Tonight I went to the callbacks for Anything Goes. I’m not a tap dancer, so I can only be a lead in it. Obviously I’d be good as Moonface Martin, but I also wanted to try for Evelyn because he’s usually done as a character role as well.

The funny thing is, they also had me read for Billy (the romantic lead) a whole lot. It was weird, and at first I thought they just wanted me to read for the hell of it, but then I realized they were actually considering me for the part. In fact, there were only a couple other guys they were looking at. Now, I still don’t think I got the part of Billy, but I’m proud of myself because I think I did a good job reading for it. I used really strong eye contact with the girl reading Hope (it was easy–she was cute), I made the lines feel real and not contrived, and I actually got the audience to go “Awww!” when my character was rejected and laugh when my character joked.

I still don’t think I’ll get Billy; I’m much shorter than the other guys and I’m more suited to other roles. But it made me feel good to read for it. It’s nice to think that the directors actually saw me as a possibility for a romantic lead; it means I might not be stuck in character roles forever. That would be nice.