May 2010
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Theater Reading List
The Inner Voice, Renee Fleming
Letters to a Young Actor, by Anna Deveare Smith
Making It On Broadway
Acting in Musical Theater
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The Draw of Live Theater →
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Being cast means....
Hitting.
The.
Gym.
Starting today…as soon as clips are done.
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Oliver! Musical numbers →
So, if you want to know what I’ll be doing…check out the red numbers.
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Oliver! Oliver!
So I had auditions for summer theater with the Hilliard Arts Council today for their production of Oliver!
The first show I did with them was Jekyll and Hyde, back in the summer of 2008 (I was a Red Rat Girl/Chorus member). J&H is one of my favorite shows, and getting to be in it was a fantastic experience. I missed last year’s show due to a lot of budget work at the Statehouse, but...
“Just get up there and let it rip!”
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Tooooo cute!
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My first experience with "The Beautiful Game"
Just got back from the Crew/Galaxy game, which I attended w/ Bryan and his friend (our friend?) Dustin. First we went to dinner at Uno’s, then headed for Crew Stadium by the state fairgrounds.
The Crew lost, 2-0, but I still had a lot of fun. My oberservations:
It really is “a beautiful game”—the flow is incredible. It’s a lot like hockey in the ebb and flow and...
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New experiences
Tonight I am doing something new—I am going to my first professional soccer game.
I don’t really understand soccer. I don’t understand the flags, the cards, the penalties. I don’t understand why the clock runs up, instead of down.
But tonight, I will try to understand. I’m going to the Columbus Crew v. LA Galaxy game with my brother and one of his friends. My...
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“Summertime/And the livin’ is easy…”
– Porgy and Bess
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The Great Jane Re-Read
Every summer, beginning Memorial Day weekend (as in, today) I do the Great Jane Re-Read: I re-read all of Jane Austen’s novels, starting with Sense and Sensibility and going through Northanger Abbey (first written, last published). If I have time, I read the juvenalia, but that’s a hit or miss proposition.
I also read One Big Novel every summer. It used to be the Russians, until I got...
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Memorial Day weekend
It’s not Memorial Day weekend until you’ve had at least ONE hot dog.
My choice:
Whole foods hot dog (really, the best I have EVER had!) with whole wheat bun.
Ketchup
Sweet relish (I’m new to the sweet relish club, but I gotta say, I like it.)
This is summer in America, my friends.
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She’s my patron saint, so I love this post.
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Sing, Sing, Sing
(Before I start, some background: I’ve been singing since I was a wee child. I started taking lessons when I was 14. Took them all through high school. Sang in honor choirs, and at Cap’s Conservatory of Music. Done theater. Am now taking lessons again. I think it’s important to establish credentials before I go forward.)
There is a reason I do not, in general, watch American...
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“I feel the need, the need for speed!”
– Top Gun
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mmmmmm grilled cheese….
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mmmmm summer food!
“I’m street smart/ I’ve got New York City heart.”
– “Why Should I Worry?”, Oliver and COmpany
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Retreat Journal #5. Adoration
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Ring Festival - Los Angeles Times - latimes.com →
For all you Ring nuts—here’s the scoop on LAO’s “Ring” cycle. I would NEVER go see this one. Actually, Ring/Opera post forecoming, so keep eyes peeled.
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My (i hope I hope I hope!) monastery. :)
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I love her blog, I love her book, and this is a good post. Her blog is recommended reading!
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Salad wrap-up
So I posted this salad as my lunch experiment today. Here’s the wrap-up apres-cook:
*Putting ice on the eggs really helped with the peeling.
*bacon turned out well. Yummm. I burned the onions—didn’t realize how fast cast iron would heat up!
*carmelizing mushrooms also very good
*It’s not hard to make, but it’s a LOT of prep. So make it before you’re hungry!
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Today’s lunch. Am excited to try!
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Me like. :) (although my friends that are priests—does this mean you want your hand kissed all the time? Please advise.)
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Priorities, much?
And yeah—if you’re Christian, one of the commandments is to keep holy the sabbath day. That means, you know, Church. If you’re Catholic, like I am, that means MASS. (Skipping Mass without a valid reason is a mortal sin.)
If you’re Christian, go to church. Every week. It’s an hour (less, if you’re Protestant! (right?). DO IT.
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Saturday Night Excitement
Movie: The King and I
Food: The Pioneer Woman’s Mocha Brownies. (if they turn out, I will place the recipe here.)
The simple joys of maidenhood, no?
(yeah, mixing composers here…)
“Somehow I know/ I’ll jump up and go/ whenever he calls my name.”
– “Sixteen Going on Seventeen (reprise)”, The Sound of Music
“Believe me, it will be a performance beyond even my imagination.”
– Max, The Sound of Music
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House errors
So, when you’re confined to the House, you watch a lot of TV. In this case, a lot of House.
So I’m on season 5, and there’s an episode where a deaf kid gets a cochlear implant.
Normally, House is pretty accurate. But…not here.
Some errors:
1) Not just any surgeon can put in a CI. I had a special ENT do it. Chase isn’t an ENT.
2) CIs aren’t activated until 2...
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weekend food!
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“Who needs med school when you’ve got Wi-Fi?”
– House
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This is pretty awesome.
Seven Quick Takes Friday XXII
This was (is?) a regular feature on the Bucket—part of bringing the Old Blog over to the New one. I’m all about the new. A bit irritated, though, as to why the clip art WON’T CENTER. Suggestions?
So this week has been, um, uneventful. Really. Sleeping and eating Club Whole-Wheat crackers and soup. I feel somewhat more human today, and I think I have to go to the grocery,...
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New translation is upon us!
Bones finale
Was dumb on MULTIPLE levels. ‘Ere we go:
The “mystery”? Stupid! Gnome was cute, though.
Is the show not being renewed? Because that’s the sort of ending you get when a show’s not being renewed. Except then Booth and Brennan would’ve ended up in a big airport embrace. (And, um, vis-a-vis screening technology, how did they all get back there? When I need an...
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The cute story is really just a side-benefit of the AWESOME double rainbow shots.
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TOTALLY agree w/ Return to Oz. Absolutely. Terrifying.
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