Auditions 11 and 12

What a morning and what a super fun day!

This morning I had an audition at Lou Conti dance studios. Have I mentioned that I believe THIS is where I want to take dance classes?? Anyway, the tour was for a company that does non-Equity tours and they were casting for 2 new tours and replacements for what they currently have out there...even though only one of the new tours was announced to get talent. So I ELevate my happy bottom there and am #132! Full house today people!! I find an isolated corner to do my vocal warm-ups and patiently await my turn. While sitting there, I see the choreographer from last night's audition and take a moment to tell him that his audition routine was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed it, especially once I got it (mostly) down! Then back to my corner. Finally it is time to get in line. I am hoping the highest note of the song is there for me as I am feeling a bit congested in the chest and rough in the throat. I go in and sing it, hitting a familiar rough patch in tempo with piano, but I think I figured it out for the next audition and hit the note. It seemed I hit it anyway. After I finish, the casting director asks me to wait a second and leaves the room. The auditor doesn't know if I am done or not so I get my music and wait in a confused state. She finally tells me that he is not feeling well and I am done for the day and that I did a great job. Those were her exact words "You did a great job." It made me feel really good! It was also cool that I ran into some people from the last RENT audition I did who were cast and able to tell me some of the cast. It was kind of cool to be able to recognize a couple of faces!

I had a break between that audition and the next one, so I thought I would walk to the main library in Chicago and browse the stacks. I know, I am SUCH a nerd! Except, for some reason, the library was closed. BOO!! So, home to chill.

Then it was off to my 2nd audition of the day and my 4th in 2 days! This time I was headed out to Elmhurst, another church basement, and an audition for Pride & Prejudice! I am a bit shocked. They are doing 3 days of auditions, had around 20 people there (mostly girls trying out for Lizzie) and they are NOT doing callbacks! WTH!! I would have thought they would have liked to see the Lizzie/Darcy's and Mr and Mrs Bennet's and other combinations in person before casting and comparing apples to apples (lizzie finalists to lizzie finalists) before the final casting is done, but ....

I was not down there for Lizzie, although I did have fun when asked to read a scene as Jane. I am so not a Jane, but it was fun to play! No, I went down there for Miss Caroline Bingley. And I had fun reading here. It was a LOOONG audition though, because they combined almost everyone for the different scenes. So all the young guys had to read Darcy and Mr. Collins with a girl (3 guys total). The gentleman there for Mr. Bennet had to read with the 5 women there for Mrs. and Lady Catherine. I asked to read Lady Catherine because I thought I could bring something the other ladies (who almost all read it exactly the same) could not. I threw in Maleficent's haughtiness and manner of looking down the nose into it. It was fun and I got a couple of thumbs up.

Who knows if I will get anything out of these. All I know is I tried, worked on my cold reading and singing in front of someone, both skills that I am working on getting better on. And I had FUN!