My sad story

ok here is my sad story:
cast lists came up today at my school for the 2 plays we are doing and i didn't ace my audition but i didn't completely fu*k it up the way some people did( letting us know when they forgot lines etc.)...
i got the most throwaway part in the whole play! i have 5 or so lines in the first act, i am not in any of the second and then i have one line in the third about "look the flag is there on the pole" i am devastated. I wanted a part i could work really hard on and focus on character and it is hard to do that with something along the lines of maid#1. i am the ONE person at my school who has done professional theater and yet i get the worst part in the whole goddman play! I know this sounds ungrateful and I am grateful that i get to be in the play. i know i know there are no small parts only small actors. but honestly it sucks. ok thought i would share my story and see if anyone could cheer me up. thanks for listening
FOCI

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How about this!! Getting rejected from 3 shows in a row!

I hate when people gripe about it. You GOT into the play, enjoy that.

Oh, FOCI. I know how that feels. My junior year we were doing a one act play that we were going to take to competition. Well, I knew I was going to get the lead because, and not to brag, I was the best. As it turns out our drama teacher (bitch) gave the part to a senior because he was leaving that year. (Great way to cast, huh?)

Well, I wasn't even cast in the play and was furious! So I just complained non stop and worked on my own stuff for the competition. Anyways, flash forward to that day. They did their one act and the guy who got the part I wanted fell and broke his leg after 2 minutes on stage. It was fabulous. They cancelled the show and were disqualified. And me? Well, I was chosen best of the best for my event.

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Dont worry...I tried out for all three of the shows at my college last week---and I didn't make a single one!

But I have another audition this week for Assassins...pray for me!

thanks everyone. i stil feel like sh*t but i am really trying to make the best of it and get over myself. and it' s not a great accomplishment to get into the play because everyone gets in...oh well. i guess i am almost sort of embarrassed to tell people about the play and i don't want them to see me in it because the last thing they saw me n was a huge role in a really great theater.ahhhh! i feel so weird. thanks for all the stories too, i appreciate them and any more you know like that i appreciate also.

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Updated On: 8/30/04 at 08:20 PM

:)

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As a wise person once said, "there are no small parts, only small actors." Make the most of it and hang in there :)

Priest, it's not the size of the ship...

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Sometimes Defeat is the best thing to Built you as a person. I know your probably going to be mad about that but I'm serious. In Kansas Freshman year is in junior high. Well as A freshman I had all the Lead roles..*Granted it was junior high* My sophmore year came around and I was finally in high school. And I got diddly squat. I worked on crew and I didn't understand why. The director was always saying what an awesome actress I was. He was a Jerk. SO I switched schools and My junior year I got leading roles galore not to mention I started doing community theatre like crazy and each role I got was better than The next. I audition for sound of music on the 20th and Feel confident. The reason being is that I have worked my tail off to get better and every defeat I get makes me work 10 times harder for my dream. Just because your not in the spot light that much doesn't mean your not important. Keep working and Every Let down just smile and remember that one day you will show everyone who said no to you!
I Hope you don't think I'm being rude. Just honest

I know how you feel, believe me. As a senior last year, I tried out for my high school's Fiddler. I assumed that I would be getting a singing part, as I'm one of my music teacher's favs and I was a senior. I did fine in the audition (messed up a few words while singing the Papa's part in 'Tradition', but nothing too major), and my best friend (who ended up playing Tevye), who sat in on all the auditions, told me he would cast me as Lazar. Anyway, I went into school the next week to find I was playing... the Constable. I was upset, but didn't say anything.

The show turned out great, altho our Lazar could have been better . (He actually could of. The kid that got the part is one of those people who are always depressed... We had a very boring and depressed Lazar)

My advice: keep your head up, and make them pay for not giving you a better part with your acting. That's what I did, and in my next play I was the 3rd lead! Good luck!

I'm sorry you got a small part! But think of it this way: Quality, not quantity. If you make your 5 or 6 lines incredible, compared to someone who has 100 lines who makes them all dull, who is the better actor?

Have fun in the show, even though you do have a small part. But just think that you're in the show!! Just having a few lines is better than not being in it!

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