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Jerry Springer: The Opera auditions went okay. For some reason, I've gotten nervous singing the last two times I've had singing auditions. I'm not sure why: I don't really have a problem singing onstage, although it may be the "character" aspect of it. Fancycwabs is by nature shy and introverted, the characters the he occasionally plays tend to be outgoing, gregarious, and prone to spontaneously bursting into song. The same goes for public speaking: I tend to operate on pure adrenaline on those occasions where I have to speak in front of a crowd, but I'm cool as anything before going onstage in a play. Maybe I need to create an auditioning persona, unflappable and solid.
After the singing bit I waited around with the rest of the auditionees (college students, mainly), for the dance part of the audition. I'd been told that this wasn't necessary, that dance auditions were for those with more grace and less girth than I, but as I've never had any sort of tap instruction, I figured it would be fun even if I completely sucked. As it ended up, I only slightly sucked, and now I know ten times more tap dancing than I did before. And because I do it like an idiot with my hands at my sides, I have the whole "Lord of the Dance" thing going.
We won't know anything for a month. New York auditions are next week, and Unified Professional Theatre Auditions are toward the end of the month. In the meantime, maybe they'll have auditions for The Pillowman, which I'd really really like to do. (Jerry Springer is nice in its blasphemous way, but doesn't resonate with me like Pillowman does.)
After the singing bit I waited around with the rest of the auditionees (college students, mainly), for the dance part of the audition. I'd been told that this wasn't necessary, that dance auditions were for those with more grace and less girth than I, but as I've never had any sort of tap instruction, I figured it would be fun even if I completely sucked. As it ended up, I only slightly sucked, and now I know ten times more tap dancing than I did before. And because I do it like an idiot with my hands at my sides, I have the whole "Lord of the Dance" thing going.
We won't know anything for a month. New York auditions are next week, and Unified Professional Theatre Auditions are toward the end of the month. In the meantime, maybe they'll have auditions for The Pillowman, which I'd really really like to do. (Jerry Springer is nice in its blasphemous way, but doesn't resonate with me like Pillowman does.)
