Have I mentioned this before? I hate auditions! I don't know why I do it! Wait, I do know why...It's because I love the stage and performing so I take the good with the bad.
I went to the Equity Principal audition for Empire and wasn't seen so I attended the "female singers who move well" chorus call on Wednesday morning at 10:00 AM. I walked into the holding room where, once again, I was overwhelmed with girls who were dressed in absurd dresses..most of them too short, with bright red lipstick and were, of course, watching themselves in the mirror.
I really only have one song perfected for auditions so I just thought I would do the same one that I did for Mary Poppins. BIG MISTAKE!!! At around 12:15 they called all the non-equity members to line up for the audition. I was excited but I always get a little nervous and my heart beats a little faster when I get closer to the door. It also doesn't help my nerves when I can hear all the girls in front of me belting out their 16 bars from a contemporary musical.
I was giving myself a good little pep talk as I was waiting. I was ready until I walked in the audition room and saw the same casting director that was there for my Mary Poppins audition except there was a new guy in there. At that moment I knew I had blown it. She already heard me sing the same song! I gave my song to the accompanist, we figured out the tempo and then I told them what I was singing. The girl that had already heard me once before sort of gave me a look like "really? you already did this." It was like we had a moment because it was clear we were both thinking the same exact thing....I NEED NEW MUSIC!!!!! I sang my song and I totally sucked! I sang like I was five years old, I gave the accompanist the wrong tempo b/c I can never figure that part out and I had already given up when I saw the casting director.
I'm making a list of things to work on for next summer and one of them is finding contemporary musical songs that fit my voice. That's what all the auditions have required and I have one song. That's sort of a problem. Alas, once again I chock this up to experience and will do better next time.
Love,
Miss Gulley in Manhattan
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