BOOYEAH! Who just made callbacks for a show she wasn't even planning on auditioning for? Oh yeah, that would be me.

I auditioned for the Penn Singers, which went well, but could have gone better. The accompanist and I just weren't jiving, so my performance wasn't as good as it could have been, but I made a good impression on the auditioners and everything and offered the bribe of my enormous Gilbert and Sullivan mega-libretto-thing, so my chances are still good. And there weren't many people auditioning, so even though they probably have fewer spots available, I still feel like I have a decent chance.

But the real coolness was happening right down the hall. Jen, another of the Penn Singers, was helping out with the auditioning process for The Trojan Women, a modernized Greek play. I decided to stick around and audition just for the heck of it, and my audition actually went insanely well. There were two parts, one with a woman named Marcie (a teacher), in which we did mainly physical acting and movement to judge potential for the chorus, and the other with a man named Jim (another teacher) and his assistant director, Billy. There were three non-chorus female speaking roles, Helen, Hecuba, and Andomache. As my fellow auditionees and I glanced over the script excerpts, Jim looked at me and told me I shouldn't even bother with Hecuba and that I should audition for Helen. What a compliment! To recommend that a girl audition for the most beautiful woman in the world? Dude. (Guys, take note.)

He handed me the excepts for Andromache and Helen and told me to read for Andromache first. By the time I finished the first page of monologue, he told me that I could stop, and started questioning me in that hint-hint nudge-nudge tone about my comittments "if you were to be offered a role" and told me that I had made callbacks. Very good vibes there. So yay! Saturday! 12-3! Hurrah! And such!