Hey.. :) I'm back.. Just a quick update on the musical.. It's been like what? Almost a week since our last update? Haha.. Last Saturday, was our dance rehearsal, and it was really good! I mean, our dance numbers are still rough, but it's getting there! One HUGE dance number is titled "Shipoopie", and the dance steps in on of the sequence is torture! Seriously, the "grapevine" is so hard because the song's tempo is SOO fast. :P But I did master the "Charleston".. It think that's what it's called.. :) I'm very proud.. Bri and I just need to master the freaking "GRAPEVINE"!!! D;
Monday was also another long rehearsal from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. It was our Lead's rehearsal, and I realized that I need to get my lines MEMORIZED! Seriously, we have less that three weeks left!! WOW! Where did all that time go?! And I need to have everything exact, and DOWN!..
I'm happy, because I have about everything memorized.. And I need to watch my speed in speaking my lines.. I have to watch that because the audience will not be able to understand me if I speed up too much. I had a line today where I was supposed to say "uniform", but my friend heard it come out as "unicorn".. "Greg!!! The Unicorns have arrived!!!".. Gahaha..
But so far, everything is going well, it should be more "exact", because we're on a deadline, but we're getting there! I know our director is SOO on our butts because he wants it perfect! Our school is known to be in the BEST league of drama productions, and I really want this year to be a picture frame for that. We're going to have to work our BUTTS off until they burn!
I'm just excited, nervous, and pressured. These next three weeks are going to be torture because our rehearsal schedule is going to be longer, and we're going to have to stay at school from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Ugh.. It's worth it!!! (That's what I always tell myself!)
Well, I think I'm going to bed tonight.. Thank goodness for no homework for today.. I get to rest for a bit.. before everything starts again.. ^-^ Nighty night everybody!!!
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So did I ever mention that I'm in our school's production of "The Music Man"? I play the lead character's best friend, Marcellus Washburn. I guess I'll take these next few posts to share my thoughts, experience, and such.. from the rehearsals, and the shows. :)
Alright! Let's start! So we kicked off rehearsals in November with dance rehearsals, and vocal rehearsals.. Those were fun! Yup.. Then December rolled around, the the rehearsals started to pack on top of each other.. It seemed as if everyday I was at school from 7:15 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Well, it didn't just seem so.. It WAS! XD But I'm having the time of my life.
Seriously, sometimes I feel like I'm learning SO much from rehearsals, and from everything else that people display that I can just feed off them. Drama/Theatre is definitely a passion of mine. I don't know how "amazing" I am.. but I hope I am!!! kekeke... But back to the topic. Things I really need to work on..
PROJECTION! Exactly! To think, I thought that my loud voice was loud enough, but not on stage! Well, not enough. I hear our director constantly drilling me about projecting, and how all he hear is mumbling... Gah.. D: But it's alright.. I think it's coming along just fine.
CHARACTER! I definitely need to be more intact with my character. I need to make the character something different than myself. I seem to assume my character is a little "quiet", "scare-dy cat"... BUT he's the opposite! He's "loud", "obnoxious", and "annoying"! Boy.. doesn't this just call for the opposite of me.. Haha.. There's also a part in the musical where I need to be more "dirty", and "perverted".. Yeah, me, but not me..
I can't find that part on stage.. I think it's somewhere deep, deep, DEEP downwards in me, but I just hope I can find it.. :( I just hate to disappoint people, and not getting the character part down is frustrating.. I'm just thankful that our director is flexible, knows when to laugh, and knows when to put his foot down...
OH! Also.. I have a solo!! Well, I sing a song by myself, and the lead character and I sing a duet.. :) Yup, I sing "Shipoopie"!!! It's amazing.. well a bit high, but nothing a Tenor can't do! Haha.. the falsetto in me is worked HARD to the CORE!!! I am definitely warmed up after singing that song!!! And last, "The Sadder But Wiser Girl" is my all time favorite.. I requires tons of acting for me because I'm reacting to what the lead is singing, and in the end, I get to sing along with him, so I'm pretty dandy...
And I think that's all for tonight.. I'll probably update soon! I sure hope so! Tomorrow's a LONG dance rehearsal.. (Saturday), so I'm really excited! Then on Monday, we have a Lead's Rehearsal on our day off! :( It's alright because after that, I get to watch "The Princess and the Frog" with my People & Politics, FAME, and Musical Cast buddies.. ^-^
So I'll see you later!
It's finally winter break, well.. Winter break's almost ending, and I still haven't gotten anywhere with my college stuff.. Well, I mean I just applied for FAFSA today!! Yay me! :] And that's it, I mean, I applied for the National Honor Scholarship recently, and I still need to apply for some more.. I've been looking at Portland State University, and UMBC.. (University of Maryland). But that's mainly it. Just recently my mom told me that we're moving to Maryland after my senior year, and it's a definite "chance" of us moving, and so I need to apply to a college over there.. I'm studying to be a Doctor's Assistant... Well, in other words, a NURSE! :)
I think being a nurse would give me more time since I'm able to choose work hours, and the job is light, so I can definitely serve Jah a whole LOT more than choosing to be a "doctor" or something else.. (I can't put my finger on it...) I just hope Jah can help me... I also wanted to choose a career where if I was able to go to Bethel, being a nurse would help. :D I'll fix that cut for you!!! Haha.. seriously..
I find myself growing spiritually everyday, but still I feel like it's never enough. I mean, I guess we won't ever have that full spiritual feeling, because we're imperfect, but I don't know.. I'm not in doubt or anything.. I'm just sad.. I guess. Definitely not with the truth, maybe with the lack of reaching out?... Hmm...
OH! Our Circuit Assembly was last week, and the theme was on "Safeguarding Your Spirituality", and I loved it! It was very motivating, and it reminded me that all decisions should involve Jah.. :) I need to keep that in mind.. But in all, I took tons of notes! I am very happy about that.. Haha..
Oh! I got a new laptop!!! i made me happy.. it's a Toshiba A505-S69803.. It's amazing, it's black, it's shiny, and it's got Windows 7.. I'm going of topic from here and there but yesh. I can't explain in fathom how much I love it.. Haha. It's just amazing.. Now I have something for college! Yay!. Well, if I get in??? D:
Well, that's basically it. Except my winter break was nothing.. It was a total epic fail.. :P Besides the FAFSA part, and then that's it.. I'll update ASAP uh.. later?
Haha.. You probably can see that I'm a bit lazy at this, by oh well!
