Thursday Post 67!

    After 30 minutes of waiting to get inside of the theatre, I found out interesting news. One was the set, which was really cool. The way the set looks like just a bunch of screens, but then forms into the backdrop for the shows was a very interesting concept. With the set we found out that us (Dance Minors :D) will finally be usefull for something! That something is the time between play changes. Instead of having a blackout then change the set. Aladren wants to use the dancers to fluidly collaborate in making the play changes more cohesive rather then choppy. I like the idea because I get to in the mainstage show (well in the parts between the shows I do). But I was hoping I could House Manage also for the show. Maybe I could do both???


100   I'm eating healthy; well mostly. Everyday when I come home from school I have a granny smith apple. I know we haven't taken a nutrition class yet but I feel I should start focusing on what I'm eating. Since lowering body fat is not high on my priorities, I'm focusing more on the health part of it. Everyday in lunch I do have a salad, with that I have milk. Since I'm a vegetarian (for more than 1 and 1/2 months already) I've cut out all the poultry and meats in my life. I do take Vitamin B-12 which helps to suppliment the protein I should be getting. I am to keep up this healthy diet, now all I need to do is start toning my muscles (or first I shall GET muscles THEN I shall tone them!)

Wednesday Post 66.

      I think I got it! Today instead of doing our minors, we did our majors and mine is acting. We do the usual warm-ups in the beginning, and then we do the Meisner training. I feel like I'm getting better with that everyday we go on. In class Aladren makes it sound so simple and it is simple once you get it, but right now, it's a real annoyance. It takes time and eventually when you keep repeating things you start to feel it and it starts to affect you. I just need to drop all of my barriers and restrictions that are holding me back when it comes to Meisner.

100     I just ordered the script to Rabbit Hole. In Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire, there is a perfect monologue for me to use, because the character is 17. I obviously will work on it for my four years here, becasue I need to start finding these monologues because senior year. Like all the seniors say; it comes up faster than expected.

Tuesday Post 65

        Well today was a little crazy but I think it was pretty productive. Basically my job right now is to find all the props in the shows and get them down onto the Dropbox Excel sheet. First of all Dropbox is confusing, but that's probably just because I never used it before. HaHa! Hence I used Tech-master Zach to find the document for me to help me get a head start on my intense work I did today. I had to put all of my props I found onto the Main list and say if they are Imperative or Mentioned. If they were mentioned then they were mentioned in the script and needed. The Imperative props were not specifically mentioned in the script so it didn't really matter if it was that certain prop.

100   Yesterday I was fortunately to work with the new auditions last night. I could tell from what I saw last night, I must have been atrocious! I'm also glad that Aladren is thinking about adding Musical Theatre to the program! If it was added, I'd be so grateful, because having the chance to do my favorite area of theatre in this phenominal prgram would be a blessing!

Tuesday Post 64

            Well today was fun. I got a lot of work done! Yeah that's sarcastic, because we had to be evacuated, because there was a bomb scare. Well besides all that drama, I've been thinking that I want to experience everything in the Theatre world. Not just Acting and Dance, but we are kind of stuck to those two things. I don't know how Aladren does things with play-writing but I thought of something fun that could benefit the whole class. It's a short play exercise, where some one assigns adjectives to every student (ex. happy, depressed, lonely) and you just write a short 5 paged play involving your adjective. Then once you read it then the rest of the class have to guess the theme. I think this would benefit us because it would help us analyze the text more and find the deeper meaning to it all.

100     One thing that I am trying to get is a reel of all the acting experience I've had. All the past shows (even though they are horrible) I don't have any footage. SO I am focusing on getting more of my acting experiences videotaped and having them put into my reel. I really would like to have the part in Rebecca's play Truth About Us of the Perfect Person #2 or the waiter. Because it will give me more acting training and also make a good addition to my reel. And I don't have any set-in-stone conflicts so if you can't find anyone... I'm available!!!

Monday Post 63

Today was the start of Mainstage! Yay! All of the students were emailed the shows we will be performing, last night. I was so excited that I read all of them the day I got the email! My favorite one out of them all was Carrie's play Retreat! I just loves all of the different characters and the humor . Overall I think it is the best!
My list of the show the shows I liked from top to bottom:
1 - Carrie
2 - Hannah
3 - Marjorie
4 - Cecelia
5 - Rebecca
6 - Crystal
7 - John
8 - Emily

100. While I read over all the plays I used to advice ms Aladren gave us about not being prescriptive when it came to reviewing plays. I felt that all the plays were good it's just there were some that almost bored me, but maybe that because I don't know anything. Another topic I looked for was connections, I read all the plays and hoped to find something I could connect with. They all had it, it's just some made the connections more smooth and grounded than others.

Thursday Post 62.

      MAIN STAGE!!!  The two words that shall be drilled into my head for the rest of this year and the years to come. Main stage this year is going to be a big play festival with shows by students and a dance/theatre collaboration portion. We (freshman) will be doing the grunt work because well we are the grunts! Main stage is some serious/intense stuff! I really have never expierenced a show like this before because I have been doing crap all my life. HaHa! During class Lindsay made a very good analogy to Mainstage, " You are not going to walk in and be like 'OMG There is my set! It is sooo pretty' " And honestly I can relate to that because I have done that before, but don't yell at me because I was so clueless to what real theatre was a year or two ago.

   100    I'm a loser. I watch reality T.V. shows (Jersey Shore, Cake Boss...) but I do watch one show every week that is relelvent to the theatre world and really cool. It is called Face Off. It's about make-up artist who compete against eachother by creating their models into these fantastic things. Look to the side for reference. Even though they compete to be movie make-up artists, it hit me that if you need a make-up designer for Main stage then you can count on me. Not only have I watched years of this show on make - up for the arts, but my Mom works at Loreal and can obtain any make -up in the universe.

Wednesday Post 61!

        The other day when we had our monologue exam, backstage the seniors were telling us that we are allowed to have two monologues for the Final Exam! I personally want to do two monologues because I want to work on them both. One reason is, is that it will give me a one up on finding monologues for the future. Because the seniors right now have 10 monologues!  AGH! Well I'll be able to handle it once I get there but if I choose to do two then only 8 more to go! Also I want to do two monologues because then Ms. Aladren will be able to see which one has more potential. But before I worry that much about the Final exam, let's finish main stage!

         100   Today I was kind of confused what we were doing in the beginning of class.  I think Aladren is trying to accommodate our Major/Minors into the 3rd marking period and main stage.  Which is unfortunate for Imani and I because we are Dance minors and we might have to change.  If I did have to pick something to do for the 3rd marking period, it would be management. Either stage managing or house managing, i would like to try that out if I can't do Dance.