Last Saturday I met up with my friend Tim to go swing dancing! Tim and I met in Cincinnati at the Playhouse in the Park when I was there back in 2009. He recently moved to the city and had been wanting to go dancing, but never had anyone to go with. When we were in Cincy, we went dancing and had a ball, so he found a West Coast Swing Dancing meet-up group and we went and tried it out. And it was fun!!
Sunday I ventured out to do laundry and let me tell you, Sunday is the WORST DAY to go to the laundry mat! Ever!! I should have known, but it needed to be done. There were 7 year olds doing laundry for their whole family! No adult supervision. Weird. Those must be some trusting parents!
Monday was a big day. Greg and I had several auditions to go to and we also had David Letterman tickets.
I went to a call for Miss Saigon where they wanted to see people of "all ethnicities", but the room was filled with mostly Asian girls. There were only 4 white girls, including me. Haha! They said they were going to "type us" (which means they line us up before we sing and they say yes or no based on appearance). Needless to say I got a no.
Later that day I went to a female call for the Lion King and 95% of the girls were black. They gave props to us white girls for showing up and trying! Yessss! :)
They told us to be at the Ed Sullivan theatre by 3:30pm to line up even though the taping didn't start until 6pm. So we chatted with a few folks in line (one lady showed us a picture of her singing with Dennis Rodman) and waited in the cold. They opened the doors for us to come in and get our tickets and they "saw something special" in Greg and me and told us that we were "Audience Leaders." They said to come back at 4:45pm and get in a special line. When we came back there were about 20 people in the "Audience Leaders" line including us. There was this guy behind me from Australia and I asked him if he knew the show McLeod's Daughter's (it's one of my favorites and it's Australian) and he laughed and said that he did. :)They brought our line inside so we wouldn't have to stand out in the cold and then they told us that we were going to be on the front row because of our enthusiasm! Heck yes!!! Greg and I were in the front row, 4 seats from the left middle aisle and I could have literally propped my feet up on the stage! It was awesome!
Dave came out before the show started and joked around with us for a minute and some lady asked him a "Stump the Band" question. Out of ALL the things to ask David Letterman she asked a "Stump the Band" question. Really?!
The show was great! The guests were Steve Martin and Selena Gomez with a special appearance by Alec Baldwin. They did a few audience shots so maybe Greg and I will be in one of them! The episode airs tonight (Wednesday) so tune in! Or google it later!!
Yesterday was a lazy day for me. I woke up exhausted and not feeling well. I decided to skip an audition and take care of my voice so that I would be back to full speed today. It was a much needed day at home. :)
Today was a long day for me. I went to an audition 3 hours before the sign-up was supposed to begin and I was was #430 on the list. What?! Number 430? Do these people get up at 5am to come and sign-up for auditions?? The cut the list off at #500 and since there were so many of us they decided to type people out. Luckily I got "typed in" which means they wanted me to stay and sing! So I waited for 6 hours and sang. I think it went well. We'll see what happens.
While waiting for the subway today, two different people came up and asked for directions. They wanted to know about the different trains coming into the station (if they were local, if it went to a specific street, etc.), so I told them which way to go and what train to take. I am now an official New Yorker!! :)
