No canary in a cage for me...this canary's ready to fly free!

Day 16

Callbacks after auditions are an interesting beast unto itself. You really have no idea what is going to happen. In the general callback you get scenes from that play and you read them. It's as simple as that. Then there are the other brand of callbacks where the director changes it up a bit. I will always remember the callback for one of the main season shows I got was peculiar. We got scenes to read, yes, but before that we were in groups of 10-12 people. We all got onstage and sat in a circle with a paper bag in the middle. One at a time we had to come up and grab a random can from the bag and sing a commercial for that can. That callback is one of the oddest ones I have ever had, yet it has stuck with me and will for probably the rest of my life.

Again, you never know what a director is going to do for a callback. I just had a day full of 5 different callbacks with 5 different directors. It ranged from reading from a scene to coming onstage and making a sound to represent the state of the world. There is no preparing for it. You have to be ready for anything and everything. It's frustrating at times, yet exhillerating most of the time. You don't know what to expect next. You have to really just go in and trust your instincts as an actor. I think it's those random callback moments that trully separate the good actors from the bad ones. Good actors have to think on their toes and be able to deal with anything thrown at them. If you can't deal with a callback that isn't your typical one, you really need to work on getting better with your craft.