gilana | Never After

Wednesday night I was called back for a singing role in Never After. I was thrilled to find out that my voice lessons have had enough impact that I could possibly be considered for a role, but also terrified that I might actually *get* one and then have to face my sheer terror at solo singing, in front of a huge audience at the Somerville. (I did think that singing in character might help, since I was fine in A Winter's Tale, but you just never know.) Anyway, I had also signed up to audition for the narrator, since a friend suggested that I'd be good at it and frankly I enjoy auditioning. Both readings seemed to go reasonably well, but mostly I figured I'd end up in the chorus and was perfectly happy with that.

A little after 10pm, I got a phone call, and the caller ID said it was

lillibet. "Audition results already, any by phone?" I thought. "That's unusual." But no, it turned out she just had a design question for me. "Jo needs to know," she said "what font to use in the big storybook that the narrator reads from... since you'll be the one reading it."

So, yeah. I'm going to be the narrator for Never After. In the Somerville Theater, where Tallulah Bankhead was in the stock company and Busby Berkeley choreographed and Kris Delmhorst showed off her rack, and I hear some group called U2 was there as well. September 26 & 27 -- mark your calendars now!