For the past 2 to 3 weeks, she has been memorizing the role of Roxy, with emphasis and focus on the sections of the script that would be required for the auditions. I’m so proud of how hard she worked to be ready for the auditions. She took feedback about being louder and slowing down. She also thought about the motions and the movements that would best suit the character for the script.
We had a lot of conversation about how trying out means not necessarily getting the role. She was happy to work through the audition process and acknowledge that there’s a good chance she won’t get the role. There were 23 students, according to the teacher, I tried out for this role.
Today at lunch were the tryouts. Claire recap the experience for me. She told me she was so nervous that she could not eat her lunch while she was waiting her term. She was one of the people who went earlier in the group. She made a point to be loud. At one point she got a chance to restart and she slow down. She says the hardest part was at the end when she knew she needed to bump the jukebox with her hip, but she felt embarrassed to do that. But she said she consciously told herself that she should do it because it would give her a better chance of getting the role because it would show the teacher that she would be willing to do it on stage.
I could not be more proud of Claire for putting herself out there and giving something hard a try. Clair is not somebody who likes to be the center of attention. But she decided she wanted to be this lead role and put the work in and the effort in. She is excited to hear the outcome, and so am I. We don’t know when we were here. I love this girl and her energy and willingness to try things and work hard at different things.
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