2 Actresses Needed

Hello my name is nikki Sherwell and I have wanted to be an actress for over 5 years now.I am 11 years old and i live in Cairns.I have tried emailing so much acting places and none of them have ever replyed to any of my messages.So I really hope you will reply.I have brown curly hair,tall and skinny and brown eyes.So please reply to my message and let me no if there is anything you can do.

Nikki wrote:
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> Hello my name is nikki Sherwell and I have wanted to be an
> actress for over 5 years now.I am 11 years old and i live in
> Cairns.I have tried emailing so much acting places and none
> of them have ever replyed to any of my messages.So I really
> hope you will reply.I have brown curly hair,tall and skinny
> and brown eyes.So please reply to my message and let me no if
> there is anything you can do.


Nikki, this is the same notice you posted twice in the same spot yesterday.
I replied to you...you should have read it before posting this third time.

Had you read any of this thread you've entered, you'd realise that the above call for 2 actresses is a highly criticised hoax.

You'd also realise that nobody will reply to your email messages, and you will find much better suggestions to follow, if you'd do a bit of research here before posting blindly.

Cheers
Craig

Why does this remind me of my last post in the "Lightbulb" thread?? And why am i not surprised??

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You loser who does something like that you sadistic prick....

Marie wrote:
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> You loser who does something like that you sadistic prick....



Speaking of which...hey Troy, where's the great exposé you promised us that was going to be published as a result of this 'experiment' ?

You said:

>I just wanted to prove a point on something ... all shall be revealed in an
> interesting story on BroadwayAustralia.com next month.

This was in November last year, and we all assumed you would provide evidence (a reprint, a weblink...?) here. In fact, you promised REPEATEDLY in your posts above that you would provide an 'amazing' report online...which was your only defense against a lot of other people who were calling you some rather bad things.
Without this 'evidence' it seems maybe the 'rather bad things' argument about you is winning.

Hope you can prove otherwise..? Or be man enough to admit you made an error and apologise?


Of course, it may just be that you'll never read this message because I already tore your argument to shreds above, and you don't dare return to this website?

Which may not be a bad thing.

Cheers,
Craig

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WILL YOU ALL STOP POSTING THE SAME OLD CRAP "OH i hsould be this, im 5"3" etc, THIS IS A PATHATIC ATTEMPT AT A PRANK, IF U HAD TO BRAIN CELLS YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN.
FOR GOD SAKES, DONT YOU PEOPLE READ!
ABBY


Thou fawning plume-plucked mammet!

BROADWAYAUSTRALIA.COM ADVICE SECTION

Our kids need to be a little more careful

By Troy Dodds

Over the last few months, I've been working on a special investigative story focused on auditions and the risks our children are put at. With the advent of the Internet, auditions are now publicised to the world. It's a great thing on the surface, and is a cheaper option for shows and companies and allows a wider range of potential actors to check out what's out there and how it all works.

The special investigative story will be online shortly - at the moment, we're speaking with industry experts to get their view on what could very well be a crisis waiting to happen.

Let me give you a scary hypothetical situation. An unsavoury character places an audition notice on the internet (something anyone can do) announcing there will be "auditions by appointment only". A 14-year-old child responds to the notice, and is told a time and place they can audition. Now, we all know what teenagers are like - parents are often the last people to find out what they are up to. So lets say the 14-year-old, thinking all of this must be legit, turns up to this "private audition" by themselves. Now, who is to say what happens next? Who is to say this "private audition" is not an elaborate scam to pray on children?

Let's hope that hypothetical situation never happens, but without regulation or rules surrounding auditions - and with most not specifying that adult accompaniment is needed - it's a can of worms that could potentially be opened.

Personally, I don't want such regulation - but I do want our kids to be more careful.

You only have to look at theatre message boards right across the web to know that young aspiring actors often don't listen properly, don't read properly and don't pay attention. We created a touch of angst during this special investigation when we posted an audition notice, just to see how many under-age people actually respond to such notices. Within a few hours (and after many responses) we posted a notice saying that the particular message was part of a special BroadwayAustralia.com investigation. But even weeks later, kids were still replying to the original message, on the very same forum, without reading the many replies to it or our original explanation.

The point here? Kids need to be more careful. If you're a young person doing the audition circuit, particularly with independent and amateur theatre, make sure you take precautions. When you hear what our industry experts have to say in our upcoming story, I am sure you will understand what we mean. The internet has created a new dimension of "Stranger Danger" and while most, if not all, current auditions are certainly above board, the potential is there for something to go awfully wrong one day.

If you're young - don't take too many chances. Explain to your parents or somebody responsible what you are doing and get them to come up with you. At your age, the audition panel should respect such a decision.

My daughter is a troupe performer in YABC (Young Australian Broadway Chorus) has long blonde/brown hair and blue eyes. 12 yrs old 147cm tall, sings very well. Has performed onstage @ National Theatre of Victoria on several occasions. Blue eyes, childrens size 12 or ladies size 8. Is very happy playing any part.
Please let me know if you eould like me to send any pictures.
Thanks
Tara

BroadwayAustralia.com wrote:
> BROADWAYAUSTRALIA.COM ADVICE SECTION
> Our kids need to be a little more careful
> By Troy Dodds


Thanks for this - FINALLY!!
There are positive and negative aspects to what you have written, but at least it's a good step toward justifying the controversy you've created.


> Over the last few months, I've been working on a special
> investigative story focused on auditions and the risks our
> children are put at.
> The special investigative story will be online shortly - at
> the moment, we're speaking with industry experts to get their
> view on what could very well be a crisis waiting to happen.

When you - finally - get the details of your story together, we'd love to see it. I'm not sure that you or your industry experts could really add anything
beyond what you've already said, but if you have some genuine case examples, it might quench this industry expert's skepticism.

> Let me give you a scary hypothetical situation.

The hypothetical scenario you mention COULD take place, but it could also take place WITHOUT the internet...apart from giving widespread access to information, the internet on its own is not as evil and scary as we are led to believe.


> Let's hope that hypothetical situation never happens, but
> without regulation or rules surrounding auditions - and with
> most not specifying that adult accompaniment is needed - it's
> a can of worms that could potentially be opened.
> Personally, I don't want such regulation - but I do want our
> kids to be more careful.

Hey- There ARE rules and regulations along those lines governing professional industry auditions of minors. Why don't you want that? That's a dodgy sounding statement by itself!

If you are only talking about individual, mainly amateur, situations involving dodgy operators, then obviously YES, people should be careful. But is that really ground-breaking news? 'When you respond to dodgy operators, be careful'? Um....Thanks.




> You only have to look at theatre message boards right across
> the web to know that young aspiring actors often don't listen
> properly, don't read properly and don't pay attention. We
> created a touch of angst during this special investigation
> when we posted an audition notice, just to see how many
> under-age people actually respond to such notices. Within a
> few hours (and after many responses) we posted a notice
> saying that the particular message was part of a special
> BroadwayAustralia.com investigation. But even weeks later,
> kids were still replying to the original message, on the very
> same forum, without reading the many replies to it or our
> original explanation.

You neglect to mention that EVERYBODY in general has a tendency to respond to individual messages rather than trawl through all of the previous messages in a thread. So it's not such a revelation that no-one noticed your ineffectual disclaimer, and that people continued to respond.
Your experiment was not as conclusive as you make out, although it DID cause angst...for a different reason. I'm not convinced that contributing to the problem gave you access to any better information than you could have researched in a different manner. Maybe this big report will prove otherwise?


Something else along the same lines....your original 'hoax' message specifically asked for females aged between 14-18. You imply that because you got a lot of inquiries, even after posting your 'retraction', that this age group is gullible and vulnerable and doesn't follow instructions. But how do you know that you wouldn't have gotten the same response if you had asked for males aged 35-40? I notice that only today you got a response to your original post written by an adult mother on behalf of her girls. My guess is that the response would be similar no matter what demographic was asked for. Therefore you can't draw your conclusions that young females respond any differently to anyone else. You're trying to pass this experiment off as being scientific research, but you have no control group and your deductions aren't logically conclusive.
All you said was that you 'are casting a feature film, and will be holding private auditions in a few weeks, email me'. I have personally responded to an ad like that on this website, which got me several days' legitimate work. I don't think you have the right to blame anyone for responding via email.

Again, I don't deny that there can be dodgy situations to avoid, but I've seen nothing yet that atones for the fact that you went about this in completely the wrong way. That people are still being sucked in today shows how you didn't solve anything, but added to the problem.


> The internet has created a new dimension of
> "Stranger Danger" and while most, if not all, current
> auditions are certainly above board, the potential is there
> for something to go awfully wrong one day.

I still think you are over-emphasizing the danger of the internet...why is using the internet any more dangerous than responding to any other form of amateur audition notice?
While it seems there are thousands of young hopefuls begging to be auditioned, the fact is the vast majority of those notices are going to be completely ignored (in much the same way your explanation was ignored). This form of trying to get an audition is highly ineffectual. And if the messages aren't being read, the danger of potential incident is lower than it is being made out to be.
I'm not discounting that there is a potential danger...just that there ought to be perspective. Journalistic exaggeration is not helpful.


> If you're young - don't take too many chances. Explain to
> your parents or somebody responsible what you are doing and
> get them to come up with you. At your age, the audition panel
> should respect such a decision.


GOOD advice to end with. Your intentions are in the right place, as far as warning youngsters to be careful. If nothing else, this is a message that bears repeating.


Final criticism - you really ought to have changed the subject heading! Because once again, your post will be lost under a title that doesn't do it justice. Didn't you understand the lesson last time? People ignored your retraction. You concluded that 'people are stupid', but perhaps the real reason is 'your posts are badly signposted and therefore not at all obvious'.



'Our kids need to be a little more careful', you proclaim in your article's title.

So do our journalists.

Cheers,
Craig

Sheesh, yes its all very interesting and good Mr Williams. But really, does it require such an epic detailing. I first started reading your post with such zeal, that zeal turned into mild interest, that mild interest turned into slight disinterest, and that slight disinterest turned into aching joints, nausea, a painfully ichy rash and finally death.

Yes it is an important subject I agree and people need to be more careful. But your critisisms while being valid and noteworthy have not influenced my opinion simply because I couldn't be bothered reading all of them. Your reply to Mr Todd's groundbreaking news while I'm sure are informative, are so lengthy that it would make Mr Maguire and his effort to make someone a millionaire seem like a short, non irritating, straight to the point infommercial in comparison.

Next time why not start with an amusing anecdote about a man at a garage sale, or pictures, or an interpretive dance about exiting the womb. The possiblities are endless and it would make reading your informative replies ever so much accessable for us folk with the more shorter attention spans...anyway...what was I talking about???

In good jest and much wailing and gnashing of teeth, your friend

Nimrod

Nimrod wrote:
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> Sheesh, yes its all very interesting and good Mr Williams.
> But really, does it require such an epic detailing. I first
> started reading your post with such zeal, that zeal turned
> into mild interest, that mild interest turned into slight
> disinterest, and that slight disinterest turned into aching
> joints, nausea, a painfully ichy rash and finally death.
>



Ah...but you should have seen the interpretive dance I was doing as I wrote it...



Craig

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Eeeeewwwww! I'm half a world away and that was still too much information ;-)

Love your work, keep it up

Fiona
xx

When will this interpretive dance be shown to the public? I think you've got a winner there.

Break a leg!

Hi All. I think Troy makes some good points and comments. I saw the advice piece but now part one of the investigation is online over at the website and I think it is well put together.

Lets also note, perhaps, that broadwayaustralia.com is a commercial entity and is probably loving the hype it's getting here.

You guys are playing into their hands

Are our kids in danger?

TROY DODDS reports and gives an opinion on a tragedy that could be waiting to happen....

Whether it be reading the newspaper, listening to talkback radio or watching news bulletins from across the world, we hear way too often about children being abused, assaulted or killed. Many highly publicised cases over the last decade have made parents aware of the modern times we live in, and the fact that you have to keep an eye on your children at every possible moment.

The advent of the Internet has created a whole new world for everybody. It's created new businesses, allowed us to do our shopping at the click of a button and perhaps more importantly, opened up a window for us to look at the rest of the world. But with all of the good things have come the bad. Parents remain concerned about child pornography, chat rooms and cyber predators that may be lurking online.

On October 1 2004, Melbourne's The Age newspaper reported the following: "The owner of three child-care centres in Melbourne's eastern suburbs is among hundreds of people across Australia facing charges for possession of child pornography and other crimes involving young children following a nationwide police operation. Others implicated in the unprecedented swoop on child sex crime include teachers, police officers, doctors, an assistant to a state MP, child welfare officers and defence personnel."

The story went on to say: "The investigation uncovered child pornography prepared in Australia and an undisclosed number of children have been taken into care by welfare authorities. In one of the worst cases, police in Brisbane said the operation had 'rescued' seven abused children from one paedophile. Images of the children, aged from five to 13, had been found on a seized computer."

This story, one of many on the subject, highlights the dangers many children face today. Whether they faced them 30 years ago or not isn't really the issue here, the issue is that a minority of people are not using the Internet for its intended purpose.

Onto the point. Auditions are posted across a variety of websites in Australia, many of them for professional musicals and plays but the majority of them for amateur or independent theatre and film companies. Some are individuals shooting a school film - the list is endless. There's certainly no suggestion at this point that any of these notices have led to the types of acts and crimes mentioned in the newspaper story above, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

Audition notices can be posted by anyone - there's no regulations and on many websites, you don't even have to register. So, yes, in theory a paedophile could post an audition notice to lure people to a "fake" audition - and who knows what the results could be.

Adult and professional actors have agents, not only because they don't want to handle the technicalities of the industry themselves, but because it provides a third party to negotiate all deals and arrangements. While there are child representation agencies, many youngsters find themselves hitting the web searching for auditions. In reality, they have no idea whether these auditions are real or not. They presume they are, but how many people out there have been abused by people they presumed were safe and responsible?

Should we wait around for a fake audition notice to be posted, have a 13-year-old girl answer it and then agree to go to a private audition, before being raped or killed - or should we do something about it now?

Perhaps regulation of the industry is impossible or not practical, but awareness is, and that's where we need to turn our attention.

Late last year, BroadwayAustralia.com posted an audition notice under a false name in the interest of helping this industry became aware of a potential problem. Yes, a potential problem. Instead of fixing things, maybe we should try to avoid them, was the theory we had when launching this special investigation.

We posted the audition notice, stating we needed two young actresses for a film and that private auditions would be held in the near future. Many who responded agreed to come to a residential property for a private audition. Of course, the "audition" was canceled and nobody was asked to go anywhere, but the very fact that young people - some aged as young as 12 - agreed to come to the audition was scary enough. Were they planning to bring, or even ask, their parents? Who knows, but the bottom line is that people responded to that notice believing it was true, and real. Unfair of us to do such a thing? Perhaps. But it proved that children have no problem giving out often private details and pictures online. Now, thankfully this "fake" audition was posted by a harmless body - we had never planned to actually hold auditions, or even take our investigation further with those who responded. But what if a child sex predator had posted that message? What if those young girls who responded agreed to come to a private audition, only there was no actual audition? Would all of them have come with a responsible adult? We're not providing answers here - we're just posing the question. There is absolutely no way to tell the difference between an audition posted by an amateur or independent company, or person, who very few people have heard of, and one posted by somebody who isn't telling the whole truth. That was the point of our exercise, and while it's created a little bit of controversy out there, it's done one great thing, and that's raise the awareness of this potentially dangerous issue. However, there's still people out there posting their personal details, sending emails to people they don't know, and agreeing to come to auditions they know very little about. It's a quest for stardom, and unfortunately there's possibly people out there looking to take advantage of it.

Do we keep our head in the sand here, or do we start to make a change? At the severe end of the scale, do we need to ensure anyone who posts audition notices is registered with a Government or independent body, and ensure they post some sort of licence number with any audition? Or do we just need to ensure websites and newspapers post major warnings about the potential of fake audition notices. Do we need education for youngsters browsing the web, to ensure they be careful when posting auditions?

If 60 people respond to a fake audition notice, and 59 bring an adult with them to the audition, that perhaps means that one has not. And it will only take one person to be raped or killed before this is a national issue. My bet is that many parents are not aware of their young children posting such messages, and if that is the case, then there's a major possibility that the kids are planning to go an audition themselves. Do we wait to find out, or do we make sure it's avoided?

So, what's the answer here? In reality, it's a long and complicated process. But parents and children need to be aware that unsavoury people are lurking out there in the world, and the Internet gives them somewhere to hide before they pounce. Young girls out there continue to make posts on message boards, often giving their hair colour, weight, height, personal email addresses and even in some cases, phone numbers. These boards are accessible by anybody - and with such information being given out on a regular basis, a potential for danger exists.

So, who is the onus on? The websites? The parents? The browser? Of course, none of these people would be responsible if something happened - after all, it's the paedofile or predator who commits the crime. But if we can at least try to avoid it through awareness, isn't that something we should be doing sooner rather than later?

Here's part of a message recently posted by a 12-year-old on a theatre message board. Read it, and then you be the judge - do we have a potential problem here, or not?

"I am 12, 163cm tall, I have long wavy brown hair and eyes and I am interested in an acting career. I have been interested in acting since I was really young. I have not had any acting experience except for many school musicals and events. I am interested in TV, theatre any type of acting because I love acting so much. If anyone has any upcoming auditions in Melbourne please e-mail me the details."

The edited message above is one of hundreds of similar ones per year that appear on various theatre websites, message boards and in emails to agents, producers, publicists and journalists.

Certainly something to ponder, you would think.

COMING SOON: PART TWO OF THIS SPECIAL REPORT. WE TALK TO INDUSTRY EXPERTS. IS IT REALLY AN ISSUE? IF NOT, WHY NOT? IF SO, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?

ALSO COMING SOON: TROY DODDS GIVES A FINAL VERDICT AND OPINION ON THE POTENTIAL PROBLEM, AND OUTLINES WAYS TO FIX IT.

Your feedback: editor@broadwayaustralia.com

hi.

My name is Kylie Johnson. im 17 years old, im from the UK.

I have been studieing drama since young age. I've done loads of preformance's in front of numbers of people. (mostly christmas time) I have made a 30 min film, in college. And have done some modeling, I am intrerested in more acting, and I would like this to be my future, im not big headed. But proud with what I do. I dont stop something, if its too hard work. I just carrie on, till its at the standerd it needs.

If you are interested in my details, then please reply. To my email address. kj_kylie@yahoo.co.uk would love to hear from you.

Kylie Johnson