what had happened was....

In the time since my last post I have gotten to do two notable things along the theme for this blog (and many more that don't fit in this categorization).

1) Sing in the 24 hour opera project

2) dance with other theatre professionals at the Ball Masque for Theatre du Reve in Atlanta.

I'd been looking forward to both for such a long time! They recorded and edited the opera and tagged me in it on fb for your viewing pleasure :) For me, the process started at 8:00 in the morning. (Others had been up all night writing the bit we performed.) They gathered the singers into one of the rehearsal rooms where we saw all of our head shots on poster boards with our names beneath. The directors had picked numbers and based on the order of their numbers, they picked which singers they wanted--like a draft. Not the usual casting procedure!

I was chosen for the team working on "Scrub a dub Raw." Summarized: a comedic soap opera in English sung with opera technique.

I memorize best by sleeping on information, so getting the songs at 8:00 and then performing them at 7:30 wasn't the easiest.

We had different rooms we were scheduled to practice in. (very appreciated) and they had a complete spread of healthy snacks out for us all day long. Coffee would have been included in the spread, but the overnight shift had consumed all of that.

So we practiced, and practiced, and practiced. When we were blocking, our director gave us some flexibility which was much appreciated.

At 4:45 we headed from our rehersal space at the Atlanta Opera to the GSU performing stage. This would have ordinarily taken 15 minutes max, but we just so happened to be leaving as a falcons game was getting out. Yeah. It took 1 hr +. So we finally arrived, ran through it a few times, and then it was time for the show!

Everyone was so great and hilarious!

2) I got to dance with acting professionals who speak French. The style was Baroque i.e. pre-ballett. (I LOVE ballet) we rehearsed 3 times (in Colony square in Atlanta [my new favorite spot of land]) Everyone was marvelous and creative. And, the dance was beautiful.

I am so grateful I got to do both of those events. But, during each of them, I was feeling that I wasn't being 100% me. Something about the performing wasn't as fun as I remembered and anticipated.