The Music Man is up and going well. We have a sold out show this coming Wednesday so that should be exciting! I love having a place to go and people to see nearly every day. What a sense of purpose it gives! I love my cast. My heart is going to break later this month. I hope I'll have another show to look forward to by then!!

I had a callback for this show called Fat Camp @ NYMF this Saturday. It was funny, my long train ride, a 5 minute call and then a long train ride back for the show but sooo worth it. Everyone was extremely nice. I met a woman while waiting for my appt who had played the role we both were auditioning for a few years ago at the reading. She was nice too!  I had never had an appointment callback before so I wasn't sure what to expect, but it was an interesting experience! I want to do this show soooo badly, but I'm concerned that I didn't do my best because I was so nervous, but you know what? All I can do is move on to the next thing and cross my fingers!!!
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The lights are set, the costumes are set, the set is set (pretty much. Some of it moves). Come see The Music Man at Tri-Arts at Sharon Playhouse and support us who have worked our tushies off for the past several weeks. Or for Marion's costume's alone. Seriously our girl Allison (Marian) looks GORGEOUS in all her frocks, and in fact one I am going to steal and amplify using my magnifier to my size. And Harold looks handsome in his blue plaid whanots and whoo haas. And my Pick-A Little Ladies and teens got it going on too. And of course my luva Marcellus looks super keen. And I guess people can sing and dance too. I guess you should come for that reason too.
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We had our first run through today, and it actually went pretty well I think! I am scared for tomorrow though for some reason.  OMG Alison and Gavin on till there was you the reprise, I always get teary eyed, and then of course start crying when those kids come in with their instruments. Totes Presh!! Tomorrow we have another long rehearsal (1-9) and then the next day a 12 hour tech which should be fun (I'm only being partly sarcastic).  I wish I could spend more time with the cast!!
 
 
Dear God, Please give me them dancin' feet so I'm not so much a Punky Brewster. Actually, my problem isn't so much that I can't do the dance (well there's ONE step I'm having real trouble with) but that I'm so slow at connecting everything together. It's very discouraging. So yeah, if you have time and you exist and stuff, please do that after curing hunger and all that jazz.
 
 

I learned my little dance duet with Marc today. Haha I need work, but then I ALWAYS do for dance because I'm a super slow learner. Trying not to be negative. Keeping on the bright side!!! I'm getting a cold I think and I'm not happy about it after having a stomach bug last week. Come on immune system, you're normally so good to me!! Is it because I haven't been eating my 8 servings of fruit a day? Hmm. I'd better get back to that.

I went to the non-union cattle call yesterday. I think about three hundred people were there but I guess lucky for me only about 5 were of my "type". I saw Lynn Andrews there who I know played Miss Hannigan in the non-union tour of Annie but was too nervous to say anything. My one big worry is that I decided to go really "character" instead of trying to sound pretty because most of the time I think people aren't looking for a fat girl who sings like an ingenue anyway so I played it safe with A Trip to the Library which has very little vrange but I tried to act it out for what I could given my focus was very...unfocusy. Everyone was belting to the rafters so I thought I might calm it down a bit for them and just do a simple little cutesy number. I really really hope I get a callback for Fat Camp which is the main reason why I went because even if it's already cast I SOOO want the chance to read for Britta. The breakdown specified Character Voice so I think I would be ok with not exactly belting. Oh how I want the chance to just audition!!

 
 

I'm losing my ability to sing high! This is scaring me!!!

We did Trouble tonight! My mind was more "special" as the day wore on (1:45-9:30) but we made it through. We met the actors playing Harold Hill and Marion (Gavin Lodge and Allison Berry) and they were both delightfully and refreshingly nice.

http://www.allisonberry.net/audvid.html

This is Allison's site. She can't sing. She needs lessons from Miranda

 The gentlemen playing Marcellus, my boyfriend in the show, offered me a carpool ride which I kindly accepted. We listened to showtunes. A carpool match made in dorkdom.

Speaking of people who can't sing...

 
 

I had my first rehearsal for The Music Man today! My I was scared!!! Everyone was very nice and friendly though. We worked on pretty much every ensemble number in the show and then Pick A Little Talk A Little. The music man is a little harder than I thought, but we'll manage. I DID get to fill one of my dreams though. The wonderful gentlemen who play the Barbershop Quartet were sitting around during a break and singing and asked if anyone knew Will I Ever Tell You and being utterly unlike me I said I did and got to sing it with them!! My nerves got to me so I didn't sound my best, but it was still a thrill!!! Especially since Marion is a role I'll probably never get to play unless I have a very open minded director. I just hope I can do Ethel justice! I figure with the Pick A Little Ladies she's a younger (all the other ladies are in their 30's at least), unmarried woman and kind of looks up to them. Clearly a follower. I just have to negotiate between the jolly gal she seems to be a lot of the time and her distaste for Marion (in the beginning). It's very teen girl behavior. Who is Ethel? Here's a clip of the woman who played her both on Broadway and in the film version: @ 1:49. Clearly I WOULD play rule with Tuba backing me up while dancing. If I even dance in this production!