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• When “Things” Have Meanings

  

  Came in last night to rehearsal, sporting an extra box of Kleenex and an eight-pack of Gatorade…knowing the kind of workout our sinuses and bodies would be goin... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bookmark

  

  I’m gonna set today’s blog as a placeholder for tomorrow.  Too much to process tonight, too tired to do it, and I’ve still face-washing and Yoga to tend to. ... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Two Pages

  

  …Am so close to being off-book, that I wanna throw a party.  …Not a big one, but big enough. I must celebrate  the fact that even before we’ve finished blocking... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bow & Breathe

  

  Every show is different.…Outside of the obvious, I mean it in the ways that they affect you; Even down to the basics of blocking rehearsals, and early French... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Christmas Memory

  

  Mom is the oldest of six kids.  An Irish Catholic family: three girls, three boys.  …It was a crazy dynamic from the beginning because though they had music in... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Lebanese Question

  

  Good rehearsal last night, and some quality bonding time in after-drinks, directly following.…Digging in deeper every day, and pinch hitting jokes and hilarity... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Food Nightmares

  

  This is a real thing.…I didn’t know it before, but even food can be terrifying…like for realsies…cuz I completely tore my bedding apart with thrashing and woke... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Words, Words, Words

  

  Back to hitting lines again.  Didn’t I just finish that? …Also, I’ve lost my recorder.  I mean “lost” lost it…as in I’ve torn apart my house, my office, the... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Teamster Dump-&-Run

  

  For the record: it will always be too early in the morning to deal with Bio-hazard waste, but even more so before you have had your coffee.This morning started... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• An Unholy Ripple

  

  Now that “Twelfth Night” has completed it’s run, am ready to dive straight into the deep-end of “Children’s Hour” and start swimmin. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dear Dennis

  

  Good morning, all.…My fellow casties are prob’ly still well passed out at the hosting house of our cast party, which I spent all of fifteen minutes at before... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Vocal Rest Conundrum

  

  You would think that a person, alone in a house all day, could easily dedicate themselves to a necessary “vocal rest.”  But if it’s “me” we are talking... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Accidental Asshole & The Apocalypse

  

  Look, it wasn’t my fault.…I mean it was my fault, but I didn’t do it on purpose, okay?Moving into our final weekend of shows, there are all of I think three... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Baked & Sweaty

  

  Am half baked on cold meds, backstage, with only bows left…my body a sopping mess of fever-sweat. …Today was work and home and medicate and sweat and chill,... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Indignant Snot Bubble

  

  The cold has grown two-fold since yesterday.  …I am a giant mucus-fest of disgusting…which somehow managed a student matinee and talkback and dinner, and a firs... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 CREATIVITY

• The Awful

  

  Am laying in bed, where I have been since 5:30 pm, all snockered on cold meds and every natural remedy that anyone on FB sees fit to throw at me.…I have no... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Death By Chemicals

  

  Corporate is coming again on Wednesday.  …Because I won’t be at the office tomorrow (due to a student matinee of the show), I had to fit in all my cleaning... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• …And The Footie Pajamas

  

  We are in pajamas, post show (and first read), decorating cookies (part 2), eating cheese plates and doing a “White Christmas” sing-along. …It’s our thing. Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• BFF: The Famous, & Marty’s Ma

  

  Turns out, The BFF is a little bit of a Rock Star.  …Her “celebrity,” via general awesomeness and bitchy wit, (which in turn, fulfills the requirements I reserv... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• From The Dressing Room

  

  Hello all, and welcome to the ladies dressing room. I am currently the only one in it, as Maria is presently off being married. …An attentive audience laughs no... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION