Thoughts from a Difficult Saturday...

RIGAMAROLE: An annoying series of seemingly unnecessary steps that causes a commotion and results in confusion, irritation and resentment. (Urban Dictionary)

Auditions Auditions Auditions Auditions Auditions Auditions Auditions Audition Auditions Auditions Auditions Auditions...that's what happened recently in my theatre life. Besides rehearsing, opening and closing You Can't Take It With You, an Audition Rigamarole has been occurring.
...Not gonna lie, it's been a hard journey...Remember that whole post that I put at the beginning of my play? The one about disappointment/expectation? The one sitting right below the post you are now reading? Yeah. Me being a stupid human being, I decided to ignore my own advice going into this audition. My mistake.
Time travel back four years to September of my freshman year. Fools. I was SO banking on the fact that I was going to get in. I was nearly pre-rehearsing my part. My mistake. I was cut. And all the confidence that I felt before and during my audition came back to slap me in the face.
Zoom forward four years to November of my senior year. Hello, Dolly! I was SO banking on the fact that I was going to get this one role. I was  nearly pre-rehearsing (idiot). My mistake. I didn't get it.

I'm not writing this for pity. Ew. That's the last thing I want. I am writing this because of what came afterward. I couldn't even anticipate everything I learned because of not being cast in this role. When I thought about abandoning everything I worked for, these theatrical sages flew in from out of no where.
Here is what they said...

"and no challenge?! MAKE it challenging. Do something you've never done before. make a character that blows all your other characters out of the water."

"Casting isn't just "who's the most talented", it is also who needs to go where because of what's best for them. There is no such thing as small roles, only small actors."

"Have fun with it and don't be disappointed. It doesn't make you any less talented."

"A part is a part is a part is a part."

That being said: HERE WE GO. My senior musical. My very last show. #8. Here's to my theatrical sages.

Hello, Dolly!: February 3, 4, 7, 9, 10 & 11. Lynden Christian Worship & Fine Arts Center. @ 7:30 PM. Save a seat.

In other theatre news. Lynden is doing Once Upon A Mattress! One of my best friends is King Sextimus. Be there or be square ;) Performances: TBFOAAALT (To Be Found Out About At A Later Time)

Northwest Washington Theatre Group is doing Imagine Christmas: Performances: December 9 & 10 at LC Worship & Fine Arts Center. @ 7 pm. OR December 15 at the Mt. Baker Theatre. It's gonna flippin' rock.


Oh. William, Weston and Thomas. thanks.