One Musical Theatre Mom in an Endless Sea of Many
I have to keep telling myself this is just the beginning. I keep pushing the melancholy back, pushing out the sad thoughts of my own loss—the loss of my favorite musical theater songbird’s daily practice ringing through my home, with thoughts of her blissful happiness […]
Initially I didn’t intend to write anything negative about any of the schools’ auditions. But I started thinking that it would be unfair to leave you with the idea that all schools’ audition/application processes are sunshine and roses. They are not. I’m not going to […]
OMG we. are. done. It’s been three months of my brain exploding with details, trying to be sure we’ve got all our ducks in a row for every audition… how many headshots/resumes do we need, do they want a 16- or 32- cut of the ballad […]
If you’ve never gone through a college audition season with a musical theater kid, there is no way you can fully understand what kind of insanity it really is. I’m told it just seems to get a little more nuts each year, with the surging […]
Originally my thought was that I’ve run a successful business, so surely I can manage a few college applications. I had been reading for a couple of years about the process and how involved it is. But knowing that I had time to dedicate to […]
And like that, we’re off. It seems like for the last year we’ve been preparing/sweating/dreading/looking forward to this very moment. Audition season. Shit. Is it by accident that audition season falls smack in the middle of flu season? My wry, sarcastic side says no way. […]