Posted in Random, Theater, tagged big hats, feathers, hats, pick-a-little ladies, pickles, the music man on March 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So after discovering our parts last week, Anne took to calling me the Principle Pickle. I can’t blame her. “Pick-a-Little” sounds a lot like “pickle ” to me. And so I was inspired to a flight of artistry. Check it out:
The Pickle Ladies! Hahaha. I think I’m very funny.
And, because we’re the Principle Pickles (by [...]
Posted in Life, Theater, tagged auditions, cast list, insanity, music man, the music man on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Four whole days to wait for the cast list! Evil, I tell you, evil.
Even in high school, the cast list went up the morning after the second day of auditions. There were usually a couple of casualties as kids stormed the announcement board (mostly tramplings, but I think once a fist fight broke out over [...]
Posted in Life, Theater, tagged auditions, drama, melodrama, music man, solo on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is that happy time of year again! Our production of Fiddler on the Roof was so successful last year that they (the Opera House and the Arts Council) have decided to make Spring Musicals and annual tradition.
Up next on the program: The Music Man!
This is one of the very rare shows that I know [...]
Posted in ASL, Life, Theater, Travel, Writing, tagged family letter, year end on January 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Tis the season to receive letters from your far-flung friends and family telling you all about what they, their children, and their pets have accomplished during the past year. I really enjoy this time-honored tradition, since it is frequently the only time I get news from people who haven’t been sucked into Facebook yet.
And there [...]
Posted in Life, Theater, tagged community theater, ego, fiddler on the roof on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The play is over. We closed this evening to a standing-room-only crowd. It was our best show of the entire run, and we all came out of it feeling extremely proud of ourselves. Well we should! We worked hard and strung this show together with less resources than I ever would have believed possible. Donna [...]
Posted in Life, Theater, tagged blizzard, cold, snow, spring, storm, weather on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How do you know spring has arrived in South Dakota? Why, the five feet of snow on the ground, of course.
Spring blizzards are as common around here as deer on the side of the highway, but it’s been several years since we’ve gotten such a doozie. The last was April 2006, when a literal 5 [...]
Posted in Dreams, Theater, tagged B-1 Bomber, doom, fiddler on the roof, mushroom cloud, nightmares, nuclear bombs on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The play is fast approaching. At this point, most sane people would be having dreams of walking out on stage naked, forgetting their lines, or forgetting which play they’re in. I got those dreams over with a month ago. (After we first choreographed the Matchmaker song, I had a dream that we decided to go [...]
Posted in Life, Theater, tagged herbal tea, laryngitis, licorice, slippery elm on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eight days until show time. Tonight, we made it almost through the second act. Friday night we’re supposed to do the show start to finish, whether it kills us or not. It might.
No no, to be fair, it’s been pulling together quite well over the last few nights, considering how fractured rehearsals have been up [...]
Posted in Theater, tagged fiddler on the roof, homestake opera house, lead, South Dakota on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re famous!
Lead opera house goes on with the show
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Lead opera house goes on with the show
Okay, being on local news doesn’t exactly qualify as famous, but it does make me feel extra cool. (Ten points if you can pick me out of the crowd! Hint: I’m not blonde and I can’t really sing.)
And to [...]
Posted in Life, Theater, tagged laryngitis, licorice, singing, Theater on March 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I had my first individual practice last night for the play. I only have one solo, and it’s a silly number where I’m pretending to be an old woman. I’ve listened to the CDs, and the girls who have this part almost all speak-sing it rather than regular old sing it. Personally, I’d like to [...]
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