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This week has been highs and lows...
But not extreme in either case.
The highs have included geeking out watching the Tony awards with a bunch of theatre friends, auditioning for a show this fall (equal parts terror and elation). Realizing it has been a fair number of years since I've actually walked out on stage to actually *do* something there, instead of being tech.
One of the ladies watching auditions told me later that she knows she has known me ten years, but she has never seen me on stage. She was impressed. I reminded her that I did major in Theatre in college, and while I may not have done an acting Independent Study (my concentration was directing) I *have* been on stage. A lot. Just not recently.
One of the women auditioning (quite well, I thought) and I got to talking about stage-age. Where I am the right *age* to play one part (a woman approaching forty) I would never be cast as her as I "read" too young on stage. And I likely wouldn't be cast as the girl of twenty-five. And being so definitely a character actor, the only part I could fit is the slightly crazy (young) one - who is supposed to be nineteen. In thirty years I'd love to go out for the crazy one who is in her sixties. She is actually my favorite one in the whole show.
Yeah. So while I don't have high expectations of being cast (it would be awesome if I were - since the director is *amazing*), it was pretty cool to get up there and do my thing. I have been called back, so we'll see where that goes.
The lows have just been annoyances, really. Not real lows at all. And mostly work related, which we all discussed at the team meeting yesterday. So now my boss is aware of the petty annoyances which C and I have been dealing with for the last few weeks. And while there is really nothing she can do about it, it felt good just to make her aware so she is not caught off guard.
Prep for Azkatraz goes on. I am down to the last ticketed events. I'll be glad when I can pass all the tickets off to the registrar for distribution. I have a box to go to the decorations chair I'll likely send at the same time. And then I can focus back on my costume. And that final danged banner. I am going to be very very busy the next few weeks! By the time vacation rolls around in August, I will be well and truly ready for a break and to do something fun.
The highs have included geeking out watching the Tony awards with a bunch of theatre friends, auditioning for a show this fall (equal parts terror and elation). Realizing it has been a fair number of years since I've actually walked out on stage to actually *do* something there, instead of being tech.
One of the ladies watching auditions told me later that she knows she has known me ten years, but she has never seen me on stage. She was impressed. I reminded her that I did major in Theatre in college, and while I may not have done an acting Independent Study (my concentration was directing) I *have* been on stage. A lot. Just not recently.
One of the women auditioning (quite well, I thought) and I got to talking about stage-age. Where I am the right *age* to play one part (a woman approaching forty) I would never be cast as her as I "read" too young on stage. And I likely wouldn't be cast as the girl of twenty-five. And being so definitely a character actor, the only part I could fit is the slightly crazy (young) one - who is supposed to be nineteen. In thirty years I'd love to go out for the crazy one who is in her sixties. She is actually my favorite one in the whole show.
Yeah. So while I don't have high expectations of being cast (it would be awesome if I were - since the director is *amazing*), it was pretty cool to get up there and do my thing. I have been called back, so we'll see where that goes.
The lows have just been annoyances, really. Not real lows at all. And mostly work related, which we all discussed at the team meeting yesterday. So now my boss is aware of the petty annoyances which C and I have been dealing with for the last few weeks. And while there is really nothing she can do about it, it felt good just to make her aware so she is not caught off guard.
Prep for Azkatraz goes on. I am down to the last ticketed events. I'll be glad when I can pass all the tickets off to the registrar for distribution. I have a box to go to the decorations chair I'll likely send at the same time. And then I can focus back on my costume. And that final danged banner. I am going to be very very busy the next few weeks! By the time vacation rolls around in August, I will be well and truly ready for a break and to do something fun.