I've downloaded 20 other lectures ranging from Shakespeare, green energy, Dante's inferno, knights and maidens on the middle ages, social policy and the arts, ancient Rome, the oil spill, and the psychology of advertising. I also found NPR on podcast and can listen to shows such as "This American Life" and "Capitol Steps." I am so excited to be exercising my brain!
It all helps me focus on things other than the EVILNESS currently presiding at STEPS - and the fact that VLOG wont stop freaking e-mailing about CAROUSEL. GRRRRR! I can't really explain why I get so worked up about CAROUSEL and no other musical - but I have this extremely bizarre need to play Julie (and NOT Carrie or any other character in the show - even though everyone says I"ve be a better Carrie and then I break down crying and it's weird.) It makes no sense - it's just me being weird - but the music director for IOLANTHE is music directing CAROUSEL and asked me to audition to be a freaking featured dancer at which point it took EVERY singer fiber of my being to not say "F you" to her. I'm sure she didn't mean it as an insult - but I took it as an insult. You don't cast someone as the lead in your operetta and then ask her to audition for a "featured dancer" role. Instead I mentioned I would only do it if I was Julie because it would require me putting off my much desired equity card for a month or two - and she kept saying WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN BEING IN THIS AWESOME SHOW AS A DANCER?" To which I respond - anything that pays. Both CAROUSEL and STEPS are making me nervously ill - and in the grand scheme of things - neither one is really worth the aggravation at all. Now...THE LITTLE MERMAID at Tuacahn - MAYBE - that at least pays. But that isn't what I am worked up about. The human psyche is insane. I like my brothers attitude. F-it - I'm having a guinness.
And - my LOVELY husband from Iolanthe did just that. He took me to see LA BETE on Broadway - which was a MARVELOUS show starring M. Rylance - a wonderful actor and former artistic director of the GLOBE theatre who I got to work with while at UM. He NEVER ceases to amaze! Plus - the play was so intelligent and wonderful! (of course - it WAS a 17th century play...and I am partial to anything "period.") It was about how our society (or rather 17th century France) settles for mediocrity to please the plebeians and how the masses can't decipher knowledge and competence from ignorance and baseness - and often confuse one for the other. How hard work, loyalty, knowledge, and skill often go unrewarded, while someone who entertains and amuses on the lowest level can easily gain approval and praise from the world. All themes which hit home to me at the moment. He then took me out to a bar (albeit a gay bar - I was literally the only girl except a black Tina Turner look alike who MIGHT have been a drag queen...) and we had our guinness (or guinness equivalents) and laughed a lot. Until wait too late in the night. I will have you know - he actually BOUGTH my drinks and HE got us free tickets to the show - AND he offered to make sure I made it to the subway alright --- all things straight guys should take a lesson on before asking to get in my pants. It was a lovely evening.
So - there is a lot of frustration - but also a lot of fabulous discoveries so far in 2011. A typical start to a typical year I suppose.:)
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