DISCLAIMER: This post is long. Really loooong. It's two weeks of solid activity packed into one post. Okay, I just decided I'm going to split this up into two or three posts so it isn't so overwhelming.
The past two weeks have been the most exhausting two weeks I've had in a long time. Physically exhausting, emotionally exhausting, ugh. I really don't even know where to begin.
I started my new class almost 2 weeks ago. I'm not even going to write about that now because it's just too much to put into a post that's already going to be too full of information.
All I'm going to say right now is that the first class was rough, ugh. I think that set the tone for the next week or so. I didn't feel all that great after the first class but really tried to push it out of my mind because I was going to the industry guest Thursday night.
After sleeping until noon on Wednesday I got a message about an audition on Thursday. Cool. I call back and the guy tells me he'll e-mail the info and sides. I read the e-mail and it says they also want me to bring a comedic monologue. Okay, don't panic, I have a few monologues that I just need to brush up on a little bit. I decide to use the one I wrote in my monologue class last year. I print the two pages of sides and decide to get cracking on them so I can re-learn my monologue later. I also need to go over my stuff for Thursday, but I feel pretty confident about that. Lots to do, but this is good, it will keep my mind off having a bad class. No time to feel bad. The audition is for a short film with a funny premise and I'm right for the character. I rehearse the sides and can see it going a few different ways. I make a choice how I'm going to do it (now looking back on it, I think my choice was a little too "middle of the road") and rehearse some more. I print out my monologue and start to re-learn it. Mostly just re-learning the lines, it was easy to slip back into the character. Little worried about using this monologue because when we taped it in class I used some props that were funny and I'm not bringing the props to the audition. Oh well, it will be okay. Soon it's time to go to work. I rehearse the monologue some more during some down-time at work. I think I got it down. I go over the sides some more. Kind of torn between doing them a different way...no I'll stick with what I've got. Still feel a little down after last night's class, but I try to push it aside.
When I get home I have an e-mail about an audition on Friday at 11am but it looks like there's some leeway to change the time but it would be best if I could come at 11am. Can't decide right now, I'll respond tomorrow.
On Thursday I get up early enough to run my material one more time and get to the audition but I still feel rushed. Maybe because I couldn't decide on an outfit. I'm supposed to be in touch with the young, trendy, hip crowd. So I try to dress someone hip and trendy. (Now that I think about it, it might have been funnier if I WASN'T dressed hip and trendy, lol!) Hate feeling rushed. Someone also left me a voice mail about the audition on Friday. I hadn't responded because I was still considering asking for a later time but decide to just keep it at 11am so I e-mail to confirm my time.
The Thursday audition is somewhere I've been before but they moved to West LA near Century City, ugh. No easy way to get to Century City from North Hollywood. I take Coldwater to whatever it turns into on the other side of the hill. Not fun driving through Beverly Hills at lunch hour. Parking is a nightmare but I find a meter. Go to the audition. Someone is in there and one more person arrives after me who is taking on their cell phone in the waiting area, ugh. I try to focus on my sides and monologue and not get distracted. After about 5-10 minutes it's my turn. The people auditioning me were young, and somewhat emotionless...not detached, just not outgoing I guess. The ask me some questions about my availability, etc. then we run the sides. I think it went well. I get an adjustment and do it again. I think it goes okay. I get another adjustment and it's the way I ALMOST considered doing the sides in the first place, grr! I HATE when that happens. I wish I had chosen to do them that way in the first place. I did it again and felt like that was my strongest read. Then they ask if I have a monologue and I say yes. I do the monologue. Feels slightly weird without the props. One person laughs a little but no reaction from the other one. Oh well. Then the person with no reaction asks if I wrote it and I say yes, I took a class where we all wrote our own monologues. They say cool and thanks for coming in and its over. Didn't feel all that great about this one - not horrible, but not my best audition either.
I take Beverly Glen home (much easier than Coldwater) and go over my sides for the industry guest that night. I don't know how I feel about it. I feel confident, but I don’t feel confident, like there's something missing, I'm not quite getting it right. I decide to go for a walk to clear my mind. Come back in, go over the sides a few more times just to make sure I have the lines down. Somewhere in here I also re-read the e-mail about the audition on Friday. Okay, I'm a little confused. It's some sort of improv-ing re-enactments for a documentary, and they're also auditioning for a narrator, but is this an audition for the re-enactments, or are they actually filming that day? I know I submitted on the improv stuff and not the narrator, so I go back to the original casting notice that I submitted on and I'm still confused. Oh well, it's nearby, so I'll just show up at 11am.
After that I start to get ready, take a quick shower, try to do my hair but it's just not working, finally decide on an outfit - something office looking, but not stuffy, more like hip but professional (why didn't I just wear what I wore to the audition?), eat dinner, run the sides a few more times, and I'm off to class.
To be continued...
