioning For Life: Success Strategies Learned from Broadway Auditions — Shaun Parry — Paperback

Description

In his new book, AUDITIONING FOR LIFE, Shaun Parry cleverly integrates the lessons he has learned from auditioning and performing on Broadway, and beyond, with the everyday auditions we have as we seek success in our careers, homes and social circles. With over 20 years of experience he knows this world like the back of his hand and has a plethora of entertaining (and sometimes embarrassing) anecdotes that teach important life lessons. Every page of this book has just as much good advice for entrepreneurs, teachers, CEOs, and parents as it has for Broadway-bound singers, dancers, and actors. The strategies a Broadway performer uses to succeed at theatrical auditions are the same strategies we need to succeed at our “everyday auditions.”

From the back cover:
Shaun Parry has been described as a peaceful warrior, a seeker of truth and a lover of humanity. He is a Broadway performer, author, composer, director, choreographer, humanitarian and one of ten siblings with 46 nieces and nephews. With over 20 years of experience making his living as a professional performing artist, Shaun Parry shares wisdom and insights through entertaining, poignant, and sometimes embarrassing anecdotes of his journey. He also shares some great stories about famous artists and stars with whom he has rubbed shoulders over the years. Through this enjoyable peek behind the curtain of the normally hidden world of Broadway auditions, Shaun Parry offers up a guide to everyday success. Having performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on Broadway National and International Tours, at Madison Square Garden, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera and more — and with 15 years of experience doing life coaching through the arts with his nonprofit organization, Promethean Spark International — Shaun Parry is uniquely equipped to be your surrogate mentor, to inspire you and guide you toward success in your goals and dreams. This is a must-own book for performing artists, entrepreneurs, teachers, CEOs, parents and anyone looking to succeed at their daily auditions of life.

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“Performer, Shaun Parry, uses his own experiences in theatre as parables to teach principles of discipline and philosophy that sill into life at large. This book should be in the hands of aspiring student performers and youth professionals in high schools and colleges everywhere and is an excellent read for those already in the field. Bravo, Shaun!”

—Lynne Taylor-Corbett
Tony Award-nominated director/choreographer

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“Auditioning for Life is well written and full of wisdom — not only for actors, but for anyone who reads it.”

—Tom Robbins
Broadway actor including the original Puma in The Lion King

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“Worldwide self-help guru and successful theatre artist, Shaun Parry, is pure inspiration.”

—David Andrew Rogers
Broadway orchestrator/conductor

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“I don’t have a lot of reading time, but every extra minute I have I go to AUDITIONING FOR LIFE! It has become a study for me. My copy of the book is filled with post-it notes, yellow highlights, thoughts, and opinions. I have been teaching motivational life skills and personal dynamics for over 40 years. AUDITIONING FOR LIFE has given me new ideas and insights I’d never thought about. YOU GO SHAUN! I loved every word. It is an amazing study. Things I already knew were reaffirmed, things I didn’t know were affirming and inspiring. Some of that comes from the fact that I know Shaun very well. I know his heart. I am also a theatre zealot, but the book is a guide for life, encouraging, inspirational, uplifting, informative, and a MUST READ, no matter what a person’s aspirations are. I will read and study it again and again. Not something I do often.”

— Gloria Johnson
Life coach, Radio personality and humanitarian