Saturday Craziness!!!

Saturday was my fitting / audition at Six Flags Great America. The appointment was for Wonder Woman, but I also asked when I called to make the appointment if I could be fit in fur as well. You know, cuz I have a history. =)

They wanted me to go out there with dramatic make-up and my hair as big as possible. I let them know that my hair is pretty short, but I would do my best. I got up earlier than normal for me on a Saturday, and started getting ready. I actually put on a pair of hose, cuz I knew I would have to be fit in the costume, but that they were not going to give me tights, so I would wear my own! Did up the eyes, dug out the smallest pair of big lashes I had from my Disney Villain days, made my hair as big as possible and dug in my closet for something to wear. Now, I know they told me that I was going to have a fitting, but....I prepared like it was a Disney look-see. So, I wore a dress that showed my figure to its advantage and my knee-high brown boots.

50 minutes later, I am in Gurnee, stop by a Walgreens to buy some mascara (which I forgot to put on) and some loose powder (cuz I am not a fan of the pressed I have). Then down the street to the employee entrance to the park, and into the trailers. By this point, all the water I have been drinking needed to be let out, so when I got to the HR desk, I asked if they had a bathroom I could use. One of the supervisors who was escorting people around, takes me through a maze of portable trailers to one with a bathroom in it, then the lady, who through our conversation knew I was going to entertainment, took me to the wardrobe building, where I was told to go back to the beginning and go through the whole process. Ok, no big whoop.

So, I start at the beginning, go up, tell them I am there for entertainment, put on a name tag with my name on it and the time I arrived...go to the next station where they print up the on-line application I filled out on Friday...go to another room and answer the same questions they asked when I called to make the appointment...go to another room to wait to get called to go with the entertainment people. In the room RIGHT NEXT DOOR, they are playing The Incredibles and I cannot watch it cuz I am not in that room! BOO! Then they come in and grab me and back to the wardrobe building. On the way there, they are asking me about Disney and if I know 3 managers who have come to Disney from SFGA...and I knew for sure one of them, the other two I told them I might,but I would need to see a face.

I get in and meet more entertainment managers and am told that they had a wig for me to wear since my hair is so short, and that I had to wait on the costume. No big whoop. I ask about the other female roles and am told that I am too tall (no big surprise there) and that they really just wanted to see me in Wonder Woman. Ok. Get the costume and look at the bottoms. It is a small....and I have junk in my trunk! I ask them if they possibly have a larger size, and they send someone to go get a larger size. That person also has to go get another pair of boots as they hold up the pair they have and it is 3/4 of the size of my foot! Yeah, not gonna work....but I was laughing about it, cuz I was so excited and just wanted to put a positive face forward. Sadly, they only had one bodice.

So, I go in and look at all the different pieces. The first thing I see is this padded white underpiece. Being trained the way I was, if it comes with the costume, it goes on (with the exception of papa bears arm pads cuz they just added too much heat and were not needed). I have to grab Doreen (one of the supervisors there), to hook me in and also to help hook the bodice piece. Note to SFGA...make it a corset so the damn thing would stay in place please! Anyway, just like the shorts (now in a medium), it was built for someone smaller than me. Doreen asks if she can touch me to pin me. I tell her "honey, you do what you need to do to get me in. I've done theater, if you don't mind touching, I don't mind you touching." The girl who was fit in it before me comes in to change out of Hawkgirl, and we had to make sure we were around the corner cuz she did not want anyone seeing her. Doreen and I are around the corner, laughing and pinning it shut in the back and then trying to pin the red to the white so the red would stay up. While this is going on, Doreen is telling me how, since I walked in the door, they REALLY REALLY want me for this role and how they think I am perfect, both with my height and my build. Uhm. Ok. At this point the costuming manager comes in...(oh, we also tried holding it up by putting my bra on underneath and that didn't work)...looks at the bodice and comments on how the red is sooo far away from my chest and how bad it looks. We tell her that there is a padded piece on underneath that came with the costume and she asks if we could do it with my bra. OF COURSE! Whatever it takes to get a picture or 5. Doreen asks if it is OK if she pins to my bra..DUH! Of course! We get the white piece off, the bra on, the bodice back on and we start pinning and trying to figure out how to close it without the white thing to pin it too. I am standing there, bent over at the waist, trying to fit the girls in cups and a gold eagle that is too small for my girls as Doreen is trying to close it. I am sucking in my breath and D keeps telling me that when I get the role they would add a piece to the bodice to make it fit. Great...they should make the whole thing a corset type top to make it stay in place better...but that is just mho.

We get it closed, we get it pinned up along the side, I put the bottoms on and magically fit into a medium without fat rolls sticking out, the belt is on the last inch of velcro and helping to hide the gap between the bottoms and the top since I am so freaking long-waisted and helping me to keep my gut sucked in. Doreen helps me switch into the size 10 boots they find for me, I grab the ratty pochahontas type wig with a bald spot and put it on and then the crown. The crown is suppossed to be 1/2 on top of the hair and 1/2 underneath. So I TRY to grab some of the hair and put it on top, but it is knotted, so I have to grab all of the wig hair in the back and pull it over the top of the crown. OY! I head out of the closet they have us change in and show them the goods. I am then informed that I have to go OUTSIDE in the 10 degree weather in this itty bitty costume for pictures to be sent to DC Comics. Ok...positive mental attitude. Keep moving and do not think about the cold! They get me in the first location, take the first picture and move me cuz of the glare. Move to the next spot...it is in too much shadow. The supervisor comes driving around in her car and has us move again! OMG! Doreen gives me a coat to drape over my shoulders and we go to a third location for the pictures.

I get posed in WW pose one (hands in fists on hips, feet hip width apart) and Doreen checks to make sure everything is in the correct place. Turn to the side for a profile...Doreen checks....look at the camera for the side shot. Then back to the front...pose 2 (hands in fists, parallel and vertical to the ground..still smiling, cuz it is a theme park)...doreen once over. Repeat the drill for the side shot on the other side. Finally, last pose. I go down into a forward lunge (they were NOT expecting that) and cross my wrists at chest level...and smile for the camera cuz it is a theme park once again! Then I am told to go inside and I start RUNNING for the door, in boots that are too small and scraping my ankle raw! =) I am going down the hallway and managers are coming out and saying things like "oh good, we are going to have a WW this year." (they didn't last year) Doreen comes into the backroom to help me out of the costume and was telling me how much I impressed everyone and how much they want me, yadda yadda yadda. I get out, just my waist measured (random), and then wait for the interview. I answer the questions as best as I can and am offered a job as a Streetmo performer..without doing a monologue, just from what I had been saying throughout the day and my attitude! uhm...OK! But I was also told NOT to get TOO comfortable in that role cuz I would not be there very long...from MULTIPLE people.

So, I was out there for about 2.5 hours. I have a part-time job for the summer, right now probably hosting Karaoke, but possibly something else. I will be working 7 days a week, 2 doing something I love. And now, the pictures have to be sent to DC Comics for approval and I am nervous as all get out, but hopeful at the same time.

So...I am going to kick up my time in the gym, fix the little things I eat that are not so healthy and keep my fingers crossed!!