2. Broken character heel? Ask me when you see me next and I will show you my equity friend's trick to constructing a crafty contraption - using rubber bands - to support and reinforce the heel.
3. Hungry before an audition or workout but don't want to be weighed down by calories? Try a banana. Just one banana has enough carbs to superpower you for 90 minutes of cardio without the bloat that accompanies other wheat and protein based breakfast foods. Also, make sure you eat your fruit on an empty stomach, because it will kick start your metabolism for the rest of the day. If eaten at the end of a meal or after a long day, fruit tends to sit in your stomach and ferment, making it more likely the body will retain the fruit's naturally occurring sugar as fat, as well as more likely that you'll have difficulty digesting it.
In other news, today I went in (again) for Wicked on Broadway. I took a little risk by deciding not to wake up until 7am, but luckily there were only 20 non-union dancers signed up on the list before me when I got there. Apparently the equity girls and their agents must know something we didn't, because the call was sparsely attended (50 equity girls only is RARE for a Broadway show that pays $1600+ a week for ensemble dancers).
Turns out the casting team only "kept the information" of two girls [all of whom were under 5'2] for every forty girls that danced. That, ladies and gents, is the definition of a required call, which means that the show has to have an audition in order to meet the demands of its contract with the Actor's Equity Association, as well as that Wicked probably doesn't have any open tracks to fill right now.
But hey, who knows, they might need a tall leggy someone in September, when the next required call comes around!
Before dancing for the Wicked team, I managed to sign up for the Disney Cruise line audition at a choice time. It didn't feel that way at first, since when I got there at 9:30am there were already 130 names on the list before me (wowza these Disney kids get up EARLY).
Turns out that right after I got out of the room for Wicked, Disney was calling my name in the next room. I had about ten minutes to change into my dress, breathe, down 16 ounces of water, and quack a little to warm up my voice, before it was hello Disney casting team!
I definitely feel that today's DCL audition marked a strong sense of progress in my ability to narrow my focus on entering the room as myself, or more importantly, the most prepared, professional, polite version of myself who is also calm, centered, and able to BREATHE in the audition room.
The Disney casting team was all very nice (unfortunately it wasn't Ron, or is it Tom? - eep I should really figure out his name - who is the head casting person for Disney and who liked me enough last time to offer me a swing (aka singer & dancer) contract).
Thanks to my voice teacher's new acting feedback though (B Wade says "remember, if there's a question written into the music, REALLY ask the question!"), they laughed and said they loved my song choice (Stepsister's Lament, Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, 1953). Speaking of, I absolutely love Bernadette Peter's rendition of Falling in Love with Love, from the fabulously diverse '90s film version. OO Oo, and does anyone remember "Impossible" by a very healthy and happy (seeming) Whitney Houston? Man I miss her...
Anyway, they asked why I didn't go to the dance call the previous day (couldn't make it because of a callback from a different audition). I was not too surprised that they didn't keep me to sing more. It's probably for the best, since I am really not convinced that I want to spend 6 months in close quarters with lots of young people on a cruise ship.
Can't believe I have to wait the entireeee summer before I start at the Met Opera. I've added a new website (DanceNYC.org) to my roster of sites to obsessively check for auditions. Hopefully I can scrounge up a summer project to keep my performance heart happy, since auditions will cease to occur from June-August.
It's half way through 2011 already!! Wowza!
Hugs, double-cheek kisses, and a salute to the long-awaited sun and warm weather,
A Broadway Baby
P.S.
I'm coming for you!
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