debrief

okay folks, for those of you who haven't already emailed me to ask me, i thought i'd let you know about the audition...

first, i was late. i have a less than stellar sense of direction and dundas does some weird thing and i somehow managed to be on some wrong bit of it and blah blah blah. anyway, that's fine, except that my friend who i called to help me apparently also, not so good with directions. well, she's fine when she's driving, but not so good with description. so i showed up to the audition almost half an hour late. which had me freaked out, but it turned out to be fine. i just waited until they had a slot free and did it then and i apologized and they said it was no big deal in a way that made me really believe it was no big deal.

there were a number of us waiting. at first we were all very quiet. no talking. barely looking at each other. as you can imagine, this was not my type of thing. so, i started talking, asking the occassional question, gently trying to engage people. it worked. we chatted away, it was really nice. there was a very very attractive guy who was really nice and who i really hope gets a part, he winked at me as he left. that was fun.

apparently they got over 1000 people asking to audition. this my friends is why i will never act for a living. 1000 people. for a fringe show. you don't get paid for fringe shows. well, you do, but it's a co-operative, so you only get paid if the show makes money, and i suspect usually they do not. so it was pure luck that i managed to get a spot to audition in, i just happened to respond quickly enough. the winking man was "crashing", so he was told there was no space but asked if he could come in and see if there happened to be a no-show.

so, the audition itself...

well, it was okay. i got some very positive feedback, i finished and they said it was really good, they could really feel the character in the room (how's that for artsy talk? *grin*) and that i'd done some really interesting stuff with her and she was really coming out and other really nice positive stuff like that.

and that was it.

which says to me, thanks but no thanks. i don't doubt their sincerity for one second, they didn't have to say nice things, it wouldn't have been rude to say nothing, they could have just thanked me and sent me on my way. but the fact that they didn't explore any part a bit more, they didn't aske me to do it again or differently or anything like that, well, all that stuff says either i was totally perfect (not bloody likely) or i didn't fit the physical type they were looking for (perhaps short and cute doesn't translate to mean and intimidating to them very well).

so, all in all, i'm glad i did it, it was much less painful than i expected, they were all (there were 4 people there casting) super super super nice. but yeah, i'll fall over in shock if i get called back, especially since they didn't even say if or when they were doing call backs. and in truth, not getting this part, well, that would probably be for the best, since life is so bloody insane right now.

and then today i got my hair dyed funky colours.

so all in all i'm in a pretty darn good mood today. ;)