“What was your Broadway debut like?”

“I had a really crazy experience. I auditioned for the national tour of Matilda and had all these callbacks. After the second to last callback, all my friends who were there started texting me that they had gotten a callback. I was staring at my phone, and it wasn’t ringing. I thought I did a good job and they liked me, but I didn’t get a callback.

On the day of the callback, I took off work and went to ballet class. After class, I was still bummed, so I said, “You know what? I am not done dancing. I was supposed to dance all day. I am going to go to a jazz class too.” After jazz class, I look at my phone, I have two missed calls, three text messages, and a voicemail from this New York number that I don’t know...."