Saturday, February 18 I had my audition to get into the school of performing arts for the University of Houston. I decided that I if I was going to take acting lessons, I might as well try and get financial aid for it. I figured it wouldn't be too hard to get in because I didn't think there was a huge demand for that masters program. I was given about two months to prepare, but of course I don't do things until the very last minute. Just this past week I was actually spending time trying to find good monologues and I picked a song to sing the night before. To be completely honest, I haven't been doing much since the pilot. Yes, I've been submitting myself for auditions but I have only attended two auditions and for those who allowed me to send a video submission, I have not done at all. I'm very disappointed in myself. I've been totally slacking. The reason? Nintendo Wii!!! Yes, that's right, Super Mario has been hogging all my time lately. It's so embarrassing, I know.
Anyway, both the auditions I attended went well. I went to one last Sunday (Feb. 13) but I have not heard anything back. The other one, I was supposed to go back there on Monday to drop off my head shot and resume but I ran out of money and I couldn't print a head shot. I finally got some income this past Friday so I made sure to print several head shots. This was an important one too but I was being stupid. I wonder if I can still try and submit it. I should try.
Well, back to the main subject, I had to pick one comedic and one dramatic monologue for my audition to UH. After much searching, I finally came across the perfect monologue for someone my age and that I could actually remember. It's about a girl who is talking to her friend about how guys are dumb for not calling girls back right away. It was pretty funny. I'm thinking of taping myself and uploading it as a reel. The dramatic one was the same one I've used for my acting class, the one from Cruel Intentions (don't think I had mentioned about it here before but my acting coach really likes it). For the song, I finally narrowed it down to two songs with the help of my sister: One Night Only and Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word. I also burned one of my belly dance songs in case they asked me to perform something else.
I went to sleep at around 1am and had to be up at 6am. Bad bad bad me! In the morning I took a quick shower and got ready surprisingly fast. I made it to campus early with enough time to register and make a new friend which made me feel so much more comfortable. Looking around, the people were not as intimidating as I thought they would be. Some people were so unprepared for the audition. They obviously skipped through the email because on the email it said to bring clothes that you could dance with but these people came in slacks and button up shirts. This made me feel so much better! Also, the fact that I have a head shot that's from an actual professional photographer was a plus. Some people didn't.
The group exercises were so much fun! We did a bunch of stuff, from jumping around, running, stretching, making weird noises to break the ice, balancing, reading out loud together, and so much more. It really did help take the attention away from the nervousness of auditioning. If only my audition had been right after all of those exercises! Well, we finished with these at around 11am and my individual appointment was at noon. The girl I met there asked me if I wanted to go back with her to her dorm so we could practice and get something to eat, so we did. As we talked mentioned that someone told her that they were only accepting 5 students. FIVE STUDENTS!!! I completely freaked! I had the idea that they were pretty much going to accept everyone with a few exceptions! Crap crap crap! At least now I knew exactly what I was competing for.
I changed, ate some chicken nuggets, practiced my monologue and my song, and I was on my way. Oh yeah, when I asked that girl what song she was performing, she said that she wasn't because she couldn't sing. I told her that everyone was supposed to sing a song but she said she wasn't going to. Anyway, I went back to the building for my audition and took a few minutes to prepare. I still had about ten more minutes when they asked me if I wanted to go in. I just wanted to get it over with before I got nervous so I went for it. I think I did pretty good. Throughout my comedic monologue, they were laughing the whole time so that was good. I saw good responses from everyone. Then, they asked me to sing and I did and they looked pleased. They then started asking me different questions like what kind of characters would I like to play and what were my weaknesses and things like that. It seemed that I was answering everything right. For my biggest accomplishment I told them that I danced onstage with Shakira and they were so excited. Now that I think about it I could have come out with like three different answers but oh well.
For the most part, I think everything went well. I didn't get nervous, surprisingly, and if I did it went with my monologue anyway. A few hours later I got a call from the girl I met and she said that she thinks she could have done so much better because she got very nervous. But she said she was able to cry (Ugh!). That's something I have not mastered yet in acting. I was so jealous. I'm sure just for that they'll get her. I really need to work on that. I wasn't able to see the other people audition so I really don't know what I'm up against, but we'll just going to have to wait.
On a different subject, we got some bad news on Friday (Of course). I'm not trying to be selfish or anything like that because this is far more important than any thing that I do. I'm just pointing out the irony of the things that happen every time I got something going on. On Friday we were told that one of my aunt's cancer has gotten worse and she's in the hospital dying. She only has a few days left. This was a huge shock. She just found out about the cancer in December and they did surgery on her. Now all of a sudden she is dying. It's so sad. We are trying to go to Miami (that's where she is at) but we are just waiting to see if my sister gets days off from work. If you read this, please keep her in your prayers. She is going through a lot of pain. =(
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