Wednesday in NYC

I got up at 7am this morning for my second audition! This one was further uptown but started sign-ups at 9am so I needed to get there earlier to get a decent time slot for my audition. It was an audition for a new musical called "Silver Dollar." It was open to both equity and non-equity actors so I knew there would probably be a lot of people at the audition.

So I got up, got ready, and ate breakfast. While I was eating breakfast our slacker "super" finally showed up to fix our AC and the drains in the bathroom. It was 8am and my two roommates were still asleep. He rang the doorbell like crazy and I wouldn't have guessed there was a grown man ringing the bell. I opened the door and there was this bumbling mumbling burly man with a thick accent. Apparently, that's the super of my building. Yikes.

I warned my previously sleeping roommate that he was coming to fix the AC, so she woke up early. Nice. Can I just say this goof was supposed to come YESTERDAY morning "between 9 and 10am" as HE SAID he would. He never showed! But how nice of him to finally show up a day late and an hour earlier. Seriously. Needless to say, the AC still isn't working and the drains aren't draining. Yay.

Ok, on to the good stuff. I got to the audition site on west 54th and was the 40th person to sign-up. I got an audition time in the 11am hour and waited around and warmed up before then. I was a little put off when I noticed the only people they were calling back from earlier time slots were tiny blond girls. Uh, I would've sworn the character breakdown didn't call for only small blonds. Who knows?

I went in to the audition room, it was this great big rehearsal room with three people at a table on the opposite end of the room. There was an amazing view of the city directly behind them that was only slightly distracting.

I gave the best audition I could with 16 bars of "Children Will Listen" from Into the Woods. It went very well. The accompanist was great. Thank God. The auditioners were very nice and complimentary of my voice. I appreciated that. They asked me about some of my previous roles and then the audition was over.

Shall I even say it? I didn't get called back. Guess who did? Yep, the little blonds. haha. Oh well, at least I know it wasn't because my singing was bad. All in all, another good audition experience. Wow; two for two, not bad.

Alright, next I took the subway to Union Square. I really like Union Square. There's always something going on there. Today there was a huge farmers' market. It was great! It was your typical farmers' market with lots and lots of fresh (relatively) cheap produce. I did a little shopping. And a little sampling.

Next I made a stop over at the Union Square Trader Joe's. I love me some Trader Joe's. haha.
The great thing about this store is that even though it's in the heart of NYC it's priced just like it is in Oregon.(And in some cases, it's cheaper here!) I was so relieved. I can't keep dropping tons of money on groceries. So I didn't. I got all sorts of good stuff for 16 bucks. Thank God for Trader Joe's.

Only down side to Trader Joe's in Union Square: it's about a 20 minute commute from where I'm staying. I was afraid to buy frozen food. I did anyway and it survived the long, hot commute. I think.

Next I ate a late lunch, watched part of "Never Been Kissed," and went to the gym. I like it there. It's my air-conditioned mecca. haha.

Let see, the rest of the day....I basically just looked up more auditions. I'm on a roll!