I normally don't get majorly into musicals (well... I have been posting about it lately on here a lot), but Assassins is freaking great, some of the book is a little weak but the music is fantastic.  I'm a little bit in lov e with it, and it totally redeems Sondheim for Sunday in the Park with George, which was a noble attempt, but in comparison to ( Read more... )

I never thought I'd say this, but my African American Theatre & Culture class today was fantastic.  Timothy Phillips (August Wilson picked him to direct  Radio Golf, his last play) is an artist in residence at Emerson, so he came and spoke to our class.  Honestly, I'd given up on theatre to a degree and didn't really get why African American ( Read more... )

I just made an excellent Beatles mix, I'm quite happy with it :-).

The reason it's called "Meryl, it's time for your balls to drop" is because Meryl and I have a theory that one's musical balls have not dropped until you've gone through your obsessed with the beatles stage of music nerdery. I've been trying to induce it, and I love them soo much, ( Read more... )

"Stop trying to turn theater geeks into rock stars, leave Bob Dylan alone, and do the unthinkable: write a new show. You can't let Wicked carry you forever ( Read more... )

Life is so fucking crazy of late. I've been working as propsmaster on this student production called Blackfish, it's the director's honors thesis and it's quite excellent, but wicked stressful. It's all good though because she just changed it so we don't have scenery, just acting cubes and lots of handprops ( Read more... )

There's something great about performing "Defying Gravity" and "La Vie Boheme" with a bunch of your friends... I <3 the Thorndike house and everyone within it. I know I said I hate wicked, but if you're at a party at Emerson, it's just different. I love it here.

It's funny, I'm a secular humanist, but when I turn on the TV and see shows like "Ice T's Rap School" which involves Ice T going to schools and teaching kids to rap, I'm like, what the fuck? and my faith in man dies a wee bit ( Read more... )

Tonight's been a lot of fun. I went out with some people to Davis for Alexis's birthday and then came back and wrote shitty emo poems with my roommate Katie, LARN, and our friend Liza. Writing shitty poems is so much fun... here's one I wrote for fun shitty emo poem purposes ( Read more... )

I've always been waiting for the day that I finally get/appreciate the White Stripes, and it has come, and how glorious it is!  Life's been pretty interesting of late.  My classes have been rather intense and there's a new girl situation.  Things are great.  I feel like I'm doing better in my scenic design class, Tim had some great suggestions for ( Read more... )

Life has been kind of crazy lately, but I've figured some things out that'll make it a lot easier.  I went on an adventure to gather things for my assemblage for Scenic Design 1 the other night, I stole things from the Charles/MGH T-stop construction and found an old Ford hub cap which was great fun.  I enjoy going on adventures.  Jes, Lauren, Jes' ( Read more... )