Aida Auditions

This past week was auditions for Aida and its definitely been a crazy week. On the first day of auditions everyone was supposed to sing a song from a musical. I had been practicing my song, Defying Gravity from Wicked for a few weeks. Brandon told me that I was sounding pretty good, but I was still scared to death. I drank so much water that I never wanted to look at water ever again, listened to my song every extra moment I had. when my name was called I got up on stage and started my song. I was sure that I sounded horrible and was shaking really bad. but when I got down, everyone told me that I had done well, and after I thought about it for a while I realized that I was actually really proud of myself. after everyone had sung their song, we all sang some songs from Aida, which was really fun. On the second day of auditions, we read lines from the play. I was pretty worried about this part because I have never really acted before, but it ended up being really fun, much more fun than I had expected. On the last day of auditions we sang the songs from Aida that we were assigned to sing. I was pretty nervous about this too, but it went pretty well. 

so all that was left to do was wait and see who got what part. I didn't really tell very many people, but I really wanted a part...a lead actually. I knew that not very many of the people who were also auditioning thought I would get a part, because this is really my first time doing this. But I really just wanted to prove those people wrong. I was really proud of what I had done. a few months ago I never would have gotten on stage and sung by myself like that. 

After some waiting and freaking out, I got a call from Brandon, and he told me that I got the part of Aida! so Im feeling really excited, a little freaked out, and so so thankful to have the chance to do this.