Audition, Audition, Audition!!!

Hello dearest Lovelies,

Well, it's another fun day in my crazy life of auditions!  I did 4 today - count 'em - FOUR!!  

First off I got out of bed, hopped on the subway & found myself in a dawning Times Square at 6:55a.m.  Early - but I had my coffee in hand, so I was set!  

 I headed off to 48th Street and 8th to audition for Ogunquit Theatre in Maine.  They have a rockin' season so I went & waited early in line.  At 9:00 I got to pick my time slot for 12:50 (which was great because I had two other auditions to do on the other part of town!)  

So I zoomed out the door at 9pm and could've sworn I saw Bean-O walking ahead of me, as I was auditioning a block away from his home.  (See December 2007 posts for that info).  But I was busy & going on my merry way to Equtiy at 46th and 7th to audition for You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown! 

I got my name first on the alternate list and they called me to sing 10 minutes after I showed up!  Hooray!  So audition number 1 - done!  

Onto Camelot Chorus Call (this was the same Camelot that I had the GREAT audition for last Friday).   I trucked my cookies all the way down to MacDougal Street -- it's in the Village which is the Freakin' other end of the earth!!  Uugh.  But got there by 10:30 when the list was read & got my number (number 33 - this means I'd go within the first hour - giving me PLENTY of time to get back to my 12:50 time slot at 48th and 8th!)

I sang my song for them & they asked me if I knew Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  (which I did).  So I had to sing it 3 times, once in the key of F, once in G, and once in A....  Now the F & G sounded fine, but Mama Musical had 2 cups of coffee and one diet coke that morning -needless to say, the chords weren't as loose as I was hoping!  I totally CRACKED all over the top note --- OH NO!!!  But, they asked me to do it again, & the second time was OK - but not great.  And I always want it to be great.  

After that I ran into Roomie, my lovely roommate, and we rode the subway back to 50th.  Then I walked through the door of the Ogunquit audition & my name was being called -they were running EARLY!!  Uugh!  So I stripped (was wearing jeans under my dress -thank goodness!), threw down my headshot & resume and walked into the hallway to be put on line to audition.  

These guys behind the table today were very non-chalant and you could tell they were tired & ready for lunch.  Great crowd to preform to, huh?  But it went OK.

Off now to my final audition for the day - at Chelsea Studios on 26th and 7th.  Sacramento Music Circus was doing their women's singing Chorus Call.  Got there at 1:30 for the list to be read - got my time slot - number 22 this time -- Rock On!  (Two times where I got to go in the first hour??!!  This Day is TOO good to be true!)

So I walked in, set my music on the piano, introduced myself to the DIFFERENT pianist -thank god - and walked to the middle of the room.

Now, I don't know if the director & Music director were talkin' about me, but they were DEFINENTLY talkin' about Something!  And talking LOUD - all the way through my fucking audition!  

WHAT IS THAT??!!  I don't bust my tail to come all the way down to Chelsea to have you talk over the measly 45 seconds I'm singing to you -- there's 23 other hours and 59 minutes in the rest of your day to talk!!!  Uugh.  

But I said "Thank You, Fellas!" just as sweet as pie & made sure to thank the pianist loudly & praise him for being so skilled at reading sheet music.  

So that was my Crazy Audition Day - but over all it went pretty well!  Now I'm super tired and just finishing up some work for my personal assistant gig.  I'm starting to work on the 5 month old's baby book -- it's pretty precious...

When all the world is brimming with fun, wholesome or "Un".

Oh Lovelies,  I just about floated out of my Camelot (NY Philharmonic) audition today!  I got to audition for LONNIE PRICE!  What a trip!  (he was the Kellerman Nephew in Dirty Dancing and, my favorite, Ronnie in "The Muppets Take Manhattan")  

Everyone in the room was SO nice!  Wouldn't it be lovely if I actually got into a show?  I felt like I did a really great job - and I sang the song I worked on in Waldman's class!  It went great (I sing it like I'm waiting to find out the results of my pregnancy test!) was very exciting to bring that into the room, as NO ONE else sings it!  And it's such a GREAT song - and a great fit for me!  

And (Best Part) when I was done Lonnie Price said "Very Charming!"  AAHHH!!!  I nearly wet myself I was so happy!  Vali-freakin'-dation!!!  Usually the people behind the table just say "Thanks" and have me scoot out!  At last - one of my auditions has been validated as being "charming" by someone who is a Big Wig!  

I also saw Stac at the audition - she & I went out last night to the dashing diva and had cosmos whilst enjoying our Mani/Pedis.  THEN we went to dinner at a great place called Nicks on 94th and 2nd.  

I took a cab to get there!

People - I never EVER take cabs, but I took TWO yesterday!  Exciting, right?! One reason for the cab was because my manicure was still drying on the way to Nicks and the other because I had a couple glasses of wine at dinner and didn't want to take the subway home.  (and by had a couple glasses - I mean more than 2... Ahem..)

Overall it was the best Valentine's day I've ever had!  And I never felt sorry for myself  - not once - for not dating!  Hooray!  I just enjoyed my day & made the best of it.  Also, it didn't hurt that my roommate left this on my freshly toasted bread.  

She's a good Roomie.   

Plays, Playgrounds & Pampering!

Friends, today I auditioned for Young Frankenstein the Musical and it was so much fun to do my new song!  I decided to do a song called "Not a Day Goes By" which is usually sung to a lover, heres the lyrics:

"Not A Day Goes By, Not a Blessed Day, 

That you're not Somewhere a part of my life

And it looks like you'll stay...

'Till the Days go By - I keep thinking when does it end?

But it only gets Bigger & Stronger & Deeper & Nearer..."

That's pretty much the gist of it - nice love song right??  Well.... I sang it to my zit that refused to pop! 

 (made up of course - but I pretended that it was on my chin!)  Gross & funny - right!   (I love doing that stuff -taking a song & making it funny!)  

Well, the creative team all laughed - and I really am proud that I went in there & did that today! Success!  Now they didn't ask me to vocalize like the girl ahead of me, but I feel like I gave a really creative & original audition!  Hooray!  

Then it was off to work this afternoon & I made a few phone calls, mailed a few packages & got to spend the rest of the afternoon with HHC in the park!  That's the best!  We went down the "curly slide" at least 6 times and played "driving in the car" with the little steering wheels that they have on the playground equipment!   Was pretty fun!  

Then we stopped by the little flower shop and got one rose for his mom (my boss) because it's Valentine's Day & I want to teach him that it's good ettiquite to give flowers!  So we got one rose.  He picked out the color all by himself!  (a yellow one with red tips) He was SO proud giving it to her!  Said "Happy Valentine's Day, Mommy!"  (He's only 22 months  -- so that's a pretty big deal!)

Tonight I'm off to Dashing Diva on the Upper East Side with my friend Stace!  Will be a blast as it's "Girls Night Out" there & you get a cosmopolitan while you have your mani/pedi!  Love that!  Will be fun - just have to get some quality work in before I dash out from work at 7:30.  

Tomorrow I'm going to audition for Camelot - it's the Principal audition, but I could play a very interesting Guenivere....  Think I'm going to sing "Waiting for my Dearie" from Brigadoon.  Or maybe my new one I worked on in class last night!  Hmmm.... we'll have to wait & see!