38 Days, 6 hours, 58 minutes
So I'm uber excited... Because in ~points at time~ that amount of time, we will have HALLOWEEN.
Halloween, as you may or may not know, is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVA!!! I love it. Perhaps being a theatre major feeds my love for it, but I don't care, I don't want to know... It's Halloween!
OK, so update... I don't know where to begin. I've GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL! Awesome, right?! I think so... Anyway, I auditioned for my first college show, and I was cast as Jellaby the butler in Arcadia By Tom Stoppard. It's a really funny play when read aloud, not so funny when read silently. I'm just excited I was cast!
More soon!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Jar Wars
Well, so much for keeping up with posting... Here we are months later, and I'm just now getting around to posting the results of THREE (count 'em) THREE shows on here.
Show # 1: The Sound of Music
So we performed the show, after all the hassle of not having blocked, and not learning songs. We were absolutely FANTASTIC!! The kids in the show were amazing, and everyone worked so hard to bring that show to a successful conclusion. There wasn't much that I wasn't happy about with that show, so there's not much of anything to report with it.... Needless to say, it was absolutely fantastic.
Show # 2: In the Theatre III/IV class, we perform a senior play. It is like the last hoorah for the theatre seniors who have been in theatre for at least two years. We auditioned for the play, The Servant of Two Masters, and I was cast in the role of Signor Pantalone dei Bisognosi. Yes, that's right, an Italian reniassance play by Carlo Goldoni, and I got the part of, you guessed it, the OLD MAN. XD
It was still really fun. It was a comedia del arte play, which is basically the equivilant of a melodrama in those times. It is supposed to be really over the top and funny, and it was. We all had a wonderful time performing in our last main stage play as seniors on that stage. I was extremely proud of the man who was cast as Truffeldino, because up until this year, he had never been in a main stage play ON STAGE before, he was always behind the scenes. He did an amazing job, as did the rest of the cast. Sen10rs rule!!
Show # 3: The final show has just recently ended. It was The Bremen Town Musicians. It was adapted from the story by The Brothers Grimm by our theatre teacher, and we performed it as a children's play. I was cast as... wait for it... THE BITTER OLD HUNTER!!! Yeah... Type casting is a wonderful thing, innit? ;D
Anyway, we had a lot of fun with this show, but it hit me hard that itw as my last show on that high school stage. I will miss this theatre department tremendously, and I will be back to see shows guaranteed 100%. After all, I'm only going to be a half hour away.
But anway, that's the way my life goes as of lately. I'll keep updated how things are going with college searches, and on my trip to europe this summer.
For now, Auf wiedhersehen!
P.S. Another random movie quote...:
"Here's the thing about the future... Every time you look at it, it changes... because you looked at it... And that changes everything else." --Next
Show # 1: The Sound of Music
So we performed the show, after all the hassle of not having blocked, and not learning songs. We were absolutely FANTASTIC!! The kids in the show were amazing, and everyone worked so hard to bring that show to a successful conclusion. There wasn't much that I wasn't happy about with that show, so there's not much of anything to report with it.... Needless to say, it was absolutely fantastic.
Show # 2: In the Theatre III/IV class, we perform a senior play. It is like the last hoorah for the theatre seniors who have been in theatre for at least two years. We auditioned for the play, The Servant of Two Masters, and I was cast in the role of Signor Pantalone dei Bisognosi. Yes, that's right, an Italian reniassance play by Carlo Goldoni, and I got the part of, you guessed it, the OLD MAN. XD
It was still really fun. It was a comedia del arte play, which is basically the equivilant of a melodrama in those times. It is supposed to be really over the top and funny, and it was. We all had a wonderful time performing in our last main stage play as seniors on that stage. I was extremely proud of the man who was cast as Truffeldino, because up until this year, he had never been in a main stage play ON STAGE before, he was always behind the scenes. He did an amazing job, as did the rest of the cast. Sen10rs rule!!
Show # 3: The final show has just recently ended. It was The Bremen Town Musicians. It was adapted from the story by The Brothers Grimm by our theatre teacher, and we performed it as a children's play. I was cast as... wait for it... THE BITTER OLD HUNTER!!! Yeah... Type casting is a wonderful thing, innit? ;D
Anyway, we had a lot of fun with this show, but it hit me hard that itw as my last show on that high school stage. I will miss this theatre department tremendously, and I will be back to see shows guaranteed 100%. After all, I'm only going to be a half hour away.
But anway, that's the way my life goes as of lately. I'll keep updated how things are going with college searches, and on my trip to europe this summer.
For now, Auf wiedhersehen!
P.S. Another random movie quote...:
"Here's the thing about the future... Every time you look at it, it changes... because you looked at it... And that changes everything else." --Next
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away...
So we are almost a month away from the show and we still haven't blocked the second act of The Sound of Music... That's cool, though. We can get it done, it won't be a big deal. But the girl who plays Maria and I, as of the other day, had yet to even learn our first song together, let alone attempt to sing it... So what did we do? We winged it... The best plan on the planet, right? Right... It's the plan that has no rules... But I digress. We winged it, and it was FANTASTIC. That's right folks, FANTASTIC. We are just awesome like that. ~nods~
On a slightly different note... For Christmas I received a book called What We Do Working in the Theatre" by Bo Metzler, an award winning book about all the different jobs in the theatre in a non-theatre person vocabulary. It's truly brililiant so far, and I hope to have it finished soon.
Hey, it's not been seven months since my last post! Amazing right? Not that anyone's reading this blog currently anyway, but hey, I said from the beginning this was more of a way to keep memories for myself if I ever get senile.
On a slightly different note... For Christmas I received a book called What We Do Working in the Theatre" by Bo Metzler, an award winning book about all the different jobs in the theatre in a non-theatre person vocabulary. It's truly brililiant so far, and I hope to have it finished soon.
Hey, it's not been seven months since my last post! Amazing right? Not that anyone's reading this blog currently anyway, but hey, I said from the beginning this was more of a way to keep memories for myself if I ever get senile.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
A Long Time Ago
It seems like forever since I last posted something on here... Probably because it has been, considering I've not posted anything since... July... Crazy, right? Well, let me catch you up on current affairs.
In October we performed The Diviner's, the play I told you that we had held auditions for right after Charlotte's Web. It went marvelously. I played the part of Ferris Layman, the father of the main character, a young autistic boy who is afraid of water. I was also the co-light designer for the show, and helped with the technical aspect in that way.
Not soon after, we held auditions for The Sound of Music, which we are performing in February, less than a month away. I was cast in the part of Captain von Trapp, a fact which I am ECSTATIC about!!
Hmm... What all else is there... Oh! We performed Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the beginning of December last year (scary that I can actually say that, huh?). It was AMAZING, though the process getting there wasn't so amazing. The director had put too much on his plate, and as such was highly unorganized, which caused the show to suffer. The producers of the show noticed this three weeks out of the show, and intervened, letting the director go and replacing him with someone who was much more experienced and organized. This new director was amazing, she knew exactly what to say and when and how to say it. The last few weeks were a fantastic experience, and then we hit the performances, and it was a euphoric experience, though most performances are.
I think that's really all I have to say. I can say that this week I am going to be attending Missouri State Thespian Conference with about thirty of my fellow thespians in my high school. I can't WAIT. I attended last year, and it was pehnominal, this year shouldn't be any different. I do plan on keeping this updated more frequently... Lord knows I don't want to post in seven months again. I'll post some more... personal stuff, as well.
Random movie quote:
"...that which does not kill you... simply makes you...stranger..."
--Joker: The Dark Knight
In October we performed The Diviner's, the play I told you that we had held auditions for right after Charlotte's Web. It went marvelously. I played the part of Ferris Layman, the father of the main character, a young autistic boy who is afraid of water. I was also the co-light designer for the show, and helped with the technical aspect in that way.
Not soon after, we held auditions for The Sound of Music, which we are performing in February, less than a month away. I was cast in the part of Captain von Trapp, a fact which I am ECSTATIC about!!
Hmm... What all else is there... Oh! We performed Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the beginning of December last year (scary that I can actually say that, huh?). It was AMAZING, though the process getting there wasn't so amazing. The director had put too much on his plate, and as such was highly unorganized, which caused the show to suffer. The producers of the show noticed this three weeks out of the show, and intervened, letting the director go and replacing him with someone who was much more experienced and organized. This new director was amazing, she knew exactly what to say and when and how to say it. The last few weeks were a fantastic experience, and then we hit the performances, and it was a euphoric experience, though most performances are.
I think that's really all I have to say. I can say that this week I am going to be attending Missouri State Thespian Conference with about thirty of my fellow thespians in my high school. I can't WAIT. I attended last year, and it was pehnominal, this year shouldn't be any different. I do plan on keeping this updated more frequently... Lord knows I don't want to post in seven months again. I'll post some more... personal stuff, as well.
Random movie quote:
"...that which does not kill you... simply makes you...stranger..."
--Joker: The Dark Knight
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