Stress, glorious stress!
Boy, is the acting business confusing or what?
So, I went to the call backs feeling pretty confident and proud. I was still a little bit nervous but, hey, I must've done something good the first time, considering I got called back. I go in there and there are a TON of kids there. That kind of pushed my confidence down. But, I regained it when I saw the only male adult there because he looked like I could be his daughter in the play. So, I get up there and the boy up there that's auditioning for Caleb, the little brother, kind of looks like he could be my brother too. That makes me even more confident. When I read, I did a much better job than I did the first time so I felt so good and happy. But, I ended up being sent home early. It felt like SUCH a let down. I mean, here I am doing a MUCH better job than I did the first time, I look kind of like the people I auditioned with (ok, so they aren't necessarily going to use them but, they could), and then they send me home early. But, the truth is, you're going to lose more parts than you get. Sadly, that's just the way it is. Even though I knew this, I just felt so depressed.
But, here's where the irony ensues.
Just a couple days ago, I went to a musical theatre class taught by my musical director in my theatre group. While we were there, he asked if I was auditioning for the recording of songs from two of their original plays. All he told us was when the audition was, which was the next day in the evening. So, I think, 'Ok, it'll probably be a casual audition just for the theatre group people. Sounds like fun!' So, I prepare a song for it that night and work on it during the day before the audition. When we get to the theater where the auditions are being held, the music director says that we're going to need to do two songs: one ballad and one up-tempo song. This already stressed me out because I only had one song prepared and it was a ballad. I had two songs I could do but they were both ballads. So, I talked to my mom and we figured I should audition anyway. After a bit of looking over the audition papers, we started to realize that the audition was much less casual than we had expected. It also wasn't just people from the theatre group. That stressed me out more. I noticed that my mom was looking from her phone to the schedule and back and forth. Finally, she said, "You can't make it for the rehearsal." I'm pretty sure my jaw fell off at that point. I wanted to audition for this SO badly. In the end, we decided to go ahead and let me audition. But, with all the stress piled up, I did a rather bad job during the audition. My voice kept cracking and (I don't know if anybody else noticed this) my legs were shaking like nuts. But, even though I did a sucky job, I managed to get in.
It's really rather confusing. I do a good job at the audition for 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' and don't get in. I do a bad job at the audition for the recording and I do get in. Knowing the person who is casting makes a huge difference and so do a lot of other things, such as the things in my last entry. It's SO confusing!
If there's one thing acting is good at, it's giving me stress. Glorious stress (and headaches =P).
So, I went to the call backs feeling pretty confident and proud. I was still a little bit nervous but, hey, I must've done something good the first time, considering I got called back. I go in there and there are a TON of kids there. That kind of pushed my confidence down. But, I regained it when I saw the only male adult there because he looked like I could be his daughter in the play. So, I get up there and the boy up there that's auditioning for Caleb, the little brother, kind of looks like he could be my brother too. That makes me even more confident. When I read, I did a much better job than I did the first time so I felt so good and happy. But, I ended up being sent home early. It felt like SUCH a let down. I mean, here I am doing a MUCH better job than I did the first time, I look kind of like the people I auditioned with (ok, so they aren't necessarily going to use them but, they could), and then they send me home early. But, the truth is, you're going to lose more parts than you get. Sadly, that's just the way it is. Even though I knew this, I just felt so depressed.
But, here's where the irony ensues.
Just a couple days ago, I went to a musical theatre class taught by my musical director in my theatre group. While we were there, he asked if I was auditioning for the recording of songs from two of their original plays. All he told us was when the audition was, which was the next day in the evening. So, I think, 'Ok, it'll probably be a casual audition just for the theatre group people. Sounds like fun!' So, I prepare a song for it that night and work on it during the day before the audition. When we get to the theater where the auditions are being held, the music director says that we're going to need to do two songs: one ballad and one up-tempo song. This already stressed me out because I only had one song prepared and it was a ballad. I had two songs I could do but they were both ballads. So, I talked to my mom and we figured I should audition anyway. After a bit of looking over the audition papers, we started to realize that the audition was much less casual than we had expected. It also wasn't just people from the theatre group. That stressed me out more. I noticed that my mom was looking from her phone to the schedule and back and forth. Finally, she said, "You can't make it for the rehearsal." I'm pretty sure my jaw fell off at that point. I wanted to audition for this SO badly. In the end, we decided to go ahead and let me audition. But, with all the stress piled up, I did a rather bad job during the audition. My voice kept cracking and (I don't know if anybody else noticed this) my legs were shaking like nuts. But, even though I did a sucky job, I managed to get in.
It's really rather confusing. I do a good job at the audition for 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' and don't get in. I do a bad job at the audition for the recording and I do get in. Knowing the person who is casting makes a huge difference and so do a lot of other things, such as the things in my last entry. It's SO confusing!
If there's one thing acting is good at, it's giving me stress. Glorious stress (and headaches =P).