Yesterday we had an auditioning masterclass where four people got to sing in different scenarios: nice panel, rushed panel, rude panel, and bored panel. The singers handled the different scenarios pretty well and then afterward we talked about resumes and audition attire. The big thing I learned about resumes (in the real world) is to not list “chorus” on your resume. Mainly because chorus is a different job than roles and that you don’t really move into roles from chorus (usually, I’m sure there are exceptions to every rule). So while I’ll keep my chorus stuff on my resume for now (because it would be basically empty without it) I’ll be looking to take it off as soon as I possibly can. Then with audition attire it was nothing new to me, nothing too short, and nothing too high. The usual.
Afterwards I went to this little Chinese restaurant to grab some lunch and I had the BEST beef and broccoli with steamed rice. My only complaint was that I like my rice a little stickier (it was a little bit dry) but the beef and broccoli was soooooo good.
Then we had our two run throughs of The Tales of Hoffmann. The cast where I sing Antonia’s Mother and Stella went first and it went really well considering it was our first run thru. It really didn’t crash or need to stop except for scene changes. My scene went well, not as phenomenal as yesterday, but for the first time being in a totally new space it went well. The hall is nice, a little bigger than Bryan Recital Hall (in regards to seats) and a smaller stage than Kobacker, but still a decent size stage with a lot of wing space. It’s a little strange to sing in, and I’m glad that we had a day to get used to how it feels to sing up there. People say the hall is a bit dry (and I disagree!!! But then again…I’m used to Bryan and Kobacker…) but you really feel like your voice isn’t projecting, like you can’t hear yourself at all on stage and it feels like you aren’t resonating at all. So it’s really important to trust the hall and your voice to work together. And from the audience it sounds GREAT it’s just very strange to those on stage, and I had trouble hearing the other people on stage during my trio, but I think it’s just going to take getting used to on how the trio will sound to us, and how it will sound in the audience.
The other cast got a chance to run theirs afterwards (and for this I sing in the chorus) and it was sort of the same thing, it didn’t crash and burn at all, just minor set changing things and people getting used to a new environment. But all and all both casts did REALLY well considering that these were our first full run throughs of the entire show and they were in a different space than where we’ve been rehearsing.
Afterwards I walked home and then talked to my parents for a little bit and went to bed. My evenings tend to be pretty boring because I was doing stuff from 11am until 9pm so I’m pretty exhausted. We have two more run throughs today and then two more on Sunday and then a day off!!! We have to go in on Sunday because I guess there is a mandatory holiday in Canada on Monday so we’ll get that day off and will be incredibly tired from going 7 days in a row. But even though I’m tired I am having a great time and while I’m at rehearsals I usually forget that I’m tired because I’m having such a great time, and I can’t say that I’m tired, because I can only imagine how tired the two Hoffmann’s are getting.
Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die.
This is how I plan to die
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