Monday, September 17, 2007

Audition - Embarq

For whatever reason, I haven't heard from my commercial agent in a year. So I was surprised and happy when they called on Friday to let me know I had an audition on Monday. I was required to bring a winter coat, scarf and hat, and judging by the email I received, it was for some wireless service. My audition time was at 1:50 PM, but thought that since there was a slight possibility that I may have written it down wrong and my audition time may have been 1:15 PM, I planned to get there at 1. I arrived around 10 after 1, and I was the first person there. The casting agency (Danielle Eskinazi Casting) was at lunch until 1:30 so I found the sign in sheet and the info and made myself comfortable. The biggest part about getting nervous for auditions for me is mostly finding where I have to go and getting there on time. A man arrived and signed in and I signed in after him. I hate being first. =P
More and more people starting showing up in their winter attire and someone finally came out and started collecting our headshots and taking photos of us. The audition was a christmas carol like jingle for Embarq, a wireless carrier that I've never heard of. They were auditioning us 8 at a time and we all had to sing. They picked 1 town crier, 1 character, and the rest of us just sang the initial chorus: call, call, call, call, unlimited calls.
We rehearsed to the jingle music a bunch of times and then were called into the audition room. They placed us all together like carolers, with the town crier in the middle and the character with 2 lines behind him and the rest of us grouped around him. We rehearsed twice and then did it for the camera twice and that was it. Oh ... and of course I was "good" and left my cell phones in the car, and once we were in the audition room they asked us if we had our cell phones. They gave me and a few others highlighters to hold up as our cell phones. All in all, it was a fun audition.

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