A Week in the Life ... (Friday 5 of 7)

Friday is finally here!

9:00 – wake up and take Zoka to the park

9:45 – Work for my internet job

12:45 – start getting dressed and packing my dance bag

1:15 – leave for dance

2:00 – Arrive in Times Square area and run into Capezio Dance store to buy dance knee pads. Last week in the jazz class I take on Fridays we did a combination that was hard on the knees and I realized it was finally time to go and buy myself a pair of knee pads!

2:30 – Make it to dance just in time! (Jazz class)

4:00 – sit in the hall catching my breath and taking a break before ballet

4:30 – ballet starts

5:25 – happen to glance at my cell phone in my bag during class (while the other group is doing floor work) and see I have a missed call from Central Casting (registered with them yesterday) Hmmm how can I check my message and call them back? They called at 5:15, its now 5:30 and class isn’t over until 6:00 … its ballet so I’m scared to step out for a minute… But my problem is that one time I missed a call to be an extra on Confessions of Shopaholic movie and when I called them back 45 minutes later they didn’t need any more people.

5:35 – We’re doing a long combination on the floor so as soon as the other group goes and discretely grab my phone and head out like I’m running to the bathroom. I crouch down in the hall and quickly call back Central Casting … yay they want me to be an extra for Law and Order on Monday. I tell them I can do it but can I call back in 30 minutes to get the rest of the details. They say ok and I sneak quickly back into class.

6:00 – class ends and I head out quickly to call back to get the rest of the details (more about law and order later)
7:15 – get home and take a shower

8:00 – eat some dinner and chat with Mike

10:15 – leave the house again and head into Manhattan with Mike

11:00 – Arrive at the Laurie Beechman Theatre for “The After Party” this is a cabaret theatre/restaurant that every Friday night has a few Broadway stars perform and also is an open mic to sing showtunes. This is our second time coming (the Central Park Musical I did had a special appearance here a month ago) and I’m meeting up with a few fellow Central Park cast members. We’re at a table in the front row and get to see three of the final cast members from “Rent” perform as well as a guy from “In the Heights” and the guy who wrote and is starring in “Title of Show”. Its always a really fun night and its great to see such amazing performers that close. But its always a really late night too, we left at 1:45am and the show was still going strong (apparently it lasts until 4am!!!)

2:45 – finally home to go to sleep!