Always Look on the Bright Side of Life!

That is the title of a hit song from the new Broadway musical Spamalot, which I am seeing this summer on my trip to NYC along with my friends accompanying. This show was bound to be a hit and is now sold out for months. 14 Tony Nominations! Only one nomination shy of The Producers. It still could beat The Producers in how many awards are actually won. Producers only won 13 of the 15 it was nominated for. So if Spamalot were to win all of its nomination categories, it would hold the record for the most Tony Awards in Broadway history. Highly unlikely though, even though this musical is wicked awesome! Spamalot's contenders are very worthy as well. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which we're also seeing, is up for best musical as well as 10 more nominations, 11 total. It recently won the Drama League Award for best musical, so we'll see what happens at the Tony's. Anyway, I got the Spamalot CD in the mail today via Walmart.com. They have cheap CD's there, but only order online! Their in store selection is very sparse. This CD is AMAZING! I am loving the show already and I have yet to see it. Very catchy, very new, and VERY funny! I see why New Yorkers are eating it up, and the Python name helps too, I'm sure.
But anyway, we have a meeting on this NYC trip this Thursday and I'm only getting more and more excited with each day. I'm also seeing The Pillowman up there with Meghan Groves. It should be good too. Very interesting plot I think. It received 6 Tony noms, we'll see how it does. Doubt will be a hot rival though. I hope I get to see my good friend Evalyn Baron while I'm up there this time. I missed her when I was up there with chorus, so maybe we'll be able to meet her this time. Such a dear and very talented lady. One of my role models. Her husband Peter is doing a concert staging of South Pacific at Carnegie Hall with Reba McIntyre in June. It's before we get up there or I would have gone. Around June 6th, I believe it is.
So, enough of theatre talk. I'm looking for a new job right now. I have to get out of K-Mart. It's the portal to hell, I promise! I've applied at the Wildflower Bakery, but I don't know... If anyone has any suggestions, leave them in comment form on here please. Maybe I'll see if the Cafe at Barter needs anyone. I doubt it though.

The Baltimore Waltz

Well kids, I've decided to start posting again. After a month or so hiatus, I'm returning to the blog scene, hopefully staying longer than last time, at least I'm going in with intentions to do so. Well I won't be filling you in on what has happened over the past "blackout" period. You can imagine whatever you want there. I'll pick up on this post at where I am now.

Last night, after a successful performance, The Baltimore Waltz closed. I was saddened by this because of how good it was on the last performance, not because it was over. You see, the first performance was really rough and teh tech rehearsal was barely indeiscernable as a show. But our second public performance proved to be awesome. It became so much better over 48 hours or so. It's remarkable how the theatre works like that. But I couldn't stop thinking of the fact that, if we were to have more performances, how wonderful we could have become. With only two shows and a rushed tech, not to mention very primative rehearsals before hand, we were never really given the chance to blossom. But we really became something by our last show. The cast was where I wanted them to be. The only things that could have improved were technical details, sound mainly. Ugh! Anywho, we really accomplished something. And I'm proud of it. And the show itself proved to be evry enjoyable for all those who came and saw it. And I thank the audience so much for their support. Every student and faculty member of AHS I thank you for your support of the arts in your school. To those students who came from THS: Thanks so much for supporting the arts in general. This event was something greater than a school event, it soared above school rivalries and served as a gathering for people to come together and enjoy something greater. I thank all of my friends who so generously gave up their time to come and sit through our experiment: Elizabeth O., Amber M., Claudia K., Trip C., Jannette, and the many others whose names evade me at teh moment! I thank you all! Karen H., dear girl, even gave me a rose. Such a sweet gesture, and it really means a lot. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed the show and took something special away from it. We did it! Again!

More on this to come later. I will share more in depth reflections about this great show that we did, but now "The Apprentice" is on and I DO NOT miss "The Apprentice!"
Bon soir, mes amis!