Mum has booked a night in an hotel near the theater where the audition takes place tomorrow morning. We can even descry the golden statue on the top of it ! I'm scared to death and I can't sleep. I don't even touch a single piece of my breakfast despite my mum supplications.
I'm still not so at ease as we enter the Victoria Palace lobby. Several other boys are already there and I recognize one of them, Simon Fisher, alongside whom I had passed my audition.
At exactly 9 o'clock, Jason, Carry and Nicola open the doors that leads to the hall and invites us to take place in the red seats of the first and second rows.
"Good ! Every one is there ?" ask Jason. " So, that's how the morning will proceed . Auditions will take place on stage. We gonna ask you to show us what you are able to, once again, then we will see if your are able, with one of our choreographer at your side of course, to show us a bit of a type of dance you've never learned before. Is everything ok ?" We nodded.
He smiled us back then he invites everybody to return to the lobby, except the first boy in alphabetical order.
After one and a half hour, it's my turn to be called by Nicola and lead to the stage. They turn on the music and I start dancing, completely forgetting about where I am. I turn my last cartwheels on last note of the Billy Talent song I've chosen with Mrs Baker. They let me breath for a minute before Fred Thomson, one of the resident choreographer join me on stage.
"Ok Duncan, are you ready for the second part of the audition ?" he ask me. I nod. "Good ! So, I'm gonna show you a few steps, you'll just have to repeat them after me ok ?" I nod again.
He start by placing his feet in first and his arms in first also. I try to copy him. "Now your right arm in 5th, over your head, shoulders down. Yes like that. And plié. Stay . Good. Right arm in first. You can stop now. Right, now I'm going to show you a little sequence. You look then you try to copy ok ?".He start dancing and he name the positions he was doing. After about one minute he attempt his last step, a single turn pirouette ! How am I suppose to do that ! " Your turn Duncan." I start. " Yes, shoulders down" he comments " And first . One and two and three and four ... Good. Pay attention to your feet . And three and four and five and six. Arms . And now, last move. Prepare. And .... now." I try to turn, but only do half of the turn I was suppose to do ! "Okay. Take a breath then you can return to the lobby." he said me in a smile.
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The Trainee
FanfictionDuncan Bishop is doing his first performance tonight as Billy Elliot. As he climb in the bus after the show he remember everything he've been going trough since his very first audition.
