Chorus Line. What an experience. Friday was great! I wasn't terrible nervous, which is a good thing! The second night we sang a lot better, but made a few mistakes. Sunday was, wow! Everyone warned me about matinees and how the audience is pretty much dead, but wow! It was like giving a play to a brick wall for the first hour! After that they lightened up a little, and monday was a relief just to get it over with!
Everyone really liked the show! I got compliments all over, and it was a pretty entertaining show. I am definitely glad it is over with though! I can have my own life back again!
Anyways, Regina gave me some flowers after the last show!!!! They are so pretty! Red Roses. I put them inside a SoBe bottle. Talk about College life, huh?
I also registered for my classes, and I got all of the ones I wanted. I am going to take that playwriting class and take my LCT class second semester.
Got to go!
Neil
Showing posts with label A Chorus Line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Chorus Line. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Update
The goal of this week is to focus on Chorus Line, and finish all of my school projects. It is also, by pure coincidence, an absolutely brilliant day outside. It is now spring. You were right mom, you can smell it! The grass is coming to life, the birds are singing, and I went outside with shorts and no sweater. We (Emyli, Danielle, and I) played frisbee and went for a walk in the forest!
Yesterday, Rachel was in the green room crying, pretty much hysterically. Someone was tending to her, so I went out to the stage for practice. Apparently she hurt her knee really bad and the Director (Judy) is replacing her. My friend Joanna is taking her place, and trying to learn what we did in two months time, in one week.
I was walking to get a drink, and there is Rachel, and I give her a hug and ask if she is alright. She says that she is fine because she took pain pills so she won't feel the pain anymore, and is going to be in the show anyways. I told her her health was more important, but she didn't believe me. Judy almost called security on her because she wouldn't leave, and her mom had to take her to some mental health place for the weekend. Pretty scary, huh?
I think the show will go well though. My double Pirouette is coming fine, and after some complications with the dance shoes, they are coming this thursday hopefully!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Musical
FINALLY!!! auugghhhh!
Ok so well I've been getting a lot of crap because I do not know how to read music. It isn't my fault really, and I blame my old piano teacher because she gave me such an easy opportunity to cheat and write the letters in pencil. Well, let me tell you singing off of music is helluva lot harder than just making tiny pings on a piano.
And so, yesterday when I tried to sing my part (which had back and forth singing with dialogue, which is way hard,) the Director Judy stopped the whole rehearsal and told me that they couldn't go on without me getting it. She then told Jan that I would probably have to do that everyday until the opening night of the show. Yay, an insult!
Jan whispered to me that it wasn't my fault, it's just that this piece was really hard. I have to both agree and disagree with her. My part is hard, but also I've never done this before. I really like Jan though, because shes always unappreciated around here and Judy sometimes yells at Jan when she doesn't deserve it.
So after I practiced for a bit with her, I went in front of everyone and got it! It surprised me even! It's so weird to me because I havent been doing it my whole life like swimming. The whole time I just wanted to sink and disappear in a vat of water. Seriously!
But Now I have the right friends in theatre, after many botched attempts beforehand. Whew. I really feel like I have a permanent foothold here, and it's not going away. The fact that Judy was insulting me, and then had a look of surprise on her face when I got it, means that maybe she will recast me again next year.
Tomorrow I have my oral interp of Horton Hears a Who. I am totally ready. I just have to figure out which pages I am going to read. It is awesome though, because I gave Horton a slow, low voice, the kangaroos Australian Voices, and the eagle some sort of Russian voice. I also have my interview for the RA job. talk about busy!
AND! AND! AND! we started doing portraits in art class!! ahhhh! I'm so excited because I was waiting for this day to come! yahooooo! I love drawing people's faces! Here is the one we did today! We had to choose between a couple sculptures that she had set out, and I chose this one (am trying to get the picture up now). It is supposed to be a 3/4ths view. And I know his forehead looks pretty big, but that's how the sculpture was.
Neil
Ok so well I've been getting a lot of crap because I do not know how to read music. It isn't my fault really, and I blame my old piano teacher because she gave me such an easy opportunity to cheat and write the letters in pencil. Well, let me tell you singing off of music is helluva lot harder than just making tiny pings on a piano.
And so, yesterday when I tried to sing my part (which had back and forth singing with dialogue, which is way hard,) the Director Judy stopped the whole rehearsal and told me that they couldn't go on without me getting it. She then told Jan that I would probably have to do that everyday until the opening night of the show. Yay, an insult!
Jan whispered to me that it wasn't my fault, it's just that this piece was really hard. I have to both agree and disagree with her. My part is hard, but also I've never done this before. I really like Jan though, because shes always unappreciated around here and Judy sometimes yells at Jan when she doesn't deserve it.
So after I practiced for a bit with her, I went in front of everyone and got it! It surprised me even! It's so weird to me because I havent been doing it my whole life like swimming. The whole time I just wanted to sink and disappear in a vat of water. Seriously!
But Now I have the right friends in theatre, after many botched attempts beforehand. Whew. I really feel like I have a permanent foothold here, and it's not going away. The fact that Judy was insulting me, and then had a look of surprise on her face when I got it, means that maybe she will recast me again next year.
Tomorrow I have my oral interp of Horton Hears a Who. I am totally ready. I just have to figure out which pages I am going to read. It is awesome though, because I gave Horton a slow, low voice, the kangaroos Australian Voices, and the eagle some sort of Russian voice. I also have my interview for the RA job. talk about busy!
AND! AND! AND! we started doing portraits in art class!! ahhhh! I'm so excited because I was waiting for this day to come! yahooooo! I love drawing people's faces! Here is the one we did today! We had to choose between a couple sculptures that she had set out, and I chose this one (am trying to get the picture up now). It is supposed to be a 3/4ths view. And I know his forehead looks pretty big, but that's how the sculpture was.
Neil
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
:D:D:D:D
SO:
It is completely true that exercise gives you endorphins. I would know because my average now is 4 hours of swimming, and 4 hours of dance EVERY DAY! I must say I have been sleeping like a log, and it hurts sometimes, but I am meeting new people all the time and its somehow put me in such a good mood.
Over the weekend I did Cross Country Skiing, and it was beyond amazing! You have to run but not since you are wearing skis, but you also have the poles to push yourself. A funny part was this wicked double humped downslope, that curved to the right. I was scared I would fall like everyone else was (all of us were pretty much novice at this), but I made it down the first hump, and over and down the next one! I was so happy, that I swerved on accident and plowed into a wall of snow! I tried to get up but got all tangled in my skis and poles, and took a minute to get up. Right when I did, Mocha came swerving around the bend, saw me, and had to stop by also falling into the snow. Definitely a lot of fun!
I gave my first speech in class today and I told myself I wasnt going to be nervous, but I was. Everyone told me I did a good job though, and I need to practice not saying uh or um, and remembering my outline more!
See Ya!
<3 Neil
It is completely true that exercise gives you endorphins. I would know because my average now is 4 hours of swimming, and 4 hours of dance EVERY DAY! I must say I have been sleeping like a log, and it hurts sometimes, but I am meeting new people all the time and its somehow put me in such a good mood.
Over the weekend I did Cross Country Skiing, and it was beyond amazing! You have to run but not since you are wearing skis, but you also have the poles to push yourself. A funny part was this wicked double humped downslope, that curved to the right. I was scared I would fall like everyone else was (all of us were pretty much novice at this), but I made it down the first hump, and over and down the next one! I was so happy, that I swerved on accident and plowed into a wall of snow! I tried to get up but got all tangled in my skis and poles, and took a minute to get up. Right when I did, Mocha came swerving around the bend, saw me, and had to stop by also falling into the snow. Definitely a lot of fun!
I gave my first speech in class today and I told myself I wasnt going to be nervous, but I was. Everyone told me I did a good job though, and I need to practice not saying uh or um, and remembering my outline more!
See Ya!
<3 Neil
Monday, January 12, 2009
Busy Semester Ahead
Wow. My life is already so complicated!!! I am swimming constantly, now part of the theatre production A Chorus Line, of which the directors think they are the most important and are going all Nazi on our schedules. Im also still in the Ballroom Dancing club, and my partner Annie and I finally figured out how to do this spinning and using our force to pick her up off the ground thing. whew! everyone clapped when we finally got it :D
The swim meet was a lot of fun, and was way more pleasurable since we didn't have to travel at all! Most of my friends came and saw me swim so that made me EXTREMELY happy! Coach told me he was really happy that I did about the same times as the last meet before Hawaii, because he rationed that we should all be hurting because he was so hard on us during the vacation, and so the fact that I was doing the same while everyone else did worse (even John!) was really exciting for him. Im still kind of frustrated by it.
So I was waiting for that night, which was Saturday, because the team was planning on having some "get together" and I thought it was a party. I mean, they were all talking about buying drinks. Then I found out through someones slip of the tongue that it was innitiation into the swim team....oh boy haha
It wasn't that bad at all actually. I think the guys forgot, so we got off rather easily. They split us up guys and girls, and we went to Aaron's and John's rooms. They gave us five shirts and we had to make up jerseys for ourselves. Not knowing what else to do, someone suggested we play tic-tac-toe on the front, and so we all played a game of that! And then on the back we had to have nicknames that everyones else picked, and of course they were stupid and made no sense lol
Then they gave each of us a spoonful of ground cinnamon and we had to try and eat all of it. I knew something was supposed to happen with this, but what it was I couldn't quite remember. So I slowly put it to my mouth, a fraction of a second after everyone else, and I only inhaled half of it before I started coughing. It was like a desert in your mouth!!!! But the really cool part, even though you could hardly breath, was that a jet of cinnamon powder would shoot out evertime you coughed! and Matt threw up into the trash can that was placed in front of us. I just waited patiently and told my brain to activate the glands in my mouth, and slowly I was able to spit it all out.
Now, this is Ground Cinnamon, which means it doesn't have any sugar, and tastes pretty bitter. It also stings your lips a lot. But it was still pretty cool. Then we had to go to Heffron Hall and take a picture with the bust that was there. You'll probably see it when it surfaces on Facebook sometime.
After that we went to go join the girls in the other village. The older girls on the team had obtained a wide, shallow tub of pond water, and had thrown objects like olives, nail polish containers, necklaces and such, so that they had to competitively bob for the objects much like one bobs for apples. The cool thing was that the winners got a $25 gift card to some restaurant or other!
And after that we partied, people playing drinking games that I admit was kind of fun to watch. Especially when everyone gets tipsy. I did try a sip of this blueberry flavored beer, and it tasted good, until it went into your stomach. eww. so gross.
John Fox gets so excited and emotional when he's drunk! He smiles, shows emotion on his face, talks more, and actually stood up on the coffee table and started dancing!!!!! It was a lot of fun and it was also cool because there was a group of us (5) that were sober so then we didn't feel left out. Plus we acted drunk anyways for fun :D
So last night, my good friend Pat Luke professed his love to me. I kind of knew this was coming sooner or later, but that of course didn't make it any easier. He is SO nice, and I get along with him SO well. The only problem is that I'm not attracted to him. Its sad too because I kind of want to be. He would be such a great person to date, but its just not there! Call me shallow or a jerk, but thats just how it is. I feel like Im passing up something here that I shouldn't, but we all make mistakes right? tell me Im right!
and yea, that's about it! Its snowing a ton right now, and is supposed to be super cold this week, but I love it! I can't get enough of the snow and if u bundle up enough, nothing is too cold! Bring it MN!
Love ya,
Neil
The swim meet was a lot of fun, and was way more pleasurable since we didn't have to travel at all! Most of my friends came and saw me swim so that made me EXTREMELY happy! Coach told me he was really happy that I did about the same times as the last meet before Hawaii, because he rationed that we should all be hurting because he was so hard on us during the vacation, and so the fact that I was doing the same while everyone else did worse (even John!) was really exciting for him. Im still kind of frustrated by it.
So I was waiting for that night, which was Saturday, because the team was planning on having some "get together" and I thought it was a party. I mean, they were all talking about buying drinks. Then I found out through someones slip of the tongue that it was innitiation into the swim team....oh boy haha
It wasn't that bad at all actually. I think the guys forgot, so we got off rather easily. They split us up guys and girls, and we went to Aaron's and John's rooms. They gave us five shirts and we had to make up jerseys for ourselves. Not knowing what else to do, someone suggested we play tic-tac-toe on the front, and so we all played a game of that! And then on the back we had to have nicknames that everyones else picked, and of course they were stupid and made no sense lol
Then they gave each of us a spoonful of ground cinnamon and we had to try and eat all of it. I knew something was supposed to happen with this, but what it was I couldn't quite remember. So I slowly put it to my mouth, a fraction of a second after everyone else, and I only inhaled half of it before I started coughing. It was like a desert in your mouth!!!! But the really cool part, even though you could hardly breath, was that a jet of cinnamon powder would shoot out evertime you coughed! and Matt threw up into the trash can that was placed in front of us. I just waited patiently and told my brain to activate the glands in my mouth, and slowly I was able to spit it all out.
Now, this is Ground Cinnamon, which means it doesn't have any sugar, and tastes pretty bitter. It also stings your lips a lot. But it was still pretty cool. Then we had to go to Heffron Hall and take a picture with the bust that was there. You'll probably see it when it surfaces on Facebook sometime.
After that we went to go join the girls in the other village. The older girls on the team had obtained a wide, shallow tub of pond water, and had thrown objects like olives, nail polish containers, necklaces and such, so that they had to competitively bob for the objects much like one bobs for apples. The cool thing was that the winners got a $25 gift card to some restaurant or other!
And after that we partied, people playing drinking games that I admit was kind of fun to watch. Especially when everyone gets tipsy. I did try a sip of this blueberry flavored beer, and it tasted good, until it went into your stomach. eww. so gross.
John Fox gets so excited and emotional when he's drunk! He smiles, shows emotion on his face, talks more, and actually stood up on the coffee table and started dancing!!!!! It was a lot of fun and it was also cool because there was a group of us (5) that were sober so then we didn't feel left out. Plus we acted drunk anyways for fun :D
So last night, my good friend Pat Luke professed his love to me. I kind of knew this was coming sooner or later, but that of course didn't make it any easier. He is SO nice, and I get along with him SO well. The only problem is that I'm not attracted to him. Its sad too because I kind of want to be. He would be such a great person to date, but its just not there! Call me shallow or a jerk, but thats just how it is. I feel like Im passing up something here that I shouldn't, but we all make mistakes right? tell me Im right!
and yea, that's about it! Its snowing a ton right now, and is supposed to be super cold this week, but I love it! I can't get enough of the snow and if u bundle up enough, nothing is too cold! Bring it MN!
Love ya,
Neil
Thursday, January 8, 2009
In the Loop
After all that work, all that pretending to be able to tap dance, trying my hardest to sing well, noticing at some parts that i was shaking (but not enough for others to see), trying my hardest to be creative and not just copying the person before me when deliviering lines, I did get a part.
It was also really super hard to watch my friends not make it. Even the one who's been doing theatre since she's been six.All I could do was hug her and feel really guilty that I had what she wanted.
I looked up "Roy" in the playbook. Just don't think I'm a star yet. I have two words. One and No.
Everyone's told me tho that once you get into the loop of theatre, it's much easier the second time to get cast.
It was also really super hard to watch my friends not make it. Even the one who's been doing theatre since she's been six.All I could do was hug her and feel really guilty that I had what she wanted.
I looked up "Roy" in the playbook. Just don't think I'm a star yet. I have two words. One and No.
Everyone's told me tho that once you get into the loop of theatre, it's much easier the second time to get cast.
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