Comments | theatre_angel: "Said I'm the best one you never had..."

theatre_angel

"Said I'm the best one you never had..."

Jun 30, 2006 18:33

I apologize for the entry last night. Pre-Hartwick homesickness abruptly decided to come in for a crash-landing, and I went bawling upstairs to my mom's room, and proceeded to spend the night with her eating vanilla ice cream and discussing the future. My mom is a vastly unsentimental and businesslike creature of habit. We're similar in the last ( Read more... )

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oh_vanity__ June 30 2006, 22:49:00 UTC

RE: Non-typecasty directors: Daphne Rubin-Vega has been cast as Fantine in an upcoming Les Miserables revival. If that's not a vaguely scary glimmer of hope for a typecast-free director, I don't know what is.

theatre_angel June 30 2006, 22:50:11 UTC

Score. I will show those bitches. Except Daphne Rubin-Vega frightens me and I wouldn't want to play a HOOKER. Well, a French one, anyway.

_softershade June 30 2006, 23:30:23 UTC

Well, I personally think your mother is right! As I said in my comment on your last entry, it's the people like you who actually succeed. Not annoying girls who were popular in high school.

♥

theatre_angel June 30 2006, 23:33:49 UTC

Haha, I read that! And I was all, "Oh, mother, you have schooled Aurora welllll." Okay, I don't know. But, it was quite cool.

♥

spins July 1 2006, 00:02:24 UTC

Tehe, I'm so bad, I thought that was Isabelle Huppert in your icon for a second. IT'S THE MOODTHEME'S FAULT!!!

Anyhow. I have similar fears about the future. But it's people like you that are bound to succeed. You're determined and passionate and not a losery "whateva" type of high-school girl. Believe me, you'll go far. ♥

theatre_angel July 1 2006, 03:47:45 UTC

I need an icon of Isabelle! She's gorgeous, and my favorite part of Huckabees after Naomi. ;-)

I think this is the age when fear about the future really does start to settle in. We're growing up, but we haven't quite reached that age where we'll be forced to choose what college to attend, what career to pursue. And the anticipation and uncertainty terrifies us. Thank you, though. It really means a lot that you think that. I feel the same way about you. ♥

takemebaby July 1 2006, 00:46:13 UTC

I love you. And I'm afraid of change. And I'm so burnt out from the past week that I really can't articulate anything worth your time and I apologize for that. But your mom is right, like everyone (pretty much) has said...you're not always going to be stuck with a typecasting director. I mean, look at me. I've had directors who hated me, and the director I have now has so much faith in me that I'm scared, because I feel like I've always been taught that I wasn't good enough to do things like these. But it's because of the shitty people who made me feel that way, not because I truly wasn't good enough. I know that's how it is for you. You're so good, but no one's given you the chance to prove it and Spangler sounds like he blows. When he comes to see you and I together as leading ladies on a Broadway stage, that'll show him. Because you're way too amazing.

I hope some of that made sense. I love youuuuu.

theatre_angel July 1 2006, 03:52:36 UTC

I love you, you know. We've been told we were untalented or unfit for the part or unfit for theatre in general because it's all based on the director's preference. They have absolute power over us, and that's something we'll learn to tolerate and maybe even appreciate as we delve further into this career. The director is looking for a certain look, a certain style, and you haven't got that -- that isn't your fault. I've been taught that true talent isn't always recognizable. And sometimes it feels like that idea is blown all to hell when you hear about all these child prodigies being "discovered", or you suddenly realize that you're more talented than the girl who's been getting the leads in school plays for the past however many years. There are huge movie and Broadway stars we're probably more talented than. Never limit yourself; always strive above and beyond what you feel your potential is, because often a person's full potential is barely even tapped.

nycgirl107 July 1 2006, 03:29:42 UTC

I didn't comment on your entry last night, but I will now on this one, haha ( ... )

theatre_angel July 1 2006, 04:00:41 UTC

I always love receiving comments like this from you, because you're the most theatrically experienced person on my friends list, and you give me some hope for the future. ;-) High school theatre seems like the end of the world at times, just because of the trials it presents, but there is life after high school, and it's not a determine of how or what your life will be, like you said.

That'd be a funny Tony speech indeed. ;-)