A couple of weekends ago, I finally had the opportunity to watch The Audition, a documentary providing a behind-the-scenes look at the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions. I must admit I was a bit skeptical at first, thinking it would be more of a vanity video for the Met and the competition it supports á la Prince’s Purple Rain. However, I was surprised to find that Susan Frömke’s work attempts to provide an objective vision of what the National Council Auditions are to the competitors and the sponsors. Some of the interviews are hilarious and some are quite illustrative of personalities and politics. What made me hopeful was the care, encouragement and compassion the coaches and administrators seemed to show towards the various participants in the lessons and coachings that come as part of competition at the national level. It may really be like that in the upper echelons, but I admit I haven’t been public witness to such showers of praise. … Read more »
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This project is the feature film debut for Boston-based writer and director Andrew Landauro. It was accepted to the Tenth Annual Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival (RIIHFF)–a subset of the Rhode Island International Film Festival–in October and was awarded Best Picture, beating out more than 250 entrants. The same month, it screened at the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, a part of Valley Con, a pop culture weekend catering to movies, comics, and celebrity guests. Prior to that, Circuit kicked off a new film series at the historic Loring-Greenough House in … Read more » More than a year ago, I hosted a bloggy give-away associated with this photo: 
Remember the tackiness? I do. Well, last evening a friend of mine came up to me and said straight away, “Oh! I saw you in The Box!”
“You did?!”, I replied incredulously. ”I didn’t think my scenes would make it in there.” In fact they did, it seems. I am somewhere to be seen in The Box with Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. Apparently some aspect of my work as a NASA technician made it into the movie and, yes, this photo documents the circa-1975 outfit in which I was bedecked for the role. (It’s slightly Mary Tyler Moore, don’t you think?) Now I just need to see the movie… A few weeks ago I campaigned hard for a principal role audition in the upcoming Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz flick currently called the “Untitled Wichita Project“, and I actually got it. In fact, I got to audition for two roles, both of which were airline ticket agent types. It is currently filming in Worcester, MA, and I feel confident in stating I have not been cast as an airline ticket agent in any capacity, despite my adorableness. (I haven’t heard from anyone, you see.) The two auditions consisted of varied reads: Role One Read one line three times. Smile. Look cute. Be a prop. Role Two Read four pages. Be interesting. Be curious. Be obvious-and-yet-not-so. I found Role One difficult. There was not enough information for my taste. I like detail. I like expository data. I wallow in TMI. But since when has my preference governed an audition experience? I’ve been a prop before: I once played … Read more » |
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