So a follow-up on the status of my Musical Theatre course. We're done. Our final exam has been completed, and that means lots of free time! Our exam was a musical (of course) and as I've mentioned, we did Beauty and the Beast. It went really well! We got lots of standing ovations, and we felt really good about the production! I've got some pictures to share!
Babette
Gaston, Lefou and the cronies (I'm the one frowning with the glass)
Be Our Guest
Me as Madame D'Arque
again
Gaston
Chip
Lumiere
The little fan
My brother took all of these shots, so they are a bit blurry, but I think they sum up the show quite well!
This is a version of my song: The Maison des Lunes. It isn't me, and is very good, but it'll give you an idea of how creepy I had to be!
P.S. They are Australian so they have cool accents!
P.P.S. I plan on trying to post every day this week! Wish me luck!
Hello my freaky friends.
I haven't posted in a while, I know, eat me. I've been super-duper busy recently with my musical theatre production of 'Beauty and the Beast'. I've been cast as 'Madame D'Arque' -the creepy asylum owner who takes Belle's father away. It's funny, I always seem to be cast as an uptight old woman.The same thing happened in a student-directed festival at my school (it was called the Sears festival). I was cast as an ass of a catholic woman. I was creepy in that too.
Here's a picture of my animated self.
(I forgot to mention, Mme. D'Arque is a man in the movie. Well, M. D'Arque will just need to consider a sex change.)
Yall'z should come and see my show, it happens on May 31st - June 2nd at 7:00pm, plus a matineé at 2:00pm on June 2nd. That is, if your not in it, or living in anouther country.....
I'm just realizing, so, so, much has happened since I last posted. I played a gig at the spill with my Band; 'The Lonely Parade' which happened with my mates Anwyn and Char, and my brother's band 'Pepto Bismarck' They cover Nirvana songs...They posted their setlist on youtube (it's in three parts). We haven't gotten around to posting ours yet.
My time right now though roughly consists of rowing (5:45 EVERY MORNING), falling asleep during movies (probably because I'm so tired from the former^, I haven't gotten through a movie in about two weeks.), And watching Heartland. Let me explain before you lose respect for me altogether.
Heartland is THE best cheeseball show ever. It requires very few neurons to comprehend. The scenery is GEORGEOUS, it makes me feel happy, and it's Canadian, from CBC. (I don't have cable. Therefore-Slim pickings.)
My friends make fun of me.
PLUS, SPRING HAS SPRUNG!
That's all for now, I've gotta munch some dinner.
P.S. I'm planning to post tomorrow about my suitcase adventures, stay tuned!!
Hi, to the threeish people that read my blog occasionally (if there are more of you, speak out!)
I decided to visit my neglected blog, and realized that I haven't posted since Christmas...
Well the reason I've been waaaay too busy to post is one word: Exams-- the joy of my life for all of January. Exams are over. YAY!
I decided to write something on this blog, but then promptly realized that my life isn't really that interesting, and that nothing huge has changed. (ie. I still have all my limbs.)
But I guess the biggest change in my life is my dive into 'theatre'. Specifically the musical kind.
Let me explain: The end of exams brought the end to first semester. Which means the end of Chemistry, Physics, Biology and English (the subject, not the language...I haven't suddenly turned french or anything). Which also means the beginning of Math...and more importantly, my Musical Theatre course. Which takes up 75% of my school day!! HELL YEAH.
So no science till next year..... and time to write, and draw, and read, and rock climb, and watch movies, and play music to my heart's content!!
To conclude this thought with one statement, would be to say: My life has suddenly become interesting again.
So, I think as of now I will tell you about yesterday's adventure.
Yesterday, my musical theatre class took a last minute trip to Second City in Toronto. Now if you've never heard of Second City, I'd recommend that you get off your ass and run down to Toronto to see a show. The one my class saw was PHENOMENAL (teacher word right there). It was called "Dreams Really Do Come True (and other lies)".
Second City -- if I forgot to mention-- is a comedy club, where improv theatre is the beginning of all of the sketches. So basically the actors all improvise in front of an audience, and see their reactions. A director then puts all of the good chunks of comedy into a show and modifies the chunks to make them even funnier. It was pretty excellent.
Now to leave with a song... I want to play the Kinks songs, 'Lola' and 'Sunny Afternoon'.
I'm really into the Kinks right now, they're really good, and I love the lead singer's voice.
