The Audition

It began merely by a simple drift of conversation in Mims auditorium, the words fall show managed to linger in my ear. Excited, I asked the ultimate question, "What is the show?" The answer I received was South Pacfic.  The news I did not expect to hear however was that auditions themselves were just around the corner, the first day of finals week to be exact.

I searched high and low, near and far and almost everywhere in between to find a piece of music that I would audition with. It wasn't until after several texts and listening to several songs did I finally make the decision to sing, "Show Me" from My Fair Lady.

The audition process began at 4:30, and one by one we entered the choir room and began to sing our selection. Once we were done we were allowed to do whatever our hearts desired but we had to promptly return at 5:30 for the dance portion.

There were a lot of people there, I truly wasn't expecting as many as there were. So the dance portion of the auditions were pushed back until 6:00, and once it began it all went downhill. The dance portion was going to only be a little bit of learning it and then turning around and performing it for directors, and if that wasn't nerve racking enough, I have no profound dancing ability what so ever.

We spend about 15 minutes learning the steps in which I continuously make minor mistakes until the practice and learning is stopped. Then we each were assigned a number 1-31 (or so). The first people to perform would be those numbered 1-5, they would perform in the room in front of the directors and with every other person auditioning watching along the side of the room.

When they called my name I was given the number five. I danced my hardest but at certain points I realized the moves that I were doing were completely wrong. I tried my best but I am not a dancer.