Post Auditions NYC!

Auditioning for a role in a play is an exhausting and terrifying experience.  And that's just for the director, writer and staff sitting behind the table watching!  

I have such immense respect for the artists who make their careers by standing up in front of mostly strangers and performing--often lines of dialogue they've had 10 minutes to read through or tap dancing to a tune in their heads, or singing a song they hope will not be one the director has hated all of their life!

After two days of auditions we (director, Mark Finley and I) sat with the other staff of TOSOS to discuss who we'd seen and what the likely prospects were.  We were all blown away by the talented people we seen...way more than one might expect considering it was a show with music and very little money!  But we had choices...real choices so we were excited and thoughtful at the same time.

I had to get back to Oakland so didn't attend the final call backs on the next day.  However we'd all kicked around our opinions long enough so Mark got a real hearing about each possible choice.

Michael, the president of the board of TOSOS and I have our meetings about this process over cocktails and chicken wings.  And now we await the white smoke arising from the chimney to see what the final decisions are.  

The show goes up at The Flea in TriBeCa on January 15th no matter what!