Dying to Audition by John Gaspard

Author:John Gaspard [Gaspard, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert's Bridge Books

And so it went.

Rehearsing at night and pounding away at the proposal during the day. Leah also tried to keep up on her responsibilities for the theater at the same time. These included going through and making notes on a preliminary season recommendation from the play selection committee. And reviewing bids for someone to work on the parking lot’s many potholes. Plus, she still wanted to get someone in to test the Green Room for mold. Again.

But mostly, Leah worked on her proposal.

“You busy?” Betsy asked one afternoon, poking her head into Leah’s office.

“Sort of,” Leah said, as she looked up from the Artist’s Statement she was painfully crafting on her computer. In an attempt to beef up her skimpy first draft, she had added so many new ideas to what had been a simple, straightforward thesis that it now read like gibberish. Artsy gibberish, she thought, but gibberish nonetheless.

“You know that line in The Importance of Being Earnest,” Leah continued. “About how people never talk anything but nonsense?”

Betsy shook her head. “My head’s full enough already. I certainly don’t need to start adding in bon mots from Oscar Wilde.”

“Me too,” Leah said as she stopped searching her brain for the line from the show. “What’s up?”

“Two things,” Betsy said as she stepped fully into the small office. She held her ever-present “To Do” list in her hand. “I just wanted you to know that I haven’t made the progress I’d like to on the photo library. Just too many other things keep popping up. I know the Board was pushing to get it done soon.”

“Not a problem,” Leah said. “I can bring it up at the Board Meeting later this afternoon and take their temperature on the project as a whole.”

“Thanks. That’s why I brought it up now. Before the meeting.”

“No problem,” Leah said. “And?”

Betsy stared back at her. “And what?” she finally said.

“You said there were two things.”

“Oh, right,” Betsy said as she glanced down at her notes. “The other thing is still no word from Marcy Hallberg.”

“Marcy Hallberg?” The name didn’t immediately register with Leah.

“Yes, the actress who skipped out on the costume fitting after the readthrough. I’ve left several messages for her. Carol still wants to get her in this week. She’s being typically insistent and persistent about it. As only Carol can be.”

“And Marcy is not responding to messages?”

Betsy shook her head. “Neither voice mail or email. Nothing on either front.”

“She’s been in shows here in the past, right?” Leah asked.

Betsy nodded. “Several. Over many, many years.”

“Do you remember having any issues with her in the past?”

“Not a one,” Betsy said. “Quiet as a mouse, to be sure. But that one’s not a prima donna. Not like others I could name.”

Leah considered this for a long moment. She looked at her screen and her proposal, which still needed lots and lots of words. Big words. Smart words. Probably more than she had in her head at the moment.

“Do you have Marcy Hallberg’s address?”

“It will be on her audition form,” Betsy said.

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