performances
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Sitzprobe is a rehearsal when the actors get to sing with the orchestra for the first time, instead of just a rehearsal pianist [though major props to all rehearsal accompanists!]. So I guess since today was sitz and tomorrow starts tech, it’s time I finally talk about Into the Woods! For those who don’t know,…
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Back in January, I got an Instagram message from a dude who plays trumpet for a lot of musical theatre shows. I thought he got hacked. Fast-forward a few months, and I just sang my first gig with Bantum Rooster. The band’s main female singer was stepping back to focus on a food business with…
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What Piedmont Opera’s RAGTIME meant can best be summed up by quotes from one of the youngest and one of the older people I knew in the audience: I have never been so invested in a show before!! — one of my orphans from ANNIE I am 78-years-old, and that is the best thing I’ve…
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Sorry if you’re getting an email about this post twice. Don’t WordPress after midnight, kids. Welp, between tech for RAGTIME and Hampton going back into rehearsals for his COVID- and ice-delayed show, dinners this week were much more on the “get it done” side. EXCEPT: octopus. I had almost definitely never tried octopus before Hampton…
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As mentioned: I’m in rehearsals! I’m in the ensemble of RAGTIME with Piedmont Opera. I’ll have more to share about this moving forward — maybe? Who knows. — but for now, here are the details. Fun fact: when I looked up the ticket link to share on Twitter after our first ensemble-only music rehearsal, I…
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I try not to talk about my day job because I don’t want them held responsible for the things I say politically or the things I do theatrically. But this time: they asked me to do something theatrical. So this is on them. I just directed my first readers theater-style show: there was limited staging…
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I’m still processing what it was like to play one of my dream roles. And not just any dream role, the one I was most terrified to actually do and the one I have wanted the longest. See, I realized early on that my parents would never let me be a child star. So, despite…
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Christmas looked a little different this year. As it was a Tuesday and Hampton works that retail life and my day job is open 24/7, we decided we would just stay home and have a day to the two of us. Of course, after I committed to an offertory on Christmas Sunday and two Christmas…
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They’re creepy and they’re cooky, they’re… well, you know. This summer, The Addams Family took up residence at the Barn Dinner Theatre. Briefly, anyway. Much more briefly than we were contracted for. But the audiences that did attend were lovely and the checks cleared, and that’s what matters, yes? We had a short rehearsal period, but…
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Remember that time I said I was taking a break? There were two shows I really wanted to do and two shows I kindof wanted to do, but then I realized… I love my couch. But then I got a message from Jessica, the founder and leader of the Phoenix Theatre Company. She had procured…
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