The New York Audition part 1
New York is the city that never sleeps and I can totally attest to that. That night, I seriously got NO sleep. My mind was running at 123749182341 miles an hour.
I woke up, jumped in the shower, fixed up my hair, threw on my make-up, and got in my audition outfit. (Which had to be the exact same outfit i wore to the prior audition). Then, walked down to the lobby and waited for a shuttle.
The shuttle arrived around noon and I hopped in. The car was filled with other auditioners. People just like me who made it past the preliminaries. I was eager to chat them up, so being my bubbly self chatted it up all the way to the Theater.
“Okay, Welcome Contestants. Now could you stand outside here”
Yep, we waiting outside for about………..an hour. The wind was blowing and I was standing in a gated off area. Although it wasn’t exactly the star treatment I expected it was still fun. I got to meet a bunch of the contestants I was going up against. I saw my friends from the Preliminaries… AKA the Rat Pack Impersonators, and there was also a cute kid with his family named Noah. (Yeah I’m a little boy crazy, what can i say ;D) We all waited outside the theater and were all feeling the same way, excited, nervous and anxious. Eventually we were all called inside and asked to go down the staircase to the holding room.
Oh another holding room, how I love them. The atmosphere of people all wanting the same dream, the franticness of trying to put on make-up and costumes and going over the act one more time. Interviewers were pulling contestants by the bulk and we had contracts to sign. In all it was absolutely insane. A mad house to say the least.
“Mia Boostrom? Mia Boostrom?” A producer was calling for me.
“Over here!” I said with emphasis.
“We need you for interviews”. I dropped my stuff by my chair and walked toward him.
“So basically, we’re going to bring you outside, film you waiting in line, film you getting signed in, film you waiting to be called up and then we’ll ask you some questions”
WHOAAA. This was pretty much the coolest thing ever. I felt like a star! Like how Drew Barrymore feels every time she walks into the grocery store, or something like that! haha So I followed his lead and did my shots and interviews. Everyone was staring at me. The audience who I was filming with were all trying to get in the shot and I was loving every second of it. I felt like a movie star, like everyone wanted to know my name. It was very exhilarating.
Eventually I was done with my interviews and I was ready to start waiting, waiting, waiting for my audition with my judges.
1 hour passed.
2 hours passed.
3 hours passed… ect.
One thing about holding rooms is that you wait for about 12 hours… if not more. So bring a book, or something to do, or just do as I did, chat it up.
4 hours passed.
5 hours passed….6….7….
