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What I Did: Week Ending 2009-02-22

jcroft — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:42:00 +0000

Tired today. Tech rehearsal for “One Flew Over The Cookoo’s Nest” went to 12:15AM-EST. #
A friend of mine, Takara Upshaw, got a call back for “A Sunday Afternoon at Loemann’s”. Congrats. So I suppose I can say I am not cast. sigh #
Hoping to hear if I got a slot at the Atlanta Unifieds this year. Rumor has it that nearly 500 people applied for 250 slots. I need an agent #
Bill Bryson is the best writer. But what I really love is Bill Bryson reading his audiobooks. The Best. #
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What is it? #
Well its official. I got a thanks for auditioning, but no thanks email. Takara Upshaw did not get cast ether although she did get a callback #
You know, I want to buy applications for my future iPhone without having to go though the app store. #
I really miss my Handsping Visor with phone attachment. Best phone I ever had. Sad that that was the late 90′s. #
As soon as I walk in the door at work this morning, I get pulled into an argument about how long it takes to drive from Atlanta to Orlando. #
“You got to take the 475 around Macon.” “It takes me 6 hours. How in the world does it take you 8 hours.” #
On to other topics: I was giving a slot at this years Atlanta Unifieds. Number 160. The bad thing is I have my 2 minutes just before lunch. #
@the_brian_jones And I was thinking maybe a Blackberry Storm over an iPhone. Calender and Contacts are a must. in reply to the_brian_jones #
@the_brian_jones Have you tried Missing Sync? in reply to the_brian_jones #
@the_brian_jones Show went OK. Not quite a dozen people. in reply to the_brian_jones #

What I Did On 2009-02-18

jcroft — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:55:00 +0000

Bill Bryson is the best writer. But what I really love is Bill Bryson reading his audiobooks. The Best. #
It #
What is it? #
Well its official. I got a thanks for auditioning, but no thanks email. Takara Upshaw did not get cast ether although she did get a callback #
You know, I want to buy applications for my future iPhone without having to go though the app store. #
I really miss my Handsping Visor with phone attachment. Best phone I ever had. Sad that that was the late 90′s. #

What I Did On 2009-02-17

jcroft — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:55:00 +0000

Tired today. Tech rehearsal for “One Flew Over The Cookoo’s Nest” went to 12:15AM-EST. #
A friend of mine, Takara Upshaw, got a call back for “A Sunday Afternoon at Loemann’s”. Congrats. So I suppose I can say I am not cast. sigh #
Hoping to hear if I got a slot at the Atlanta Unifieds this year. Rumor has it that nearly 500 people applied for 250 slots. I need an agent #

Auditioned for A Sunday Afternoon at Loemann’s

jcroft — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:16:37 +0000

Arrived yesterday for my audition with my headshots, but without a resume. I don’t have a printer set up at home at the moment. I had intended to print a resume at work and completely forgot. Things were off to a bad start.

On the bright side, Takara Upshaw was there. Takara and I were in Heidi together way back in 20o7. It was nice to see her again.

So as I am trying to remember what I have done and put a quick resume together on the back of the audition form, I was called in. They had an electronic copy of my resume I had sent them before, but not printed out. Nice of them not to worry about it, but they could not as any questions about any items on the resume with out it. They may have found something impressive on it just by holding it.

As far as who “they” were: Austin Snipes and well I did not catch the name of the casting person. Shame on me.

The first question: “What are you doing?’ My mind went blank, I could not remember what monologues I was doing. Even forgot I had them in my blazer pocket.

“OK. Not a problem. Please proceed.” So I start into my first monologue: Degas, C’sest Moi. Amazingly I did not flub over this one as nervous as I was. At the finish of this one, I paused, stepped aside for just a moment to get into character for the second monologue: Marty. This one I flubbed, badly.

My mind just went blank and I couldn’t call for line. After that fiasco, we discussed my headshots for a while. They liked them very much. Pleased about that.

As I was leaving, I ran into Lory Cox. We were in Barefoot in the Park last year. She was great. Maybe we will be working together again.