AUDITION: Dolphin Boy of Constant Sorrow
I got into the van tonight after it was all over and was overcome with what felt like a post-coital bliss. You know what I’m talking about. That full-body “ahhhhh” feeling where everything seems wonderful and you’re ecstatic in your exhaustion. Performing satisfactorily at this audition tonight, one I’d been agonizing over as it was my first one in a year, left me just wanting to lie back and have a smoke.
I was so nervous that I was going to suck. I’ve performed on stage, singing with my ukulele over a hundred of times over the last five years or so, and many times, usually due to nervousness, I have not been able to repeat the performance of my living room. Something about the lights, the microphone, the audience, it’s overwhelming and I tighten up and suck.
This audition tonight had all the elements of me scaring myself. Look, I know I’m not all THAT talented as a singer. Lord knows I’ve had to put up with things like my parents turning up the radio when I’ve played guitar in the back of the family van, my ex-wife banning me from playing & singing while she was home and scores of negative comments about my singing on YouTube over the years… I don’t care. I keep singing. See, tonight I was auditioning for a role in one of Seattle’s most prestigious theatre troops, one that actual PAYS a small stipend… and I was asked to sing Appalachian harmonies, something I think my voice is actually suited for.
No tremolo. No trills. Just hit the note and then hit the octave up…
If my singing could land me a role in this production, oh god, that would be such a huge personal validation.
This is also the very first video with my NEW video camera! Yes, I bought my third JVC Everio camera in five years today. The last one with its issues with the LCD screen were irreparable. This new one can record at much higher definition, which was handy with a scenario like this where I just set the thing to wide-screen record and just hoped I was capturing what I needed to. Wow. This thing can record at 1920 x 1080 resolution! I’ll probably never record at that high of quality again as it makes for monstrously huge files that my puter has trouble handling, but this thing can record at studio quality HDTV! All for $249!
Be sure to watch (or skip) to the end to see the “Dolphin Boy” bit. It seemed to be a hit; had the directors rolling.
I have the same camera and bloody hell, I had to pay $449.00 + tax up here in Canada 🙁 I wish you two broken legs!! Archived image unavailable lolol!! dolphin boy is funny!!
“I don’t care”. “I keep singing”. 😉
I think you nailed that song J…… 8)
Dolphin Boy Appalachian style…..brought me nearly to tears…you my friend make a consummate Dolphin,a Dolphin for all seasons …if you will 😛
Good luck….. :groovy:
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Great Vid Joko Lov Th_ Song & Rendition Thanx !!!
😆 lol…Seems Dolphin Boys Outta Breathe Under Paid & Over Worked !!! 😉
One of Ralph Stanley’s finest. We’ll meet again on that further shore…
More stuff for you J.
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Hi Joko… 😉
Sorry for my usual bluntness, Joko, but I balk at the five minute barrier on homemade entertainment vidz. I did however click your heart button.
From an e-mail today:
“Jenna has made most of her casting choices for Sideshow and, if you’re receiving this, she is not planning to cast you in the show.”
Well shucky darns. Every failure is just one step closer to success!
Some people go to an audition and bore others to tears, and some people go and be Joko. :entertained: