"Be Mine Or You Will Burn!"

Before I talk about The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, I just want to remind people that tonight is the big night for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street! 

Tonight, PBS is showing a recording of Sweeney Todd from the New York Philharmonic company that stars Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel as Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd! Look for it on the PBS channel at 9 PM eastern standard time. (Hint: it'll be during the TV program Live from Lincoln Center because it was shown there.) Don't miss it! 

Now onto The Hunchback of Notre-Dame....

Who Will Love Me As I Am?

Here is a little tip before you are auditioning for anything, whether it be for a musical or play or an a Capella group or comedy group or anything else, know well in advance what time to show up.

I'll use what just happened to me as an example.  So I'm auditioning for a comedy group on campus tonight and all of the flyers said that the tryouts started at 7.  I end up running late, showing up exactly at 7.  Well, I see the members of this group all sitting in there and no one else so I'm thinking, "Am I the first one here?" I knock on the door and ask if the auditions had started yet.  One of the members then told me that it started at 8 and that the flyers were misprinted.  Well great.

"Where's The Bloody [Wo]Man?"

Hello whoever has patiently waited for me to post for a month now--I know apologizing is pointless. It has just been a crazy....month getting everything ready for college! (Yes I am in college.) I'm actually in the college library now and I am here for two reasons; one, to print out a monologue I have to relearn for an audition for a straight play on Thursday and two, it's nice to get out of my insanely warm dorm room and into some AC.

 

I'm not kidding--I have been dressing sloppy for like two days because the temperature has been in the high '80s and very humid.

 

Anyway, I don't have a specific musical to play for you guys (I literally have had no time) but I have Les Miserables bloopers for you to enjoy until I am able to have a decent post ready for you!