Urgent advice! Should I talk to my musical director?
Hi everyone! Long story short, I auditioned for my university’s production of Legally Blonde and made it to the final callback a few days ago. Although I am new to musical theatre it’s been a passion of mine for a long time and unfortunately in my country there’s very little MT opportunities. I was lucky enough to have auditioned for a past workshop the same music and casting directors organized which truly turned my life around. Being a part of that experience helped me get out of my depression and find true happiness and joy in life. I dedicated my entire time and self and worked as hard as I could to secure a spot on this production for I found if I’m not doing musical theatre my life feels dull and pointless. But nerves got the best of me and I fumbled the last callback. After I got the rejection email I have been spiraling not knowing how to move on without the one thing that brings me purpose. Like I said, there’s no other musical theatre opportunities that I could try out for and that’s very scary and daunting since MT truly did change my life for the better and I feel like I’m being forced to quit my passion.
That’s being said since I am on close-ish terms with the musical director of this production I’ve been thinking of scheduling a meeting with him to try and change his mind about allowing me in the project. But there’s a lot of doubts. First of all I am scared of being perceived as unprofessional by not taking the rejection and also what if it’s disrespectful of me to not understand that they simply did not want me in this project? And finally, I wouldn’t even know what exactly would be the right words to say to him.
I’m coming to this subreddit hoping for advice from people who are more experienced in this industry and maybe some comfort if you could offer that too! Thank you so much