I check my email about three times a day, each time hoping to see something from my last auditions on November 5, for example. I asked an actor friend about the timeline they've experienced in the past, you know, how long it takes to hear if you got something. You never hear if you don't. I knew it could be up to a month or even longer and she confirmed it. That means I'm still hoping about those auditions.
Since then, I've done another spot for PMSports. I don't have to audition with them. These last two times, I just get a call, see if I'm available and off we go. This last time, I played a friend of the NFL Commissioner. As we talk about possible safety changes, he's waving a loaded gun carelessly around, often in my direction. It's a pretty funny bit and should be online very soon, like in a week.
I'm also in a play with my roommate as they needed someone for about 10 (comic) lines. The play is called "Memory" at the "Jewel Box Theater" and is about a mobster who loses chunks of his memory after being shot in the head. He's asked to write a book about his life but can't fill in all the blanks and needs his ex-girlfriend's help. They didn't part on the best of circumstances and they meet in tense situation in a bar where my character is a waiter. Just taking their order is a drama. It's a small part but very fun!
I've also auditioned for two shows at the same time...again, but both are with the same theater company that is from Florida. Those productions begin in February of 2011. They are "Plaza Suite," a comedy and "Light From the Piazza," a musical.
I sent the company my photo and CV rather late, Friday night, and the auditions were for Saturday and Sunday. (I thought I had already sent it but hadn't...dummy!) They would then say an appointment time...IF they wanted me. I decided that by Sunday, if I hadn't heard anything, I would go to the auditions anyway and see if they'd like me to audition. After all, maybe they hadn't even seen my email. As I was sitting in the waiting room, I got a call from them, asking me to come down. "I'm in the holding room" I replied. At least at that point, I felt less like an intruder.
I had an audition and a call back that afternoon and it seemed to go well...not great, but hopefully, well enough. I read with two different actresses and sang twice. I wasn't thinking of singing, thinking that "Piazza" was supposed to be classical but it isn't/wasn't and only had "New York, New York" with me. We'll see if that song is lucky for me...again! That was the one I ended up singing three times (each time, raising it up higher and higher) for someone in the back of a dark theater that later turned out to be who most people say is the world's most famous producer, Cameron Mackintosh. Now it's time to keep checking the email accounts....again and again. One of these days...
Oh, yes, it's my birthday today! I don't have anything special planned as in 30 minutes, I need to head to an indoctrination workshop so I can tutor in the New York Schools. I enjoy teaching and will always do some of that, no matter if I'm in a show or not. Then I'll be off to an acting workshop at Actor's Project-NYC and then to a church study group, made up of people in the arts. Finally, I'll meet my roomie and friends, one of whom is also a birthday boy, at Bryant Park, where there is a skating rink. I'm not much on skating but hanging out sounds good enough!
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