1. Princeton Review hired me to teach test prep. Unfortunately, they want me to teach SAT (I'd wanted to teach LSAT or GRE) and only pay $12 an hour. Also, their only training session is the weekend of my pops' retirement party. So I won't even be able to start working there until the fall anyway.2. I ended up auditioning with "Morning Glow" from Pippin. It's a song I hadn't really heard in about ten years, and so I spent all day practicing. It's a pretty perfect song for my voice, and I felt confident with it. oh, yeah, and i needed a head shot for my audition, so i set up lights in the loft and took this. it turned out okay3. I arrived at the 80-year-old Richey Suncoast Theatre, met George, the guy I met at Busch Gardens in line for SheiKra, and took a seat in the front of the cute little theatre. The director is this old woman. She's somewhat amusing. The rest of the people I was auditioning with included:one guy older than me, the guy who takes community theatre way too seriouslyone guy my age, who was disheveled and actually managed to sing ANOTHER song from Pippina bunch of little kidsabout 25 high school girlsThe disheveled dude will come into play later.4. I was 15 minutes late owing to US54 being a butthole. So I was late in the rotation. Finally my number is called up. I notice that we started with #31, so 30 people must have auditioned last night. I hope that's when all the people my age auditioned. I decided to do this entirely because I wanted to meet some new people, and if all I'm meeting are high school girls, well, that's t3h suck. 5. Finally it is my turn. I start off a little shakily. Nerves, I guess. I hit my stride later, but then blank on the last two lines. I point to disheveled dude and ad lib, "line?" but he just stares at me. 6. I catch the last line and everyone claps, which was notable because for the most part, nobody else got clapped for at the auditions. Honestly, I was one of the better people there, if not the best. I feel pretty confident I'll get Pharaoh, though I don't know who auditioned the night before.7. I manage to get through the dancing audition without killing myself.8. I drive to the hangout where I a) win yet another hold'em tournament b) hang out with Caitlin for hours waiting for her to dance in the bootyshake contest because i promised her i would watch c) get fed up around 2:30 and leave because there are 93 men and 45 women in the bar and the women are just surrounded by Clones d) and realize that i really get annoyed by all this stupid shit.9. Come home, get a call from the director, I didn't get the role I wanted. I am, however, going to have a solo as one of the brothers. I don't know which brother I'm playing yet, though. Hopefully it's the funny one. So, yeah. Monday, Wednesday, Friday nights the rest of the summer will be full of rehearsals. I hope to god there's people my age in this thing, because i'm going to be really miserable spending all that time working on this if I'm not meeting new friends.
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