For those of you who didn't know already,
UIUC is home to the
Krannert Center for Performing Arts, one of the best performing arts centers in the world! What is even better is that the
Krannert Center has a completely student run association called the
Krannert Center Student Association through which students can volunteer as ushers for all the performances at
Krannert and hence watch them for free!! So
ofcourse, I had to become a member of the association! :) Other than ushering, the association also organizes other things like guided tours and various student run events. One such event is "On the Rocks" a series of one act plays! Sometime in February there was a call for auditions for On the Rocks and I decided to try it out just for fun since I had never done it before! So I went to the auditions and read/acted out a few lines from a few plays in front of the directors (also students)! I also had to act like I was a dragon and a teapot!
haha I personally thought I had done a horrible job and had a good laugh about it with my friends, some of whom had come to watch me audition!! Here are some pics from the audition!
After a couple of days, to my great surprise I got an email saying that I had been selected to play Mike the page boy who turns out to be the surprise hero in a play called "The Business of Dragons"! So after a couple of months of practicing two to three times a week and complete stage
rehearsals for a week, we performed before reasonably sized audiences at the
Krannert Center amphitheatre! It was a great experience! (Including the cast parties after the performances ;) ) Here are some pictures of the cast for The Business of Dragons!:
