So the opera is done! Finally...It was fun and we put on a good show, but its just so ridiculously tiring. Especially since the second last week where we had tons of extra opera rehearsal on top of the normal 12 hours per week we also had choir intensive..Im still a little drained. So a few pictures from opera must be posted...

#1 CHARLIES ANGEL NUNS...because...well..ya



and also..as I was a bat..I had to do the bat boy dance..in the costume...



tee hee..there are more on facebook...good times.

and now i need to either go to bed..or type up vocal ped stuff...bed seems to be winning in my brain....

So its been a crazy couple of weeks!! Last weekend I woke up in the middle of the night with crazy stabbing chest pains and had to go to the emerge. Luckily, Laura is my hero and stayed with me the whole 9 1/2 hours, while we waited and waited and waited...and then I had to wear a stupid gown, and have stikcy things all over me for an ekg and wait and wait..and then have a doctor be really rude to me. gah! anyway, I'm fine now. They said at health services that they thought it was some sort of virus, which makes a lot of sense. but still, scary scarey...not fun at all. So I missed a lot of school last week, as I was too tired to even move, and my chest still hurt, it still hurts a bit occasionally but WAY WAY better than last week.

This weekend I went up to St. Catherines to have a birthday dinner with my nana. It was fun, we went to my uncles house and met his girlfriend Kelly who was really nice. It was a fun night full of drunken reminising by my dad and uncle and grandmother... good times. The next day I had brunch with Nana and Ralph (nanas husband, my step grandpa) my aunt and my cousisn, who I haven't seen in FOREVER! so that was nice. Then dad and Tarah drove me home and dad bought me a webcam! yay! and lots of tasty groceries. Hoorah for food!!

So now Im just trying to let my brain mush for an hour or so before I start my work. This week is INSANITY!!! Its choir intensive week, which means all choir, all the time, two hours mon-thurs, three on friday and I don't even know how many before the concert on saturday. Gah! I had my skills performance midterm today...I was mad, it went really badly. Even the parts that I was completely ready for. I had some sort of weird brain fart and totaly forgot how to sing a tonal line. Im crazy. Oh well, my solkatu stuff went well. Opera rehearsal tonight was really weird. Our director had some sort of miscomunication with The director of the program and had worked out all of the blocking for the wrong scene. the finale of Figaro instead of the act 2 finale. So we just sang through it a few times. But Lesley did give me a really great compliment! It sort of made my night. She said that I was outstanding (or some other glowing word) in the weill and she could listen to me sing weill all day. tee hee! I was like, yay..I like compliments...so that was cool. anyway...Now Im going to learn some rep..for my lesson tomorow..yeesh..Id been doing so well with staying on top of all that.
anyhoo...Im off!

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!!