Sacramento Music Circus Journal: 8/5/07
Day 1 of my Sacramento Music Circus gig.
Jet Blue departed JFK a bit later than planned, but I didn't mind, I was running late anyways. I had a dinner party last night and had to clean up, pack, and get the apartment ready for my subletter.
It's 12:18am NYC time and I'm flying over Colorado, almost there!
It baffles me to think back to late January, when I was laid off from my day job (see blog entry entitled "A Thank You Letter to the Gods of Good Luck". ) I came home stunned by my new freedom. I was a bit worried about my financial future, yes, but I was also excited about being able to pursue my acting dreams full time. I was sitting on my couch, talking to my friend Elissa on the phone. We were agreeing how odd it was that we both had just lost our jobs and were about to start collecting unemployment, and oh-what-FUN we were gonna have going to all these EPAs with no "job-job" holding us back.
FYI: an EPA is an Equity Principal Audition. Equity is the union for theatre actors. All the big Regional Theatres from across the country come into NYC every Feburary/March and have EPAs to cast their next season.
So anyway, we were talking about EPAs and I got this overwhelming feeling that I was gonna book something really great, and it was gonna take me out of town for a while. I had decided that I wanted to book an ensemble role and not a leading role, because I just wanted to be part of the big picture and completly submerge myself into the entire group. I want to share a dressing room with tons of other people, put on my character shoes, and sing in the chorus. As I was talking to Elissa and telling her all this, and I could almost see my future. I had some sort of blurry vision, and a definite strong feeling that I would be packing my character shoes sometime this summer. Today, I proved myself RIGHT!
So here I am, heading off to a future I knew I would make happen. I have that same strong feeling that this is the beginning of something great, that this is not my one and only booking. This kind of life, going after a dream with no solid paycheck coming in every week, is the scariest thing I've ever done, but I'm going to do it. What else is life about if not for going after a life that makes you happy.
As Owen Meany says, with John Irving's words, "If you care about something, you have to protect it – if you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
It's 12:18am NYC time and I'm flying over Colorado, almost there!
It baffles me to think back to late January, when I was laid off from my day job (see blog entry entitled "A Thank You Letter to the Gods of Good Luck". ) I came home stunned by my new freedom. I was a bit worried about my financial future, yes, but I was also excited about being able to pursue my acting dreams full time. I was sitting on my couch, talking to my friend Elissa on the phone. We were agreeing how odd it was that we both had just lost our jobs and were about to start collecting unemployment, and oh-what-FUN we were gonna have going to all these EPAs with no "job-job" holding us back.
FYI: an EPA is an Equity Principal Audition. Equity is the union for theatre actors. All the big Regional Theatres from across the country come into NYC every Feburary/March and have EPAs to cast their next season.
So anyway, we were talking about EPAs and I got this overwhelming feeling that I was gonna book something really great, and it was gonna take me out of town for a while. I had decided that I wanted to book an ensemble role and not a leading role, because I just wanted to be part of the big picture and completly submerge myself into the entire group. I want to share a dressing room with tons of other people, put on my character shoes, and sing in the chorus. As I was talking to Elissa and telling her all this, and I could almost see my future. I had some sort of blurry vision, and a definite strong feeling that I would be packing my character shoes sometime this summer. Today, I proved myself RIGHT!
So here I am, heading off to a future I knew I would make happen. I have that same strong feeling that this is the beginning of something great, that this is not my one and only booking. This kind of life, going after a dream with no solid paycheck coming in every week, is the scariest thing I've ever done, but I'm going to do it. What else is life about if not for going after a life that makes you happy.
As Owen Meany says, with John Irving's words, "If you care about something, you have to protect it – if you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”