So this week = death-ness. I am SO very much not looking forward to it. It's choir intensive week, so we have choir everyday, plus, opera is next week so we are called for all of the opera times, plus I'm making up lessons that I missed from before so Im singing basically all the time... this = tired vocal chords. I also have to sing in masterclass on wednesday and do a skills presentation on friday, and I have NO idea what I'm going to do for that.

However, this weekend was much fun.
Thursday was the cabaret...which was insane, and so much ended up being last minute, but we sold about 70 tickets which was more than we were expecting, it was totaly full and people seemed to really enjoy it. Although I realized as the night progressed that being in 10 numbers was probably too many..I had a LOT of fun. I threw one of the videos up on youtube so my sister could watch it...I'll probably take it down farily soon..but If you want to give it a watch..here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uXFlAwFjTM There are some dropped words and we had never rehearsed with our set..and we went SUPER fast..but it still seemed to work out.

On Friday, We went to see Urinetown in Guelph, and while ours was better (tee hee) it was totaly enjoyable! Soooo funny. It really showed how you could takt that show in soo many different directions and still have it bascially work. When we got back from Urinetown we went to michelles for her B-day, meagan and I mostly hung out in the much less crazy downstairs, then we went out to symposium, then dropped by the Spur where everyone was drunkenly dancing and singing..it was a little weird to be there totaly sober, but dancing was fun...it was also funny to notice how much kale humps people when he's drunk...lol...it was rather hilarious.
Saturday was St. Pattys day...we went over to kales and were basically our weirdo ridiculous selves...there was much straddeling involved....hilarious good times.

In terms of schools for next year: I finished auditions for St. Lawrence College, Randolph and Sheridan all for Musical theatre. Ive been accepted to SLC, and I'm waiting till the end of this week to hear about randolph and till the 31st for sheridan...I really really want to know! ahh..freaking out about it! Since next year is still so very up in the air.

anyway..im going to go to bed..because sleep is good!

One show down, the cast and crew were phenomenal, the whole thing went so well, (with the tiny exception of a moment of weird feedback and the fact that the fog machine tricked me into thinking it was on when it wasn't....) I'm really enjoying the fact that I'm onstage a little bit too...I'm really glad that we thought to give me that little cameo, it is my last year and Its sort of fun being and actor/techie/director. Good times. Highlight of pre show preparations: Michelle sewing leaves onto kens crotch for half an hour. So very very funny.
I'm so excited to do it again tomorow!! after some sleeeeep!

So Apparently Friday the 13th is actually a lucky day for me. I had a decent skills class, followed by a decent lesson with Heidi that I wasn't really prepared for, but it wasn't terrible. Then I went to health services where the Doctor told me that the horrible burning pains that had been in my chest/throat were probably not going to kill me, which ws good news. Then I had a really great rehearsal. The cast was awesome, the song sounds great, there is a lot of good character stuff going on. I'm getting really excited about the show again. Then we had a little singalong, with Brenden playing from my stephen Schwartz book and I realized I know almost no stephen schwartz songs that aren't in wicked. or not well enough to sing them with no rehearsal. After some tasty yogen fruz Meagan decided we should have an impromptu shopping trip. She needed sweaters, I needed a coat. All goals were met! Both of the coats I wanted were both super expensive and super on sale! Yay for super on sale coats! I really love the one I ended up buying! Meagan is a fabulous shopping buddy! I also got a hoodie, a thin one though, and a green tank top. Yay! Tomorow will be spent doing copious homework, corset shopping, eating spagetti and watching a concert! yay!

Today is the day of BAT BOY AUDITIONS!!! Tonight we have the first of two audition days. I'm really excited. I'm one of those bizzare people who actually enjoys auditioning, either as a person actually auditioning, or as a person on the panel. Im really hoping that everyone that auditions is fantastic, although with something like 50 people signed up, we're going to be cutting almost half. That sucks. I hate cutting people. Thats the nice thing about Camp shows, is that you have to figure out a way for little tone-deaf johnny to be featured in the show. However, it's also fantastic to be able to only hire the really truly awesome people. Yay! I picked all of the callback readings today, so those should be posted soon. I'm looking forward to callbacks, I love this whole process, casting a show...it makes you all excited about the show. We had our meeting in the TA (theatre auditiorium)and I'm really excited. At this point they are encouraging us to 'ask for the moon' and then we'll see what we can work out budget and time wise. But im 99% for sure going to get my bridge/cave, so I'm really excited about that. I would also love a tazer (EDIT: tee hee...I meant hazer..but a tazer would be fun too!), and a fog machine and gobos and coloure lights....*squeeee*. And we have a tech director (Shawn) who apparently really knows what he's doing and is also really excited about what we can do! yay!!


AHHHHH!! my magnet/whiteboard just fell off my wall and attacked me. That was really scary, it made a big crashing noise and woke brenden up...ooops.


In other news...Opera is starting to frustrate me. I practice and I can do it. Then I go to rehearsal and sound like a big no-talent loser who can't even match pitch. The Weill (particularly the first chunk) is really really frustrating. I'm trying so hard to be able to hear my part, but I just can't. gah. I guess more drilling will help, but I hate not being able to do it in rehearsal. I need to find a recording. 'Marriage of Figaro' is a little better because I can actually find at least a note in the right chord if not my note. Angela and I did pretty well in rehearsal for that tonight, the only problem is that it goes SO fast...its hard to spit out all the words! Oh well. 'Rusalka' isn't that bad. Im the alto again...(Elf #3) but at least the music is really cool. Its in Czech, which is a little odd since I know pretty much nothing about Czech, but still cool. 'Lousie' is the last one. I'm playing Blanche, which is a lot of little solo lines. (realy little, like, three words at a time) and then some group singing and THANK GOD! I get to sing sopraono in that one. hoorah!!

All right bedtime for me....
*note to self...make eye doctor appointment for the sixth...

The opera excerpts have been (at least partially) cast. There are supposedly two or three more coming, but I'm thinking I probably wont have a part in those as I already have two parts. So, after much anticipation for the cast list to come out, I was Cast as Marcellina in the act two finale of the Marriage of Figaro and Mrs. Olga Olsen in a chunk from the beginning of Kurt Weill's "Street Scene". Which is great...so, then I go look at my music....These are NOT soprano roles. Marcellina is a mezzo, which is fine, I just don't have any fun high notes, which I can totally deal with (I'm hoping I get a fun dress to make up for it!!). But Mrs. Olsen is an alto. LOL. Its SO low, with the exception of the first paragraph of "I'll never Tell" it's the lowest I've ever sung on stage without a mic, and definitely the lowest I've ever sung in a group. and that really, is the problem. Im having tremendous difficulty finding my parts...I'm so used to just grabbing the top line, that's where my ear goes automatically...my notes to come in on are nowhere to be found in the accompaniment or anyone else’s parts, and I sing a whole section in like, parallel tri-tones with another character. It's 8 part harmony or something and no one is singing the same part...(except the two sopranos on the top line....grrr) It's going to be a great challenge, and the music will sound awesome when its done...just..grr...its hard to be an alto! Plus, I keep belting, because I'm trying to be loud, and its low, and I'm not 'properly' trained to sing that low...I guess that’s what my coachings are for!

The info session for Bat Boy went really well. There were TONS of people there most of them new, though we had returning people as well. There were guys too...lots! People seemed to like the synopsis and the music which is good...it’s a really hard show to outline to people without really scaring them away. I think we have a tech director too now, which is awesome, apparently he's very knowledgeable...which is great.
The Audition workshop is tomorrow night, or technically tonight, and I keep trying to make notes and get organized in my head for what I want to say/do, but its not really working. I’ve got some basic stuff to talk about and then I think a lot of it will be one on one answering questions and offering ideas, which should be good.

Why the spike icon when it has nothing to do with anything? Just because I like it...so there.
And its bedtime...yay for sleep!!

So today was our first official LMT meeting of the year. I think it went really well, I feel like we got a lot done with minimal fooling around and chatting, which is good. Im really excited about the club and the show this year. (particularly for Children children when people will have stuffed animals duct taped to themselves for a wild animal orgy represented through dance and roller skating.....no joke.) I'm less excited to start class tomorow..I'm just really freaked out that my course load will be to heavy, and no because of time commitments, more just amount of music that I'm going to have to learn. I didn't realize that for opera, on top of the actual stuff from the opera, we have to learn seperate arias. Yikes! But hopefully it will all be ok. And I'm really looking forward to Vocal ped, even if it is at 9:30 in the morning. Hoorah for first day of class tomorow...I should probably go to bed.

PS> HAPPY BDAY ALLY!!

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 apparently I did not reach a whole new level of special by punching myself in the eye. I have an eye infection...(GROSS!) and I have drops to put in three times a day..plus this nasty antibiotic cream/gell stuff. Which I had to squeeze out (like caulking, said my doctor) into my bottom eyelid. But it didn't disolve right away, i had to roll my eye around and watch it jump up into the middle of my eye and then dissapear under my eye...it freaked me out. a lot. And I have to do it again...every night. yech.

So LMT voting is officially underway....Im SO nervous...but excited! yay. *waiting till sunday*

Play and sing tomorow...blah blah blah..i hate them. Im so terrible at it. grrr.

alright..bedtime it is.

Stolen from Laura:

Something I have that none of you do: Bernadette Peters Autograph on an 'annie get your gun' playbill.

One CD I own that I think none of you do: Angel: life fast never die (the soundtrack from Angel, the series.)

One Book I own that I think none of you do: Finding Serenity (a book of essays on firefly...are we seeing a joss whedon theme yet?)

One Movie I own that I think none of you do: probably lots...Love me or Leave Me maybe...(an old doris day musical)

One Place I've been that none of you have: ooo..thats tough...ummm..Stowe Vermont..oh...at the grave of Captain and Maria Von Trapp. (i can't remember the captains first name...george maybe?)

One Technological Toy that none of you have: Hmm....this is hard because Laura and Danielle have way more of this stuff....I have my kickass digital camera, and a ridiculously fast CD burner...ooo..and an Ipod Video..so its not the same as Lauras.

Well that was fun.

So apparently last night I punched myself in the eye, because today it feels like I have a black eye, its a little puffy, and it hurts to blink. I am so special.

LMT applications are due tonight, Im applying for director again (though really the only person that reads this that might not know that is Tarah)...Im SO worried that I won't get it...firstly because I will feel totaly rejected even though I know I shoudlnt' take it personally and secondly it would suck SO much to not be as involved as I was this year. I was SOOO surprised that I loved directing as much as I did and though I would have loved to be on the stage, I was totaly content to just watch (and work backstage) and I was SO proud of the cast and everyone. *sigh* My application is quite long... I know short and sweet would probably be better...but I guess I just really want to get everything I want to say across. Also, Brenden and I keep thinking up ideas for next year and getting all excited and then im like...oh..but it might not be me....gah... Its like waiting for the call after an audition..soo stressfull..and voting hasn't even started yet. *breathe* its fine...Ill just wait it out. because there's nothing else to do.

4/5 jury songs now memorized! yay!!

all right...write presentation for tomorow....and clean room....

Rehearsals for the Revue seem to be getting crazier and crazier. 'Therapy' went really well today and by the end of the rehearsal Mark and I were actually managing to get all the words out, which is a real plus. I need to memorize the words for You can't stop the beat, though really its more about learning the orders of the choruses, since there are three sets of words. Girl in 14G: Im just hoping I don't mess up royally as its actually a fairly hard song... and my scatting SUCKS! yeesh. Dress rehearsal is tomorow (technically today) I really hope things come together.

In other news...Brenden spent a chunk of time this evening running around the house in one of my bras stuffed with socks, my fame sweater, my pink wig and his fantastic hat and danielles skirt....have we all lost our minds? No...its his costume for one of the revue numbers. Still, I was collapsed on the floor laughing twice. Good times in 105.

In other other news, I have 3 of 15 of my essay pages written, which isn't terrible, since its due on tuesday, but I was hoping to be mostly done by now. I have a lot of info in my head, but Im having a really hard time getting it out on paper. Oh well, at least I won't be staring at a blank page the night before its due, because that would be very bad.
And I have all my jury pieces set...weeks before my jury! hoorah! And three are already memorized!
and now it is bedtime.

Im pretty sure my fish is dead...
I hadn't cleaned his bowl since Christmas, so I cleaned it today, and when I put him back, he sank to the bottom and then floated to teh top...he's still not belly up yet...and my fish have been known to come back to life (my first year fish was nearly immortal) so Im just going to leave him for a day or so and see if he starts swimming around again...but i banged on the side of teh bowl, and he didn't move..so thats probably not a good sign....hmmm..poor wash.



thats wash in his healthier days...I hope he's not dead....

So Laura, Sarah and I watched Kinsey and ate pizza this evening, it was a really interesting movie..weird, but interesting. (2.8 inches..tee hee) Then we went to Lauras for some important purpose or another...online tarot cards perhaps and Ive just got home at 3am. LMT evenings apparently don't end until 3! Or maybe Lauras house is just some weird time warp where you can't leave until three..since thats where we were on wednesday as well. Which was much fun, we hung out (LMT people) watched reefer madness, watched Study Hell, michaels movie, ( http://www.skylightfilms.ca/default.asp?q=highlight&autoid=7 ) which was beyond hilarious, and then michael more or less entertained us for an hour with insights about the true nature of honey...(a whole thing about transference of fluids from plant penises..peni...whats the plural of penis?) and we finaly trudged home at 3am...(only nine of us hung around that long though...good times)

anyway...I should probably go to bed...sleepy me. SO much work to do tomorow...must finish evil file and get a big chunk of my song cycle done, plus all my notes typed up, and my skills midterm stuff started...and all of this before I go to a play at waterloo with Laura at 6ish.


Ps. I miss meagan!

Three things that I miss....in the order they left.

1. Spring: or at least the spring like weather we had for a week or so. Until the skies decided to dump four billion pounds of slush on waterloo. Stupid slush...its all cold, and almost gave me trenchfoot walking back from the spur. However...slushy streets to provide ample opportunities for corny reunions in slushy streets... tee hee.

2. Urinetown : not the place of course, the musical. It was honestly a fabulous time. I really enjoyed myself this year, more than hair because there were no major disasters more than fame for a number of reasons. Im definitely going to run for director again next year. I really think I learned a lot and also, I think we put on a great show. The shows were oversold everynight, with people begging us to cram in extra chairs or let them sit in the back. My parents really liked it, Tarah and Joey liked it and Jess called it the best piece of student theatre she had ever seen, which is a real compliment from her. The show itself went really smoothly everynight, the audiences ate it up. Im worried we won't be able to find as perfect a show next year, Urinetown really was perfect for our group...good on me for thinking of it...and good on Laura for helping me convince everyone else! The cast and crew I think bonded more than we had in the past as well, and I got to know some people from last year, that I really didn't know. I didn't interact with anyone really since almost all of my scenes were just me, or me and the nick character. I did miss being on the stage...but not in a direct, i want to take over her role kind of way..which is a real tribute to how fantastic our cast was... 'cause Im a huge Diva, and would totaly want to steal someones role if I thought they were doing it wrong. I was so proud of the whole cast...*tear*






The Cast party was such a good time! Firstly, we (the directors &producer) were given toilet seats with a cast photo and everyones signature on them...fantastic present. I finaly figured out how to hang it up on my wall today...I love it. Wilfs was fun, the cast awards were fun, and the slideshow I put together was fun to watch, especially when we were all belting our brains out singing along with the urinetown music I had put on as background music. Then it was off through the nasty weather to the spur. We took the bus, but I didn't have my one card...I flashed my drivers licsense, which totaly worked! yay...note to self: carry one card. The spur was fun. I actually sang karaoke not with everyone else, (did a bit of holding out for a hero before i had to get off the stage because there were too many of us and sang Footloose with Janice and Tammy...good times) also there was a whole kissing thing going on....apparently our group is pretty comfortable with each other, or pretty drunk, or both. Anyhow...Clubcest is best apparently and I hope no one had/has mono! yeesh!

But I miss everyone already..so its good that people are heading to Lauras tomorow to hang out.







3. Meagan: Meagan left for spain. And even though its only been two days, its weird to know that she's in a different country. She was online for a bit today, so she got there safely which is good to know. I know she'll have a fantastic time and learn a lot but Im selfish and miss her, and I know I'm not the only one, based on the tearful goodbye in the middle of Booster Juice (which clearly is the most appropriate place to say goodbye to one of your best friends for six months).



Anyway...those are three things I miss.
Now to sleep...masterclass tomorow.

So Urinetown opens tomorow night, which will offically be the first show I have ever directed. Im happy to say that I love the cast and crew and that the show is totaly ready! (unlike Mirvish's 'Lord of the Rings' which has had its first two shows cancelled! yeeeps!) Dress rehearsal went really well last night. and the run before that had the entire directorial team rolling on the floor laughing it was so fantastic.
But the highlite of my day yesterday was definitely when I forgot to bring a prop from my fridge and Danielle called Liane to see if she could bring it. Its a container of cream cheese and on the phone Liane said...."ok, is it the one labeled.....pigeon poo?" and they both cracked up. (it was the one labelled pigeon poo...why is there pigeon poo in the show you ask? you'll just have to see to find out!)
ps. We need more pigeon poo, is not the kind of phrase you're likely to say in the average persons life, I said it at least five times last night alone.....