Clear Glass Marbles

The cast lists went up today, and I was cast in "Talking With..." as the Clear Glass Marbles monologue. It just goes to show that you never really know how well you did. So yea! We start rehearsals in March, but I'm not sure exactly when the show goes up. Updates to come :)

Auditions and Call Backs

This semester is already up and running. I am at the end of the second week of school, and have already gone through auditions and callbacks for the second part of this season.

Auditions were last Wednesday and Thursday, which was the first week of school. I preformed two short monologues from Some Things You can Never Forget, and Invisible Friends. The first monologue I picked was about a woman grieving her father who died in a car accident after leaving the house to go get her some ice cream, and the second monologue is about an eighteen-year-old girl who still has an imaginary friend who consuls her about being lonely. At OCU, they generally allow two minutes for one or two monologues, which usually means doing two monologues that a just under a minute each. 

My audition itself went very well. The panel watching the auditions for this round was particularly friendly, especially in comparison to the stoic faces from the previous auditions. I got a few laughs from my semi-comedic monologue, and did a good job on my other piece as well. After I preformed my monologues I was asked to do one of my special skills, which in this case was me making the sound effect of a girl stuck in a closet, which if you haven't heard me do this you might be a little lost as to what I am talking about (ask me to do it sometime for you when we see each other.) 

Call backs went up the following night and I was called back for the following shows: "Tonia Campanella's Movement Piece", "Anton in Show Business" (for the part of Lisabette,) and "Talking With..." (for the Clear Glass Marbles monologue.) My first call back was for Lisabette in "Anton in Show Business". That call back was probably my best. Lisabette is an actress from La Vernia, Texas who graduated from SMU who taught third grade for two years until "in a dream the Lord Himself reaffirmed [her] calling" and she started acting again. I read for Lisabette most of the night, but when one of my friends, Sonia, came back from her musical theatre auditions, Dr. Pasto asked me to read with her for the part of Casey (who is in many was the exact foil of Lisabette.)

The next night I had my callback for the movement show, and "Talking With..."  Tonia is the movement teacher at OCU and she is choreographing a movement piece for this semester. Her show is completely silent and consists of both expressive acting and dancing. One challenging aspect of this show is that it is about a number of different kinds of love stories including both heterosexual and homosexual relationships. In the call back itself we mainly we asked to just move expressively to music, and then at the end we did a short improvisational scene with a partner. All I can say is that I had more fun in that call back than any other call back I've ever had before, and I honestly have no idea of who will be in the show.

After that call back I quickly ran over to the Black Box Theatre for the "Talking With..." call back. This show consist of a collection of monologues preformed by women. The monologue I was called back for was about a women talking with a therapy group about the days leading up to the death of her mother. In this call back we were asked to select ten lines from the monologue to read. After dancing around for several hours, I was pretty exhausted, but I tried to do my best with the monologue. After everyone in the group of late-comers to the call backs read Judy told us we were free to go.

And now, I am in the state of actor's limbo waiting for the directors to meet and decide who they do and don't want for their shows. I feel like I'm in a very good place right now. I felt like I did the best I could in both auditions and callbacks, and would be happy with any outcome. 

Why Blog?

I've decided recently that I don't do a very great job in keeping everyone up to date on my life here at Oklahoma City University (OCU.) I have never had a blog before, but I think that I will give it a try in effort to keep you updated! I think this will also insure that everyone gets ALL the information instead of my usual scatterbrained account of what is going on in my life.