Missing an Audition
I hate missing an audition. If memory serves me right, there is an audition for West Side Story today and I should be there. Why am I missing it? Work. I am that desperate for money that I had to take the job rather than jump on the audition bandwagon. This sucks. This happened to me another time years ago when they did a typing for “Wicked.” I was typed in. but then I had to leave because I had to go to work. It sucks when these money things get in the way. I wish there was a job that was more flexible and paid a lot more. I could use the dinero. When I miss an audition for a show that is really right for me, I feel like I am not putting in my 100 percent for what I want to do. I feel like I am getting lost in the life of the city and put myself at risk of forgetting why I am here in the first place. I am here to perform. I am not here to cater or babysit. That’s what I have to do to make money. I don’t like the jobs because they have nothing to do with performing and I don’t want people to remember me as a caterer or a babysitter. No, I am a performer. I wish I could be at that audition and I am jealous of those who get to be there.
