Next up, I returned to my day job for a few hours until it was time for me to dash across town to the Flatiron District for a staged reading series that I've been wanting to be apart of. Despite the blustery winds and below freezing temperatures, the event was very well attended. The way that this thing works is actors attend the cold readings and submit their headshots to the staff who then cast them in roles based on their headshots. At the end of the night, the names of the actors are read aloud and they are given scripts for which to prepare for performance at the next night of cold readings.
Three plays were read at tonight's series, the last of which was especially well written and performed. It's remarkable to see actors bring words to life from the page. It's so very different from improv. The readers were so fully committed to the piece that I was swept up in the emotion and found myself crying. It was quite wonderful.
At the end of the night, a surprise guest was presented to us all. It was Broadway star Ken Jennings of all people! Pretty cool, eh?
I was just about ready to lose consciousness, when I realized that I still had one more thing on my day's agenda. As soon as the cold reading series was over I hopped a train back across town for the final ETV run-through. This was the last time we'd all be together to rehearse our songs before the big night!
When I arrived, everyone was crammed into one of the fancy performance studios. It was really cool! I sorta felt like I was in Rock n' Roll camp or something. Everyone got up one by one and sang through their songs like true blue rock stars. Rockin' out to "Magic Man" was a magical way to end my Monday and there's no doubt about it: ETV is gonna ROCK!!!
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