Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmwho cares70 posts in thread
Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmHello everyone
I am very disappointed to have to inform everyone that Star Power has been cancelled.
This is due to the lack of entrants in the competition for this year. We are so very disappointed as we had the support of such amazing groups that would have offered training and workshops and opportunities for the youth of WA.
I must say that when I kept receiving emails asking how people could get the auditions without having to do the training, I started to wonder at the youth of WA.
I want to stress to everyone now that all entrants will be receiving their entry money back in the next week.
( For those narrow minded and petty people who thought that Star Power was trying to rip people off and went to the amazing lengths of having us investigated, well, the investigation found nothing, and you simply made us realise how many people out there don't understand that there really are people who are prepared to work for no financial reward at all in order to help others. The cancellation of the competition has cost us money.)
It seems that the youth of WA are not interested in training and workshops and opportunities . It seems that the youth of WA want to have the rewards without the work. That is a very sad generalisation I know and I am very sorry for the people who did enter. We simply couldn't make it work on those numbers.
I thank everyone at the ITA for their support , I thank the people who were helping us, I thank the entrants and I thank the people who saw this competition for what it was and wanted to do all they could to help. I am sorry that we couldn't make it happen.
Kerri
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Thu, 21 June 2007, 01:37 amWalter Plinge
> Suggestion - make up a similar competition, however,
> this time let's make it ONLY available to applicants
> between 30 and 45.
Yes please.
> there is a horrifying dearth of support/opportunity
> /funding aimed specifically at this group. A group,
> ironically, that is often more likely to absorb and
> thrive on these opportunities.
Hear hear.
As someone who has spent twenty years struggling as a professional actor (based, variously, in Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney) and who has always had to scratch and fight for even the whiff of a high-end audition, I very heartily concur.
Even when I was in Sydney, represented by a professional agent, with an active union membership, and boasting a pretty decent CV, I still couldn't get an audition for "All Saints"... even though I personally (and without my agent's assistance) arranged a go-see at that show's casting consultant, Maizels.
The opportunity that has just been pist up the wall by the non-applicants to this competition does NOT come along very often at all!
I am currently enjoying only my seventh fully-paid stage acting job in 20 years (lots of co-ops), and yet despite some very humbling reviews, and some positively effusive foyer feedback, the completion of this contract will see me return to my day job as a security guard for the foreseeable future, such is the dearth of authentic professional opportunities - across the board.
If there is someone out there who wants to start up a mature-age talent quest with similar opportunities up for grabs, show me the dotted line, dammit!
As Oscar (Very Witty) Wilde once said: "I am not young enough to know everything."
Sorry, but I'm with Taurean on this one.
The Meddoes
(who has somehow managed to sign up under two separate usernames, with two separate passwords, and yet is still not able to log in)
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