A blank page or canvas.... so many possibilities.
I love my coach.
I love her I love her I love her.
If I were a lesbian, I'd be all over her like white on rice.
There's a theatre that's auditioning for THE RINK, which is one of the lesser-known Kander/Ebb shows. It has a fantastic role for me. My coach has been all over me to sing one of the songs, "Colored Lights", for months.
I have a crazy block about "Colored Lights". I think it strikes too close to home, and comes way too EASILY to me dramatically, so much so that I don't TRUST myself with it. I don't TRUST that just standing and singing (or speak-singing, as a lot of the song demands) my thoughts is enough. It should be. I've been trained for it to be. And I'm good at it. But nothing has ever come SO EASILY as this song. I feel like I'm not doing enough, I'm not working at ALL. When I brought it in to class, my coach and everyone else in class was kvelling about it. Great, right? Well, I just couldn't get my brain around it. "But... I'm not DOING anything!" So I put it down for a while, to let things marinate.
But enough is enough. If this piece is going to get me work, I need to trust it. That means picking it up again. So, I emailed my coach to get an appointment. Her response:
"A session to hear YOU sing "Colored Lights"? Hell yeah!!!"
Hee.
Having someone who you know believes in you, and is EXCITED by the thought of working with you? Priceless.
Here's to breaking down the blocks.