Friday, December 13, 2019

STAGED READINGS OF MOVIE COMEDIES - OCTOBER 2016


The company responded to my email request by simply stating that auditions were between 2 and 6 on a Saturday. No specific time, which slightly bugged me. Whatever.

I recall the place when I show up. It used to be a speakeasy in the 20s, but when I visited it half a decade ago it was an antique mart. It’s been reinvented as a speakeasy again.

The guy at the check-in desk asks me to pick a time slot on a piece of paper to audition in. I pick the soonest available time.

I don’t recognize any of the handful of other actors waiting there. But that’s because most of them – according to the conversations I’m overhearing – are recent transplants to the city. This depresses me for a few microseconds for some reason.

I go in and do my “Candid” monologue for two women. They chuckle a bit. As I’m leaving one of them asks if I had a preference for the movies they are doing (The Princess Bride or Christmas Vacation). I tell her “Either/or.”
Ten days later, I got the “No thanks” email.

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