Auditions are the worst invention of the past millennium. Who’s idea was it to make a persons involvement in something that will largely dictate his or her life for months rely solely on: 2 minutes of singing, which can easily be messed up (especially if it was the first time in your life singing solo in front of people), another 2 minutes of dance (this is slightly more appropriate than anything else), and a few hours of acting auditions, in which you will probably only get up a few times considering how many people are trying out.

If you haven’t guessed yet, my vocal audition for West Side Story was today. I sang Ol’ Man River from Show Boat, and since I didn’t have the music with me, I messed up about 4 times. I knew not to look at the judges while I was singing, but I had to afterwards and it just looked like they hated it. I love how the judges were all sitting up high, all looking down on the person. It reminded me of an ancient high court during the trial of a murderer or something. Hopefully the dance audition will go better tomorrow.

Also, I will be leaving for France on Friday, so I will stop posting for about two weeks (big surprise, I know). I am going to have so much homework as I’m missing 7 days of school, and make up a bunch of tests. At least some of the teachers are being nice and exempting me from certain projects.

In my theater class at the moment, we are doing voice work, and are in the middle of a radio show project. We all had to write a script, and our groups would choose one from that group. We chose mine (aside from by persistent rejection of the decision). I thought it sounded a lot better with everyone reading it, though. Our group rocks, the other people in it have come up with ridiculously awesome character voices. I’ve got nothing else to say,

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MICHEAL!

SORRY IT POSTED RANDOMLY, DAMN COMP. anyhoo, I didn’t hear your audition but I heard you sing before and honestly, we were talking about how good you were while you were singing. You rocked. If you don’t get in I am sueing with Lee as my lawyer! Yes, auditions are scary, stupid things but when you come right down to it, Mr. Small is very fair and would understand you being nervous (This is what anne Schermerhorn said and I trust her with ANYTING theater) So I am sure if you were nervous they’d understand. I don’t know, it reminder me more of judgement time in heaven. Sorry if this is, a, tad sloppy I am sleepy and have two profects to do, oy vey. Oh you are one of the lucky one, most of us didn’t leave the auditions till eight oclock! Wow, I wrote a lot!

I forgot about that, I’m so glad that I saw that audition sign up sheet on the way into the Black Box, or would have been there for hours! I feel really bad for everyone that had to stay that late - they should have split the vocal auditions into 2 days. I hope everyone else’s audition went well, but I can get the info tomorrow. Now I get to worry about the dance auditions, but at least that will be in small groups, so hopefully I won’t choke again.