I will talk about Monday the 10th. That Sunday I was looking at Craigslist (yes, Craigslist) and I saw this amazing gig. It is a series for some local musician and they were casting roles and one of them was a Mermaid role. It is a $1200 paying gig! So of course I wanted to do it, plus mermaids are tight. I called the guy and he said where to meet on Monday. I don't understand it but in NY most of the auditions I have gone to have taken place at nighttime. This one being an example. It STARTED at 7pm! So as usual, I get way lost getting there and have random people tell me directions and Mandie on the phone with me guiding me to the location. I finally arrive and there is a room full of other actresses auditioning for this role. I sign in and look around for a place to sit.
This audition was unusual because it didn't take place in some professional office like most auditions I have gone to. No...it took place at a bar. MacMenamus to be exact at Seaport. Some popular place to go near the seaside for restaurants and merchants.
Now when I left the house, I felt pretty attractive. I styled my makeup so it looked ethereal and light, almost pixie like. I also style my hair so it'd be long and wavy-like how you'd see typical mermaids. I basically looked up Ariel and mimicked her style. I also wore a purple top (Ariel wore purple seashells :P)
However, in NY right the the humidity is at it's prime and people pretty much walk everywhere unless they are ballers and have enough money to have a car or have enough money to pay for taxis. Well I am poor and need to stretch my money so after I took the metro in the general area I wanted to walk there because Hopstop (east coast's version of Mapquest) said it'd be less than a 10 minute walk. I figured that wasn't bad. Of course though it wouldn't go smoothly like that. I get WAY lost. The 10 minute walk ended up being 45 minutes. By the time I finally found the joint I felt like a sweaty, sloppy mess. However, I kept repeating $1200 in my mind and it kept me going.
After I signed in I gandered around the room to find a place to sit. I see a stool open at the bar between two girls and decide to seize it. To my left was an attractive, young girl next door type and to my right was a fiery, attractive, kick your ass kind of girl. Sara was to my left and Lyric (Melissa) was to my right. Immediately we decided to break the ice and we are all talking. I felt like these two girls were my conscious. Sara was the sweet angelic one but wasn't naive about life. Lyric was the bad girl who felt you conquer the world with pepper spray and your fist. I loved it! We looked at each others resumes and headshots, complimented one another and talked about our backgrounds. Sara was a native New Yorker and Lyric came here from another country (she never said where) and lo and behold she moved from Phoenix too! However, her move was a while ago. Lyric was seriously hilarious to me. She was hard knock and yet so adorable at the same time. She had my rolling the entire time and Sara said that she ought to go into stand up comedy. I truly think she'd do well. She is like a female Dave Chappelle! She was immediately sniffing me out and telling me I need to act more hardcore or else I will get eaten up here. She said my niceness is evident and I need to harden or else I will be taken advantage of. Hahaha. I felt that perhaps she was over assuming and I told her about my encounter with the douche bag brah's from the metro the other night and she told me I shouldn't have wasted my breath with them. I should have just looked them in the eye and them 'pepper sprayed their ass'. Literally! Everything I would say she'd say forget it, you have too much of a pretty face to get it messed up-pepper spray their ass! It was her quote of the night and probably of the year. It's like the phrase at my old job at Ajo Al's "Dude what's up!". Then I found out Lyric was on a reality television show called The Bad Girls in season 2! SHE TOTALLY WAS! I went home and looked her up and that girl will cut you. Beware. So while Lyric was educating me how to kick ass in NY, Sara was educating me about how to make my mark via performing. She told me about local agencies and websites to check out and how to improve my resume. East coast resumes are totally different than west coast.
I really liked those two girls. They were nice in their own way and helpful. :) I got their info, I need to contact them. I am pretty bad with that stuff though. I mean, I have to write down to call my father for goodness sakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPJyV-WR7mg
In the background there was this feel good positive bohemian hippie DJ. She wore really cool layers and had her hair long and wrapped in a flowy scarf. She was tiny in frame and smelt like patchouli. I watched her with curiosity and briefly exchanged words with her but it wasn't anything in depth-she was working. When it was my turn to meet the casting director Jac, he too had a similar style going on. I think he was Jamaican but he almost had a French accent. He wore look capri style pants and a plain tee with a bean bag looking cap. When he met me he was instantly writing good remarks and said three stars would be a perfect score. Problem is, he had a few other girls with three stars as well and he would have to narrow it down. I called him today which is Saturday and he said he needs to call back tomorrow. As for the DJ woman, that was his wife! I should've guessed it. How cool though, I would love with work in the business with my partner, ya know? How easy and great.
Anyway, by the time I made it home it was well after 11pm. I was so exhausted with everything; train rides, auditioning, audition seeking and having two strong characters entertain me that I pretty much fell asleep when I got home.
New York is great!
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