acts of will

[rm]

I _am_ going to get paid today, because I say so. Then I'm going to pay all my bills, buy a gift, do a few nice things for myself, and put the rest of it my Australia fund.

I am also going to rock my callback, because I say so. Weirdly (embarassingly?) I've never had a callback before -- I've either been cast right off, or you could actually say the same thing for the negative outcome -- that's sorta of funny. And I think the monologue I want in the piece has realy shifted -- obviously, I'd be happy with anything, but the piece I was trying to stay away from and then read at the audition anyway is great and I surprised the hell out of myself with it and I think I could blow an audience away with it. But I'd also be really happy with the piece I went into wanting, because it's challenging in an entirely different way and also gives me a chance to blow people away, but albeit in a funny way, because of the moaning thing at the end. What I do realize in retrospect is that I was a lot smarter in choosing sides than a lot of people who auditioned, in that I chose two with extremely significant contrast. That was on accident though, the monitor had said everyone was reading the same ones and then told me which, so I went elsewhere, and in fact used that as permission to do the piece I had felt I should advoid (because I'm starting to think that like photographs, the monologue I like isn't necesarily the monologue that sells me).

I am wearing the same thing I wore to the first audition, because I read in a book you're supposed to do that or else directors and casting folk get confused. So that's what I'm doing, eventhough I feel totally weird about it.

Comments

Audition Clothing..

[mystrys.livejournal.com]

My drama teacher always advised us when attending auditions to wear a black or white turtleneck and have our hair tied back. She said that makes it easier for the director to picture you the way they think you would look for the part. Every time I go to an audition - I still wear a turtleneck :)! Break something.. -Mystrys

Re: Audition Clothing..

[rm.livejournal.com]

Acutally I never wear black anymore on top, because I don't want to get lost in a black box theater (thanks to my roomie for that) and while I wear off-white a lot, because it looks really good on me, I avoid dead white like the plague.