I've taken a few months off from musical theater after doing Beauty and the Beast last December, but I started getting stage hungry again this month. I noticed auditions for Sound of Music were coming up, and although I've never really wanted to be in Sound of Music, I really missed being on stage. I began working on an audition when about a week and a half ago I got an email about auditions for the Best of Disney. I knew they were going to be doing the Best of Disney, but last year they didn't hold auditions, so I just figured it wasn't an open audition. I was much more excited about the Disney production, but I would only have 3 days to put an audition together.
After talking with Ben, he convinced me to go ahead and try. There were a lot of good things about doing the Disney show instead of Sound of Music. The rehearsals for the Disney show are only going to be 3 weeks vs. 3 months for Sound of Music and there are only 2 weeks of shows vs. 1 month of shows.
I decided to sing "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes". The directors liked the song and cast me right there as Cinderella. I was excited because this song was much different from the songs I usually chose to sing.
They told me they would email me a schedule and cast list in a few days. Imagine my surprise when I opened the email and it had me cast as Meg from Hercules. I emailed them to double check if I should be working on "I Won't Say I'm In Love" instead and they emailed me back that they had in fact changed me to Meg.
At first I was a little disappointed because the Cinderella song was so different for me, but now I'm really excited about the Meg song. Her song is a really fun song, and it is also pretty different from what I usually sing. I'm used to singing Rogers and Hammerstein kind of stuff, so this spunky song is really going to be fun. Plus I get to have some of my friends be the Muses with me.
In all honesty I really don't look like Cinderella and look much more like Meg (minus the size 0 waist). I'm relieved I don't have to figure out how I'm going to be blond and not look awful! Besides I hear glass slippers are a killer to dance in.
3 comments:
Congratulations! I bet your kids will love seeing that show- with all their favorite Disney characters. I'm sure you'll do great.
I have to say that I'm very impressed!
How exciting! Congratulations. I forget where you guys are now and when is the performance and all that? I thought you were in Provo, but that might have been a while ago. We just moved here to Utah from LA and are staying in temporary housing until we get everything settled away. You gotta email me and give me the details if you are close. I'd love to come!
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