AUDITIONS!!!!

     As many of you know, I will be holding auditions for voices for the YouTube version of the comic, this Friday at the Gerald R. Sherratt Library on SUU campus, from 4 to 6 pm. As the notice in South Hall said, this is a low-key audition. My plan is to get a study room (which I think you can reserve for like two hours at a time) and herd everyone there via text and email, so I hope everyone auditioning has those two things.

     I'm assuming that if you are reading this you probably saw the audition notice, read the audition notice, signed up for a time slot and are now perusing my website asking yourself; "just how big a deal is this?" Either that or you are one of my sisters taking an interest in my life. If you are in the former camp, the answer is, not a huge deal. If you are in the latter camp then, yes, I am aware that I am a nerd, and yes I will take a bath and get a real job.
  
     When I say FSK isn't a huge deal, I mean it's not a huge deal yet. It is the fledgling brain-child of a feverish history dork's brain, waiting to burst forth from it's Dr. Pepper-swollen, Monty Python-Addled brain-womb into the lives and hearts of fellow history dorks. I'm hoping this is going to turn into a really cool phenomenon, and how could it not right? Did you see the first episode? Pure Gold!

      Anyway, here's some information that might be interesting to my auditionees. So, Francis Scott Key is the lawyer who wrote the poem that would become the national anthem. He's pretty much the original one-hit-wonder. He wrote one good poem that happened to be a huge hit for the next several hundred years, yet published a volume of poetry that sold like the opposite of hot cakes. What would that be? Home enimas? those gross candies your grandma thinks you like? Anyway, all anybody knows about FS Key is that he wrote the national anthem. Beyond that he is an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a conundrum, wrapped in an amusing spoonerism, wrapped in a croisant, wrapped in sunshine. I have cleverly un-enig-conun-amspoon-assant-shined him in a most amusing (so says me mum) fashion.

     So there's the premise of the cartoon. Here's what to expect if cast. If you are cast there will be no regular rehearsals, no scheduled performances, no unmitigated use of your time. I will simply send out an email every week or so to say that the comic is ready for voices. I will send out a list of the voices I need for that issue and schedule individual sessions with each actor to record their part. I will hardly ever have you record together, unless there's like a lot of scenes with you and one other character and you happen to have the same availability. I am hoping to get some voice doubling going so I don't have to deal with as many schedules, so work on your character voices. The main female voice has been cast, but there are a few others and there will be a few to come. I am also not averse to casting women who can do legitimate male voices. Once cast, you are cast forever. This could be a rough gig because you will have to pencil it into your busy lives periodically throughout the semester, and you will have to wait and see if you're in each episode. But, it could also be an awesome gig because you'll have something to do all semester, you won't have to miss any other worth-while activities to participate in it, and I'll let you have recordings of it for your professional reel, hooray! Also, how often in college do you get to originate a character? So work on your voices, I really need good announcer voices. If anyone can impersonate Howard Cosell, Walter Cronkite, or Peter Lorre that would be epic! I would even welcome the occasional John Madden sound-alike. So there's the skinny. Thanks for stickin' with me through this hella-long post, and I hope you are ready to Lay Down The Law!!!! This Friday.