School is in full swing once again. Lots of stuff going on, as usual! But I'm trying to keep out of as much as I possibly can to focus on getting my cumulative GPA up to a 2.8 or above for the first time since the fall of my sophomore year...how I've managed to be able to keep myself from losing my scholarships completely is beyond me, but I would rather not have to worry about if this semester is going to be my last one or not. I'm done with that. So this semester, I'm taking classes that will be easy to pass with good grades. Here is my class list:
Voice Lessons
Chorale
Chamber Singers
Diction II: French and German
Physical Fitness and Wellness
Acting I
Stage Movement and Choreography
Intro to Play Production
Class Piano III (& IV?)
That last one is talking about the accelerated Class Piano that I am in on Friday afternoons. We are basically storming through 2 chapters a week, because there are 4 of us in the class who are all good sight-readers. So Dr. Thompson thinks that we will be able to cover the material for both Class Piano III and IV in this single semester! Which is fine by me. Saves me from having to pay for that credit later on!
Acting I is amazing. We get to spend class time doing acting exercises. The class is small, so we are getting to know each other pretty well! We are going to be performing several short scenes for the rest of the class over the course of the semester. I've already got my first partner and scene picked out! We rehearsed for the first time today, and things are going well already! I have a long way to go to become a good actor, but what better way to learn than by doing?
Diction II and Intro to Play Production I've taken before. So that will help my GPA even further by erasing 3 hours of F's and replacing them with 3 hours of (potentially) A's! Also, I used to HATE French. It was so hard for me to figure out. Now, I'm almost bored with the class! It's so much easier the second time around. I wish we had the semester to dedicate to learning just French, and one for just German. It really is hard stuff to learn, and that's the way most schools do it. But we don't do it that way, and so class consists mostly of Dr. Adams repeating the same stuff he's said before and getting upset at the class because they're not learning it fast enough for his taste.
Speaking of Dr. Adams, he is retiring from being the chorale director after this, his 40th, year. Instead of taking a short tour on spring break (which is what we would have normally done), we are having a huge party with all previous alumni of the OC chorale invited to attend! We will sing some literature with a large, hired orchestra, and have a grand ol' time! That's all the details that we have right now. But it is something to look forward to!
Speaking of stuff to look forward to...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!
BEAUTY
AND
THE
BEAST!
Yes, fall musical fever has swept the OC music and theater departments once again, but this fever is so much worse than it ever has been! And it's all because we are doing the biggest, most expensive musical we've ever attempted here! There is so much publicity and promotion going on for it. We had a HUGE number of auditionees compared to past years, even last year when we had around 70. This year we had 90 people audition for the 35 member cast. Normally, when I audition, I am nervous, yes...but it is easily controlled and channeled...this year, though, I could hardly sleep. I was freaking out for 48 hours straight over the course of both days of auditions. I carried so much tension in my body, I was head-to-toe SORE for the next few days as though I had been exercising. I was so sure that there wasn't a place for me in this show, because I can't dance at all (which is important to be in the chorus). So it was either a principal role or none at all, I thought. And this semester, after having been dropped from the opera and the cabaret last spring, I really feel like I had something to prove (those words are actually my voice teacher's, and she is right). Although, I do admit that I need to be able to deal with not getting into shows, no matter how badly I want to. If I want to become a professional performer, this is definitely crucial. Anyway, thus was the most traumatic audition weekend of my life.
I am the Beast. 'Nuff said! :D
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