Biz of the biz

I had a big day today.  First I had a bunch of largely productive callbacks for Midsummer.  

Then I went to my first real theater audition in more than five years.    It was an interesting experience. I think I did well.  I tried to prepare better than I did the last time I did this.   This comes from watching so many hundreds of auditions over the last 5 years.  I had never realized before what a difference it made when people weren't well prepared.  I mean, it didn't always make a huge difference to see somebody come off book, though you can't help but be appreciative of the effort. But it always made a difference in the level of detail they brought to the reading, and their ability to take take adjustments and actually do something with them.

So I tried to be really ready.  Even though it's been a while, I've been in this business long enough to know it's out of my hands now.  I enjoyed it, now it's over.  Of course, we'll see how it goes when I start doing these a lot more and start feeling the percentages again.

That's probably the toughest adjustment I have to make.  I've been pretty used to not having to audition for a really long time now, I'm afraid I'm spoiled.  I loved it, and kind of started thinking it was my right being where I was in my career.  So I have to keep reminding myself that Alvin Epstein is still auditioning for stuff at 85, and get off my freakin' high horse...

Anyway, very tired after the audition, which lasted over two hours (that would be a good sign, except it lasted that long for everybody), so now I'm chilling, cleaning up the kitchen and relaxing to my Boards of Canada station on finetune.com.