Where's the salt lick?

Feeling much better, after a week in bed with a throat infection of some sort. Went to an audition Saturday for a play, and Monday for a print ad for MetLife. The latter was kind of a cattle call. Very easy. Walk in, they take your picture leave your headshot and then leave. The audition Saturday went very well. They liked the monologue and me so irregardless of how it ends up; It went well.

Went to acting class today. Most of my favorites were there! Very small class today it was way cool. We did some interesting personal exercises.

Got home to a Gmail. Invited to another audition Wednesday night. Moved it to Thursday. Now I have to come up with a two minute monologue. I think the Sweet Bird of Youth is too long and can't be cut easily.

Holy Moly!

Interesting night at the masters acting class. I had an audition pop up for tomorrow night so I spent all day working on a two minute monologue for it. Put it up in class, got the notes on it. All is good. Will work on it tomorrow before the audition.

At the end of class it was my turn to sing a song. As some of you who actually read this may know I totally bailed on the musical audition last week. I won't say out of fear... let's call it terror. I have actually never sung in front of anyone save my singing coach before. And while they say you sing well, you are also paying them so I tend to take it with a measure of salt. hey, I'm cynical.

Plus I was going to sing a number from the show I was trying out for and was scared I would destroy it and humiliate myself.

I put the same song up tonight at acting class. I figured what the hell. It was at the end of class so of course I had three hours for the terror to build. Did it once, trembling all the time. Then the coach had me do it a second time, focusing more on an imaginary person.

Much to my surprise they loved it. Both times. They did not know that I was terrified nor that I had never sung in public. I am amazed, still processing. My coach said that I have a beautiful voice. Several people were amazed that I do not have a son (the song is a father singing of his son). Everyone genuinely enjoyed it.

I'm all astonishment. This is no small thing for me. One of my biggest fears, stumbling blocks wiped away. I have always been terrified of singing in public, you know that I would suck! LOL Wow.

I told everyone that I had bailed on the audition because of this song, of my fear. My coach did not upbraid me for it but said the next time the audition comes around, don't be afraid to but it up. There were a lot of compliments but I'll let it alone...

MetLife

Feeling much better. Went to an audition Monday for a print ad for MetLife. Kind of a cattle call. Very easy. Walk in, they take your picture leave your headshot and then leave. Went to class today. All my favorite boys were there! Very small class today it was way cool.

Got home to a Gmail. Invited to another audition Wednesday night. Moved it to Thursday. Now I have to come up with a two minute monologue. I think the Sweet Bird of Youth is too long and can't be cut easily.

gag reflex

home sick still. Told them I would be back today but I was wrong. Throat feels like there's a baseball stuck back there, can barely swallow. Don't even feel well enough to care about a double entendre. So you know I'm sick. Got no sleep that I can remember, just tossing a turning and dozing. Don't know why I'm wide awake now. This sucks.

I have a not from the doctor for my days off but if I still feel this shitty I'm going back to the clinic tomorrow. This officially sucks.

audition news

The audition today went well. Even though I feel like crap. They thanked me, said that I had done good work. They said the monologue was a good choice for me and thanked me again when I left.

Irregardless of whether or not I get it I feel that the audition went very well.

sickness

at home sick for the next two days... spent the last two telling myself I didn't feel so bad then finally went to the doctor today. Got a 'script and the stay in bed drink lots of fluids speech. I think it's a mild case of strep.

I also have two auditions this weekend. I will go to those. Bailing out on Tuesday's was quite enough, thanks.

another week

Stephanie and I put our scene from Life Under Water up in class Tuesday. It went well. She got a part in a showcase so that was probably her last class. It went over very well. We did a good job and worked well together.

Elissa and I put our scene up in class, Funeral Parlor by Christopher Durang. It went over very well but then we rock. We do actually. We work VERY well together.

Mailing off a round of headshots and resumes today. This has to be a regular thing/ongoing project. You simply must treat acting as a business if you want to get anywhere. At least that's what the working actors tell me. And as I want to be a working actor, I'm listening to them.

You can be unemployed and be all the artist you want. I'd prefer to be working, thanks. You can't practice your craft in a vacuum. It has to be seen. You have to work.

Busy day all around yesterday. Dropped off my headshots. Went to my singing lesson. Happy with how that is going! Definitely going to try out for the Natl tour of The Full Monty in two weeks. Not sure my singing will be up to snuff bu then but hell, I need the audition experience and again all they can do is NOT want me, eh? Dropped my Jazz dance class, it just is not what I am looking for. Need to find a music theater dance prep class.

saving my love

Very busy day on the acting front. Today was my voice lesson. I found out they are holding auditions for a touring version of the Full Monty in a few weeks, I may go try out, not that I think I will get it but I would like to get used to the audition process before I actually get out in it full steam. Make sense? Get used to it before the role comes along that I really want. Going to sing Ain't Mis-behaving and hopefully have a song ready from the show... we'll see. They want tenor's and I know the show has at least one bari-tenor. Not sure if I can swing that range at this point. My instructor says I'm a bass baritone. Hope I can swing the bari-tenor... so many more role options available. Will work to achieve it. Irregardless it's good to have a goal/project to strive for/work on.

Today was also my first Jazz dance class. Wow. Very cool. Used muscles I never used before! I only wish I had more dance classes a week... may have to look at finding more.

I finished off the day with my acting class. Put up a new monologue. It's comedic, from an Arthur Kopit short play The Day The Whores Came Out To Play Tennis. My scene partner from Proof wants to work on a one act with me. It's Christopher Durang's Funeral Parlor. Should be fun. Apparently Carol Burnett performed it with Robin Williams. As I look like Carol's illegitimate child that she never admits to, it seems appropriate somehow!

Mailing out resumes and headshots tomorrow. They're just the shots I ran off on my ink jet but they look damn good. They will do until I get the real 8x10s. After all what can it hurt? I don't get a call back on work that I would have missed had I sent nothing out? I think I'll survive. =)