Audition report--

• February 25, 2000
  

• "Mysteries of 71st Street"
  
• cd Junie Lowry-Johnson
  
• Aud for HARRY

I have to admit that I pretty much wrote this one off.

• I usually have no luck with hour-long dramas. Even when I feel like an audition has gone well, I almost never get called back for guest star roles on such shows, let alone lead roles.
  

• I got the material late last night and didn't have time to read the whole script. I managed to read 3 or 4 pages before each of the two scenes.
  
• I had two other auditions to go on today. I didn't get to really prepare the sides for this audition because I was working on this morning's Yes Dear audition.
  
• The lead character is most appropriately is his late-30s. Late-30s. I like to think that I'm pushing it when I play late-20s.

So all indicators pointed in the opposite direction. I expected to walk into the room, read the scene, and have already been dismissed by whomever was in there by about my third line.

I was wrong.

The first scene started off very well. I had spent the past hour preparing the two little scenes and I had them just about down. By about the third line, the writer and producer gave an appreciative laugh at what I was doing. How about that? A laugh at an hour-long audition. I guess I had overlooked the possibility of a show being an hour-long and actually kind of cute and funny. And that's just how the scene evolved as I sat there performing it. It was very fun.

The second scene was more serious but in contrast to the first it worked very well. I was familiar enough with the script to know that my character was getting frustrated and that played against his level-headedness in the first scene. So they liked it. They really liked it.

In fact, the scenes were short enough and I did well enough that they want be back next Monday morning for a 'work session.' That's great but part of me still fears that I have only temporarily fooled them into thinking I am right for this role, and after they spend some time with me Monday morning, they are going to realize their mistake. I just need to fool this handful of people for about another half-hour of total work session/audition time and I have a shot at this job.

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