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By Sunday you will know your voice, your range, and one song you love.

1. Day 1Read "The Labs" intro and pick the discipline that scares you most — that is where you will grow fastest this month.
   Open the Labs
2. Day 2Find your vocal range: play the pitch piano, then save your lowest and highest comfortable notes.
   Range test on the Rep Book page
3. Day 3Search the Library and shortlist 3 songs for your voice type and level. Do not learn them yet — just listen to cast recordings.
   Search the Library
4. Day 4Do the guided 6-minute warm-up once, slowly. Log it — this is your first Practice Log entry.
   Warm up & log it
5. Day 5Watch one full Broadway performance of a show you have never seen. Write down one thing the lead did that you want to steal.
6. Day 6Read the Wellness page's voice-care basics. Drink water today like you have an audition tomorrow.
   Wellness basics
7. Day 7Set your first Practice Log goal: something small, like "warm up 4 days next week."
   Set your goal

By Sunday you will have one 16-bar cut ready to sing for anyone.

1. Day 8Pick ONE song from your shortlist. The other two stay on the list — one cut done well beats three done badly.
2. Day 9Listen to your song 3 times: once for story, once for structure (where does it build?), once singing along lightly.
3. Day 10Choose your 16 bars: start near the emotional peak, not at the beginning. Read the Auditions page guide first.
   16-bar guide
4. Day 11Learn the melody with the pitch piano — plunk out the first notes if you read music slowly.
5. Day 12Run the full warm-up, then your cut, twice. Log both. Notice what feels easy and what needs work.
6. Day 13Write your slate and say it out loud 5 times: "Hi, I'm [name], and I'll be singing [song] from [show]."
7. Day 14Perform your cut for one person — a parent, a sibling, a mirror with a stuffed animal audience. It counts. Log it.

By Sunday your cut tells a story, not just notes.

1. Day 15Answer on paper: who is singing, to whom, and what do they want? If you cannot answer, pick a specific moment from your own life that matches the feeling.
2. Day 16Read the Glossary's acting terms (beat, objective, subtext). Find the beat change inside your 16 bars.
   Find the terms
3. Day 17Sing your cut three ways: angry, joking, heartbroken. Notice which is most interesting — that is usually your best choice.
4. Day 18Take the Performer Quiz. Use your result's "train next" list to pick this month's second focus.
   Take the quiz
5. Day 19Memorize your monologue pick from the Library — read it 5 times out loud, then try it with the paper face-down.
   Monologue tab
6. Day 20Record yourself singing the cut on your phone. Listen once, take one note, delete nothing. Log the session.
7. Day 21Start your Rep Book: print the templates and put your cut and monologue in a binder. You now have a book.
   Rep Book templates

By Sunday you will know how to find, prepare for, and survive a real audition.

1. Day 22Look up what your school or local community theater is producing next season. Read the plot summary of each show.
2. Day 23Print the Audition Week Checklist and hang it where you will see it. This is your playbook for the real thing.
   Print the checklist
3. Day 24Play the Callback Round twice. Anything you miss, read about it in the Glossary until you could explain it to a friend.
   Play the Callback Round
4. Day 25Run your cut full-out for a second human. Take ONE piece of direction and do it bigger immediately. Log the session.
5. Day 26Read the History page's Golden Age section. Directors ask about classics more than you would think.
   Musical history
6. Day 27Review your Practice Log chart. Count your total minutes this month — write the number on your binder's first page.
   See your chart
7. Day 28Perform your cut AND your monologue back-to-back for someone new. Full slates, full focus. This is your mock audition.
8. Day 29Set next month's goals: one vocal, one acting, one audition-specific. Small, specific, dated.
9. Day 30Celebrate properly. You have a rep book, a cut, a monologue, a log, and a plan — that is more than most performers build in a year. Reread your Practice Log notes from Day 1.