Just randomly went to a casting for some extras in next month Opera's "Nabucco".
I had been previously told (by choir singer friend) that showing up was all i had to do for pretty much a garanteed enlistment.
I have pretty much no theater experience. I only know one of the choir singers that invited me to come. I've been to this part of town only once in my life
40+ people show up and my friend desappears right after taking me to the entrance.
Everyone else groups up, most people here know each other and seem to be good friends.
I am trying as much as I can to suppress my perceivability for tism reasons but try to stand out at the same time for casting reasons.
Voices around say that they're looking for only EIGHT people. ouch-
Other voices add that they're looking for 4 males and 4 females. Uh-oh
We get on in the theater and on stage.
We get instructed to Act 10 actions that come around in a loop (last one precedes the first),
they will later instruct emotions to infuse the actions with.
We get 5 minutes to think of actions.
I'm currently peeing myself. Literally. I akwardly ask where the bathroom is.
Spent 3 minutes in said bathroom frantically trying to come up with enough distinct actions.
Get back on stage, do actions
Waiting.exe
Friend comes back, has not seen my performance, so has no feedback to give
(oh fuck mode activated)
More people get on stage to do more actions.
Waiting gets more intense because they keep asking for info that doesn't actually pin down who you were (just names and phone numbers)
They take a picture (which still doesn't tell you who's who)
They call back all of us.
"YOU" - director grabs my hand and one other girl's, before picking up the rest of the casted
They ask for my IBAN
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Epic the Musical AU
An au that begins after Aphrodite wins the golden apple and she shows Paris what is basically a magic video recording of Helen, telling him about his future bride.
However, in this magic video recording Helen is spending time with Penelope, and Paris goes "forget that Helen chick, I want that one."
And Aphrodite just goes with it, so instead of kidnapping Helen, Paris and Aphrodite kidnap Penelope, and a baby Telemachus to help them better control Penelope.
Odysseus is rightfully murderous, and even if he doesn't have the benefit of a treaty to get all of the Greeks on his side, he is still able to strong arm and lie his way into getting that massive army to besiege Troy and get his wife back.
And over in Troy Penelope is making the situation as insufferable for Paris as she possibly can, she will cause all of the problems until she can get back home safely with her son.
This au would be called Penelope of Troy.
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