Had an opening night performance this past Friday. Following the performance someone from the theatre space pulled me out of the crowd as I was leaving and said someone wants to meet you. I was taken to the bar to meet a producer of a film. After he explained what the project was, and after I explained what my non-availability was, he asked if I would audition the following morning, meet the director and all of this was to happen before I went on for a matinee. At midnight I received the ‘sides’, which is a part of the scrip the director wants you to be familiar with, printed them out, made notes, re-read them a number of times and went to bed. The next day, I showed up, as asked, which was two hours before my stage call time. As I was being led to the audition, the staffer who was escorting me said, “We saw you last night, and upon ‘seeing’ you really wanted to have you come in and audition for us”. What can one say but ‘thank you!’
And so I had the audition, a great lead role. A real break-through possibility.
And now I wait.
And so it goes.