Well...apparently my height was a major factor in me not getting the role in Hairspray. Nikki Blonsky (Tracy) is 4'10 according to one website. That is SOOOO short. I'm at least 7 inches taller than her. Yikes. In a way that makes me feel better, they really were looking for someone short, like, super short.

Tarah was on Brockvlog the other day. Go www.brockvlog.com june 12. Its cute.

and thats all for today.

Well, its over, the fat lady is cast. lol. Nikki Blonsky, 17, from NY had been given the role of Tracy Turnblad in the movie version of Hairsray. *sigh* oh well. Im still going to look into what you have to do to be an extra as they're filming in Toronto. Or maybe I'll just go stand outside the building where it's being filmed...now I'm all attatched to this movie! So far the cast includes John Travolta, Queen Latifa, Amanda Bynes and Billy Crystal, with rumours of Michelle Pfiefer and Rowan Atkinson. *sigh*
In the words of Into the Woods....'I wish...'

So the saga of scary spiers continues....Tarah is sleeping on the couch because she found two in her room today (one of which I killed on her ceiling with a DVD case) so I havn't told her about the one on the family room ceiling that mom killed with a broom last night.

On IMDB it now has Michelle Phiefer and Rowan Atkinson listed as cast members for Hairspray. I really wish I could have made at least one more level...gah. well we'll see how it goes.

Mothers day was fun, we picked craig up in kingston and the car died coming back home, we were stranded on the edge of the road on the parkway, in the pouring rain, with really crappy cellphone reception that lasted long enough for us to call three or four people begging for rescue, but none were home, then the reception died. So we trekked up to the house (by now chilled from the rain and running around trying to get cell reception) of this nice lady who had a poodle with a pearl necklace...and was wearing (the lady, not the poodle) a t-shirt that said "FUCK LA MONDE" which I thought was pretty funny cause she was really nice to us. We eventually called Joe who came out to rescue us..yay joe!! Another Kennedy family adventure successfully solved. lol.

Tomorow we have our first Into the Woods thing which is exciting! and Jess and I are going to plan out sunday in the park...which is always fun.

oh..'the new world' = good movie. Interesting that they never actually say the name pocahontas..unless i missed it, but im pretty sure they never say it. It made me want to watch disneys pocahontas...and marry christian bale...though not nessesarily at the same time.

sleep for me...after an excessive spider hunt....

So this morning when I woke up, I went and slept on the couch waiting for a guy to come and drill extra holes in the cupboards mom ordered....because they didn't have enough holes or something...but he didn't come. So, I went back up to bed and when I finaly opened my eyes at one, there was a giant spider directly above my head on my ceiling, so I screamed and jumped around and tried to find something to kill it with. I couldn't find the swiffer, So I had to do it by hand, with paper towel, it was scary, but the spider is dead. Hoorah!

Im looking forward to starting work on Into the Woods. Im not sure which part I'll be playing yet, due to Craig being the perfect Cinderellas prince and also being related to me. That for sure rules out the Bakers Wife, So its pretty much between Cinderella (who never does kiss her prince, they just talk - and as Joe would say..its not a show without a little kennedy incest (a joke that really doens't make sense unless you know I played Lucy to his Schroeder in YAGMCB, and he had to hit on me in OKlahoma)) and the witch, either of which would be totaly fun.

So I think its pretty certain that I will not be playing Tracy in the movie version of Hairspray. Apparently they are now looking only for a Link, so Im pretty sure that thats it for me. Still, Im still really happy I did it, to get a callback was a big deal and it was a really fantastic experience. Still, I may call the casting agent and ask about background work. I would really like to be involved in some way, just because that would be beyond cool. And..as someone said 'it aint over till the fat lady's cast' so until there is a name on IMDB...I'll still be holding onto a shred of hope..lol.

I found a CD of my OAC recital (a lot of the music students did either 20 min or half an hour recitals - I shared an hour long slot that turned into an hour and a half, with Jessie, an amazing piano student) Its really funny to listen to how much my voice has changed in three years. I hear myself singing and I know if I could go back in time I could teach myself..lol. Which is good, it means Im defintely learning and improving, and its not just all in my mind. Still, its fun to listen to old stuff. Particularly listening to me try to get through 'Oh had I jubals Lyre' a good try but not entirely successfull. lol. and the duet I sang with vaughn, 'the prayer' which was fun becasue I needed to actually talk to him to do it...my mom really really wanted to hear us sing it...

anyway..Im off to try and find my chequebook...I need to actually send my lease for this year...I totaly forgot until this week.

So here I am back in Brockville...
My exams all went pretty well..having three in two days (written ones) was not particularly pleasant and I couldn't move my hand for much of thursday. But things went well...and going out to Symposium for desert was good fun.
My mom came and picked my up with Tarah on Friday and I pakced way to hastily..and left things like stinky garbage bags in my room...oops!
But Im here in Brockville and have been watching bits of the festival. Its the same vocal adjudicator from four years ago when I was in grade 12. This is the guy that adjudicated the much debated stage and film class where elizabeth sang 'le jazz hot' and I sang 'think of me' and I came second. He keeps stressing that 'gestures' are what make a song...that you could have an action for every word and he would still want more...grrrr. Though I disagree with him on that, I think he's a pretty good adjudicator and is generally pretty positive to the kids..which is good. I wish I had of known that I could have participated this year though (my exams ended before it started) It would have been fun, I really want to sing after watching all the kids.
I got my cast albums that I ordered. I love Lucky Stiff, but I don't think LMT could do it, because Im not sure there would be any way to expand it to more than 10 or 12 people, and we want a cast of around 30. City of angels seems really really guy heavy, and I like the music but it just doens't grab me at all. I like the concept of the show a lot and designing it would be fun, but the music didn't seem right for us, also its a smaller cast. Im listening to anyone can whistle right now, its not bad. I guess I'll have to see the perusal scripts to get a better idea.
So nothing from the hairspray people...Im thinking that its probably over...but still It was a lot of fun. And apparently everyone in brockville played a game of broken telephone with the news of my callback. My first night at the festival I was asked how my three callbacks went, and had I heard back about my callback for the movie Cats. (whereupon I almost peed myself)
anyway...Im off to sleep, or clean or something.

So...
Today I got up at nine had a shower and hopped on the 11am bus to TO, which took two horrible hours where I was trying not to fall asleep and get nasty bus hair. Then I went to the eaton center, got some lunch (mmm...terriake....i can't spell) and went to Tim hortons right beside the theatre to buy some water bottles and go over my lines. In Tim's a nice elderly russian (? couldn't quite identify the accent)couple started a conversation with me because I was singing quietly to myself and they said I sang well, and wasn't my headshot gorgeous and stuff. It was really cute.
Then I walked to the theatre, signed in with the guy behind the security desk of the Elgin backstage and took the elevator up to the fifth floor where there were a couple potential tracys and some of their parents/friends sitting around. You could hear the singing through the wall for most people, so It was interesting to just sit and listen, but I wasn't warmed up, because I thought we'd be in the big room downstairs where there were places to go sing, so I went outside and just belted on the sidewalk for a bit. I felt pretty dumb, and got some odd looks, but at least I was warmed up. So, I went upstairs and sat in the room and listened and talked to the other girls waiting. They all seemed to be as old or older than me, it was also weird that girls who looked really different and were all different sizes were called back. There were a couple girls way taller than me, and a few that were shorter, a few that were thinner and quite a few taht were a lot bigger. So it looked like they didn't know exactly what they were looking for yet. Voices were really different too, I heard one girl sing in her headvoice, one immitate the CD, and I was full out belting, so they called back lots of looks and voices.

I asked the lady at the desk and she said that they had had a few callbacks for Little Inez and a few for Link, she also mentioned that they had already found a Seaweed. I don't know if thats set in stone or anything...but there you go. She also said that if we were going to hear it would be before the end of april/begining of may. So I wait.

Anyway, I walked in when It was my turn. They were really friendly and I tried to be bubbly and friendly. They asked if I had brought another resume and picture, which I had, so I handed that to the blonde lady behind the desk. There was also another woman and two men behind the desk (I think...) plus a reader, a camera man and the accompanist. So there were quite a few more people than there were yesterday.

I found my mark (blue tape this time...apparently I wasn't the only one who had had trouble finding it) and held up my name on a piece of paper for a couple seconds and smiled while they looked at the TV moniter instead of at me...which was a little weird. And then I read with a woman who stood off camera and off to the side of the people behind the table, so I wasn't exactly sure if I should do my reading to her or to the people at the table, and having that debate floating through my head distracted me a bit so the timing wasn't what I had planned, but the lines came out the way I had planned, so thats good. Then I sang. I thought that we were only supposed to sing the same 8 bars. But other people had been singing 21, so I just kept singing. I went a little longer than I was supposed to and he stopped playing and was still sort of singing...so I just smiled and said sorry. and then they said 'great' and I thanked them and said bye and that was it. I think my singing went well, I tried to have lots of personality. I think I actually skipped a bit leaving the room..haha...and then realized I skipped a step and felt silly. Anyhow, I was pretty happy with the way it went. And the woman running the desk, who works for a casting company was stressing how impressive it is to get a callback from an open call...so I felt good about that. yay!

So...I hopped back on the bus (after I had the best bubble tease Ive ever had...mmmmmm tasty) and rode home...kind of crankily actually. I was just really tired and the bus was really full. So I got home, talked about my audition with Brenden and made some dinner. I watched the SLSC young co version of YAGMCB which put me back in a good mood and then I walked to our Exec meeting listening to my ipod...and suddenly realized i was dancing down the sidewalk...I was in a weird mood..but I looked around and no one seemed to be around to see me. So thats good.

Yay!
Keep your fingers crossed for me!!

So....I GOT A CALLBACK FOR HAIRSPRAY!!! AAHHHHHH!!
Im so very very excited!
I got down to TO last night and had dinner with Caela and her friend Stacey, and we watched flightplan. I eventually went to sleep on her couch...I had however, forgotten how noisy dorms can be, especailly old buildings so I didn't get very much sleep. I got up at 7am (so..ridiculously...early) Got ready..had fun trying to order a cab...caela pointed me in the right direction and I got into a cab with a cab driver who did not know how to find either 158 victoria street north or the elgin theatre which was worrying. But I recognized the side of a building and a tim hortons where a few people were lined up (at the building not the Tim's) and I went to get breakfast (at Tims not the building)
I then went out and stood in line at about 8:25. The doors didn't open until 9:05, it wsa very very cold and I was wearing a skirt, which seemed like a good idea until I was freezing in line forever. We were let into the building and went downstairs into what I think is the lower lobby of the Elgin and we had to fill out a form with just basic info. Once you filled that out then you had to go to the table to try to get a number. The girls at the table would turn down anyone who didn't have the right look or was the wrong age. They were turning away a lot of people, a lot of links and a lot of tall skinny blonde girls (not that I have anything against tall skinny girls but it was sort of funny to have that not be the ideal body type for a change), so I got a ticket (yay first level!)

Then I waited for a long time (an hour and a half) and then my number was called to go upstairs (#58!) I went up to a different room where there were people waiting. Numbers were called and people were going in one by one and they were fast,one right after the other, a minute and a half to two minute tops. So finaly it was my turn to go in and they told us that we would go stand on the mark slate ourselves (say your name while holding your number) and then sing.

So I walked into the room and couldn't find the mark because it was black tape on a black floor and the girl had to point it out to me. So I stood on the mark and said, I just say my name right? and they said yes...so I said "Seanna kennedy" and they said "very good" and I said "thanks!" it was pretty funny. I was smiley and bubbly the whole time though, it was fun. And then I sang and I went to walk out and the woman behind the desk asked the runner girl to give them a minute to contemplate, which I figured was either really good or really bad since they had just whipped through at least 15 auditions without stopping. And the lady came out a few minutes later and announced that #56 and #58 were called back! and I was 58!! So I got ridiculously excited and got my sides to learn and the music and then called everyone I could get a hold of, and went looking for the bus station, which I eventually found. And now I'm home...and going to bed. Im very excited for tomorow!!!

So I havn't updated in pretty much forever.
Here is some fun stuff thats happening with me...

- The other day there were ducks everywhere on campus...I don't know why. I was walking home and there were two ducks on the sidewalk and no other people around...I wasn't sure if ducks attack like geese and swans so I was playing it safe and not trying to walk past them...eventually they looked at me..quacked...and waddled up the path to the house on the corner of the street...like they were going home...I felt sort of like I fell into Beatrix Potter world, except in waterloo instead of nice english countryside.

- Im going to audition for a movie! Thats right, a real live, big studio movie. They're holding open calls for a few of the roles in the movie adapation of the broadway musical HAIRSPRAY. (which...as a side note was originally a movie...its another movie-musical-movie thing...name the other recent one and get a prize...) Im auditioning for Tracy (16 year old, overweight girl with a big smile and a desire to be a dancing star) Im really excited. Even if nothing comes of it (which is likely since they've held open calls all over the place)I think it will be a good experience and it has forced me to get my resume in order.

- I won a prize today in my Evil and Its Symbols class. My prof actually brought in a bag full of prizes (like, pencils, post its, sharpies, a dilbert calendar...etc) and did a fun little quiz to get us thinking about how all of the course content was conected. I said that "evil is...Dracula" could be connected to one of the B movies we watched in which vampires are pretty much stand ins for drug dealers. So that was fun..I won a book called 'Good and Evil' by Martin Buber. good times...I like that class.

- I sang my canadian song "Green Rain" in Vocal lit and it wasn't terrible..one minor rhythm screw up..and my voice was scratchy on two entries, but no big deal. At least it's done. and I now have 4/5 jury pieces memorized and ready to go...YAY!

- I have a play and sing due tomorow that won't be ready due to memorizing one of my jury pieces, so Im going to take late marks and due it on friday.

- I got a card and some spending money from my Nana in the mail and that completely brightened my day!

- Its choir intensive week and my throat is all grumpy and tired.

and thats about it for now.