This has been one CRAZY (yet fun!) last week! It all began last Saturday I guess. We started our "tech week" (ha! That's a joke) of Forbidden Broadway... which means we sang the most vocally strenuous show I have ever done once a day for 8 days in a row! I am vocally shot!
The reason "tech week" is a joke, is because the theater we did the show at was a joke. They promised us all of these things when we decided to do the show there (like being able to rehearse their previous to the show opening...) and we got NOTHING! They were too worried about losing revenue of movies they could show in that theater to let us have a real tech. Not only did we not get to rehearse in there before the show, they didn't even want to let us in until 15 minutes before the house opened (never mind setting up the lights, keyboard, and doing mic-checks... who does that kind of stuff anyhow?) Luckily, Megan laid down the smack and we got in early enough for all of that. If anyone who does theater in Dubuque is considering using Mindframe as a performance space... DO NOT DO IT! Other than the theater being mildly ridiculous, the show was FANTASTIC! I got to work with four of the most talented people I have ever worked with (Terry, Megan, Jake, and Luke) and I got to do one of the most fun shows ever! If anyone is not familiar with Forbidden Broadway... get familiar with it! It's hillarious. I also got the chance to give and hear imput on new productions Main Street Players may do. Now we are making plans for The Pirates of Penzance!
It has been a great week as far as theater is concerned! We opened FB, got contracted to take the show on the road to Illinois, and made plans for Pirates. Sandra also took it upon herself to play "Molli's agent" and talk me up to the Timberlake playhouse where I am auditioning for their 2010 summerstock season. We also are picking out my audition songs for my summerstock auditions and preparing for those (SO EXCITING!) I also found out Dbq Art Theater is doing "The Last 5 Years," which I really want to audition for. It is going to be a VERY busy next year! Theaters in and around Dubuque: PLEASE stop doing shows that I really want to do, I'm running out of free time!
I'm also getting ready to start on the marketing committee at the Grand! I'm really excited for that, seeing as it is what my major is in and it will be great experience! YAY! Exciting times in Dubuque!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Thus the Drama Begins... and Sort of Ends...
I've been contemplating starting a blog for some time now. The biggest reason is for me to let my friends in all corners of the globe know whats going on in little 'ol Dubuque, Ia. Katie's in LA, Liss is in Rome, and all my other friends spread out over the Midwest.
Secondly, life is too interesting not to be able to share it with everyone else! Life never leaves me board and I always seem to have stories, wisdom's, and gossip to share. Drama seems to find me wherever I am. Lord knows, this summer has been filled with enough of it to fill a novel.
To fill everyone in, this is where my life is at...
I am in my LAST semester at NICC (thank you Jesus!) I start at Clarke this winter (assuming I can get loans to cover what I didn't get in financial aid). I have decided on a Communications major with emphasis in Advertising and Public Relations along with a theatre minor. The sole purpose of the minor is to simply give me more theatre experience.
I'm back at home with my parents (so far, so good...) and newly single. I've spent the last three months freaking out about being single (somewhere I never thought I would be again), and in the last week or so, have embraced it! Last Wednesday night, after my grandpa's funeral, while making mac n' cheese in my kitchen with my mom and Michelle, it suddenly occurred to me that I was happy again. I haven't been able to truly say I was happy since May! It seemed like strange timing, seeing as I had just lost and buried my grandpa, but it somehow made sense too. Grandpa started getting sick around the time Adam and I broke up. I hadn't been able to catch a break since. If I wasn't having issues in one department of my life, I was having them in another. When Grandpa finally passed last Friday, the drama of this summer finally came to an end. I could finally relax and get a new perspective on my life. Losing someone close to you makes you look at things very differently. It made me think a lot about what I want out of life. I want to be happy. I want to go to Clarke and finish school, move to a big city, meet someone great, fall in love, and live happily ever after. I know not all of this will happen without bumps along the way, but hopefully it is all something I can accomplish.
I'm a little disheartened that it took me all summer and losing a grandparent to get to this place. I feel like a lost a whole third of a year, but those three months are over now. Starting now, I get my life back. I am going to live it the way I want to, and God help the man, woman, or child that tries to stop me!
Secondly, life is too interesting not to be able to share it with everyone else! Life never leaves me board and I always seem to have stories, wisdom's, and gossip to share. Drama seems to find me wherever I am. Lord knows, this summer has been filled with enough of it to fill a novel.
To fill everyone in, this is where my life is at...
I am in my LAST semester at NICC (thank you Jesus!) I start at Clarke this winter (assuming I can get loans to cover what I didn't get in financial aid). I have decided on a Communications major with emphasis in Advertising and Public Relations along with a theatre minor. The sole purpose of the minor is to simply give me more theatre experience.
I'm back at home with my parents (so far, so good...) and newly single. I've spent the last three months freaking out about being single (somewhere I never thought I would be again), and in the last week or so, have embraced it! Last Wednesday night, after my grandpa's funeral, while making mac n' cheese in my kitchen with my mom and Michelle, it suddenly occurred to me that I was happy again. I haven't been able to truly say I was happy since May! It seemed like strange timing, seeing as I had just lost and buried my grandpa, but it somehow made sense too. Grandpa started getting sick around the time Adam and I broke up. I hadn't been able to catch a break since. If I wasn't having issues in one department of my life, I was having them in another. When Grandpa finally passed last Friday, the drama of this summer finally came to an end. I could finally relax and get a new perspective on my life. Losing someone close to you makes you look at things very differently. It made me think a lot about what I want out of life. I want to be happy. I want to go to Clarke and finish school, move to a big city, meet someone great, fall in love, and live happily ever after. I know not all of this will happen without bumps along the way, but hopefully it is all something I can accomplish.
I'm a little disheartened that it took me all summer and losing a grandparent to get to this place. I feel like a lost a whole third of a year, but those three months are over now. Starting now, I get my life back. I am going to live it the way I want to, and God help the man, woman, or child that tries to stop me!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)