So, I may not have woken up as exuberantly today as I did yesterday. Rather than feeling ‘Astonishing’, I felt a little more ‘Dyin’ Ain’t So Bad’, but I made some breakfast (no time for a cup of tea, so i m m e d i a t e mood killer) and arrived to start the day with the Rags audition.

Having listened to the soundtrack of both musicals, I preferred the overall sound of Fiddler on the Roof, but I was open-minded and ready to work with a different script than what I was familiar with. So, it was no surprise when I discovered that I LOVED the script! I thought it was well written, comedic and easy to find your own little quirks to add to it, so I was really happy to play around with the roles of Ophelia, Rebecca and Bella. I didn’t think I’d find much resonance within the older female characters, but I really enjoyed reading as Rebecca because I think I do have quite a strong natural maternal instinct.

Fast forward a couple of hours, and I’m face to face with Tevye-slash-Motel-slash-Perchik-slash-everyone else in a 1-2-1 style audition with the director for Fiddler. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had my heart set on the Fiddler, particularly the roles of the two older sisters, so I was delighted to be asked to read both. I was very familiar with the scenes having spent a lot of time reading them, and I was fairly comfortable with attempting the accent having spent all morning practicing it for Rags. I felt much more confident in myself today than I did yesterday, and I felt like this showed in my performance.

 

And now… we wait.

“If my grandma Tzeitel, may she rest in peace,
Took the trouble to come all the way from the other world to tell us
About the tailor, all I can say is that it’s for the best,
And couldn’t possibly be any better.”