Holy crap it has been an insane couple of weeks.
This weekend were the auditions for all the Fall semester shows. They included: Edges, Assassins, MacB, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. We audition in groups of 12 in front of ALL the directors/professors. It is exhausting.
I went in, expecting to be cast in Edges, and sang a cut from "Anyways" by Kerrigan and Lowdermilk (which is my strongest vocal piece right now) and I did a monologue from Rabbit Hole (which I am not crazy about but I've been using it for everything lately) and a monologue from Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare Piece). My audition was good. I felt very confident and proud of the work that I put forth. And I have recently decided that that is how I want to feel after every audition. I'm going to stop trying to decide who I should be cast as and just start putting my VERY best foot forward in every audition. Then I can know that I did everything in my power to ensure I was promoting my self and my talent in a positive way.
Anyhow.
Callbacks go out. And I get called back for everything except Edges. Which I honestly found vey strange. But I shrugged it off and focused on the callbacks that I did have. At first I wasn't very excited about Assassins, because it honestly has never been one of my favorite shows. But then I learned that they were probably going to cast a woman in the role of the Balladeer which is the only character that I really like in this show. So when I got called back to sing for the Balladeer I was pretty excited. It didn't go great but I was still happy with the work I had put forth.
That was sort of the theme throughout the callbacks. with MacB I knew I could have done much better but I still felt good with the work I had done. R&G was a little different just because I had to email my callback to Peter due to work being at the same time as the callbacks.
After all was said and done, I was just happy to be on the other side. It was very relaxing to be honest: I didn't want to be in any of these shows extremely badly. I just wanted to be in something for the fall. So I didn't feel any pressure to prove myself or anything. I felt confident in my skills and talents and just left them out on the floor.
Well, the cast lists have been posted and I have been cast in Assassins! I will be playing Sara Jane Moore. I honestly don't know a lot about her and I can't focus on diving into Assassins yet because Heathers has opened and is running and that is literally sucking all of my life-force away.
I have seriously never been more exhausted from a show in my entire life. Heather Chandler is so draining. She takes all of my energy, concentration and will power. I literally give her everything I have and she takes it and we walk on stage like the "Mythic B*tch" we are. It is so exhausting but so very empowering. There is nothing like strutting out on stage and hearing a crowd lose their minds! The roar of cheering from opening night (last night) was deafening! It was such a thrill.=]
Have I mentioned how much I LOVE performing??
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