I got some less than stellar feedback at an audition that made me wonder how I could have improved my audition room exit strategy. I shared my experience on my Unscripted blog on Backstage.
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C
New blog post on Backstage Unscripted.
I couldn’t sleep last night so I stayed up listening to music, reading, writing, and throwing Hazel the ball at least 50 times before she finally plopped down to fall asleep.
Around 3 AM, I heard yells out my window. I live on the 3rd floor on a crowded street so I didn’t think much of it. After about ten minutes, I listened closely to try to figure out where the sounds were coming from. I ignored them thinking it was just a neighbors arguing. I live near a crowded street and commonly hear people outside if my window is open.
When the argument didn’t quietly resolve, I finally crept down the hallway to figure out what was going on and see where the noise was coming from. I listened to the voices and made out that it was a woman begging to please be let go. There was a man voice telling her to be quiet and I could hear her sobbing. It sounded horrific, I wondered why no one had called the cops yet and I realized that at this hour of the night, most people were probably asleep with their windows closed or just assumed that someone else would call.
I realized that I would never forgive myself if this house became a crime scene and I didn’t call the cops even though I heard someone in pain.
Needless to say, a cop car did show up and within minutes had called for back-up before the whole block was lined with patrol cars outside the house halfway down the block. I crept outside to walk Hazel to figure out just what had been going on. The girl was on a stretcher, surrounded by paramedics and they guy was being arrested.
I quietly went back inside and felt guilty that I should have called 15 minutes sooner, or paid more attention to the yelling when I first heard it. The point I’m trying to make is that you can’t always assume someone else is on it and will call to report something suspicious going on. I hope she’s okay and I’m just glad that the cops came as fast as they did.
That’s all.
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Cassidy
Reading for flight to DC- layover in NYC- hard to be so close yet so far away from NYC friends for 1.5 hrs. Not about to pull Alec Baldwin and get kicked off flight for cell phone use. XO.
