Sunday 19th August
Reading back on what I’ve posted so far, I realised I had neglected to mention what part I was auditioning for! Joseph is a mainly male show, but the lead female role is the ‘Narrator’. In this production, Brad’s also putting in a small female chorus know as the ‘Dreamcoat Divas’ who’ll be doing the backup singing in close harmony. Naturally I was auditioning for narrator, but was happy to be a Diva failing that. (I’m a diva anyway: P)

Sunday was a cold, rainy, possibly drought-breaking kind of day, and come 6pm I had had my shower, was in my jammies ready for a night in when I got a call from Brad, asking me to come down to Sunnybank for a call-back for Narrator! Whooo- hoooo! I hurriedly made dinner, got dressed and put a face on. On the 45-minute drive down to the theatre I managed to do a half decent warm up and go through the Narrator’s songs.

I walked in and saw Jane. Bugger! She’s good; I don’t have a chance. Also auditioning was a girl called Bernadette, new to Sunnybank. Apparently, 16 girls auditioned for the part, now three of us were doing second auditions. We decided to do the audition in front of each other; I like to keep my enemies close ;)

When Brad called me earlier in the evening, I told him I was in my pyjamas. He jokingly said I should audition in them so I brought along my purple fuzzy slippers to wear in the audition as a nice compromise. The slippers had appeared in two previous Sunnybank productions so it was a bit of an in-joke to wear them, and I was really comfortable in them, although I almost lost my footing going down the stairs afterwards.

We each sang selections from the show, my fave being the ‘Prologue’. I think I did ok, couldn’t really fault my performance (which is really rare). We then got to do the one we all wanted to do, ‘Potiphar’, which I really hammed up, doing the 20’s accent.

That was about it, jokes got bounced around about kneecapping each other so we’d each get the part. Brad said he’d call that night, so off I drove back home and back into my jammies. About 10ish Brad called saying they were too tired to make a decision so they’d meet on Tuesday night and I’d be told then, but if it was any consolation, I was in the top two… I knew it – I’ll have to kneecap Jane after all!

The next evening…

I finally got the dreaded/ much anticipated phone call from Brad, and the winner is… Jane! Dammit, I knew I should have tripped her down the stairs after the audition. Oh well! At least I’m a Diva.