Tonight I had auditions for Stage Left Productions (A brand new theater troupe in Houston) Alice in Wonderland and Treasure Island.
As I walked through the doors of the theater, there were about twenty people sitting around, practicing monologues and stressing over lines for the cold readings the were preparing to perfrom (Cold reading, for those who dont know, is when a director gives you a piece of the script and gives you a few minutes to read it over, then has you perform it.)
I couldn't help but feel a little arrogent around these people, I am not an arrogent person but I did a show with the troupe a few months ago. I hadn't really auditioned, a friend of mine was in the show and one of the cast members dropped out a week before the show was suppose to go up and she called me and asked me to come to their rehersal and try out, I got the part, I played Captian Blatherwick in the directors redition of The Little Mermaid.
It was a lot of fun and I made a lot of friends and learned even more about theater then I had in my six years of experience.
So when I walked in there, there were a LOT of faces I did not recognize, and of course, a few I knew from the show before. We chit chatted, hugged, talked about what we had been doing since Mermaid closed. And things of that sort, I talked to the stage manager, who I knew from the last show, and he gave me a form to fill out about complications with rehersal time and show dates and stuff, and of course, I can do both shows (after some rearragning of my school schedual).
I have to say, I had a little kick in my step. The director loves me, because I stepped in for her and gave up a lot of time at my job to do the show and stuff. She had already emailed me and told me two parts I was considered for for Alice.
I didnt mean to seem arrogent or anything, but I guess....I was more confident? Is that wrong? I mean, I am a good actor, I believe I am, and I have been told many times that I am. So during the auditions I did everything they wanted me to do, I asked what they were looking for in the characters, no matter what character I was doing, I was commited to it.
I mean, this troupe IS the highest paying, non-equity troupe IN HOUSTON, so needless to say, I really like working for them. (Equity is the Actors Union, where most big actors and professional troupes pay from and for...if that made sense).
All of the people were working their butts off trying to impress the director and stuff, some had been asked to leave before I had arrived (I didnt need to audition with a monologue because I had already worked for them before, they just wanted to see me read).
When I got home from auditions I got a phone call asking if I could for SURE do Treasure Island and I said yes, and I was told I got the part of the Cheshire Cat (The part I wanted REALLY bad) in Alice and The Capitan in Treasure.
Does it make me a bad person that I knew I was going to get cast? Or just someone with more confidence then others. I am still trying to debate this right now...but I am really happy I got the part, I worked just as hard as everyone else in the auditions.
Its just a thought I had....
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