in review

Well - it's certainly been a big week. Excitingly stressful? I guess productive things I did were auditions and actually sending my letter to PM. Of course, now I'm panicking he'll never read it - or respond. Also - Mary's out of town for a while, so I found the lady who originated the role of Pat Nixon in Nixon in China (who is also our Eliza's voice teacher) and asked her for some lessons. This is also good because Mary is always telling me if I want to do OPERA - I have to find someone else. She only does musical theatre. Pat Nixon has obviously been very successful in opera AND ALSO been on Broadway numerous times. SHE SWITCHES! SUCCESSFULLY! So I thought it might be good to give her a try while Mary is away. Esp. since Mary and I decided I need to audition for the Met Opera Chorus. It's probably the most ridiculous goal ever - but EVERYONE - and I mean EVERYONE tells me I should try. I've scoffed it off as being the most quixotic idea anyone has ever had. Not only do you have to be AMAZING and know HOW TO READ MUSIC - and sing in Italian, French, German, Russian, English, Sanskrit, and who knows what else, you also have to basically wait for someone to die. It might be easier to become a Supreme Court Justice. Once you're in the Met Chorus - YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO LEAVE! $100000 a year starting contract. To sing at the freaking MET! I mean - you will hold onto that job with every sinew of your body. But - I finally figured - why not try? The WORST - the absolute WORST that can happen - is I can grow exponentially as a musician. That is never a bad thing. It will help me in whatever I do - musical theatre - opera - directing - dance - etc... (Though is just makes me detest reggaeton even more - now that I know what makes GOOD music - or am beginning to learn what makes GOOD music - I realize even more how HORRIBLE reggaeton is! LOL!) At any rate - point is - we'll see is Pat Nixon can whip me into shape where Mary can't while Mary is away.

I also am taking a course on GAME THEORY via iTunesU - as recommended by Matt. It's a surprisingly good and exciting course taught by a very passionate British professor.

The show has also been very dramatic. Aside from fat soprano evil - one of our guys needs hip surgery and is out of the show - he needs to be replaced. It's very sad - because he was actually nice and peppy. Another guy rolled his ankle and was out of the show tonight. Meaning our poor male swing had to do TWO tracks! Also - one of our girls fractured a metatarsal in her foot - and another one was hit by a car! But they are both still doing the show! The most amazing part about this is - it seems to have made every appreciate how much they love performing - and now instead of "opting out" - they are FIGHTING to perform - not the best circumstances for this - but and interesting phenomenon. I think they are able to stop trying to be "cool" and just let their quirky wonderful performance loving selves come out!

I also discovered Wagner. Or rather - the Ring Cycle - it's very cool. And stuck in my head!