Homeward Bound!

Yay!!

I'm coming home this weekend to visit my family and friends and my dad hopefully on Saturday or Sunday and picking up some things forgotten and ¡mi carro!

So, if you are in SLO County and want to hang, tell me now, cause there will be SO MANY people who will want to hang out with me... hey, stop laughing; I have friends.

I auditioned for MT II (Music Theatre Workshop II), which you have to audition into and be in for one quarter before you can even think of auditioning for MT III. My audition sucked!! No, it truly stank! They were really gracious about it, but it was a little upsetting at first that I couldn't at least show them some of my best vocal work. I sang "Christmas Lullaby" from Songs For A New World because the song I had was too "classical" and needed to be more "Music Theatre." I signed up for 9am though. Therein lies the problem. I woke from my second snooze AT 9am and couldn't figure out how to get hold of the stage manager or whoever was holding the auditions. It didn't help that it was a Sunday, which meant that everything was closed, and NO bus shuttles to the other side of campus. So, I rode my bike across campus and tried to warm up my voice as best I could for having just woken up, not having eaten or had any water or liquids, and having to bike across campus on a single-speed bike simultaneously. Needless to say, I was a little impatient with myself and kind of freaking out.

When I got there, Dennis (Castellano, one of the MT instructors and the accompanist) was fine with putting me in the 9:30am slot, but I was still shaken up and my voice was still scratchy. Ugh. So, long story, short, my audition sucked, so I'm not surprised I didn't get into the class. BUT, big but! if I got into the class, I would have had to drop my Theatre and Dreams class which I think is sooo incredibly interesting and I'm finally actually finding out (a byproduct, of course) what kind of dreams I've been having the last 8 years of my life when I get really stressed. First I thought they were lucid dreams, but then when I tried to confirm what I thought lucid dreams were (basically I used my experiences) and come to find out I've been having hypnagogic dreams, which means my mind probably isn't able to produce the paralyzers that our brain usually posits when we are dreaming. In other words, when we dream, our brain posits certain hormones that paralyze us (if you're tossing and turning, you're not dreaming) and my brain, I guess, can't create that hormone when I am stressing out. Isn't that interesting?? So, anyway, I get to stay in that Theatre and Dreams class now and I'm super excited! And apparently it's not an easy class to get into because it's required and most people wait so long to take it; so I'm getting it "out of the way" now. And next quarter, I will try again for MTII, and this time use a better song. Maybe "This Place Is Mine;" that's got a really great money-note. (And maybe next quarter I will be in a few shows. Non-UCI Theatre since I wasn't cast in this 2010-2011 season.)

In the meantime, I have signed up for Drama 101A which is working in the Costume Shop! Woot! All Drama Majors are required 8 units total (four their first year) of crew/shop work; some kind of technical work on some show basically. Typically what happens is everyone waits in line and you hope that by time your part of the line gets to the sign up list, that there is still room for you.

Well, I was told if I could really sew then I could challenge the class by taking a "test" which consisted of sewing a few samples: 1" seam, 1/2" seam, concave/convex seams, corner seam, etc. and hand sewing a whopper and fasteners. So, I went in before the line started and apparently passed with flying colors cause Eric, one of the guys in charge of the shop, was like "Yeah, don't worry about waiting in line; you are an elite, so you don't need it. We need you in the shop."

Okay, cool.

So, I will be working in the Costume Shop Mondays and Wednesdays (except this next Monday, since I will still be in AG or on my way back to UCI in my carro) from 9am to noon. Yay! And the two shop heads were like, you'll work doing whatever we need and then you can probably help the 101A students with their projects. So, they really like me.  :)  Woot!

Tomorrow - today - I will be auditioning for two Graduate Workshops (Romeo and Juliet and somet else that I can't remember). I really wanted to seriously audition for Juliet, but I found out that rehearsals start on Friday, so I talked with the director and he said I could still audition but I definitely wouldn't be Juliet. So I might not audition after all for that one, just because there's a lot going on tomorrow.

I heard today about an audition for the UCI Opera which I would do almost anything to be a part of! Especially if I can't get into a UCI Drama Production. Ha! The opera this year is Hänsel and Gretel, and I will be auditioning for the Sandman or the Dew Fairy. I looked up their respective songs and I would really really like to be the Dew Fairy. You can hear what it sounds like on this youtube.com link. I don't know who this girl is, but she's got some serious talent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQskxwcj7Hs

Now, I just have to figure out with what to audition, since I have been trained in opera but really have no opera songs in my repertoire. I'm hoping I only need about 16 bars. I will try to audition with "Quando me'n vo" from La Bohème, but it's been so long since Judith and I have worked on it that I only really know the tune. But singing "ah" is better than nothing, right? I hope I do well, even if I'm not cast. I want them to say, "Oh, I didn't know we have her. Let's use her soon."


That's all for now. See you soon, AGers.