The first few auditions…

I don’t usually discuss an audition with people unless the outcome is favorable.

But, I figure this is my blog.  Honestly is the best policy.

Today:  three auditions.  One lottery.

Audition #1:  An intermediate acting class.  The professor seems very nice and is a well-established actress.  This, I learned from my google skills.  I felt myself rush through the monologue a bit, but later today I learned that I had been accepted into the class.

Lottery:  A bunch of the revered (and super clique-tastic) theater types got in.  So did I.  It’s a course on Practical Aesthetics taught by an extremely well-known professor.  I’m very intimidated.  This course is held at the same time at the intermediate acting class, so I’ll have to choose one or the other.

Audition #2:  An advanced acting class.  I will find out tomorrow if I got in.  If I get into the class, I will definitely take it.  The professor sold me on the course, and it’s geared toward those who want to become working actors.  We had to do our monologues in front of everyone else who was auditioning.  I was less than impressed with all but one or two members of the revered theater clique.  But my delivery of the monologue could have been stronger.  So whether or not I’ll get in is really up in the air at this point.  Two people did come up to me afterwards to tell me they’d liked my monologue. Also, if I get in, I’m not sure if I should take the intermediate acting class or the Practical Aesthetics class in addition.  Along with my other academic courses and extracurriculars, it might be too strenuous a feat.  Or maybe I shouldn’t be such a big baby.

Audition #3:  All of the plays that will be put up in the campus theaters are holding auditions this week.  I met up with a new acquaintance to go audition.  Tonight, I only auditioned for one play.  I KID YOU NOT.  I read that play twice last summer and worked on two of Catherine’s monologues.  The director of the play not only watched me perform my Sooze monologue during Audition #2 for the advanced acting class (he auditioned also), but I’m pretty sure he had been looking over in my direction a few times then.  So when I walked into the audition room this time around, he definitely knew who I was.

Five of us went to audition.  The girls all got a Catherine scene.  I was the only girl to get a Catherine scene PLUS an old woman scene.  My Catherine was okay, but I was losing control of my voice.  The director cut me off before the end, which saddened me.  Then, he leapt across the room with the script and asked me to read from the end.  For a cold reading, it was decent.  There was at least one good moment.  My old woman was daft enough, I think.  I was luckily able to get control of my voice.  I was surprised he asked me to readspecifically for her, since that character is old and I resemble a sixteen-year-old.  Hm.  I think I did well enough to get a callback.  I think my lack of experience may take me out of the running for an actual part.

The fun continues!

Classes are starting

I have two auditions for classes on Tuesday.

The old version of the monologue that I found a few days ago actually works pretty well for me.  By the end, I cry like a baby.  The prep doesn’t take very long.  The length feels just right.  It ends naturally.  I’m cautiously elated.

If I can perform this monologue in the auditions the way I have been, then I feel fairly confident about getting into at least one of the classes.  Then again, I’m not sure if I’ll be asked to perform the monologue at one of the auditions.  I only know for certain that we’ll be doing monologues at one audition.

We’ll see.  I’m feeling nervous but also confident.  I know I have the potential to deliver, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to overcome my nerves in order to actually deliver.

I’ve put the other monologues on the back burner for the moment, so that I could focus on honing my technique by reading acting books and by practicing the Sooze monologue.  My goal is to take an acting class here.  I know that there’s a good chance I won’t be accepted, since so many people audition and they take very few.  But I think that I have a good chance.

Anyway, that’s it for now.  I should know my fate by Wednesday.  And on Thursday, I can interview to try to get into the Voice class.  So if I don’t get into either acting class, then hopefully I can talk my way into the Voice class.

Quick update – stateside!

Ahhhh, I’m back in the states!

It’s not as weird as I thought it’d be (I’d been abroad for almost a year).  Everyone around me speaks English!

Anyway, I’m back to working on monologues, watching movies/tv, and reading numerous acting books.

I’ve almost chosen both of my comedic monologues.  Very close.  I haven’t given much thought to the dramatic classical monologue lately.

My dramatic contemporary monologue was fine until I found a different version of it.  Weird.  I looked through my old acting class folders and found the Sooze monologue from SubUrbia that my former acting teacher had given me.  It had a few extra sentences about Sooze’s brother going to a donut shop.  This part of the monologue is not in the play I bought, which I guess is the revised version.  Now, I’m not sure if I should stick with what I’ve been doing (admittedly, it’s too long at three minutes and I was thinking of cutting the second half out) or going with this new development (this would make the first part of the monologue long enough so that I could skip the second part).  But I don’t know.  I guess I’ll have to play around a little bit more and see what feels right to me.

School starts soon, so I’m getting nervous.  I have to start busting my ass in oh so many ways.

Must work out more!