It's So Strange How Things Happen

So, it's so strange how things happen in this business, the theatre/acting world. I just read my friend and MFA classmate Meg McLynn's blog (linked to on the right) about how she was about to move out of Las Vegas and then opportunity of her singing jazz came up and all her plans changed.
Things in this business change in seconds.
Another friend/classmate of mine was telling me how she was almost completely out of money in the bank, when boom, she gets a big off-broadway play followed by a commercial.
I have had my own swing of events lately.
As soon as i graduated from Columbia with my MFA, i immediately was cast in two small off-off broadway plays. The last one ended in November. From mid-November through December I had I think 4 auditions total, all for different touring equity kids shows. I got called back every time but didn't land one. Then I went home for the holidays and when I came back by New Years I was out of a job, job, and could not get one audition to save my life for all of January and half of February. I was pretty miserable and scared.
All of a sudden, when i was home one day, i check all the casting notices on the few sites that i look at, and holy cow, there was actually things i could go to and be seen in. I applied for about 4 auditions and was contacted for all of them plus did some auditions at One on One Studios.
Time travel back to October. I auditioned for an MFA director's thesis production of The Threepenny Opera which i love. On Christmas, i found i got a call back, but then i never heard from the director again, and chalked it up to that he found his cast and ended up not needing me to come in. Well at the very end of February i get a call from the director to come in and read with him for the role of Filch, the only role i really fit for in the musical. I had a blast working with him for probably around a half hour or so. And a day or two later I was offered the role. And let me tell you, I was psyched!!!!!!! Even though the job didn't pay, i was so happy to have an awesome role in an awesome musical.
However, at the same time I was waiting to hear back from a couple of the other theaters i auditioned for.
One was for the musical The Life that is playing in Wilton Manors, Florida, just outside of Ft. Lauderdale. I was supposed to get music to audition with from the director a few days before the audition. For whatever reason, it didn't come until the day before the audition, and i didn't get home until 9pm that night. Great, i have to learn three songs i've never heard before, without sheet music (just by ear) to sing a capella, and i have to learn them in a couple hours before i go to bed. So the trooper that i am did it, albeit with some complaining.
I go into the audition directly after my bartending class in the morning. I get in, and the director of the show and the writer of the musical, in which he was Tony nominated for, were sitting there. I decided to do a song called Don't Take Much, which is sung by a big pimp. My skinny, innocent little self was obviously not right for it, but of the three songs it was the best for my voice range and i would make this big pimp work for me somehow or other. So i'm all prepared to do this a capella. I planned to jazz up the song a little bit in my own way to make it my own (and used some techniques that Penny Fuller taught me when i trained with her). However when I'm about to start, they turn on a backing track. What? I wasn't prepared for that. I had messed with tempos when i was learning it and had no clue what the real tempo was. Luckily the director gave me some hints and i just went for it. I sucked!!! I got all off rhythm but just kept going, and doing my acting. When i was done, I just started cracking up right in the middle of the audition room. Surprisingly the director really seemed to like the audition, or something in me, i really have no clue but i got a good feeling about it. after the audition I stayed in touch with him, and got a really good feeling i would be cast in the show.
So now i have this great threepenny opera show to do, when boom, I do get cast in The Life, and it pays. Modest pay, but more than enough to pay rent!!! So even though i've only been cast as an ensemble role in The Life, i had to reluctantly turn down my nice role in 3penny. I couldn't believe it though. I hadn't been in a show for thee months, could barely get in an audition, and was running low on cash, when all of a sudden my whole life changed in an instant...for now!!!!
More craziness, just today, i got a call from an artistic director to come in and audition for a show out in NY as well. I unfortunately had to turn down that audition ( a first) because I would be in Florida during all the rehearsals! It's crazy how you can be sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo down in this business and then the next thing you know you go on a little streak. Hopefully when i get back to NY this summer, I can continue riding this streak for a while!!!! I need it! Don't we all!!!