I did not want to get out of bed this morning. My alarm clock went off, and I reset it for 2 minutes later. Now that's pathetic, but those 2 minutes were wonderful...
Greg and I had many errands to run this morning before heading to an audition for the National Tour of Wicked. We first went to a Staples right in midtown and believe it or not they were the only Staples store in Manhattan that I had been to that didn't have computers?! What?!?! I needed to print something off a computer and the guy said, "Yea, we've been waiting a while to get computers in. You could go across the street to the bus station and use theirs...." The bus station has computers for use, but the Staples doesn't?! I find that odd.
So Greg stayed and I ventured across the street to the bus station. And low and behold, I almost got HIT BY A CAR!!! The cross traffic to my right was whizzing by and there were a line of cars (trucks, taxi's, etc) sitting at the stoplight in front of me where I needed to cross, and the orange hand indicator wasn't fully on so I started to cross the street. I made a mistake and under-judged how long it would take me to cross 6 lanes of traffic, but I was over halfway through when the cars started to honk at me. I passed a truck and was almost back on the sidewalk when out of no where a taxi flew right at me at about 50 mph! He slammed on his breaks and I jumped back just in time. We were so close to colliding that I could reach out and touch his car. He began honking and yelling at me (like I didn't know I was in the way already), and all I could do was run to the sidewalk. I'm still a little shaky...
So in the bus station I used their computers, but I couldn't print what I needed because they didn't have the proper software downloaded. Awesome. This day was getting worse by the minute! I went back to get Greg at the Staples and we went to the audition. It was an Equity audition so we had to sign up on an alternate list and wait. All day. But that's why we're here!
Lunch came and we went to Subway. It was in a food court that had several places to eat and one common dining area. We had finished when this group of people (they were all in their 20's or so) were wanting to push a couple of tables together and sit down behind us. There was a random drink on one of the tables and they were debating whether to move it or find somewhere else to sit, but Greg, who was facing them, piped up and said, "It's been sitting there for a while. I think you can just move it." I didn't turn around to look at them. So Greg, being the clever guy he is, told me to get up, walk around the corner behind him, and walk out like I just came from the bathroom and ask who moved my drink (referring to the one that group just moved).
So I nonchalantly gathered my things and walked around the corner and waited a minute. When I came back around, I passed Greg without looking at him and when I got to the table where they had moved the drink to I yelled, "WHO MOVED MY DRINK?" And I looked directly at the group of people and they were scared to death!! They just looked at me and one guy pointed and said, "It's over there...?" and I just gave them the dirtiest look. Then I started laughing and said that I was just kidding and I pointed over to Greg and told them I was sitting with him when they asked if they should move it. Haha! They all started laughing and told me how brilliant my acting was and one guy even got up and gave me a hug. It was brilliant.
That reminds me, Greg still owes me a dollar for doing that... :)
Back at the audition we sat and waited. I met Ben, who used to be in Noah at Sight and Sound in Branson! Greg already knew him, but it was nice to meet another Bransonite! We also met Angela. She just moved from LA to NYC a month ago. We all sat and talked for hours waiting to be seen for an audition. The monitor finally said that there were too many Equity people there so the non-Equity people waiting wouldn't be seen. I guess that's life in the theatre. We waited all day for nothing, but we met some great people!
Greg and I decided to go to Blockheads afterwards, but they were so full they sent us across the street to Mother Burger. It was good. We were sitting there talking (and enjoying the homemade guacamole dip) and all of a sudden Todd Walker walked in! I met him through my friend Melissa Dockum back in Branson! Todd was in Branson doing Peter Pan and him and Melissa were really close friends so we hung out a few times. I can't believe that in all of NYC we both went to the same restaurant! The city really isn't as big as it may seem!! :)
