Shuf-fle ball change, fl-ap ball change, shuf-fle ball change, fl-ap ball change...

[fancycwabs]

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.)

Comments

[bigbrownhound.livejournal.com]

Never heard of Pillowman. Is it anything like Spiderman or Batman or Darkman or Infernoman? Could Pillowman be the next superhero to make the big screen?

Good luck with it all, I am hoping that you'll do some of that tapping/Irish clogging at the next family gathering.

Do you know anyone who tried out for American Idol when it was in Memphis?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Considering that the Pillowman talks children into committing suicide, I think probably not.

[bigbrownhound.livejournal.com]

Oh MY! But does he convince BAD children to commit suicide?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

No--he takes children who would otherwise have miserable lives (abused at the hands of family members, caught in an accident at an early age and causing anguish for their families, etc.) and shows them what horrible future they have in store. Supposedly they (and their families) are spared the lifetime of suffering by having the initial familial trauma of the suicide.

It's not a shiny happy play--but I bet Backporchphil would like it.

[bigbrownhound.livejournal.com]

Is there farting?