DAY ONE IS OVER!!!!!!!

I did it. I finished my first day as a Professional Tour Actor/Director. It didn’t go as awful as I thought it would. My tour partner and I have a really good rapport with each other and that made the whole audition process go much better. On Mondays we have two hours scheduled for auditions and today given the amount of kids we had 48 (a really good number) and the age breakdown, we had the show cast in only an hour. That was really surprising. The second half of the day was a little more stressful. Just getting into the swing of things and getting used to communicating with children instead of adults. Teaching a whole show to kids in a week is a CHALLENGE! AAAAHHHHH!!!!! If I make it through this week and am still excited to do it all again, I'll know that I made the right choice. The kids were so excited it was unbelievable, but also hard to contain at the same time. Get 50 kids in an echoey (I don't know how to spell that word and if it isn't a word I just made it one) gym and it creates a lot of noise. Today we just worked with the leads. We have Hansel, Gretel, the Witch, and The Cooks (there are eight cooks). They are all ages 11-15 so it was a little easier to handle them. Tomorrow we tackle the rest of the kids, except the really little ones. The whole process of auditions, rehearsals, and performances is scheduled down to every last minute, but some how it all comes together in the end with costumes and set and it's a show! At least we hope :) It's only Monday, but we already had questions about what everyone's costumes looked like. They won't see their costumes till Friday. I just have to remember to take it one day at a time.