New Year, New Auditions

Happy 2018! Now that the new year has officially hit, it heralds in the tradition of new years resolutions and the mantra "New Year, New Me". Which, lets be honest, lasts until about February 1st when you decide that there was nothing wrong with the old you and you quite like sitting in front of the tele eating a fun size bag of chocolate buttons to yourself thank you very much! However, now that 2018 has officially hit, it means I have reached the year I graduate from university and signalling my arrival into the real adult world. And as an aspiring actress, that is terrifying. I will no longer have the safety blanket of a university career behind me. Therefore, with this in mind (and the fact that I have already had one unsuccessful drama school audition at the Royal Academy of Music) my mantra for the next coming months will be New Year, New Auditions!

As I have already mentioned, I have already been declined for one masters degree at the Royal Academy of Music to pursue Musical Theatre, despite the fact that I thought the audition went remarkably well. But that was 2017, and with 2 more drama school auditions in the near future (one in February), I have decided to go into auditions and just enjoy them. I have found going in prepared and with the attitude of "I have something you want and you are going to sit there and listen" has made the audition process a less intimidating one. This is certainly going to help me this coming week as we have now hit the point in the university calendar where we are auditioning for final year shows. This year there are 6 shows to audition for within the space of a week ranging from a satirical piece to a fully fledged musical. Not only that but within that week, I have an audition for my local youth theatre's production of In The Heights with the recalls being the week after. Included in that following week, there are auditions by a local musical theatre companies production of Assassins which I shall also be auditioning for.

Therefore, by the time I get to Royal Welsh for my audition for the Musical Theatre MA program, I will already have a month of audition experience under my belt. This can be a good thing for me as I will see auditions as a thing that can help me to reach my goals and if the auditions have gone well, then I will be standing in good stead. However, if the auditions have not gone well, it could lead to an awful lot of self doubt and therefore more pressure placed on that audition than anything. So my new years mantra is New Year, New Auditions as I am determined to not let how previous auditions have gone effect any audition I go to as what one director wants, another director might not. And that my friends, is the conundrum of every actors life. What the director wants is completely out of my control. I cannot change what the minds of directors, or heads of admissions, think is best for their production or their school. All I can do is go in and smash the hell out of any audition that comes my way and hope that one day, I am what the director is looking for.

So with that in mind, bring on this 2018 and this mad 2 weeks of auditions because after all New Year, New Auditions.

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