A/N: Warning, the following paragraph will consist of mostly the writer hating herself for a minute. Either read her rant or skip to the other sentence located below it. Thank you for your time and patience.
Dammit (Janet), I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO POST THAT (cast list). I'm so unintelligent… Maybe I should just give up on this story… I need an editor… This wouldn't have happened if I had a decent brain, but luckily it happened to be incomplete. MWAHAHAHAHA! I'M A CARBON-BASED LIFE FORM WITH SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE! Wait, if I WERE THAN I WOULDN'T HAVE POSTED THE LIST. Shoot. Oh well, life goes on.
Back to normalness, LOL Rachel and Kurt doing "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina".
As for the misposted list, I guess that was Brad's idea of who he would cast, but he's not entirely sure of it yet… Yeah, I'll give you the story now. I'll fix the practice schedule.
Brad revised his casting mentally. Finn would be great as a Peron understudy, but a leading man? Perhaps not. Either way, his mind shifted to the fact that someone behind him was screaming and running towards him, making him almost automatically turn around.
"Please Brad, I'd like to audition for the part of Juan Peron. I'm desperate." Sam Evans said, panting.
Anger was stirring up like a pot of gumbo inside Brad. He had just finished playing piano for four straight hours and then this boy wanted to sing for him? After all he'd accompanied him, helped him, cued him all while preparing him and his gleemates for this year's Sectionals, and THIS was the thanks he got? Although he was ready to erupt with madness, he simply said: "Yeah okay. Go on."
"Phantom faces at the window.
Phantom shadows on the floor.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no more.
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will sing no more."
Sam had a nice amount of vibrato in his voice, and managed to pull the classic song from Les Miserables while sometimes drifting off-key due to the lack of accompaniment, but always found his way back on pitch. Just something about the way the two were alone in the cool air of the halls of William McKinley High School made Brad shiver. Was it the temperature or the song? Either way, Brad needed to invest in a new, more fashionable jacket.
"Well guys, Brad wanted to make an announcement before we get on with our lesson today." Mr. Shuester said to the Lima youth present in the choir room.
"Thanks, Mr. Shue. To everyone who tried out for Evita, a link will be sent to your emails. That's why I asked for your emails… So yeah. On that link, there will be a cast list posted under the 'Evita' section. Then click on the 'Cast List' section. Then, because I like online security systems, you are to log in with your email address and the password 'Elaine'. Understood?" Brad asked. Several nods and random positive responses followed from the group. "Good. First rehearsal is also on that website under 'Evita' and then 'Rehearsals'. Good luck to everyone." Rachel's hand shot up.
"Excuse me, Brad, but what about callbacks? I mean surely there wouldn't be any doubt to who would get the role of Eva, but what about the other more minor roles?" Ms. Berry questioned.
"I've already made up my mind, and I knew most of your acting abilities from Rocky Horror." Brad replied.
"Are you sure? Because many Broadway actors are unfairly cast. For instance, that nasal-singing Vanessa Hudgens was cast as Mimi in the Hollywood Bowl production of Rent recently, and many fans were outraged by the casting and..."
"Rachel, you need to stop this Broadway stuff to everything. I mean, you used one of those songs from Rent in math class today." Puck interrupted.
"How else is one supposed to remember how many minutes there are in a year?" She snapped back.
"I have Artie do that for me, and he has a calculator." Brittany added.
Rachel paused. "I think we should get on with today's lesson. Mr. Shue, take it away." She dramatically gestured with her hand towards the glee club director with a bright smile on her face.
After glee club rehearsal, Rachel flashed her monthly bus pass to the driver and took a seat near the front. She figured that if any strange characters approached her and made her uncomfortable, she would have multiple witnesses and the security camera's footage on her side at court to facilitate the job of her lawyer. As she waited for the bus to pull up at the library which was around a 15 minute ride away, she noticed a small Asian coming up to her from one of the stops.
"Hi Rachel. I saw you at the Evita auditions." Sunshine began in a neutral tone. "Congratulations."
"Um, thank you. But why are you congratulating me?" She asked, uncrossing her legs. The bus started to move, and if Sunshine weren't holding on to a pole, she would've gone through the windshield. Even with the stability of the metal object, she nearly fell down.
"Whoa. Even more of a doozy than you get from the buses in the Philippines." She chuckled. "But anyway, you got the lead. Good job." She said, her smile fading a little.
"Thank you, I appreciate your worshipping of someone as talented as myself." She calmly said back. Rachel had sent the poor Filipina to a crackhouse, and this is what she had gotten in return. Someone who was admiring her, and who let her in on what was going on. "Hold on, how do you know that I'm playing Eva? I haven't even checked it out, although I was sure I would land the role."
"Jesse texted me. He's waiting for me at the library, seeing as he doesn't have anything better to do with his life right now." She smiled sunbeams and showed Rachel her pink and white keyboard-slide-out phone.
"Wait, Jesse who?" Rachel immediately replied, putting a little bit of weight on her right hand, which had made its way on top of Sunshine's cellular device.
"St. James. Really nice guy, he helped me with my audition. I was really nervous but then our director told me to call up the ex-director named Shelby and she was really nice so she told me about this guy and he helped me with my audition. 'Cause I was really scared I wasn't going to make it being Asian and all and I didn't know how to audition properly in the U.S. because everything's so different in the Philippines. If you want to impress people there most people look for someone with no accent so you can make out the words they sing in English so I was fine but I wasn't-" She rambled.
"Okay, excuse my language but WHAT THE HECK?" The petite brunette screamed, causing heads to turn in the crowded bus.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have been talking for so long. I get a little carried away sometimes." She blushed.
"Oh no, it's not that. But everyone who has been very dear to me at one point of my life seems to be favoring you all of a sudden. You see, Shelby is my mother. Jesse St. James is my ex-boyfriend who was just with me so my mom could find out who her daughter was, then he sabotaged our team and then he egged me before Regionals." She sniffled.
"Egged?"
"His entire team hit me with eggs, then he broke one on my head. I've been a vegan ever since I can remember."
"Why, did you send him to a crackhouse too?" Sunshine chuckled.
"You little…" Rachel snapped. Before she could get her hands on Sunshine, she was out the door and into the library. For such short legs, Sunshine sure could run. Fast. However, Rachel Berry was still amazed by the fact that for once, she could call someone else little.
"Did she ask about me?"
"No, she just pretty much said that you're a huge jerk."
"But she broke my heart…"
"Just because someone does something bad to you, doesn't mean you have to do something bad to them. Treat others the way you want to be treated." Sunshine recited, beaming a smile.
"Where did you learn that? Kindergarten?"
"Nope. My mommy told me that." She laughed.
"I never would have guessed." Jesse St. James rolled his eyes, then looked back at the computer screen.
"HEY! All you need is love, Jesse!"
"Tell that to Rachel." He scoffed. "And what is it with you almost constantly quoting The Beatles? Although I admire with much jealousy the works of Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, there's a fine, fine line between fandom and obsession."
"Must you always quote Avenue Q, St. James? This happens to be the second time you've done so since I saw you at the auditions." Rachel stormed up behind the not-romantically-involved-at-all couple.
"Something wicked this way comes." Sunshine said.
"I figure she'd make a great Wicked Witch of the West. You have the personality down to a fine art, Rachel. You wouldn't even have to act. You'd be like Paris Hilton in Repo!" He shot the petite brunette a fake smile.
"Stop with the sarcasm, Jesse. I'm just here to check the cast list for Evita."
"You could always do it at home, but I sense that you miss me far too much to pass on an opportunity to admire me." He proudly said, mocking her.
"No, because my dads forgot to make a spare key for the gardener so I had to lend her mine. She doesn't even do that good of a job…" Rachel whined.
"Perhaps she doesn't, but I'm sure she won't kill a beanstalk." Jesse said.
"A… beanstalk?" Sunshine finally spoke.
"Yes, a beanstalk that was a metaphor for our growing love."
"But Rachel drowned it in plant food, making it turn brown and frail." Jesse finished. "With that, so did our relationship, Rachel did about the same thing to my heart." His face turned serious. "Well, she didn't drown it in plant food, she just turned it into tar."
"So I see. Now, let's let the poor girl admire her name on the screen." Sunshine said with a sincere smile.
Rachel waited with her hands on her hips as Jesse smirked at her and left, along with Sunshine, who was muttering something about Antonio Banderas. She went to the website Brad had told the glee club about, signed in, and clicked on the website's tab reading CAST LIST in big bold, yellow letters. Her heart did a slight leap when she saw her name next to "Eva Peron"- one of her dream roles.
Cast List
Eva Peron – Rachel Berry and Quinn Fabray
Juan Peron – Sam Evans
Che Guevara – Jesse St. James
Agustin Magaldi – Noah Puckerman
Peron's Mistress – Tina Cohen-Chang
Understudies
Sunshine Corazon (Peron's Mistress), Finn Hudson (Juan Peron), Brittany S. Pierce (Eva Peron), Noah Puckerman (Che Guevara), and Matt Rutherford (Agustin Magaldi)
The Company (People of Argentina)
Group A - Artie Abrams, Christina Abrams, Tina Cohen-Chang, Sunshine Corazon, Finn Hudson, Kurt Hummel, Mercedes Jones, and Santana Lopez
Group B - Mike Chang, Zoey Chang, Quinn Fabray, Brittany Pierce, Crystal Pierce, Noah Puckerman, Heather Puckerman, and Matt Rutherford
Swings
Mike Chang, Tina Cohen-Chang, Santana Lopez and Matt Rutherford
Seeing as she had just made it as the lead, she figured it would be wise to check the REHERSAL SCHEDULE tab.
Sundays Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thurdays Saturdays
Full Cast Rehersal Eva, Che, Peron Ensemble A Ensemble B Understudies Magaldi, Mistress, Swings
2-5pm 4-7pm 4-7pm 4-7pm 3-5pm 3-5pm
*THERE WILL BE NO REHEARSAL THIS SUNDAY DUE TO UNAVAILABILTIE S OF THE DIRECTOR, CONTINUE TO MONDAY. Thank-you for your co-operation.
"You all know why you're here, don't you?"Brad asked the four teens in front of him.
"Yes. Now my question is, why were there two people cast as Eva as opposed to one?" Rachel asked, pointing to herself in the process.
"The politically correct reason is that this show is very vocally demanding, and your voices will be safer from stress if we double-cast the role. The real reason is, you two are both very good and I'm not sure if Brittany, the understudy, can handle the role. Keep it a secret, kapeesh?"
"Kapeesh." The four opposite Brad said.
"Very good. Jesse, Rachel, you're both theater people. Would you like to demonstrate the 'Waltz for Eva and Che', minus the choreography?"
"It would be a pleasure, Brad." Jesse smiled. He held out his hand, Rachel did a slight eye roll as she placed her hand in his.
"Just do a simple waltz step, we twirl after a while and then go back to the waltz." He whispered, putting his hand on her hip.
"With passion, you two!" Brad chucked as he half-shouted.
"It won't be a problem." Rachel snapped.
A/N: Pretty LONNG! I'm so happy I'm finally over with all this audition nonsense, and that I can start making up rehearsal randomness! Yay! I'll make the story more "up to date" (with Blaine and such) in the next chapter. Thanks to all my reviewers of the previous chapter, and happy new year to all!