It’s 11:23 am. I am currently sitting on a metro after what has already been an exhilaratingly exhausting day.
Last week I auditioned for a scholarship for my school. The auditors were non-AU faculty and one happened to be the artistic director for Olney Theater in Maryland. Olney Theater is currently auditioning for Sound of Music. I felt good about my audition and thought I had a chance at the money but certainly was not expecting the phone call I received the next day to come in and read for the part of Liesl in The Sound of Music. This would be my second professional call back I have had in DC so far. (The first was for Rapunzel in Raunzel the Musical of course…the whole thing was funny…I didn’t get it… and that was just fine with me) I called Sam right away and he told me HE got a call to come in and read for Rolf or whatever that Nazi lovin boyfriend’s name is. So we prepared some 16 bars of Rogers and Hammerstein and drove forever away to Olney Theater.
It’s a funny life, this whole actor’s life thing. I spent all day yesterday worrying about that audition. I ran home to get my hair fixed, dressed, and all made up. We drove for about an hour and ran into the theater. All this for literally a 10 second audition. “Hi. I’m Angela. Hello Young Lovers bla bla bla bla. See Ya.” They said they’d let us know that night about MORE callbacks…jeesh
I went to acapella. Sang with instruments. (sidenote Treble in Paradise is sounding BOMB lately) As I was singing in harmony I got a message that I was called back not Leisl but for the nuns and…MARIA! Woah! I was definitely one of the youngest women there yesterday so this came as quite a surprise. I called to set up an appointment. The mass nun call was 10 am this morning…let me reiterate that Olney, MD is in the middle of nowhere. However, I was not expecting the hassle.
My form(s) of transportation unfolded as so:
*Woke up at 8
*Called a cab at 8:30
*By 8:55 still no cab.
*Went back upstairs, got an umbrella, walked out to Mass Ave to hail a cab. In the rain
*Got a cab
*Got in the cab in just enough time for the cab driver to tell me that it would be impossible to get to Olney at this time. Wonderful
*He drove me to the metro stop….which took lightyears longer than it should have. I paid him 9 friggin dollars and got on the metro. It’s about 9:20 at this point. I have 45 minutes to get there..Unlikely.
*Got on the metro and took it 19 stops. It was a 35 minute ride. As I went further into Maryland, less and less people were surrounding me. By the time I had about 4 stops to go, there were 2. Me and homeless friend. I didn’t get a chance to warn him but I desperately needed to warm up in order to sing this Canticle nunsense, so I give him a bit of a concert. He didn’t once applaud.
*I got off the Metro around 10 and was able to call the Theater to let them know I would be late. I still needed to take a 15 minutes cab to this godforsaken land of Olney. As I run out of the metro, I can’t exit because I am short all but 5 cents on my metro card. I go back to the exit fare to put in a nickel and as I open my wallet, I drop it and of course literally everything falls out. I got on my hands and knees in my audition attire and picked it up as the lovely people of Maryland walked by. I left most of the change hoping that someone who needs it will find it.
*I got in the cab and drove. I was watching the 50 cents on the metro go off literally every second. A 15 minute ride was 20 bucks! Whatever.
Ok. I made it to the theater alive, ran up the stairs and tried desperately to learn these nun harmonies. My voice teacher happened to be there, called back for the same thing, so she helped quite a bit. When I went in, everything went swimmingly. The audition gods shined all their light on me and I gave a fun audition. They confirmed that they would be seeing me for Maria tomorrow and then throw one more call back on me. They want me to read for the Baroness as well!
All in all, I realize I have no room for complaints. Keep me in your thoughts tomorrow as I give my best Julie Andrews impression at 11:30 am! (I’m leaving at like 9, don’t worry)
