The Boards, Thursday [Auditions!]

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Thursday meant that the same sign was up on the door:

AUDITIONS
Petey Sci-Fi Talky Picture

January 8th and 12th, 2012
(That means today!)

Rehearsals Sundays and Thursdays
through March 22nd, inclusive.
Performance Friday, March 23rd!

Please be prepared to perform
both a song and a monologue.
Monologues and songs available
if you do not have your own.

(Songs and monologues do not
need to be from the show.)

Adults welcome!

Come one, come all, and audition for one of the best shows on Earth! Troy was just going to be over here, amused that he hadn't noticed any odd singing yesterday -- because it's not like it was odd for him to be singing.

Comments

Arrive/Mingle/Drink Tea

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Because, really, at this point the tea was tradition!

Re: Arrive/Mingle/Drink Tea

[wasthecuteone]

Ooh, tea. Petra could definitely use some tea.

Re: Arrive/Mingle/Drink Tea

[whenshewasnice]

There'd come a point in Natalie's day-long career as a fast food server when she just didn't want to take it anymore. So, she'd swapped her uniform for some heels and weather-inappropriately skimpy clothes, and she'd grabbed her guitar, and now she was here.

Looking way, way confident. And maybe a little like there should have been a wind machine blowing at her.

Re: Arrive/Mingle/Drink Tea

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

As if Gabrielle would turn down tea. She'd developed quite the taste for it while in India.

She wasn't really sure what she was auditioning for, but she'd told Jono she wanted to get more involved in the arts on the island, so here she was. Drinking tea, and psyching herself up mentally.

Re: Arrive/Mingle/Drink Tea

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley had been invited to audition by Jono. She'd entertained the notion of being a model for a time, but an actress wasn't really ever something she'd seriously considered.

But she'd try, just to have something else to do. It wasn't like she didn't spend a lot of time dressed up as someone else to do strange things as it was.

So she'd arrived, and grabbed a cup of tea.

Re: Arrive/Mingle/Drink Tea

[zetabetabrat.livejournal.com]

Rebecca wasn't normally a big theater person -- actually, whenever her father dragged her out to the theater, she consistently did an excellent job of not letting on how very bored to tears she was -- but she'd happened to look this one up. And she'd promptly ascertained that it would probably do an excellent job of pissing off her dad. So, you know. That could be fun.

In the meantime, she scoped out her competition future supporting actors. And she was a rebel and sipped the espresso she'd brought herself instead of taking the tea they had available. Because she was just that cool.

Re: Arrive/Mingle/Drink Tea

[gastronomistic]

Vincent needed something to do was a big fan of Petey Sci-Fi, and couldn't help but stop by to see how things were going.

He got a cup of tea -- turning it down would just be rude! -- and settled in to watch.

Re: Arrive/Mingle/Drink Tea

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

Hanna wanted a distraction from stuff at home. What better distraction than the stage? Besides, she'd been in a play last year and had fun with it.

So here she was sipping tea as she waited to audition.

Audition

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One or both of the directors will provide feedback! You may start with either your monologue or your song. If you need a monologue or a song, one will be provided for you!

[And as much as you can give us to work with, please! The more detail you provide, the better sense we have of your character's skill, talent, and range. :D ]

Re: Audition

[wasthecuteone]

Petra took a break from work to go audition, and stepped up to the microphone to say, "Hey, guys, how's it going?" rather cheerfully.

Re: Audition

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie stated her name as she got on stage. Of course, they might have to resort to consulting squirrels to find out her actual name, since the one she gave sounded suspiciously like a French cheese combined with a Scandinavian last name.

But her name was so not the point, here. "Now, I'm going to start with a song," she declared, which was exactly what she did. With a guitar and everything. "Yeah, she said 'Get outta my way cause I'm going somewhere, this is not where I wanna be' --"

It was exactly like the video except she looked older a bubbly, fun, energetic performance, and it was... so not something Natalie would've done without a little gremlin help.

Re: Audition

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley got up on stage and cleared her throat. "My name is Hayley Fitzpatrick," she introduced. "Should I just start or should I wait for a signal or something?"

Re: Audition

[zetabetabrat.livejournal.com]

Rebecca's oh-so stylish boots clicked loudly against the stage as she made her way up to introduce herself.

"Hello," she said faux-brightly. She was excellent at faking chipperness, okay. "I'm Rebecca Logan. My monologue is from Harboring Ill Intentions."

The classiest movie ever. Fo' sho.

Rebecca cleared her throat, and when she began her monologue, it was in a sugar-sweet voice, and she took a few purposeful steps toward the front of the stage. "Silly rabbit," she purred. "My triumph isn't over her. It's over you." She paused meaningfully, twirling a strand of hair around her finger in about as sexy a manner as she knew how. "You were," she said, "very much in love with her. And you're still in love with her. But it amused me to make you ashamed of it."

Rebecca paused to strut across the stage like she owned it, because that was what hot evil people did, okay.

"You gave up," she continued, "on the first person you ever loved -- because I threatened your reputation. Don't you get it? You're just a toy, meta for Sebastian. A little toy that I like to play with. And now you've completely blown it with her!" Rebecca tossed her hair and flashed a fake, but nonetheless winning, smile. It didn't look very different from her usual fake smile, actually. "I think," she pronounced, emphasizing each word for strong individual effect, "it's the saddest thing I've ever heard."

Another strut across the stage, and then she mimed raising a glass. "Cheers," she said, and smiled.

And Jono and Troy could just be very, very grateful that she'd left out the dirty part of the monologue. Very. Grateful.

Re: Audition

[gastronomistic]

"Oh goodness, it's just all girls out here, isn't it?" Vincent noted. This was entirely the reason why he'd gotten up the guts to even audition.

Petey Sci-Fi had to have a guy in it somewhere, after all.

Re: Audition

[new-it-girl.livejournal.com]

When it was her turn, Hanna got on to the stage. Smiling, she said, "Hi. I'm Hanna Marin. Should I do the monologue or song first?"

Re: Audition

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

Cindy had really fond memories of when Petey Sci-Fi had opened, and had decided to try out. It sounded like fun and the sleepover last week had reminded her just how much she enjoyed socializing.

"Jon," she said with a smile. "And...Troy, right?"

[Have the death, so I'm pinging in, but this will prolly be the only ping for tonight.

Re: Audition

[nohattrick.livejournal.com]

Now that Trick was a) convinced that no one was going to murder him for Portalocity shenanigans, and b) recovered sufficiently from the holiday rush, he'd decided to start seeing more of the town.

How that had led to him wandering in and auditioning? Well, he'd always had something of a dramatic side, okay?

[Same caveat as Cindy!]

Re: Audition

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Anyone who'd ever heard Gabrielle humming to herself as she worked in the library or anything might wonder what she was doing here. No, she wasn't a great singer, to be generous, but she wanted to be supportive of this artistic endeavor, so here she was.

"I'm Gabrielle," she introduced herself, and without preamble launched into a comedic monologue she'd written herself, a long, animated soliloquy about traveling to the moon on the back of a giant rabbit.

Speak to the Directors

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Once they are pinged in and assuming the other one is here!

Re: Speak to the Directors

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Before, between, and after auditions, Troy was around for all your Troy-like needs.

Also not hungover this time.

[With the brief-and-occasional-SP!caveat mentioned in the OOC note below.]

Billy and the Techs

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Which totally sounds like an awesome band name. Get on that, selfhelphero.

For any of those who ping in!

Re: Billy and the Techs

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

Freddie had shown up to do his small part in all this. He rather liked auditions, though.

...especially when it was entirely pretty girls. But don't tell Sam, she'd probably through a ham at his head.

Re: Billy and the Techs

[selfhelphero]

Billy was here now that the post would load, working on lists of things they'd need, and lists of lists. It was kind of brain breaking and kind of awesome at the same time.

OOC

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apocalipped is at work today, but should be around tonight when she gets home, I believe; I will have a couple of brief periods of SP (including one right now, as I run an errand as soon as this goes up), but a) will ping from my phone if necessary and b) will otherwise be around all day. :D

Re: OOC

[furnaceface]

I love you guys so much I totally spent two hours battling the crappy re-routed bus system in a blizzard to get home and I'm here and pinging before thinking about grabbing blankets and whimpering into a vat of hot chocolate.