Will I Ever Be Seen?
97 degrees. That was the temperature on this big audition day. The Fulton Theatre was holding auditions for Oklahoma. They had both a singer call and a dancer call in the same day. It was being held at AEA (the Equity building in New York). I am not in the union, but I was going to try to get in anyhow. The place was packed with union people as soon as the doors opened for the unfortunate nonunions to be seen. The air conditioning in the building was not working, so everyone was baking. It quickly drained me of any energy I had. I was ready to call it quits for the day from how exhausted I was from the morning. I waited three hours (or more) to learn The Fulton would not see any nonunion performers. I left my headshot and resume at 11:30am. Since I had the time, I traveled to Chelsea Studios, another audition spot in New York to sign up for Papermills production of Oklahoma (another union audition). I forgot to mention that as soon as I had signed up for The Fulton, I traveled to Chelsea Studios to sign up for Papermill … and then traveled back to wait on The Fulton (yes, it was a lot of back and forth traveling in the heat). Back to the story … so there I was at Chelsea Studios … for the second time. I was relieved to be sitting in the air-conditioning. I had to go outside in the wretched heat to get lunch. This may not seem like a big deal, but trust me, it was rough. My body was drained and the heat just kept taking and taking energy that I didn’t even know I had left. At 3:30pm, though still waiting to audition for Papermill, I headed to AEA to sign up for the dance audition for Fulton’s Oklahoma that was to begin at 4pm. … blah blah blah! How did it all end? Papermill typed me out by looking at my headshot so I never got to sing and I was too drained to find the energy to travel back to The Fulton’s dance auditions, let - alone trying to dance and mentally absorb a dance combination. I was a goner.
So, after the long day of auditioning, I was never seen. Man, that was a rough day.
