The Joy of Commercials/My Audition 2/11/2010

I've had yet another brand new experience today.  I auditioned for a Kodak commercial.  This time I had to prepare a monologue with a day's notice.  I found the perfect one--a piece from Oscar Wilde's, "An Ideal Husband."  I chose Mabel's speech about Tommy.  Mabel is an adorably self-absorbed character whose main interest is to get Tommy (who proposes to her daily) to propose louder in order to attract more attention.  She often gets distracted and find herself on long tangents.  I found myself perfect for the part. :)  My favorite couple of lines from the play:

"Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf." 

I did manage to memorize the monologue perfectly this morning, but, unfortunately, that is about the only part of the day that went well.  I am badly in need of new pants.  However, my size is not very common and absurdly hard to find.  So, I wore a new pair that are about two miles too long.  I thought I could make up for this by wearing my boots with the two inch heels, but that didn't quite do the trick.  I made do last minute by pinning them in places.  I nearly died when the gaps got stuck on my stillettos.  As I was going to be late (gasp--can't have that), I painted my nails in the car. 

Arriving slightly early, I answered a few texts then went inside.  The husband and wife production team duo was very nice and had I not been preoccupied with trying not to fall and die, I may have done a good job on camera.  Well, we'll see.  Don't hold your breath for this one!  Although miracles do happen...  I did arrive early, after all.

Afterwards I needed retail therapy to put a smile back on my face, so I headed to the Cherry Creek Mall.  I had forgotten what an absolutely fantastic place that is!  I hit Neiman Marcus, Saks and Juicy Couture with enough time to get back to Colorado Springs and pick up my pumpkin from Kindergarten.  I think I'll write a piece for Examiner on overnights in the Cherry Creek area with a focus on shopping.  Yum.