Did anyone else get an audition for the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony?

Fine, I'll stick an extra column or three in then.

So... if you auditioned for Rio, let me know (to save me hiking back through 60 pages!) what for - date, drum or dance and when you hear, the result!

I've scrolled a few pages back and this is what I can gleam from the various postings:-

Also i am currently doing Productions for Rio Handover

Thanks Galactica - I have your drumming in. Are you doing Productions definitely or still waiting to hear what happens with the drumming first?

I've scrolled a few pages back and this is what I can gleam from the various postings:-

Saturday 19th May
dancinggirl1984 (samba dance) at 2pm
OneAndOnlyEmmaW (samba dance)
hutsulka (samba dance)

Sunday 20th May
twilightz (Samba dance) - Sunday 20th May

Lara 5 (samba dance?) at 1pm?

Ropey1 (Gaffeira) at 1pm

galactica2009 (Backstage Production)

Sunday 27th May
commonliner (drumming and production)

Wednesday 6th June
Lauski22 (drumming)

The chances are, I've probably left many people out, mainly because I didn't scroll every single page. You may need to double check with all the above for accuracy.

And to everyone else, I see that Paul McCartney has now said he's playing the Opening.

I think the problem is that if they are going to regularly issue a £10 card each time on arrival than one needs to use it for 2 days - getting home that day and getting back for the next rehearsal so that could be two daily price caps of £8.50 each. So it means that if you need to use tube/bus combos there could be an issue and you cannot top up the card I believe. Also my quickest route home entails exiting a station and walking to one on an adjacent line. Clearly the card is understandably intended only for direct travel to and from rehearsals so if one wishes to divert for any reason on that same day you will need to carry a separate oyster card as queueing for tickets will be a nightmare with all the crowds.

we were issued with a £10 on the first day of a 2 day weekend rehearsal, the next day they took it back and gave us £90 for 10 rehearsals

Re Rio,

The Gafieira auditions were just generic samba audition as only 5 people had selected a preference for Gafieira. Nothing was mentioned about this but at the end we mentioned it to the woman in charge and she jotted the bib numbers down.

In my audition there were about 40 dancers (mainly from a Samba group from Brighton). There were about 6 men of mixed ability. There were about 6 people that the casting woman knew already and they were very good and looked the part.

This is what's been posted on their Facebook page an hour ago....

"Registrations for volunteers are now closed! Thank you to all our volunteers and supporters.

The last audition is this Saturday 9th June. We'd like to thank everyone for their participation and energy.

We will be in touch with you starting next week to let you know your role and the dates for rehearsals.

So get ready to samba!!"


So it sounds to me as if everybody that auditioned has been offered a role. The date of 10th June was mentioned earlier on in this thread so I take it that we will hear around that time - my reckoning is that the emails will start going out around the 11th because the 10th is a Sunday.