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Clinical School Pantomime audition - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #11

2017-11-02 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 5:39 · watch on YouTube

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In autumn 2017 Ali auditions for the Addenbrooke's charity pantomime, the annual show of Cambridge clinical medical students that he calls the best part of his six years at Cambridge; after a callback singing songs from The Lion King and a week of silence, a director phones to offer him a part, which turns out to be three roles.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — The Addenbrooke's charity pantomime and his two earlier years in it

00:00:29 — First audition: some acting and Let It Go from Frozen

  • ★★ As it is his final year in Cambridge, Ali wants to be in the Addenbrooke's pantomime again and sings Let It Go from Frozen at the audition. — 00:00:29 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime, Let It Go
  • ★ At the pantomime audition Ali gets the first part of the piano voice test badly wrong, saying that as a bass he cannot hit the high notes; the low notes go fine. — 00:00:59
  • ★★ About two weeks after the first audition Ali gets a callback for the pantomime, where he reads for two parts and sings two songs from The Lion King. — 00:00:59 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime

00:01:23 — The callback: two parts and two songs from The Lion King, then a week without news

  • ★★ Before the pantomime callback Ali tries not to get overly attached to the outcome, but says he will be very disappointed if he does not get a part. — 00:01:46 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime
  • ★★ Ali says the people running the pantomime callback were good at encouraging auditionees out of their shell, since a fear of failure at first makes people hold back in an audition. — 00:02:40 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime
  • ★★ Hearing nothing for about a week after the callback, Ali resigns himself to not getting a pantomime part, is sad for a day or two and tells himself that these things happen and he tried his best. — 00:02:40 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime

00:03:12 — A director's phone call offers him a part, which becomes three roles

  • ★★★ A few days later one of the pantomime's directors messages Ali on Facebook, then phones him and offers him a part in the panto, which he accepts. — 00:03:42 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime
  • ★ As Ali hangs up after being offered a pantomime part, Callum plays something fitting on the piano. — 00:04:07 · Callum
  • ★★★ At the read-through Ali finds out that his pantomime part is three roles, so he plays three different characters, his third year in a row in the panto. — 00:04:07 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime
  • ★★★ Ali says the Addenbrooke's pantomime has been the single best thing about his six years as a Cambridge student and one of the best things he has done in his life. — 00:04:07 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime, University of Cambridge

00:04:40 — Why the panto matters to him and the rehearsals ahead in the vlogs

  • ★★ Ali says the pantomime will feature a lot in his vlogs over the coming weeks to months, with many rehearsals, including dress and tech rehearsals, before the performances at the end of January. — 00:04:48 · Addenbrooke's Hospital Pantomime
  • ★ Ali says more videos are coming about life as a final-year medical student and about applying to medicine. — 00:05:17

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Also: Callum · Let It Go · University of Cambridge

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