My week of Uncle Vanya performances and other auditions has come to a close, and now the hard part... waiting. I've probably talked about this before, the anxiety I feel sometimes when I don't have a project lined up that I know I'll be occupying myself with in the present or near future. I've been aware of it from the beginning, and this weekend it really dawned on me that Uncle Vanya will come to a close. And now that we're out of weekend 2 of 4, next is weekend 3 and then the final performances. Out of the course of this past batch of auditions, I've been hoping to have something lined up, and now that they are all over and with varying degrees of perceived success or failure attached to them, I just have to wait for the phone to ring or the rejection email to land in my inbox. Speaking of which, isn't that irritating when they say "we'll get back to you" or "we'll let you know either way" and of course you don't... and after a few weeks you get the message. But that's just one of the realities of the acting world, nothing to be done about it.
Anyway, let's do a run down. Monday was the Miracle Worker; perceived sense of success to failure ration, let's say 6 out of 10. I thought I did pretty well, but I have no connections to the company and I'm sure they have a sizable existing roster of actors my age and there are all kinds of factors completely out of my control mostly having to do with the "type" they want to cast in the role, etc, etc.
Friday was Crimes and Crimes, perceived ratio 3 or 4 out of 10, I went into my 10:45 AM audition slot having had no coffee (always a mistake) and was probably too big, broad and general in the audition and I got the sense that the auditor just didn't like what I was doing and dismissed me as such. As far as I'm concerned, that one is off the table.
Saturday was Hookman with Company One, and I'm going to say... 6.5 out of 10. I thought my monologue went over well, but at the same time I think I've done the same piece better in other auditions and was trying to recapture that rather then just being truthful in the moment etc. Then again, my side reading went very well, I was luckily (and maybe consciously? Who knows) partnered to read with my scene partner from when I did the scene study with Company One so we had an existing sense of comedic chemistry and were generally very comfortable reading on stage with one another and they laughed audibly multiple times during our reading. Again, I took the class with them, so hopefully they recognized me from that but again probably a lot of actors read for the one male role, so who knows.
Yesterday was Swimming in the Shallows with Salem Theater Company, and without putting a number to it, that's the one I'm most optimistic about. I auditioned for them over the summer, and they seemed to really enjoy my work, but then due to scheduling stuff with Crooked Arrows I couldn't make it to that particular call back. But this audition felt more like a call back, I had done some work on the sides ahead of time and I felt like I was really jiving with the director, who gave me several different angles of direction over the course of my working with him. It also seemed to be very thinly populated, only three people in my slot, the other two being women. But, again, there's no way of knowing. And here's to uncertainty!
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