Wizard of Oz

We (Jake, Dad, myself) auditioned for The Wizard of Oz today at the Fantasy Playhouse in Huntsville. The play's going to be directed by one of Dad's co-workers, Bill. Well, two days ago, Bill was saying that nobody was going to show up...

The turnout of people who auditioned for The Wizard of Oz was a record for the Fantasy Playhouse: more than 240 people. And the Playhouse has been doing plays for more than 50 years. 

But there's one downside to that amount of people. 

5 hours. 

5 HOURS.

That's how long it took to audition. Here's what we did:

First, we went to the wrong theater. Then we found the right theater. Then we had to get through a line of people to get the form things. Then we 

filled out the forms, turned them in, got a monologue (a page or paragraph of something you're supposed to say that has nothing to do with the play at all but apparently is quite important for tryouts) got a number (they called us by number when it was our turn to read the monologue) went into this room full of chairs and people, waited, waited, waited some more, waited, waited, and FINALLY, we got to read the monologue.

The thing about monologues is that they're given to you at your age level, only they're entirely random so you can't really choose what you get. The monologues you could get for this audition (by listening the other people read theirs)


ages 4-9- Something from Dr. Suess
Ages 10-14- Something from Charlie Brown (I got Peppermint Patty) or from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Ages 15-I dunno- Begging your parent to either let you have your own room or stay up late to watch something on TV, or an excuse for why you were late for school or a rant about how you get blamed for everything your sister does


Then, after we read the monologue, we had to wait...
and wait...
and wait...
and wait...
and WAIT...
Repeat fifty times...
and WAIT and then they figured out who would be who (after an hour) and then, if you were something like a Munchkin or a Flying Monkey or someone in a group, they'd call the names of you and everyone else in your group and they'd take you into this room and tell you and everyone else in your group what part you got. 


Guess what I am?


I'm a flower. Along with about seven other girls around 6-9 who were very excited that they got to be in the play (honestly so was I),  with the exception of two girls who wanted to be Munchkins, but they were told that if they wanted to try to be someone else, they'd lose the chance they'd definitely be in the play, so they decided "nah, I'll be a flower". They didn't sound too pleased about it.  
I'm also in the chorus line as a tree, since I'm much taller than the other flowers. 


Jake should get a call this week about his role.


:-)