Frankly, I'm shocked

CD: Cubs game on the radio

Well, it finally happened. I finally succeeded at an audition. Yesterday I went to try out for a Playground incubator team. The Playground is an improv co-op theatre that just got a new venue here in Chicago. They have a group of "member teams" and take on guest spots and rentals. They also create these incubator teams that are composed usually of beginning improvisers who want to get some stage time.
So, I did my audition yesterday and it totally bummed me out. I sucked it up pretty bad. It was a big group audition with about thirty people broken down into 3 groups and we each did our own little show of sorts. There wer ten of us in my group and we had ten minutes to do our "show." people would come out five or six at a time and just suck focus from important parts of scenes or talk over people. lots of screaming and stepping in front of other actors to block their view. It was really retarded if I may be so bold.
I would consider myself mostly a passive player so this environment is not conducive to making me look god or actually good, that was a typo. I just look sheepish. Really, I'm taking my time and trying to build things with other players. It sucked and I didn't adapt. But, I got the nod. I made it onto a team, so finally I will be playing on a stage in Chicago. I got a group email from our coach, Ryan Keissling about when our first meeting will be and I checked out the other people's email addresses. There were a couple of names I recognized from the auditions and they were people I liked. One in particular, a dude who's style I rather enjoyed was Duncan Teater. He seems like a pretty cool guy and I love his name. I'm going to push to the troupe that our name be simply "Duncan Teater." I love it.
I can't wait to get it on and prov with strangers who will become less strange. I anticipate a problem, though. I need to not battle for control. I need to let things happen and keep myself from sinking too much time into this thing. I'm going to want to run the PR and come up with huge ideas and cause myself a lot of work and stress. But I have to be aware that all of that energy should be going into my new national touring troupe idea who's conception is almost upon us.

and there it is,
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