Weekend Woes

Well here we go. Into what may possibly be one of the most painful weekends to date this year. The George auditions are on Monday, and I have to get through the next few days without driving myself insane. So far things are going well. Here is the breakdown. I am auditioning for 6 roles (5 in the first act, 1 in the second), which means that I need to have prepped for auditions on Monday 4 songs and 8 scenes. I have to learn both parts for a couple of the scenes. For example for Dot I need to know pages 48-55, however I need to learn pages 50-52 as Yvonne as well. At the moment I am feeling prepared on all of the songs and 2 of the scenes. This weekend will be dedicated to learning the rest of the scenes. We have been given the schedule for Monday, the breakdown of times for each part. And frankly I am a little perplexed by their method here. Everyone is called for multiple roles. Originally we were led to believe that we would each get a time slot and they would see as much as they could, starting with our biggest role, in that time. Then if they needed to see more or different material (for example the characters we didn’t have time for the first go round) there would be callbacks, or recalls as they are here, in the afternoon. They have made things much more complicated for themselves. They are going role by role, calling one person in at a time, through every single part. The beginning of the day starts with 10 minutes each for the leads, and ends with 2 minute slots for the smaller parts. They are going to lose so much time with people going in and out that I think we are going to have to give up on the schedule half way through the day. It also means that all of my auditions are at least an hour apart throughout the day. It is going to be a loooooooong day. At 4:30 they are going to announce recalls, and then they only have an hour of those. Then music rehearsals start two days later. They have also hinted that we will find out casting that evening. I will be incredibly impressed if things actually work out that way. I thought we had some tight turn-arounds at ACT! (I am particularly missing being on that side of the table right about now) I plan on taking a dance class immediately after auditions end, to prevent myself from checking my e-mail every 5 minutes for the rest of the evening. On the other hand, they have been building up this process for the last three months, so I am really ready to be done with it. They announced the show in December, and told us to familiarize ourselves with it. So like the dedicated student I am, I started working on the music then. That’s a long time to be working on one audition. I just have to remember how prepared I am, and not try and figure out what the people on the other side of the table are thinking. I won’t be able to guess the casting ahead of time, so I need to stop trying. Right so aside from the time I have allocated to work on scenes, I need to figure out what to do with myself this weekend. Are there any good movies out? Unfortunately the Hunger Games doesn’t come out until the end of the month. I am currently reading the books to prepare. I need to think of places that I have not explored yet. A few of my friends have decided to go out of town this weekend, which I am beginning to think might have been a good idea for myself. Ah well it might be too late for that. I'll find something. In other news, I did not get picked to compete in the Sondheim prize. I am pretty disappointed about that. In the end they chose two guys, instead of a guy and a girl, which is an interesting choice. I did ask for some feedback, and didn’t hear anything new. So I just have to keep working. On a brighter note, we keep getting nice weather here. So hopefully some of this weekend will be spent outside!