First Play Audition in 45 Years Pt. 2

So, I've heard back about my audition last night at the University of Georgia for The Importance of Being Earnest, where it was the first time I had auditioned for a school play since I was 17 years old. I'm 62, and a student now at the University of Georgia studying theater, which is what I wanted to major in when I was 17 years old, but I got talked out of it.

Now I'm back, and I'm doing this for 17-year-old me. So I went in last night, and it was very professional. They had student volunteers that checked us in. I had a time slot that I had signed up for and had to wait my turn. I walked in and handed them my headshots and resumes. They had three directors in the room because they're casting for three spring productions, and you could pick which one you wanted to audition for. And I said my name and that I was auditioning for Miss Prism.

We'd all been asked to prepare two monologues and there are only three female characters that they're casting for, and the other two are very young, (eighteen and I think twenty to twenty-five or twenty to thirty). And I picked the one that was in her twenties because I thought maybe that was better than the eighteen-year-old.

And so the big thing is I told myself before I got there that I was not gonna chicken out. I was gonna stick with it. I was gonna do it. I was gonna give it my all. I was gonna do a hundred percent of my performance, even the British accent that I had been practicing. I have no training in a British accent whatsoever. I can do a Southern accent, but I had no training in British dialect. And so I told myself, "Don't chicken out. When you get in there, you give it your all," because I don't know if you're like me, but there have been times in my past when I have practiced a speech that I was gonna give to my boss to ask for a raise or to ask for a promotion, and then you, you go in there, and you're gonna be assertive. You're gonna say the things, and then you pull back a little because you get nervous. But I did it!

And now we wait.