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The audition was on my birthday, which made me feel special somehow. I was in the last audition slot of the day, because I'd had to reschedule for some reason that I forget now.

The auditions were supposed to be in groups of three, but because it was the last slot, there were only two of us. We each did our monologue* and then we were given a scenario ("husband and wife cleaning up after a dinner at which we were informed our daughter would be marrying outside of our faith") and improvised that scene. And then the audition was over. Wow. For some reason I was expecting a longer audition. The lesson (which I already knew, but it's good to remind yourself of these things) always give 110% in every moment of an audition.

* The audition notice said that we should have a prepared monolouge. All of my auditions lately have been for improv shows, so I didn't have a monologue prepared (in fact, I don't think I've ever had a prepared monologue). Shaun told me that sometimes he just improvises a monologue and pretends it's from an obscure play. I thought about doing that, but instead I went to Colin's Movie Monologue Page and printed a couple dozen monologues. Eventually I picked Chunk's "confession" monologue from The Goonies.

And, of course, I under-prepared (I think I like improv because of the whiff of danger). My girlfriend used to coach people for monologues, so obviously I didn't ask her for any help until the night before the audition.

Well, all my under-preparation must have worked. Tracy, the film's production manager assistant director, called while I was at a Playground show and offered me the part of a secondary character - "Mike Wellington", the organizer of some sort of dance festival. (I think all the primary characters have to be able to dance. At least, that's going to be my face-saving explanation to myself of why I didn't get a lead role.) She read me a character description that I immediately forgot. Is he "bold, but reserved" or "scheming, but cheerful"? I'll have to wait until my character development workshop to find out.

"World Series at Wrigley Field, from the Bleachers"

Our pick-up rehearsal last week, during our week off from the show, turned into just a get-together at Buca di Beppo. Theoretically a "working meal", it was mainly a fun time. We learned all about everyone's relationship troubles and so on. I wasn't sure that it was that productive, but it must have done some good because...

It was a great show! Sold-out/standing room only crowd! We really hit the form AND had a lot of fun. Yee-ha!

Only one week left (and then CIF down the line). Come see the show!

"A Birthday Party"

I'm really sorry the run is over already. We only had six shows, and we were just hitting our stride, I think. But it's not over - we're going back into rehearsal to keep in shape for our appearance at the Chicago Improv Festival.