It’s been a minute since we talked about auditions on this very program.

So let’s talk about auditions on this very program.

Here we go Your Daily Lex I Was just thinking about how ridiculous it is that I do this podcast Every once in a while, you know work comes up in conversations the people you don’t know and then what I wish you do And then oh, do you have a podcast?

I do have a podcast I have several podcasts to do a podcast about tech.

I do a daily five-minute podcast you do a what?

That’s the one that really throws people.

Why do you do a daily five-minute podcast?

I don’t know because why not that’s why So auditions auditions auditions.

I have bombed on my last several auditions as you know in various ways one time Actually, not literally but actually bombing where I just did very poorly forgot the lyrics whatever and then failed to get cast in show After show after show, I think I’m gonna three or maybe four show streak.

Let’s not think about it too hard of not getting cast So I have a lot of friends who are auditioning for the show 1776, which is the same theater where I did Avenue Q and misery and elf and I really like that theater and I Have no interest in the show 1776 just don’t care about but wasn’t familiar with it in the first place So had no nostalgia or other affection for it But some of my good friends from the theater world will really push me to audition one of them So let’s have a watch party.

So we came over to my house.

We watched the movie version It had ads which was annoying and I was like, all right There’s some funny stuff.

Like I don’t care about the lead role John Adams, but there’s this character of Lee Richard Henry Lee He’s pretty funny Ben Franklin, that’s pretty funny, but I don’t think I can play Ben Franklin I just don’t think I have the look of Ben Franklin, but if I’ll audition, but I’m gonna say I want to be like one of the Small roles they called a princess track if you’re Richard Henry Lee If one big song and it’s especially at my alley because he’s basically making a series of puns surrounding his name he can use Lee as a suffix too many adverbs and That’s the song basically.

So and he’s got this one big number He’s in one or other scene and then he’s like out he’s done.

You can do nothing in act two And I think that sounds great for a show I don’t care about means I don’t do as many rehearsals So I have to learn as much and can have my big thing and then just hang out very up my alley Frankly doesn’t have to be the biggest part for me just has to be the fun part So I went out in audition for that callbacks were last night Lauren was also called back for one of the two women roles in the show.

Literally there are two and She was called for 730 and I was called for eight and she wanted to get there a little bit early And so of course we went together which meant we got there on 715.

I did not do anything until after 1020 That’s a long time to be waiting but then I did my thing and I sang the song I did the scene and I was very happy with what I did I was very different from the other two people.

I was auditioning alongside for the role of Richard Henry Lee And according to the script, you know He’s foppish and loose-limbed and just weird and I enjoyed playing those things and had a good time doing That I thought I’d be done and they’re like, hey, we’d also like you’d read for Thomas Jefferson.

I was gonna say Edison He’s not in the movie in the show.

He’s not neither But we also like you read for Thomas Jefferson And I’m like, oh you didn’t tell me that before I didn’t say this like I haven’t looked at scripts I don’t have the sides of dialogue the owner be using but sure so I give it a once-over and then I’m doing the scene as Jefferson And I figure okay, that’ll be like hey We’d like you to read another scene as Jefferson with some other people so then I read some more Jefferson and they’re like, okay Now you can go Lex.

Thank you so much.

Sorry.

We kept you waiting.

I Leave the room.

I go to Lauren like we can go and then they actually Lex can come back in again Should have left faster and they wanted me to read Jefferson some more with five other actors doing other parts I don’t know if I was just a seat filler at that point like they wanted to read these other roles So they needed somebody to be doing Jefferson or what?

I The Jefferson role is a much larger one.

I think it’s less funny.

I’m being honest like I don’t he’s as funny of a role It’s a bigger part.

But like that’s not what I was after necessarily because I’m happy with a small one Also all of this is in the context of I’m auditioning for another theaters production of the show Fiddler on the Roof You may remember my history with Fiddler on the Roof.

Oh boy I was at the callback so the bitter end against the guy who was also the creative director of the theater and Didn’t get cast as Tevye and then wasn’t cast as anything because they wanted laser wolf the other main dude who’s not a son To be older than Tevye and I wasn’t older than this guy The director felt I didn’t look old enough to have the kids the age that Tevye has in the show Which of course I literally do have kids those ages Fun fact the guy who I lost the role of Tevye to is directing 1776.

Anyway But another thing he’s doing Fiddler and that audition is this Saturday My beard is longer than I would like it to be because I’m gonna go do that audition on Saturday If I were to get Tevye and maybe if I were you blazer wolf, I would do that Either instead of or potentially in addition to 1776 I could do it in addition to 1776 if I got cast in the role of Lee Because I don’t think I’ll have to go to very many rehearsals to be Lee I’ll have to go to some but I’ll have plenty of free time to do the other show If I were cast as Jefferson I couldn’t do both the role of Jefferson in 1776 and a big role in filler on the roof wouldn’t work so I Assume I actually end up hearing from both shows around the same time so I could also get cast in either show or Get cast only in 1776 or even only in Fiddler who the hell knows.

I actually don’t feel great about my chances in Fiddler Because it’s a theater where I’ve never been cast and it’s a choreographer who asked me to audition But who every time she’s choreographed a show and I’ve auditioned I haven’t gotten cast I’m not saying those things are related, but I believe in theatrical superstition Hamlet Macbeth, which one are you supposed to say?

Which everyone Shakespeare?

I hope you’re having a wonderful Thursday and We’ll talk soon Lex