resting and planning

Today has been surprisingly productive. I have been able to plan a smathering of auditions for the coming week, plus 3 readings to attend, plus 2 events i might want to check out which happen to be FREE, and fitting my job schedule in. THAT'S RIGHT! I am employed. AND it is good.
I work for The New 42nd Street Corporation which manages the Duke theatre (an off broadway space) and few rehearsal halls that house broadway shows before they move, equity tours... big things, i mean it IS on 42nd street. See this block used to be really gross and full off porn shops, UNTIL Giulianni (sp?) decided to revive the theatre district. He created a small business (small ish) to revamp the block. The New 42nd Street Corporation was that company, they sold The New Amsterdam theatre to Disney, where they put up The Lion King, and the rest is history. ANYWAY now this corpration has this GREAT space on the block to house rehearsals and also off broadway shows, most of which are purposefully directed towards kids to get young ones excited about live theatre. BOTTOM LINE= this is an awesome job.
Anyway I have 14 auditions scoped out for this week. I plan on making it to at least 12 of them. 2 are booked at the same time, and I will have to do some serious running between the two studios which are like 14 streets apart. I gotta book something here soon. OH! Which the theatre is totally cool about. If I need to leave for a tour or for a show that I book, they are so accomodating that my boss told me I would have a job whenever I returned from the gig!
I totally blew 2 auditions last week, and I mean they were terrible. one I went in and I simply ruined with not preparing my song beforehand... which my own idiocy. The other audition I went in unknowing I was actually going in, and sang my song off the cuff. I was so underprepared for this audition though, I actually told the pianist the wrong time signature of my song... yeah.
I learned a lot though from those two disasters. I plan on making every audition better. I am able to control my nerves in the room more and more and I am able to really place a person to deliver my scenes towards. The only thing is when I get nervous, or like last week when I was underprepared, I tend to furrow my brows and pull my arms into myself. It looks weak, and it looks unfitting of most of my songs. I have to remember to leave myself outside and really pull on the circumstances I have set for myself... and I am, slowly but surely.
This week I have sort of been into acapella music. I have missed singing in a group. So here is a reflection of that.