At six this morning, I got an email that read (in part) as follows:
Thank you for participating in auditions for Circle Players’ “Jekyll and Hyde, the Musical.”
You will be notified by email OR phone within 24 hours regarding the casting decisions of the director and production team.
At eight this morning my phone chimed and I looked down to see that I’d missed a call, which Google Voice transcribed as follows:
Yeah. Randal, this is Denmark Director Jeff, I give me a call at 473485, I’d appreciate it. I am in and out of meetings all day so I catch my voicemail, and I’ll return your call as soon as possible in my car right now, so I’ll be in my car for about a half an hour or so. Robin work. So gimme a call back. Thanks.
One thing about auditioning for shows—the bigger your part is (as a rule) the sooner you know whether you’ve been cast. If you reject the offer, the production team can choose someone else from the auditionees to play that part. Getting a phone call at 8am the day after auditions, a mere two hours after the notification email, was a positive sign.
Needless to say, I dashed off to somewhere where I actually got a cell signal and called back immediately—
—and all those years of developing a winning scowl have finally paid off as I’ll be playing the title character in October. Exclamation point.
