Well like very OTHER Tom, Dick & Harry I want to be an actor. So I been goin’ to auditions trying to get something I’m even applying in NYC even tho I don’t live there. If London doesn’t work I will go there. I’ve got my London accent down since I’ve been 5 years so I’m sure I could pass especially considering the work Don Cheadle (see the hilarity at 1:10) has done in the Oceans series. In the rubble, really mate?. So I went for an audition for the play Salome by Oscar Wilde. In the breakdown it said “there will be movement”. I had never been to one of those. SO. I didn’t wear a tight dress but I did put on my skinny jeans, I mean how much “movement” was there gonna be?
So I arrived and it was a group of 10. 9 chicks and one dude. So first they had us stretch out our vocals. That whole “mi mi mi mi mi mi mi mi” shit. I really couldn’t do it, not cos I can’t sing (well I do most of my singing in the shower) it’s cos I just had regained my voice –lost it on my birthday night out coming home at 5 am—and I didn’t want to lose it again! Then they had us do body warm ups. And I’m not talking about a stretch here in there, I’m talking about a PROPER body warm up. Like for an aerobics class. This was meant to relax us.

See, very soothing
We’re in the upstairs of an old pub in like 85 degree weather (10 more inside, especially with no a/c) doing class war ups in skinny jeans! Okay just to clarify, I don’t go to the gym to relax. I don’t go into a hot box full of sweaty people that smells like some fancy Europe cheese grunting and panting and wearing grossly inappropriate clothing for their body type, to relax! The gym does not relax me. I only go so when I eat cake it doesn’t count!
So after our woeful warm ups they proceed to show us some “basic” moves.
“Okay so step forward. Draw your leg in a circle. Move to here and go there”
I’m sorry what? I asked them to repeat b/c honestly what were they trying to teach us.
Then they say, “Sorry, your group has less time than the others so we don’t have enough time to teach you”

Great
Then they proceed to do it all over again “once more with feeling” oh and with arms. Turns out they were doing ballet and dissecting each move. Now I did ballet for 6 years. In fact I still remember most of the basic steps. But I do believe to teach dance, once should number “5, 6, 7 8” etc. And use the correct terms or you know say tings like “one step to the left, two steps to the right”. I totally bombed. I’m sure my monologues was okay but seeing as I looked a graceful as Amy Winehouse on any of her bender days, surprise, I didn’t get the job. Onwards and upwards right?


















