Auditioning

Hello blog,

Time for a topic that this blog was originally intended for: Auditioning. 

2013 is my first audition season. I'm quite the cliche as well. Just graduated, teaching, singing at a church, and spending my entire earnings on application fees and traveling, unfortunately, my season has not been fruitful. I was not able to afford YAP tracker, I was sick for a month and unable to make recordings, I have 3 songs worth of muscle tension and no voice teacher to help me....ect. The uplifting part was that the two auditions offered to me were given within a week of applying. That reassures me about my resume and talent level. I feel like if I would have been able to apply to more programs then I would have been offered more auditions. Auditions season is nearly over as it is December, but I may still be able to find some small opportunities. It'll just take commitment to searching and making a recording. 

So, let's talk about my last 24 hours.

I was offered an audition for the Tulsa Opera Studio Artists Program. It is a perfect job for me. Close to Texas, close to Louisiana. And in the same city as one of my dear friends. 

I planed to leave late Thursday night by bus so I'll be able to have lunch with my friend on Friday and have a good night's sleep before my audition on Saturday. 

Bus was canceled till 2pm friday due to weather :-/ thanks winter storm Cleon

Catch bus on friday, finally make it to Dallas, after tons of traffic on the interstate due to ice and accidents, only to find out that the station was shutting down. All busses out of Dallas were cancelled. The station was packed. 200-300 people sitting & standing anywhere they could. They were in for the night.

There was no way I could stay in that bus station all night. I found a near by hotel for $97, that was both the cheapest and the closest.

So I decided to walk to the hotel. Bad idea.

My Clarks, though sensible and warm, have no traction. The sidewalks were iced over, not slush, not snow, but slippery ice. The handle of my carry on bag had already broken before I left San Antonio and now the contents of my bag fell out onto the downtown Dallas street where card were coming in the distance.

And it was so sold. My peacoat was packed away in my luggage and my hands were icy but i needed my phone for directions.

I finally made it the short though dangerous distance to my hotel and checked in for the night. I decided to go home on a megabus in the morning because i didn't think I'd make it to Tulsa before 5:30 and I didn't want to get stuck in Tulsa. So i slept in, got my free breakfast repacked without a carry on and went to the lobby to check out and call a cab.

Nope

3 hour delay on cabs and the phones were busy. It was 11, but bus was scheduled to leave at 12:10. So I asked about busses but she suggested a train.

I almost fell outside the hotel door, which made me want to cry. How was I gonna get to this bus pickup two miles away in the ice?

So I find a bus stop a couple blocks away and hope I picked a running line. It shows up within 5 minutes and cost $250...i had &1.88...he let me on the bus probably cuz I looks ridiculously sad. The bus stopped in the same parking lot as the Megabus and the rest was smooth sailing. 

But here's for an early end to my audition season. Maybe it's not in the cards for me.