Prepared. Just not all that prepared.

I was completely prepared for UPTAs. I had my audition piece down to a T.

Song: "Tonight at Eight" from She Loves Me
"Play me an E to start"
In my imagination I can hear our conversation taking shape
tonight
at eight
I'll sit there saying absolutely nothing or I'll jabber
like an ape
tonight
at eight
two more minutes, three more seconds, ten more hours to go
I'll know when this is done if somethings ended or begun
and if it goes, alright, who knows, I might, PROPOSE!
tonight
at eight!

Monologue: "Universal Language" by David Ives
Dawn di Vito.. Gavotte'n harmonika klink doppa du.
Iago trattoria Shakespeare enda Unamunda fer du.
Forsoot! Nintendo. Ah Romeo, Romeo, bilko arfst du Romeo?
Ballontifool, no? Mock Visp? Gavotte loomen trip yondra fenstra shient?
Arf den oyster, epp Juliet aft sonnnng! Video, Froyling, Unamunda arf da
linkwa supreemka di amamor.
Ah Dawn, Nevva Evva felta sucha feleetzee-totsee-oneeya. Da Voonda. Da inspermation.
Dawn, This isn't just a language. This isn't just a room, this is the garden of Eden and you and I are finding names for a whole new world!

So both of those happen in roughly 84 seconds, fitting nicely into my 90 second time limit. My repertoire was pretty good too. I had about 14 extra musical songs from a wide variety of genres to perform at callbacks. My monologue repertoire isn't quite as good. I wanted four extra monologues, but I only ended up having two: Caliban from The Tempest and Phaeton from Metamorphoses.

But I felt really good about both of these. And not to mention, I got tons of help from friends. Both Cookie and Dave Landis helped to give me a leg up by workshopping my pieces with them. Dave was especially helpful because I got to practice on the actual set that I would be auditioning.