We had a very exciting week last week all the way around. First, Angelle auditioned a couple weeks ago for her high school musical, "Shrek", and got the part of teen Fiona. She is very happy about her part!
Then Angelle and I auditioned for Rocky Horror at the Waterloo Community Playhouse. Angelle is perhaps a bit too young for this show, so she didn't get cast, but gets to be a "planted" audience member with some fun things to do interacting with the Usherette at the beginning and helping the audience with their parts. I got a call back and am thrilled to announce that I got the part of the "Narrator". It is a fabulous cast and I am so excited and honored to be able to work on this great and fun show! Performances are scheduled for the end of January with opening night on the 20th. I hope you'll come, but leave the kids at home for this one!
Years ago Angelle was represented by a talent/modeling agency in Des Moines. She got a couple of auditions, but I don't think she ever got an actual job through them back then, so we kind of let the photos and contracts lapse. I still get e mails from the agency, though, and got e mails about a TV comedy series show being shot in Des Moines. They needed high school age extras so I submitted both Angelle and her friend, Jessica. They got to go to Des Moines on Sunday to be extras. It was a bit overwhelming for them at first and they felt like the new kids who didn't quite fit in. They got into wardrobe then waited around for a few hours. Some of the extras got to do a "walk by" in the background of one scene, but not them. However, they were two of four extras asked to stay for awhile while they sent the rest of the extras home. That was pretty exciting for them to be asked to stay. They waited around for quite awhile, then were told they were not needed and they were able to leave, but would still get paid. Even though they didn't get any camera time, they had fun and were happy they were getting paid for it. Well, they were asked back again for this weekend. They will go be extras for sure on Sunday and hopefully get some camera time. If they can use them Saturday afternoon, they will go then, too.
After the day of waiting around as extras, they changed back into their street clothes in the wardrobe trailer. Then another actor stopped us as we were walking back to our van because his car wouldn't start and he wondered if we had the time to give his car a jump. Turns out he had the jumper cables, so I pulled "Vanessa", the vanpyr, around to where his car was and with a little google searching and call to his grandparents, we got his car started. It always feels good to be able to help other people. It was also fun to talk with someone who has had a little bit more experience with being a screen actor.
We were hungry after the long day so ate at our favorite place, "Zombie Burger". Yum!!
So, it looks like I'm going to be pretty busy for the next two months learning my long narrator lines and going to rehearsal. I didn't get to be in a show at all last year because of directing the UNI Children's Chorus, so I am really excited to do this one. Tonight is Krampusnacht, so I hope you've been good. Tomorrow is St. Nicholas Day. Do something nice for someone!
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