Hit Me Baby ...

I haven't been doing much as far as extra work ... haven't really had much to submit for ... but I've seen postings for audience work for different shows ... so I finally decided to submit for one of those ... I figured it couldn't be too bad, if you're getting paid to watch a show ... so I submitted for the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson (i think that's who it is), and when I got the call for it, she said she could actually use me on a different show ... Hit Me Baby One More Time ... so i agreed to that ... I hadn't seen the show on TV, but I'd seen the previews and knew the general jist of it (for those of you that don't know: it's a show that brings back old bands from the 70' & 80's and whatnot, and has them do their big hit and then sing a song that's popular today ... and then the audience votes on the best performance) ... the pay is $40 cash right after the show ...
It takes me forever to get there with traffic and all (call time was 6:30) ... it's at Hollywood Center Studios, which means street parking and hard to find parking ... so I finally find a spot and walk up to the area where I'm supposed to be and ... there is this loooong line more than half the block ... so i go up to the last people in line and asked them what the line was for, and they say internet tickets ... so i pause and then ask for what? and they reply for Hit Me Baby, but if i already had a ticket to go up to a different line ... so i did and checked in with some girl with a clipboard and then went over to the entrance and they let me right in ... i felt kinda bad because there was a huge line of people that wanted in just to see the show, and I didn't even know who was on ... so they have us sit down on this long row of benches and tell us if we have to go to the bathroom we have to do it now, because we can't during the taping which lasts about 2 hours ... then they gathered us into one line and proceeded to do a headcount about 10 times ... so i finally turn to this group of asian guys with valley accents behind me and ask who was going to be on the show ... *please excuse my spelling* - Wang Chung, Sophie B Hawkins, Cameo, Howard Jones, and Irene Cara ... these guys were all wang chung fans ... they finally let us in and the seated audience was already sat so that meant we were the "lucky ones" that got to stand by the stage ... well, ummm, that was kinda cool, except that meant standing in a crowd by the stage for 2 hours ... AND only the seated audience got to do the voting! ... oh well ...
So, they continue to try to pack us in ... I got close to the edge stage left ... not anywhere you could actually see me on tv ... my watch was glowing in the black light though, so if you see clapping hands with a glowing yellow watch, that would probably be me =P
Anyway, this warm-up guy gets up on stage to ... well ... warm us up ... and well, he's ok funny ... a little annoying, but he had some moments up there ... his big thing is that we are not audience members but show enhancers ... so finally the host comes out to start the show ... he's a hottie ...
And well ... the rest of it you'll just have to see on TV =P ... I will have to say Wang Chung and Cameo were my favorites, but if I could have voted it would have been for either Cameo or Irene Cara ... it was pretty cool to see these artists perform these songs right in front of me ... Now I can say I saw Wang Chung perform Everybody Have Fun Tonight LIVE!! =)