So, I am heavily involved in my school’s musical theatre program (obviously)! I was Louissa VonTrapp in Sounds of Music my freshman year and last year I toughed out High School Musical with a crappy part (which I think of as more of an accomplishment than an awesome part in an awesome show!) and this year I am an upperclassman and we are doing Thoroughly Modern Millie. Ugh, I want to be Millie so bad it hurts! I feel like I’ve earned it and I am definitely the most talented singer in that department.

            Auditions for Millie were this past week. I did mine on Tuesday, the earliest day I could have and I nailed them! Callback list came up on Thursday and I was called back for Millie, Dorothy and Muzzy. My two best friends in the department also got called back for Millie. I sort of saw it coming, but I still was nervous about the situation.

            Anyway, Callbacks were yesterday. The very first song they heard us sing was Muzzy’s song. It was the one I was least familiar with, least prepared for and the one I thoroughly impressed people on. We hold out this belted G for about 8 measures at a pretty slow tempo and I was one of the only girls who could hold it that long. When the callbacks were over, I had a lot of people come up to me and say “I had no idea you could sing like that.” I was glad I did well, but at the same time, I wished I hadn’t. I don’t really want that part! The next song we sang was Dorothy’s song and it was fine. They had us sing the song and then vocalize up to an E6 just to see how high we could go. All the other girls could do that, too, so I didn’t feel too special! Then we did the Millie song, “Forget About the Boy.” It was the one I new best, but I was also most nervous for. I did really well, but not amazing. That was one I wish I could have redone.

            Then we did some cold reads. Everything was great up until my scene with Jimmy. The person they had me reading with was an awful actor. It was hard to feed off of and there was no chemistry. I hope they take into consideration that I was slightly handicapped with and terrible counterpart when they are casting. I know last year they practically cast the whole show based on chemistry.

            The dancing was next and it was fine. I am not the greatest tapper in the world since I’ve only been taking since the beginning of the summer. But they know I’ve been working hard on it and I’m a fast learner.

            The cast list goes up on Monday and I am going to be nervous until it does! I’ll tell you guys the results as soon as I can!