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...February tryout consisted of a 50-question written test. Contestants who had at least 35 or more answers correct then participated in a mock game. After the game, the show’s staff conducted interviews, took photographs, and informed them their information would be kept on file for a year, Dubrow recalled...
Botterill’s first Olympic tryout run began in 1996 when she caught the eye of national level coaches in Calgary during her senior year of high school, and, like Chu, she postponed her college entry to make a run at the Olympics. That trip resulted in a silver medal, thanks to a 3-1 loss to the United States in the gold medal game...
It’s funny how rejection works. Application and tryout-based opportunities seem extremely pivotal to your life only when you find out that you can’t have them. There are lots of Harvard students who have been completely happy without a Marshall Scholarship, and who will continue to be so. There are even more students who have never played a lead role in a production, never will, and will still lead successful lives. And yet that rationality is just not there when you receive the rejection letter...
...when Walter Annenberg, whose Triangle Publications owned the WFIL radio and television stations, suggested an afternoon TV dance party. The hosting job went to a dour fellow named Bob Horn, who had been running the "Bandstand" show on WFIL radio. On Oct. 7, after a two-week summer tryout, "Bob Horn's Bandstand" had its TV premiere. Originating from the station's West Philadelphia studio, it featured kids from the three local high schools. The show was an immediate hit, expanding to an hour 45 min., and benefitting from promotions in two magazines Annenberg had just acquired: TV Guide...
...live audience. Yorkin and Lear then leads the cast through a ruthless rehash session, and another performance is taped before a second audience. The show that eventually goes on the air combines the best of the two performances. This system provides a TV equivalent of the Broadway theater's "tryout experience," says "Family" Producer John Rich "We're doing a play a week and we're trying to be entertaining every minute. We don't have a Hartford or a Boston for tryouts...