I
accidentally scheduled a dental clean-up for the same day as this. I showed up
to the audition feeling fine, but worried that my teeth looked pink.
There
was one serious-looking actor ahead of me. When his turn came, he let me go
ahead of him because he wasn’t ready. Dude wasn’t doing his monologue out loud
but internally. Whatever.
I did my
monologue from “Candid”. I felt fine doing it. The one guy behind the table
laughed a few times. The two women smiled pleasantly. When I woke up the next
day, I found the standard “Thanks, but no thanks” email on my phone. For some
reason, this hurt a little more than other rejections. I can’t explain it.
Post
script – a week later, the same show put another audition notice online for a
role in the show that was either suddenly available again/never cast in the
first place. Ouch.
