Another Day, Another Audition..

Hello lovelies!  My thought of the day today is "Why am I so rockin' & no one is hiring me??!!"  

Seriously.

I auditioned for Stages St. Louis this morning at Equity and then went to the Beauty & the Beast chorus call for Westchester Braodway Theatre.  Fun times, friends - fun times! 

So here's my schedule for this morning:

6:15 am.  Wake up, Get Dressed & Have Coffee with Roomie

6:30 am  Leave house & take the train to Equity.

7:00 am. Arrive at Equity Building and wait for 1/2 hour for it to open the doors.  (While standing in line with other crazy "I need a specific time slot" actors)

7:30 a.m. Go inside & warm up - literally.

8:30 a.m. Sign in for Stages St. Louis (got a 10:10 appointment)

8:35 a.m. Have coffee with good friend Drea at Pax.  Mmmm.... Pax... (2nd cup of coffee - are you counting??)

9:15 a.m. Take cab to Nola Studios for chorus call. (only 10 blocks from pax - friviolus??)

9:30 a.m. Get my card (number 44 baby! - this means I'll be seen aprox. at 11:10, because the see 40 girls an hour and the call starts at 10am)

9:40 a.m Walk Back to Equity & get pretty!

10:10  a.m. Sing for Stages St. Louis (I sang I want to Go To Hollywood from Grand Hotel -- and friends - I hit it out of the ball park!!  The song was fun, I showed tons of character & personality!!  Hooray!)

10:25 a.m. Walk back to Nola & get ready for that audition! 

11:00 a.m. Sang for Westchester Broadway Theatre's Beauty & the Beast (sang Meadowlark - and acted the pants off that one, too!)  

11:15 a.m. Found out I wasn't asked to stay & dance -so I went to work on the UES!

11:20 a.m Stopped at Starbucks on the way to the train for ANOTHER coffee (this time de-caf! Does anyone else love the skinny vanilla lattes as much as I do??  They are really qutie lovely!_

.... Which is where I'm at now!  

Overall, rockin' auditions -- some of my good girlfriends were asked to stay & dance.  Not so for Miss Musical...  But, obviously there's a "bigger plan" for me that I need to accept!  It's just frustruating in the mean time!  Back to work -- I almost got caught!!  Aaurgh!

Definition of Insanity...

According to our friend & founding father, Benjamin Franklin, The Definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results....  

Which is the PERFECT Segue into Miss Musical's auditions in NYC!  Hooray!  

Today I pulled myself away from my perfectly lovely bed at the crack of dawn (6 a.m. if you're so curious) threw on my clothes and hauled my tail into the Equity Building to audition (again) for North Shore Music Theatre.  My lovely roommate, Roomie, accompanied me on the 6 a.m. N train.  

We were one of the first twenty crazies (aka. actors) that got the good fortune to stand in line before the equity building opened at 7:30 a.m.  Whilst this is very cold, it's also very good because it ensures that you have which ever time slot your little heart desires!  (I usually pick 10:10 - just enough time from the 8:30 sign-in to grab a Starbucks Latte and get pretty.)  

AND (joy of joys!) I got to also be seen for a company in New Jersey that's doing a new-ish musical that has a "dark comic" character in her mid to late 20's!  (Of course, I went - hello?! - 

Dark & Comic spells Miss Musical backwards!  ... wait a minute... no it doesn't!!)

So the North Shore audition went OK - sang 10,432

 Sheep & it went alright but the piano player took my tempo SO fast!  (His fingers were on fire - and my song was not meant to be a patter song).  He also looked as if he wanted to slit his wrists with the corners of my audition book....  

Ahh, those brooding musicians....  

I still smiled and thanked him on my way out. (while thinking "You screwed up my fucking audition!!!" as loud as I could in my head!)  

Oh, well, it's just an audition - and let's be honest even if they called me back Allie Frank the

 casting director (who shoots daggers at me with her eyes) would drop any notion of my getting cast in a heartbeat....  Sigh.... (now is a good time to refer back to the title of this particular blog...)

I tried not to let Angry Pianist bug me - and went into the second audition for New Jersey McWeird - O Never-Heard-of-Em Theatre company.  Fortunately I knew Steady Eddie was in the room playing piano.  He's my new Favorite!  He rocks it out & is SO good at taking tempo & going with the actor!  So I did the Boyle A or B technique (where I offer them song A or song B) and they chose Song B.  

Song B. was Lay Down Your Head from Violet.  It went beautifully - I felt like I truly did my best acting work of the day in there.  The top vocal wasn't what I wanted - came out very soft - but really, who cares - I still hit it & they all said they liked the song!  Hooray!

Oh- and on the way out I ran into the very nice gal who ended up getting the part in a show we were both auditioning for back in December.  (It was between me & her for this one part of a peroxide blond - she got it, but is just lovely - so I really can't be mad or bitter!  Even though I am just a smidge...)  We chatted for a bit & she seems to be having a busy new year!  (as am I - hopefully some things will be "meant to be" for me & will be unveiled as time moves on..)

Also, ran into the Twins today -- I love those girls!  They are so darn funny & nice!  Have become really good friends to me!  Hooray!  

Question for my readers - this guy has been asking me to go out for a drink with him.  He works in the business & I really prefer not to date in the business.  Plus, I really just don't want to date right now....   The idea doesn't excite me anymore...  So do I tell him "Sorry - but thanks for the offer" or "Sorry, thanks for the offer but I try not to date in the business".  Or if you have a third option you'd like to share - I'm all ears!  

There's a First Time for Everything!

Well, friends, welcome to my little blog! I'm having a little tiff with myself right now - mainly regarding the two most important things in my life: musical theatre and men. (I'm guessing that this is what this blog will mainly be about... But you never know... I always have a couple of surprises up my sleeve!)

So I'm still fairly optimistic about my career and the fellas, however neither is happening to appear at the time when I want it!! Here's what my heart desires (and not necessarily in this order)

1. Working in Theatre on Broadway or Tour (heck let's be honest - I'll take major regional tour!)

2. Find a kind man who loves me & who I can love in return.

Sounds simple enough, right?

WRONG!!!

And here's the kicker - whenever one is going well, the other goes well too! But when one area is going bad, then the others seem to follow in suit. Perhaps this is the laws of attraction working within my life, but let's be honest here - some people just get REALLY lucky! I had a big break-out role when I lived in Minneapolis, but after a year and a half in NY with no bites and a handful of callbacks... well... what am I supposed to think?!

SO I've decided to start this blog to track the change in my life that IS going to occur in the next year! And you, dear reader, get to come along for the crazy ride that is my life! Buckle Up!