I just came back from an audition for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and have come to the conclusion that I will never get cast in a musical again. I had some dance training many, many years ago, but was never good at it, and I'm completely retarded about learning combinations. About seven years ago I wrenched my ankle in a dance audition so badly that I felt it for a year afterwards. So, I've pretty much stopped auditioning for dance-heavy shows, but the prospect of wailing away on "Brotherhood of Man" was too much for me. I crashed into other dancers during the learning phase of the audition (kept turning the wrong way). When the time came for the audition proper, I completely forgot where I was going halfway through the routine and just made something up. After all, this supposedly was to show how we move, not how well we dance. I nailed my singing audition... but wasn't called back.

So, once again I'm wondering: Why do the actors who want to do non-dancing parts have to go through the humiliation of a dance audition?