Today I e-mailed a career coach. I went to see Shakespeare in the Park tonight with my friend from Fiddler - who told me she had been working with this career coach - and it had really been helping - and her roommate worked with the coach and after a few session booked two national tours - and another roommate became the winning model on PROJECT RUNWAY. (No seriously --- she did - it was during Pinafore!) Apparently the coach helps you actually present yourself well in the 8 awesome measures you get - everything from changing your name (I DOUBT my name is my problem- but my friends last name was Pitts - it's not Carroll - much better) - to what age range you play, and which 8 bars to sing, and how to present yourself, and how you actually read to the auditioner. Most people who have given me feedback thus far - know me - so their feedback has been very skewed and - I think - incorrect. For instance - everyone LOVES it when I sing WONDERFUL GUY - because I bounce around the room and smile stupidly and make silly faces - which is all well and good if you'd heard me talk about (gasp) Austin -

GAH! I WROTE THIS RELALY LONG EMPOWERING ENTRY AND IT GOT DELETED! and I"m too tired to rewrite. This is all that got saved.......