Hey everyone!!
Oh jeebus, it's been forever since I've been around to let you all know what's going on. Sorry about that!! Tech for Sweeney, and then Sweeney took a bit of my soul, so I wasn't able to form sentences to let everyone know what was going on.
Anyway...on with the show!!
Sweeney went wonderfully!! The audiences loved loved loved it, and as soon as I saw it up on its feet-the concept of the insane asylum that the director had us using made sense (before I couldn't see how it worked!).
I'm currently trying to get a video of parts of it on youtube or something so people can see it that wanted to, but weren't able to.
Closing was hard...it was my first musical (but not my last-of course!), and I'll always have a soft spot for the cast that was in it with me. I mean, hell, we spent 3 months together just in rehearsals before we went up, then a month and some change DOING the show! I'll always look fondly on Fleet Street, and smile when I hear of the demon barber now :).
BUT! Out with the old, and in with the NEW. While I was in "Sweeney Todd", the producer approached me and asked me to be in their yearly kidsworks Halloween production of a show called "Which Witch is Which". Its a cute little story of a which that's too good for her own good, can't play tricks on people and all tha good stuff. There's a weird doctor, a prankster named Tom Foolery, a ghost named Grimey (picture pigpen from Charlie Brown, just in white), Abby Good (the good which), Abby II (the bad which), and Pamela Pumpkin (the narrator-me).
We had about 10-15 rehearsals, and most of it was us learning the original score-the lines we had to learn on our own.
**side note-the day we had to be off book, I was a little shakey on ACT II. So, when I went off stage after my part of Act I was over-I went backstage and learned ALL of Act II. Just sayin... **
Opening afternoon wasn't without its flaws, but the kids are LOVING it so far! And I said this to the cast, and I'll say it here: Kids are the HARDEST audience to perform for. They have short little attention spans, they want to get up and run around and play and do all these things little kids do. So, as a performer, you need to hold their interest for the hour and some change you're up there, trying to put on a show for them. There are no BAD DAYS in chidlren's theatre-no matter what's going on-you get on that stage with a BIG smile, and do what you need to do.
I have an audition coming up for "It's a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play" in a few weeks, and I'm hoping I get it, and that that show takes me to the end of the year.
Then...who knows?.....
Until Next time...
