Gone Audition Fishing

I spent today online searching for more auditions and planning out my schedule for the next few weeks. There are a number of auditions coming up at the end of October, which is very exciting! I'm going to Chicago at the end of this week, (for Pizza Month) - but thankfully, this trip won't be interfering with any of the Equity calls that I want to attend.

When fishing for auditions, I like to go through the calls and email them to myself so that I have the list handy whenever and where ever I am. Then I enter all of the info for each call into my Trio: Time, Place, what to prepare, what to wear, etc.
I don't know where I would be without my phone. I blog on my phone too.

I have a good idea of what I'm going to sing for these next few auditions, but I'm also working on a few more songs that are new to my repertoire like "You're Gonna Dance With Me, Willie" to broaden my horizon of possibilities. I'm looking forward to my next voice lesson on the 24th so that we can prepare a few more things for these upcoming auditions!

This evening I read over the first draft of the script for a fun Halloween show I'm doing at the Magnet, called The Paul Lynde 1977 Halloween Special. I'm playing Charo, which is going to be a riot, I'm sure. She's the best kind of character one can imagine. I know firsthand because I met her a few years ago on a visit to Vegas with my parents. I spotted her as she was waiting to be seated at a swank casino night club with her entourage of beautiful, twenty-something gays.
"Excuse me," I said to one of her posse, "Could we get a picture with Charo?"
"Sure!" he said.
A tiny 4' 10" (in heels) bundle of energy bopped over to us.
"Sure! Sure! I take a picture!" beamed Charo.
She was adorable.
"Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!" she kept shouting.

Merry Christmas indeed!