Last night we had auditions for Little Women, the last show of the season. I thought that I would get stuck with playing the role of Hannah, the old servant, because Hannah plays the fiddle in the script. I went ahead and did a piano audition and read for Beth anyway. I knew I wasn't the most technically perfect piano player there and there was ( Read more... )

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It is now officially summer and it is gearing up here in Virginia to be a hot one. It may just be though that I'm in costume for most of the day performing for 400+ elementary kids in airless cafe-gym-natoriums. Today I woke up at the wonderful hour of 6 to be in for work at 7:15. We tour almost every day and hit between one and three schools ( Read more... )

Hello all! I have some time between performances right now so I'm finally going to update. Virginia is pretty cool so far, very southern. The weather sucks (hot, humid, muggy, rainy) but at least it's pretty. The job is going pretty well also. I am singing and playing violin in the chorus of Nunsense II (the plot of this is as follows: ( Read more... )

Hey guys! Well I made it to Ferrum, Virginia. It's this tiny little town in the "mountains" with a random college attached to it. I started work yesterday and today we have two performances and another tomorrow. In between performances we have rehearsal. It's really crazy, but really fun so far. The company is only about 16 people. So, there ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I begin my adventure to Virginia to begin my life as a professional actor. I'm so scared and nervous! I hope that everything will be fine, but being the compulsive worrier I am, and can't help but think of all the things that may go wrong. I have traveled alone through Europe, across the sands of Africa, and a 10 hour drive to Virginia ( Read more... )

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Feeling kind of anxious about graduating. I know that there are a lot of things I am looking forward to about being on my own. Having my own place will be wonderful. But I can't help but worry about all the practical stuff. How will I afford rent? Food? Car insurance? Health insurance?? I can't even get a job as I waitress. I don't have ( Read more... )

Tonight was my senior project presentation, a storytelling of Pushkin's The Blizzard. I thought it went really well, and we had a pretty sweet little set-up in 177 with lamps, tea, and cookies. It also marked the end of all but one of my finals. Only the dreaded philosophy final is left ( Read more... )

This weekend was lovely. I decided to spend some time with me for once. I usually never pamper myself or take time to do things I would like to do. I also think that we spend too much time waiting for other people to show up so that we can start having a good time. I love having "adventures" just by myself. This is hard to do at Butler since I ( Read more... )