It’s been a busy week. As things typically go I have no
castings for a few weeks, and then everything happens all at once. Which meant
that on Friday I had 2 auditions. Not 1 minute castings, but auditions with material
that I needed to prepare. Music and monologues. It also meant that I got sick on Wednesday. On
Thursday I had no voice, which made prepping for the vocal audition on Friday rather difficult.
Well, the first email said my audition would be a vocal
audition that required me to prepare one song of my own choice. I received a later email with a
time change for the audition on it while I was in a meeting. I checked the email on my phone and
replied. I didn’t see that attachments. Which meant that when I arrived at
my audition, still sick but well prepared with my song, I wasn’t entirely
prepared. I saw the other girls practicing lines and a song.
Thankfully one of the girls lent me her sheet music and lines, and the
auditions ran late. Which meant that as each girl before me auditioned I stood by
the door and listened to the accompaniment learning the song. By the time I
entered for my audition I knew everything I needed to know. But my nerves weren’t
in check, and I didn't have the voice I needed despite the cold and flu medicine I had been using.
They liked what I did with the
character, and strangely the song I had prepared in the 30 minutes before my
audition went better than my own song. But I didn’t have time to dwell. I had a
physical theatre audition, and that is my forte.
The GPS took me straight from audition venue 1 to The Market Laboratory. I had never been there before, so I was thankful when I found the venue quickly and parking wasn't a problem. I had prepared the lengthy monologue and I got through it. And when they asked me to perform the piece differently I did. I enjoyed it.
I still have a week to wait before I hear if I have the
role. And as with all my auditions, I don’t expect anything. But walking out of
an audition that went well means a lot. One where I had fun, and got to
perform, albeit for 2 people who are judging me. Even if I don’t get the part I
had fun.
