On a whim I decided to audition for the V Day production of The Vagina Monologues at Douglass in late March. It’s been a a while since I’ve been to an audition or been on a stage and I wanted to go mainly just to see if I could get it.
When I showed up, there were a bunch of young ladies discussing frat parties in the hall outside the audition room. Needless to say, I had little to bring to the table. They were discussing an upcoming heaven and hell part which immediately captured my attention so I asked “Where’s this?” and the answer was gamma something or other, a co-ed fraternity. Which, incidentally, doesn’t make sense how can a frat be c0-ed? Doesn’t the frat negate that? Maybe it’s called a social organization or some other PC term.
One girl asked me if I was a student. I’m assuming she meant Rutgers right? Inside my head I was singing “one of these things is not like the other things.”
I choose my monologue from the four choices and pretend to prepare while I eavesdrop on girls speaking about the plays subject matter in a very refreshing way. Well, maybe refreshing isnt the right word……wondrous, that’s it, they were filled with wonder discussing their orgasms and trying way too hard trying to sound casual as they said “cunt” over and over.
Today I learned I got a callback. We all sat together and did our monologues in front of each other.
As I did my second monologue, I decided to take a chance, and I couldn’t be happier with the reaction I got. The room was filled with Heaty belly laughs and that sound literally fills me with a physical feeling of warmth and power and sheer bliss. There is no greater feeling in the world to me that making a room of people howl with laughter. I’ll find out tomorrow if I got it.
