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Today I have to decide whether or not I actually want to audition. There are enough roles so that I can probably get one if I don't blow it, but now of course I must question whether I want to commit to a through-December timesink. Seeing as how MIGS continues to pick up steam, while ICCB deadlines remain steady, and how I recently agreed to throw some "sweat-equity" into someone else's interesting project, I wonder if I should just call it done as far as personal commitments go, and pass on the drama for now (as it were). As fun as it would be, I can't pretend that the production wouldn't take up a lot of time.

Tough choice, actually.

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Since you followed my advice on the book thing, I'll throw in some advice here. Don't do the play thing. It sounds like you've got a lot going on (do you ever not?), and adding in something else would lead to a lot more stress than you want.

Maybe you could plan ahead to some future play, figure out what the rehearsal schedule is going to be, and plan to make the other parts of your life less busy around then.

Rewarding or Frustrating?

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I remember when I auditioned for a college production of Hamlet. I didn't actually get cast, but the director was a friend of mine and (probably out of guilt for not casting me) asked me to be an unspeaking crowd-person in several scenes. I readily agreed.

It started out slowly. At our first reading of the play, a few people didn't show up and I read their parts. Then a person dropped out, and I got a few lines. Then another person dropped out. And by the end of the play, I read practically every non-major character's lines. I didn't even realize their were so many "servants" in that play.

The worst part was that even though I really didn't have that many lines, they were pretty evenly distributed throughout the production, which meant that I had to be at every rehearsal. It really swallowed my life. As production time drew near I had next to no time to myself, and most of my friends hadn't seen me in weeks. I was incredibly stressed out.

But.

Putting on the production was absolutely magical. Even playing such a minor role as I did, it was entrancing to have all those people watching me, to feel the energy coming back from the crowd, to hear their applause. To work with such a fine group of people to produce something which actually drew people in, made them forget their own lives and feel like a part of a story written 500 years ago was an experience almost defying description. I am not really an actor, but that was exhilarating enough to make me wish, for just a moment, that I was one.

And looking back on it, I am very, very glad that I did it.

I can't pretend to have any clue about what you should do, but that's the short version of my experience with this type of thing. I hope it helps a little.