Amanda Lea LaVergne
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A Grand Night For Singing
A Grand Night For Singing
America's Sweethearts
America's Sweethearts

Amanda is the latest "Sweet" to join America's Sweethearts!

Anything Goes
Anything Goes

Amanda will be helming the SS American as Reno Sweeney in Sharon Playhouse’s season opener of Anything Goes. Click here for tickets!

 

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I’m terrible about promoting in general. Even more so when it is pretty last minute and my brain is mush. But if you are around tomorrow (Saturday February 16) come see me in the Off Broadway show This One’s For The Girls at St. Luke’s on 46th Street at 2pm. My next scheduled show is March 16th so if not tomorrow...come see me on my birthday! #NYCActor #NotYourAverageLeadingLady #LastMinuteIsMySuperPower #OffBroadway
As I made my way to a callback today, I saw a holding room of at least 300 women waiting to audition for some regional theatre’s summer season. And it really got me thinking...and dredging up many audition mornings I’ve blocked from my memory. _____________________ The audition season in NYC is overwhelming and soul crushing at best. You carry all your belongings with you when you leave your apartment before the sun comes up because there is always that possibility of an audition costume change (“oh, can you stay and dance using tap/jazz/ballet/character heels?) And that change is done in some tiny bathroom alongside someone doing lip trills and someone else talking about all their auditions and who/what/how things are going down at all the other studios. There are hundreds of girls that look like you, that all have their best 32 bar cut of some high belt song that can be reduced to best 16 or best 8 bars. And you sit in a room for hours between the bitter and the hopeful. _____________________ How does one keep any sort of perspective when that is what the gig is 5-7 days a week? Relentless vulnerability and rejection for a shot at a dream? Gig? Paycheck? Insurance weeks? _____________________ The thing is...you show up for the WORK. Because auditioning is PART of the work. And sure some get to bypass it. Some can buy their way in. Some simply have a ton of social media presence and will be a box office money maker. But if you stay in your lane, do the work that YOU do, encourage and learn from those that you share those days with, block out the noise, and just FOCUS on the fact that sometimes your job is to audition. Book the room. The jobs will happen if you constantly show up and deliver. _____________________ And when those glorious appointments and callbacks happen that rid the day of all the extra hassle...you make sure to take that room by storm. It’s always another chance to play. And wear pretty dresses. _____________________ #NYCActor #NotYourAverageLeadingLady #AuditionSeasonAmIRight #TheHustlesIsReal #AnthroDressForTheCallbackWin
Laundry ✅ Clean apt ✅ Audition ✅ Coached a gorgeous actress ✅ Coached a kickass running client ✅ Taxes ✅ Wine ✅ _____________________ Mondays...Am I right? _____________________ #NYCActor #NotYourAverageLeadingLady #TheHustleIsReal #MyFriendsAreSuperTalented
When I moved to NY all I wanted was to be on Broadway. I had no idea what I was doing or how to make it happen other than show up to auditions, sit outside on a cold sidewalk for hours, and pray that they would have time to see someone like me. A no one. _____________________ In the years I’ve lived here, I’ve gotten there. I couldn’t tell you any tricks other than the fact that I showed up everyday and waited. I was ready if I got the chance...but the truth of the matter is...I waited. In lines. In chorus calls. In holding rooms. I waited for permission to perform. To be good enough. To be enough. _____________________ But tonight I made the first step in shaping something new. The first step in taking away the “waiting” and replacing it with “creating.” _____________________ And every moment of waiting for all these years has been worth it for the few hours I spent tonight, planting this glorious seed with some incredible women. _____________________ #NYCActor #NotYourAverageLeadingLady #TheFloraAndFauna #WhatTheHellAreWeDoing #WhoWantsToProduceAPlay #BestThingIveReadInAges
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