On the other hand...

Since January, I have been looking forward to this weekend, specifically March 24th. That was the day of auditions for The Sound of Music at Hale Theater. If you've never heard me talk about Hale, you've either been asleep or not listening. It's a community theater that pays! You walk away from a run with about $1000. The costumes are great, wigs done professionally and they cast a lot more talented performers than the motley crew you may be surrounded by at other theaters (not that they're all perfect there, but usually there's a higher level of talent overall). Generally, it's REALLY competitive and you have to know someone to stand out. Which I do, the music director is the accompanist for my voice lessons. Perfect! Now, unless you are a lead, this is not a great ensemble show. However, I didn't care because I thought few would be auditioning and it would be a foot in the door.



Or, so I thought.

I went Saturday for the audition and find out that I would wait a few HOURS for an audition time and even with that, they may not get me in before they close the auditions. This is NOT normal. Usually, you show up and in an hour, you're done. I felt like I was on American Idol. Seriously people, it's The Sound of Music! Over 1000 people auditioned (450 were adults)! After 3 1/2 HOURS of waiting, I was finally able to sing my 45 seconds of a song. I did great! I was proud of my audition and the look on the music director's face told me I did awesome. They made the announcements for callbacks right after my group auditioned and.....

I didn't get called back.

That's right, after all that, I don't even have a shot at doing the show.

And I couldn't be more delighted.

My summer will now be full of hiking, swimming, camping, rock climbing, bike riding and learning how to sew. Of course, if anyone wants to ship their kids my way, I'll make sure to spoil them rotten and squeeze them into my summer o' fun. Here's to summer and its adventures!



Too bad I have 45 more school days.