Adopted by Six on Broadway

Got Quite Well Known

Angie's POV

Ragtime auditions.

I never thought I could be so nervous and excited at the same time.

Bianca was auditioning for Sarah, which fit her vocal range perfectly, and I don't want to sound racist, but because Bianca was half black (that sound horrible I'm so sorry), she looked the part.

Caleb was obviously going for Houdini.

"What do you mean I have to do this for credit." Someone complained. "It's the second day of school."

"Miss Jones, you are behind on credits from the previous year. If you wish to graduate, this is in your best interest."

We turned and saw Clarissa wearing all black with purple streaks in her hair smacking gum.

"Oh it's the new kids. Clarissa told me about you." She said mockingly.

"So you're not Clarissa?" Biana said.

"Nope. I'm Marissa. Her twin sister. Don't joke about my name. I'm Mari. I don't want to be here."

"At auditions?" I asked, as confident as I hoped I looked.

"Nope. At this school. Don't know what I'm doing here anyway. But if I'm forced to take part in this musical, I guess I'm going big cause I'm not going home. I'm going for the lead. What's her name, Mother?"

Okay imma go out on a limb here, and say the Jones twins are the Plastics or Heathers of MAPA. 

Bianca gave her a look. "As if. My friend right here is going to get the lead you'll see."

Mari smacked her gum again. "Cute. Good luck."

Cue the frantic dramatic gasps from theatre kids everywhere.

Ms Summer gasped. "Who just said...you know what?"

Whirling around, everybody in the room pointed to Mari.

"Miss Jones! In the theatre it is customary to say break a leg while a production is underway. Either you haven't read the rules," she pointed to a huge poster, "or you want to curse this production. Either you do the counter curse or you're suspended."

We're not joking, theatre kids are serious about this kind of thing.

In fact, here are the rules.

1. Always be mindful that while a production is underway if you damage your voice it is your own fault.

2. In addition to rule 1, actors and crew alike are reminded to always drink tea.

3. Never, under any circumstances say G O O D L U C K during a production of risk cursing the show.

4. Never reference the Scottish tragedy, unless of course you're talking about the character.

5. If it so happens that you break rules 4 and/or 5, please do the appropriate counter curse, see SM or director if you are not sure.

(Not kidding the theatre I do shows at actually has a poster that says this.)

"What's the counter curse?" Mari asked, not seeming to care.

"Spin around seven times, apologize to the theatre, and you have to audition last." 

"Yeah, I'm not doing that."

"Fine then. Please take a seat Miss Jones. Okay, first to audition, Bianca Allen."

Bianca was very talented, and I'm not going to say what song everybody sang because that's a lot of work. 

But now it's my turn!

"Hi, I'm Angel Macasaet-Pauly, and I'm auditioning for Mother. I'll be singing Heart of Stone from Six."

Please Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss don't fail me now.

I prayed to everybody I knew that I could do the run and hit the right notes, and I'm so confused am I even singing the right words.

Auditions are so stressful!!!

I recognized the ending notes, and quickly found my way back to my seat in the choir room.

The rest of the auditions passed by like seconds.

I thought the nervousness would be over, but HOW COME WAITING TO SEE WHAT PART YOU GET IS SO STRESSFUL TOO!?

"Okay everybody! I'll post the cast list tomorrow. Break a leg!" 

We went home, and I couldn't sleep that night. I was so nervous.

At school the next day, I waited for lunch to come. It was odd, as I walked to classes, everybody kept looking at me oddly.

I sat next to Caleb and Bianca the next day, and sighed. "Everybody keeps staring at me."

"You haven't heard? You're famous! That Mari girl told everyone about the conversation you two had yesterday, and everyone started googling you. You're a massive deal! Everyone's talking about your audition yesterday too!" Caleb cried.

"Forever the gossip C." Bianca said.

"I'm here for the tea girl."

I noticed Ms Summer putting up the cast list behind him, and quickly shook them and pointed it out.

"Go go go!" I whispered. "It's gonna be packed if we don't go now!"

We were quick.

"I can't check." I whispered.

"I got Sarah!" Bianca said happily.

"I got Houdini!" Caleb said. "Ange honey you aren't gonna believe it. You got Mother!" 

"I did? I did!"

Marissa took that opportunity to shove through the gathering crowd of theatre kids. "Who the hell is Evelyn Nesbit? Don't think you've won Angie Macasaet-Pauly! I'll discover everything about you and destroy you!" She stomped off angrily.

How fun is that...?