My pre-audition is in less than a week, so this is crunch time to finish up any work I want to do before Monday. I keep meaning to do a write-up about my workshop last week, haven't found the time yet, but I finalized my monologue selection and cuts! I will be doing Gina's monologue from Hole In The Sky by Reed McColm and Chuck Lorre Productions #267. My monologues are in decent shape, but I know there's a lot deeper work I can do with them, and I just need to finalize memorizing the new cuts.
A girlfriend of mine died of leukemia last April. She was 26. She'd been ill with it once before, and recovered, and so, we thought, well, she'll do it again. I went to visit her in the hospital a few times, but I didn't like it--she didn't look good and the whole place was full of sick people.
Her organs started failing, and her skin got scaly, and the last time I saw her I thought, this could be it. But she said to me, "I know I won't die, Gina, because I haven't lived yet."
Well, she died. - Hole in the Sky by Reed McColm
Last weekend I went on a movie date with a very nice [gentleman]. During the coming attractions I managed to get a piece of popcorn down the wrong pipe. I started coughing. The young couple sitting to my left immediately got up and moved across the aisle. The old lady directly in front of me leapt to her feet and literally vaulted over her husband in order to sit further away from me. For some reason, I was a little miffed. But then I realized the newfound power I had. Maneuvering like a knight on a chess board, I countered their move by moving two rows down and one seat over. I looked at them. I smiled. I coughed. They were stunned. How had their simple movie outing turned into an Edgar Allan Poe short story? But it had! The old woman cried out, "Why are you doing this to us?!" I laughed and said, "Why? You want to know why? Because death, my dear woman, is the inevitable end for us all! And there is no hiding from it. Even at the AMC!" - Chuck Lorre Productions #267
Honestly, I'm more concerned about my lack of headshot, and blowout failure. I've been trying to get a decent headshot for cheap for years, and now have less than a week to succeed.
