not really an update

No, this is, as always in crazy times, not really an update.  I got out of Pippin early tonight, so I went on a kick of downloading music (Rufus, The Shins, Sinatra, Carbon Leaf...) with my new program, LimeWire, and looking for Spring Break deals.  Any suggestions?  On spring break deals, I mean.  Someplace with a beach and hot and all-inclusive is pretty much what we're lookin' for.  Oh, and I also looked up all the ACTF Stage Management info, which just kinda makes me nervous.  Already. 

Pippin is going fairly slowly and smoothly - we're done blocking out Act I finally, but it needs lots of review and clean-up work!  A month (when we open) feels like a long time, but there's fall break in there...  so really, it's kinda scary. 

I need to go do my Speech homework (i.e. make funny noises), but before I go I wanted to point out that I really enjoy it when people I knew in high school do talented things (I really recommend her song "With Everything I Have").

Ciao.

missing London

Request your Pippin tickets!

 

So, a year ago today I was in London.  I had two classes on Wednesday's, each one whole whopping hour.  And then I'd go see a play.  And then I'd go to the Sandwich.  Sigh..  Week four of the semester seems to be worse than weeks two and three, but possibly better than week one.  Possibly.  Stress continues to accumulate as I've started doing Scene shop hours, have an actual assignment due for Scene Design, have weekly production meetings, and never get quite enough sleep!  Luckily, we're closer to the weekend than we were yesterday, I don't have to do a scene for next week's Directing, and one of my classes for tomorrow is canceled.  Simple Joys.

 

 

RIP Lucy  :(

 

being political

The first week of school just about killed me. 

So I have no desire to update, but perhaps these links will interest you:

Prince George

Douchey

haha - i love it when the quizzes i take give me an answer that is a blatant lie!

Category I - The Hub
You're a 'people person'. Networking runs in your
blood. Consequently, you can move through most
social circles with ease.

What Type of Social Entity are You?
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P.S.  I'm kinda in love with Zach Braff after seeing Garden State.  Isn't that wierd?

random reminder

Before you go back to school:

Go to your local courthouse and find out about applying for an absentee ballot!  No, really.  Let's vote, plea'.

there's no place like home!

So... home.  It's such a different world than being at school for the summer.  The days go by much more quickly...and much more slowly...  And it's certainly lonelier than at school, with my babies across the hall, but solitude is so nice! 

The first week at home was very busy.  When I got home on Monday I was so tired I felt as if I had been drugged.  Mom was in NYC with our vistors, Gretchen, Adam, and his friend Phillip.  Gretchen was mom's college roommate, whom she's remained friends with all this time.  Her daughter Sarah was born around the same time as Beth, and Rachel was born around the same time as me, so our families were close when we all lived in Pittsburgh.  Adam is the youngest in the family, so he came with his mom to visit my mom, like he did last year, and brought his friend Phil for company.  Anywho.  So they didn't get home til after midnight, so I crashed on the couch from 5, when I got home, until they got home.  I was SOOO sleepy. 

Tuesday we got up early and went to the beach.  It was a great beach day - I got some more tan, the water was a good temperature with fairly good waves, and it was nice and hot.  We went to our seafood restaurant afterwards, where one of the highlights of the day was Gretchen making me chug my water so she could pour wine in my water glass when our waitress wasn't looking (I had forgotten my ID, but they ordered too much wine for just mom and Gretchen to drink themselves)! 

On Wednesday Beth got home early in the day (I was, of course, still in bed) and she went with me to see Made in America at the Berg.  Seeing Leah sing "Lost in his Arms" made me really miss my show - after all, this was just the second performance night since our show had closed and after doing a show for so long I certainly felt a sense of withdrawal which I don't normally get! 

On Thursday we all went to Six Flags, which was super, especially after dinner because the place REALLY cleared out and we could literally just stay on rides rather than having to get off and stand in line.  Medusa was my favorite of the roller-coasters, but the new one, Superman, was good fun and gets bonus points for being so comfortable!  It was the most comfy of the rides we rode that day, which is saying a lot considering it has you riding face and stomach down. 

Friday...?  I don't know what happened that day.  Gretchen and the boys left...  Oh, I know.  First I went and visited Jason for the first time since his ear surgery.  I had to make it a kinda quick visit b/c we went to visit my grandmother in Lancaster that day, so we just watched some season 4 Friends episodes and his ear looked funny ;)  Grandma's was good - we ate dinner and watched the Olympics Opening Ceremony.  Mom and Beth also went with Grandma to visit Grandpa, but I didn't feel like going.  Seeing elderly people has been making me increasingly uncomfortable for some reason, and moreso when their memories fail.  So going to see Grandpa and having to see all the OTHER people in that unit as well just wasnt something I wanted to do that day.  Everyone understood that, and I felt bad, but there will be other visits. 

On Saturday we were supposed to go to the beach, but the weather was icky so we decided not to bother and went to the movies instead, to see Spider-man 2.  I had already seen it with Kim and Davey T. this summer, but neither mom nor Beth had and it seemed like a good entertaining choice. 

Sunday - WICKED!  Oh how I love this play.  Let me set this up for you first, though.  I'm in NYC and it's POURING.  The show is starting in 15 minutes, and I have several blocks left to run (with only one umbrella for the three of us...Mom got to hold it).  I'm wearing my Birkenstocks...  good walking shoes right?  Right.  Good running shoes, right?  Well, when it's pouring they get very wet (duh) and verrrry slippery.  So I really couldn't run with them on, and my beloved show would be starting in 15 minutes, so now just picture me running BAREFOOT with shoes in hand through NYC and with my clothes drenched completely through.  Thus, I arrived at Wicked.  With that said, I didn't notice being wet during the show at all because it's that great.  Idina Menzel was back from her movie stint, and although most of the cast has been changed since last time I saw it, they were excellent.  The new Glinda did a great job.  She really carried the role and I only missed Kristin Chenowith a little ;)  Boq was under-studied that day and the guy was pretty annoying, but I guess it doesn't matter much for his character.  And Fiyero was played by Joey McIntyre (sp?) of New Kids on the Block fame, which weirded me out, but he wasn't bad.  Mom and Beth loved it; that's what important!  Mom already keeps saying she wants to see it again :) 

On Monday Beth left to go back to Seattle and this week has been pretty slow.  I've rented lots of videos, seen Jason once, last night, went out to lunch with Jen, and been sick with a sore throat/cough thing.  No cough will ever be as special as the one I had during M4M though - coughing until my body thought I was trying to throw up and so decided to do just that was a truly great time!  Oh, and mom bought me a microwave and new phone for this year so that Lydia and I can microwave things and I can actually ANSWER my phone instead of having to let everything go to the answering machine like I did last year!  The plan for this week involves having dinner with Danielle in the city to celebrate 21-ness, going to the beach twice (if weather permits), seeing Shannon, and getting ready to go back to school.  Eek!

And now...  it's bed time.  Goodnight kitty bunnies.

random London pictures

I was browsing Marc's London pics and found a few involving me, so here's the links to 'em, as well as some my sister took when she visited over Thanksgiving:

Another pic of the community dinner in Jess' flat...  I look kinda weird.

Yeah, I REALLY don't look good in this one... but it's still a memory ;) 

A shot of the Globe - I wonder what we're thinking about?

Beth and me by the Tower Bridge

Mommy and me at tea

Spielburg and me.  We're buddies.

Now, I feel like I have a lot to write about with the past week at home, but...I don't feel like it right now.  Maybe tomorrow!  :-*

some SMT memories

Remember when:

-Lauren got sick right before the start of the show and we only two children one night?

-Christy and I named the light cues?  (i.e. LQ70 = Power of Love)

-Noah went on for Sitting Bull?

-Alan got stuck in traffic and arrived at 7:59 pm?

-The tent fabric died during the opening number?

-Frank had his first pedophile and gay moments and Annie had her first ADD moment?

-We had to sub in a spot operator on the LAST SHOW?

-Kim tainted the children?

-Champeen suddenly became cham-penis?

-Anything You Can Do ended extremely early?

-The shooting match was a DRAW?

-Frank was sweet on Annie every other night?

-Franklin rolled around the booth in his little ball one night?

-K.C. was born and remains the longest-living condom baby?

-Bob the condom baby exploded even more quickly than Dot did?

-The cards in the deck had porn on them?

-Kieran and Nick were cowboys in their undies?

-The Pimps 'n Hos party was better than the Pirates vs. Ninjas party?

-I had a single until the last 12 days of my stay at the Berg?

-AIM decided not to work for three weeks?

-Kim took us to her shore house and it was AMAZING and we all got scorched?

-Natalie wasn't a costumer way back when?

-It was Jason's 21st birthday on opening night?

-We took our "crew picture"?

-Kim had to go to the hospital to have her finger glued shut?

-"If you have children, if you know children, if you are children..."

-Sun in the Morning was my favorite thing ever?

-The white scrim was randomly in during the ballroom scene?

-Matt and I created a band named Golden Hamster?

-I was a mommy, a sister, an aunt, and the owner of a pet turtle?

-Jon improved to Brian's guitar playing and came up with the brilliant lyric, "Show me your tits, and I'll make you a star - Don't you know that I don't know who the fuck you are?"

-The audience clapped during Frank and Annie's kiss?

-The moment in Sun in the Morning when I went, "Skippy skippy skippy skippy skippy skippy skip skip skip"?

-During a game of Literati Matt pronounced "devious" as "dev-wah"?

-Zoolander appeared in the Musical Theatre Workshop?

-It was Surrah Day?

-Kim and Sarah decided to make a techie Christmas CD?

-I had to warn people that I was going to stall on that speed bump?

-The new ATM in Seeger's ate my debit card?

-I learned from the book that came with the Cowboy Cookie Cutters Kim gave me that Annie Oakley's real name was Phoebe Anne Oakley Mosee?

-I gave the ten-minute call to the girl's dressing room as "Ten minutes, you have ten minutes left to knit!"

-Kirk taught us all that five plus five plus five minus five is ten?

-The spasms happened during Anything You Can Do?

-We gave all the cast members animal species?

-We made videos of our sober craziness which included KEEP CALM, pirate faces, pigeon walks, and a whole lot of "What sound does an (insert animal species here) make"?

-Natalie decided my floor was a good place to do crunches?

-"She'll PURR like a kitten..."?

-We did a shot for each mistake made on that one special night when the tent fabric died (21!)?

-We sang along to Disney songs on the way to the beach?

-I noted that we didn't have enough confetti to make extra balloons and Marc promptly popped two of them?

-Matt lied to me about there being cookies?

-I was asked what I would say if I saw a kitty and a bunny that had been genetically fused together into one entity?

More to come, maybe...  ;)

11 more to go

So, Annie is now more than halfway done with all its performances!  We haven't had any major issues thus far, and it's been going fairly smoothly.  Our first preview was definitely a PREVIEW - among the problems we had that night were the fact that half the last song got cut out!  Oops..  Since then, it's been a lot of issues with Annie's mic (not for a few days now though), some issues with traffic, some premature balloon-popping - stuff like that. 

I love afternoons now that rehearsals aren't happening anymore.  I can sleep til 12 or 1, read and laze around all day, eat dinner, and head over to the theatre around 6:15.  Jason's come to visit on a few weekends, including our opening night, which was also his 21st birthday.  I think he had a pretty good time.  This Monday for our comapny day off, a group of 12 of us headed down to Kim Swaneveld's shore house in Jersey, which was THE best day off ever!  Despite bad weather forecasts, it was gorgeous and sunny, the water was warm, the waves were big and strong, etc.  Her house is right on the shore, so it's a private beach for that group of houses, so it wasn't crowded or anything, and we could go out and frolic on the beach in the middle of the night, too.  Most of us got badly burnt unfortunately, and now aloe is our best friend, but...what a great day.  That night we went to the boardwalk and I ate two huge slices of pizza, some mozzarella sticks, and chocolate frozen yogourt.  We gopt back around 12 on Tuesday, so I napped and showered and relaxed as much as possible before our show that night.  Watching the burnt Indians roll around on the stage floor that night during Defenses are Down was highly amusing that night!

Today I was fairly productive for once..  I did laundry, went and bought the third book of a series that I absolutely needed RIGHT NOW ;)  , and bought new aloe, shampoo, lipliner, chapstick, and toothpaste.  I also out my pictures on-line, so here they are!

My AIM refuses to work lately, which seems to be a problem with the network but I'm not rewally too sure.  It's really annoying though!  So anyway, that's why I haven't been on-line to much and why my away messages haven't been anything interesting or creative.  I hope it starts working again soon.  My roomate finally moved in yesterday (Katie Most), so we'll live together for a grand total of 12 days before I move out and head back home again.  Yay home!

Annie Get Your Gun Pictures

my show goes up tonight!

Tonight is our first Preview of Annie Get Your Gun!  What does this mean?  We have an audience, a really big audience full of people who will suddenly make everyone nervous and laugh when we don't expect it!  Last night's dress rehearsal went VERY smoothly, so I'm not too worried.  There were a few tiny hitches and a few things to rehearse earlier today, but tonight should be a good show.  It's been a busy past three weeks.  We've had a grand total of 20 days of rehearsal, which doesn't seem like much at all, but considering that we rehearsed 8 hour days with 2 or 3 rehearsals running simultaneously throughout, it was.  Wish us all luck!