Page to Stage Auditions
Jun. 19th, 2005 07:07 pmMy dad kindly agreed to drive me to North Sydney provided I got home by myself. When I went downstairs last night to ask him the conversation went something like this:
Me: Dad can i get a lift tomorrow?
Mum: *hissy fit*
Dad: Yeah, sure.
As we were leaving she practically ran after the car screaming HAVE YOU GOT YOUR HAT BRUSH YOUR HAIR WHAT KIND OF JACKET IS THAT DO YOU HAVE A PEN EAT LUNCH CALL ME!!!!!!1111!!
Arrrrrgh. At least she lent me her train pass.
When we got there I recognised the place from year eight, although up till then I couldn't remember a thing. That was the time I ran into blonde-Stas and completely and utterly failed to recognise him. That time I knew like ten people randomly from other schools, this time nobody, but there was like hjalf of my drama class there. And one NIDA chick whose name I forgot.
As per usual there were three times more guys than girls, so all of them were basically guaranteed parts, even the pimply year seven kid with the braces who did nothing but follow a guy who looked like Elvis Presley around all day. Most of them were really good though. The girls were just average on the whole with a couple standing out. I consider myself in the average, so I went for all the androgynous roles in the hope that all the girlygirls will have left them alone - and ALL of the androgynous parts are going to girls, because there just arent enough boys.
Thus I went for the scientist as well as the mum in a play about what happens when you introduce different stimulus to the scene of a boy telling his parents he's gay (an awesome idea which could have been done SO much better, but hey), the doctor in the play about a guy collecting his own life insurance, the huntsperson in Chloe's Snow White (which I'm glad I'm not likely to get because he and the queen were SO lacking in personality it is not funny - Chloe says it's because she wrote it for year sevens, not expecting it to get in) and... well there aren't any androgynous characters in Small World because they're all little bratty girls who parallel world leaders, but I only had time to audition for one of those because SOOOO many people wanted them.
Alex and Elaine showed up in the morn ing, for no readily apparant reason, because the actual auditions were after lunch and they had to go off to their School of Rock thing. The morning was all warmup games and reading the plays out so everyone knows whats what. But, eh. The old guy who organised everything was really scatterbrained, he was all like yeah and you have to do this, and stuff goes like that and have I forgotten something? Oh right that yeah sure and that reminds oh yeah okay, and ask this person about that other thing, no I mean this person sorry and yeah. Any questions? Oh thanks for asking I'd forgotten that, see the way it goes is this, and you can do this or that because thingy, and there was something else but yeah. Oh and before I forget this too. Wait, who are you again?
At lunch I got burger king before realising OMG oportos is just down the street :Facepalm: waah want chickenburger now. Anyway, going back the train station was like WAAAY down the road, and I thought a set of stairs going down was it, but it turned out not to be. Yi and Annie eventually asked a random. My 393 from central got caught in a traffic jam and my mp4player ran out of batteries. And random French ladies asked me where the UNSW was ^_^ and then another complete random just started a conversation with me while I as walking home. First she kept turning around and looking at me like I was stalking her, and then she just started talking about random things. Eh.
Me: Dad can i get a lift tomorrow?
Mum: *hissy fit*
Dad: Yeah, sure.
As we were leaving she practically ran after the car screaming HAVE YOU GOT YOUR HAT BRUSH YOUR HAIR WHAT KIND OF JACKET IS THAT DO YOU HAVE A PEN EAT LUNCH CALL ME!!!!!!1111!!
Arrrrrgh. At least she lent me her train pass.
When we got there I recognised the place from year eight, although up till then I couldn't remember a thing. That was the time I ran into blonde-Stas and completely and utterly failed to recognise him. That time I knew like ten people randomly from other schools, this time nobody, but there was like hjalf of my drama class there. And one NIDA chick whose name I forgot.
As per usual there were three times more guys than girls, so all of them were basically guaranteed parts, even the pimply year seven kid with the braces who did nothing but follow a guy who looked like Elvis Presley around all day. Most of them were really good though. The girls were just average on the whole with a couple standing out. I consider myself in the average, so I went for all the androgynous roles in the hope that all the girlygirls will have left them alone - and ALL of the androgynous parts are going to girls, because there just arent enough boys.
Thus I went for the scientist as well as the mum in a play about what happens when you introduce different stimulus to the scene of a boy telling his parents he's gay (an awesome idea which could have been done SO much better, but hey), the doctor in the play about a guy collecting his own life insurance, the huntsperson in Chloe's Snow White (which I'm glad I'm not likely to get because he and the queen were SO lacking in personality it is not funny - Chloe says it's because she wrote it for year sevens, not expecting it to get in) and... well there aren't any androgynous characters in Small World because they're all little bratty girls who parallel world leaders, but I only had time to audition for one of those because SOOOO many people wanted them.
Alex and Elaine showed up in the morn ing, for no readily apparant reason, because the actual auditions were after lunch and they had to go off to their School of Rock thing. The morning was all warmup games and reading the plays out so everyone knows whats what. But, eh. The old guy who organised everything was really scatterbrained, he was all like yeah and you have to do this, and stuff goes like that and have I forgotten something? Oh right that yeah sure and that reminds oh yeah okay, and ask this person about that other thing, no I mean this person sorry and yeah. Any questions? Oh thanks for asking I'd forgotten that, see the way it goes is this, and you can do this or that because thingy, and there was something else but yeah. Oh and before I forget this too. Wait, who are you again?
At lunch I got burger king before realising OMG oportos is just down the street :Facepalm: waah want chickenburger now. Anyway, going back the train station was like WAAAY down the road, and I thought a set of stairs going down was it, but it turned out not to be. Yi and Annie eventually asked a random. My 393 from central got caught in a traffic jam and my mp4player ran out of batteries. And random French ladies asked me where the UNSW was ^_^ and then another complete random just started a conversation with me while I as walking home. First she kept turning around and looking at me like I was stalking her, and then she just started talking about random things. Eh.
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