Restaurant Audition

So I'm pretty much really very poor.  Really?  An actress living in LA has money issues?  I know, but sometimes you gotta be the oddball in city of pefectly coiffed barbie dolls.  Anywho...

There was an open call for the best job in LA for actors...Micelli's restuarant.  It seriously PERFECT!  Once you get hired, you're hired for life!  You could leave to go on tour with a production or to shoot a movie and come back and still work.  You got an audition?  Just call and cancel your shift.  BUT its one of the hardest places to get a job because of this.  No one quits...ever.  There are so many people there that they only hold auditions a few times a year.  One of them being today.

Auditions? To work at at restaurant?  But why, you ask?  Because the servers' side work is singing.  Yep!  Broadway, Pop, Classical.  Its AWESOME.  You get a mic, a pianist, a drummer, and a room full of people waiting to tip you.  : )  Heaven on earth.

So I get there a few minutes early and they've already started and there are a good 10 people ahead of me.  They don't want a work resume, no.  They want your headshot and acting resume.  Awesome again.  So I'm waiting, listening to every one else go.  And thank God!  Its been so long since I've had a musical audition with a pianist that I have this ginormous 2" notebook with over 100 songs that is 1/2 way organized.  There were so many options and I couldn't decide.  Then the pesonnel manager comes out and tells us to not sing as the character but sing as ourselves.  We don't have to do 2 contrasting pieces but we can.  I love this place.  So one girl already sang my first option for an up tempo so I go to my second choice which turns out to be an even better choice!

They call my name and I'm in the hole.  The guy before me...eh, he's okay.  Better for me dude.  Its my turn.  I give the pianist my music, and remember why I don't usually use this particular piece for auditions.  It the PERFECT song for my voice, but its kinda hard for the pianist if they don't know.  The time signature jumps from 6/8 to 3/4 and there are 5 flats.  Dum dum dum.  But I've been listening to the guy play and I think he can handle it.  Damn...he doesn't know it.  Too late now.  He plays the first couple of bars for me and says he's got it.  I correct him on the tempo - he was going sooooo slow!  But when we start, he's still slow.  So I figure its my audition, he's gotta follow me, not the other way around.  So I start with him and then slowly speed up.  I think that mighta thrown him off cause he starts to keep up and then the rhythm was all off and I just started to ignore him.  Pretty sure I pissed him off, but I sounded great!  Alright, one down, one to go.  This one he knows - "The Music and the Mirror."  Perfect!  He's happy, I'm happy.  The world is a great place!  I freaking rocked it!  On both songs all I did was show my personality and belted like no other.  Its the best feeling to finish notes and phrases and even an entire piece in perfect unison with the piano and drummer.  All three of us had tons of energy and were just...awesome.  There just isn't any other way to describe it.  It was the most fun I've had at an audition in a long time.  Singining with live musicians just gives me such a thrill!