...Spelling Bee musical audition

Since I've been gone for 3 months and I'm about to leave for a week to LA to visit family and friends (and get new headshots!!!!), I thought I should try to throw an audition in the mix just to get back into things. Well it wasn't as easy as I thought it might be.
I woke up at 6:00am and got on the 6:32 A train leaving from my apartment at 185th and Fort Washington Ave. in Washington Heights. The studio I was going to is was Ripley-Grier Studios on 36th St and 8th Ave, which only took be about 30 minutes.

For those of you who don't know the "pecking" order at these auditions, here is a short summary:
Equity Actors with appointments(Actor's union)
Equity Alternates
EMC (Actors who have points towards their union card)
Non-Union Actors (ME)

So I arrived at 7am and things were looking good, since I was #3 on the non-union list. Then at 8am everyone and their mother, father, brother, sister (you get the idea) arrived.

At 9:30am the monitor allowed the non-union actors who had formed a line, to sign in "officially" and then I left at 10am to go back home.
I got ready for the day, and my husband Chris and I met with my sister at MoMA to see the Tim Burton exhibit (because I knew that it would be at least 1pm before they saw non-union actors. I called my friend, Liz Froio to check in and see how things were going, and she said it didn't look good. SO I went back around 2pm to see for myself. She was right. But the audition ended at 4pm, so I thought, "What's 2 hours after I got here so early this morning?" and waited patiently.

The monitor came out of the room at 3pm and told the non-union actors what we didn't want to hear after sticking around for 8 hours: that there was no way they would see non-union today. A few of us spoke to her and asked her if there was any chance at all they might see us at then end, if the magically got through everyone. She said that she would get as many people in as she could, and we were welcome to wait, but it was not likely. So since there was the smallest inkling of hope, I stayed. And then I left a half and hour later when I was absolutely sure it was impossible. How did I know? They turned away the EMC actors too!

So this is my welcome back into the world of auditioning? Thanks a lot New York City. It would be lovely if every actor knew their type so that everyone who was actually right for these roles was seen. Take a Type-Casting class people!

Try try again...next week.