This week is/has been insane. Business has picked up at my part-time job, so I've booked more hours the last two weeks than I ever had in any other two week period. I got called in for an audition at Ross Lacy casting. It was an AM/PM store spot. These stores are convenience store/gas stations. Out here their gas is called ARCO, but it's a division of BP. The call time was 4:30pm, but I had lessons scheduled for 5:30pm in Northridge. Basically, there was no way I would've made it from LaBrea and 3rd to Northridge in under 45 minutes. So, I got there at 3:30pm with hopes of getting in ASAP.
In Atlanta, there are only a few commercial casting directors, and a few jobs now and then. The CD's tend to have a small office somewhere that they use for the auditions. Out here, some CD's don't use their office at all for casting. There are these large "casting facilities" that consist of a wide open central room with a bunch of numbered doors around the perimeter that open into smaller rooms. Usually at the entrance or on a wall somewhere, there's a huge dry erase board with numbers and their corresponding projects. It's almost like a public storage place for auditions. Basically, I enter to a sea of commercial humanity - everything from babies to older guys dressed like truckers/farmers. I find the board, see that AM/PM is #3, and head for that corner of the room to sign in. The CD for this spot was simultaneously holding auditions for two other spots. He had three rooms going all at once. Luckily, I was able to get in by 4pm, and was on my way 5 minutes later.
The rest of my week is slammed with lessons and rehearsals for class. Class has been going well. I feel like I'm learning to ride a bike. Sometimes, it works and I roll for a while. Other times, I'm wobbly. It's difficult to find that mix of letting go and trying to control too much.
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