"Geez. I wanna be that cool person on the inside" - Mo

Long time, no see. Sorry about the neglecting. Life is busy. Blah blah blah. You know what I mean. Ok. I'm just gonna jump right into it. Here we go.

So, I think I'm done working at my family's roofing company. This week coming up I get to work the St. Louis Cathedral Boy Choir week-long summer camp. I went to this camp when I was little and enjoyed being in boy choir, so now I get to be a counselor-type person. The mornings are just choir time. Dreux, the director, teaches the boys the music & gets them ready for a concert that they have on Friday. In the afternoon, the boys go on field trips and do fun things. I believe we are taking them to the Aquarium, Laser Tag, and Cafe du Monde. One of the afternoons is called "movie and game and water day," which Blythe says they give the boys water guns, water balloon, etc, and the kids torture you. It actually sound kind of fun. Whatever. I'm excited to not be in an office for 8 hours. I get to help kids with music (which is what I'm learning to do at school) and go to places around the city. Fun is definitely going to be had.

So Grease is in full rehearsal mode. We have rehearsals everyday except Fridays (with the exception of this Friday because I was not told that some of us [including me] were having a small rehearsal. Oh well, we'll learn that stuff at some point. Right?). So our Grease is going to be so much better than the OBC (Original Broadway Cast, just so you know). Listen to their recording. Seriously, they are pretty awful, except for maybe a couple of the solo songs. Did you know that John Travolta originated the role of Doody on Broadway? Pretty cool stuff, right?

So, I feel like I had a semi-diva moment today (Diva, Divo. Whatever. [The red squiggly line that shows spelling errors just popped up under divo. There it is again. Ha! Suck it, Blythe!]). We were doing the scene before my song [Aahh! So exciting and scary at the same time!], and most of the cast is waiting backstage because they come out in the middle of the song. Like normal people, they make the best of waiting and talk, but, of course, this pisses off the directors, choreographers, the actors on stage, etc. So since the cast couldn't hear Lindsey telling them to be quiet back stage, I decided I would pull a Patti LuPone (ask me later if you don't understand). I stopped the scene, screamed "Shut up!" in a commanding, loud (non-vocally harming) tone. I just have this gut feeling that once I did that half of the cast decided they would whisper about how I told them to shut up "because this is his song. he just wants the spotlight, blah blah blah etc." I was in their place for the last 19 years of my life. I know how it goes. Whatever. I don't regret it. It's disruptive, and a pain to work with. Whatever.

Just one more thing before I get to the videos: My opinions of a few people I hang out with more/less have changed. Some for the good (yay!), some not. For the most part, I like where I am with most people. I've been hanging out with Blythe and Monique, which has been crazy awesome. But I miss some of the other people I hung out with regularly: Dani, Hannah, Bryce, my circle of friends from school, Amanda, Rachel, and Lance. But also, I like the new people I have been hanging out with more and more: Sarah, Courtney, Josh, Chrissy, and Emily. Life has a balance. I just wish I could balance it all with seeing them more and more.

Ok. That's where I'll end it there. Now onto the videos!

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We're gonna start off with the randomness of The Dani and Hannah Show: Episode 1. I'll let them explain for themselves, but let me just say that I love them and am really excited for the future episodes!



So, I'm not a huge Jake Krakowski fan, but this is pretty awesome. This is "A Call from the Vatican" from Nine, the musical, which is being turned into a movie that I think is going to be out this Fall sometime. A few things to note before you watch this video: she is only wearing a towel; there is nothing holding her in the sheet from the ceiling except herself; and when she goes back up in the sheet, she goes upside down, AND, she's hitting a REALLY high note.


The last video is probably my most favorite recent youtube find. This is one of the few things that the Tony Awards do to keep the audience entertained during the commercial breaks. This is a montage of several members of the cast of Shrek in a (fake) auditioning. This is hilarious! See if you can catch all of the references.


BAM!!!

Waiting...

So yeah... Waiting... It's been a huge theme for these past couple of weeks. When my parents were gone, I waited for 8 hours to leave and go to rehearsal. Then during Little Shop of Horrors, guess what? There was more waiting: around 45 minutes of nothing to do, but chill. Then we move on to Grease auditions. Waited to sing, and then after I sang, I waited to go dance. Call-backs. Oh, this is good. Waiting for around an hour total. Now, I'm waiting on a cast list that is supposedly going to be posted tonight at some point. Waiting has become one of my newest and biggest pet peeves. It is starting to kill me. [I don't know how I will be able to do this in the future when I make auditions a daily occurrence.]

Ok. I just wanted to get a quick post out there since I haven't posted in like 3 weeks. Sorry, blog. I've been neglectful. I'm very sorry. I will blog again soon (I promise!) whenever I get enough things to talk about.


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Ok. So I watched Sierra Boggess's whole interview with Seth Rudetsky on his Broadway Chatterbox recently. At the end of their very interesting conversation, Seth has Sierra show off a little bit. She sings, well they sing, "Think of Me" from The Phantom of the Opera. Watch how flipping talented she is. She sings the whole song and hits that REALLY high ending note sitting down. SITTING DOWN!! That takes real talent!!! Love.



BAM!!