…I mailed the audition application form and fee to the Opera Academy this morning. I can no longer pretend I dont really want to do it (when the reality is that Im scared shitless…) If I make it I have a chance to be a professional opera singer…I think Im going to throw up…
The actual auditions arent til March…if Im this bad now I’ll be in a padded cell by then…
Good luck sweetie…
And we can say we knew you when you were just a pseudonym!
Best wishes.
“To do her justice, I can’t see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she’d thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman’s Honeymoon
Just don’t throw up during the audition. That’d be gross. 
Best of luck - you’ll do great.
Break a leg, Scarlet! And relax…you’ll be fine.
“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his ribcage.” --anonymous redhead
I am so envious Scarlet. Good luck!
A real opera singer! You’re so lucky. All the best and congratulations! And don’t give up.
Remember, it’s not over until …
it’s over. (expecting another ending to that sentence, were you?)
La Dona Mobile
They took my PANTS away…
While I was STANDing there…
They took my UNDerwear…
(Just a suggestion…) How exciting! Good luck!
Good for you, Scarlet! I’ll be crossing my fingers for you; that is so cool.
Catrandom
Congratulations, Scarlet! {{waves of admiration}} You’re doing what so many people never have the guts to do: go after their dream.
You’ll knock 'em dead, leave 'em panting for more.
Veb
Way cool.
May the Gods go with you. And may luck and good fortune be your partners.
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
We all get tickets to your first performance at the Met, right? And don’t pretend you don’t know us when we try to get The Wave going!
“In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” - Ecclesiastes 1:18
“Break a leg” That’s for sports.
“Have a merde’” Is for actors. I read it somewhere, really.
Or you could use this ice-breaker at your audition:
Toreador, don’t spit upon the floor.
Use the cuspidor, that’s what it’s for…
Live a Lush Life
Da Chef
Is it too late for me to ingratiate myself so I can borrow money from you when you’re famous?
Aw geez you guys, snif Im touched (okay, you knew that, but Im moved too). Thanks for all the support. saraam and Chef, lol I wish I dared…
Im going to babble some more cause you guys are a captive audience…and I dont have to know if you leave the thread 
I cant believe how nervous I am over this. It’s two whole months from now, and it’s not like Im inexperienced at auditioning or performing. I dont remember being this nervous before my audition to grad school - maybe because I was also so stressed with trying to graduate. I’ll be fine, going through my day, and suddenly I’ll remember that I have an audition coming up, and what it’s for, and I’ll clutch. I mean, I’ll stop breathing for a second. And it’s TWO WHOLE MONTHS FROM NOW!!! I mean, come on, Scarlet, get a grip.
And Im also beating myself up a bit cause I wrote the wrong first name for one of the composers. It’s a rather obscure American one, who the committee wouldnt be likely to know anyway, but still…all the more reason for them to check…and see what a dork I am.
sigh Thanks again for the support…you guys mean a lot to me…and thanks for listening to my frantic babbling. Im going to take some Rolaids now…although a Valium might be more to the point…
Scarlet Pimpernel, remember, there are no small parts, only small actors.
congrats!
good luck, and stop fretting - you’ll do great.
by the way, an old friend of my parents was a concert organist. he told me that if he was ever not nervous before a performance, that was the day he would retire - it would mean he no longer cared about his performance.
i think of that often the night before a court appearence, and find it soothing.
and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe
crossing fingers for you!