Here's to the Music Department
So the past two days have been consumed by auditions for "Guys and Dolls"
Don't know if I want to do it anymore. Well... I guess I never really knew.
The show will not be the theatre's. It will be the Music Departments. Which is fine - we have one of the top music departments in the country and I'm glad the two departments mesh well. There were many people auditioning from music and the directors got giddy.
There's just one problem - these people can't act. At all. Worse than bad high school theatre. No joke.
Then there is the boy from the conservatory program that isn't Elmhurst College.
So... needless to say, none of the theatre boys got very far in auditions. The girls didn't do a lot better. It's become obvious that all they want is a show that sounds good. It is looking like (from the way callbacks went) this will become the cookie-cutter "Guys and Dolls" full of charicatures - with no budget on the wrong kind of stage. Did I mention that the department spent a little too much money on "Zombie Prom" and "W;t" and are planning on "Guys and Dolls" in our blackbox-esque space?
Yea...
On top of all the stresses of a musical normally felt by Michael, the boy who can't really sing.
So I'm not sure I want to do this if I do get cast.
But then, what do I do with myself if I don't do this show?
I'm covered show-wise through Spring Break... then what?
Gah.
Don't know if I want to do it anymore. Well... I guess I never really knew.
The show will not be the theatre's. It will be the Music Departments. Which is fine - we have one of the top music departments in the country and I'm glad the two departments mesh well. There were many people auditioning from music and the directors got giddy.
There's just one problem - these people can't act. At all. Worse than bad high school theatre. No joke.
Then there is the boy from the conservatory program that isn't Elmhurst College.
So... needless to say, none of the theatre boys got very far in auditions. The girls didn't do a lot better. It's become obvious that all they want is a show that sounds good. It is looking like (from the way callbacks went) this will become the cookie-cutter "Guys and Dolls" full of charicatures - with no budget on the wrong kind of stage. Did I mention that the department spent a little too much money on "Zombie Prom" and "W;t" and are planning on "Guys and Dolls" in our blackbox-esque space?
Yea...
On top of all the stresses of a musical normally felt by Michael, the boy who can't really sing.
So I'm not sure I want to do this if I do get cast.
But then, what do I do with myself if I don't do this show?
I'm covered show-wise through Spring Break... then what?
Gah.