Well, we've been back in Cedar City for a little over a week now, and although I'm missing the tour life of Park City, it's nice to have a much lighter rehearsal schedule. I am also working my normal on-campus job, which is suddenly so un-glamorous! ;)
The first day back we had a company barbecue with all the actors, directors, crew, and Board of Directors for NSF. I moved into company housing and met my roommate, Melissa Nield, who will be performing with my in I'm Not Rappaport, the other show I am cast in.
Speaking of Rappaport, we started rehearsals for that as well! My role is much smaller in this play, so the memorization and time spent at rehearsal is less. This is a play about two old men, one Jewish, one African American, sitting on a park bench in Central Park. Throughout the play, they face and discuss the many difficulties of aging. I play Laurie Douglas, a young artist who spends much of the first act perching up on the bridge working on my art, with no lines. In act two, when I finally speak, the two old men (and the audience) learn that along with being an artist, I am also an ex-druggie who has substantial debts owed to a terrifying drug dealer called The Cowboy that she can't pay back. He threatens to kill me if I don't get him the money, and the climax of the play is reached when the two old men try to rescue me from him.
Doesn't sound as funny or uplifting as my other role, does it?
The biggest challenge I think I'll face with this role, is creating a character without many lines of dialogue and also learning the patience of sitting onstage for a long period of time with nothing to do but sketch (which I'm not very good at, by the way.)
However, those are challenges I'm excited to go after! Playing this role against Catherine is very exciting as well as I've always wanted to try repertory theatre.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Look how cool!
Today I was featured on the Neil Simon Festival blog as the "Player of the Day"!
For some reason, seeing this really made it sink in that I'm performing with a professional acting company! Yes, it's still in Cedar City and one of my theatre professors owns the company, so I had a huge "in" at my audition, but if I can do this while I'm still in college, think about all the possibilities my post-college career holds!
For some reason, seeing this really made it sink in that I'm performing with a professional acting company! Yes, it's still in Cedar City and one of my theatre professors owns the company, so I had a huge "in" at my audition, but if I can do this while I'm still in college, think about all the possibilities my post-college career holds!
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Park City!
Hello again! Sorry I've taken so long to post, I've been caught up in Park City! We have our final show up here tonight and then we head back down to Cedar City after the show tonight to start rehearsals for the rest of the NSF season.
Park City is beautiful! I loved exploring during my free time. It is like a town in California that was somehow transplanted to the mountains of Utah.
The rest of rehearsals went well! We pulled this show together so fast, but everyone was somehow so prepared for opening night. There were a few emotional breakdowns (including from myself) but that is to be expected from such an intense process. In a way, the craziness of the past three weeks has really prepared me for anything in the professional world, because I've learned the stamina and healthy habits I need to start forming now in order to survive in any repertory theatre.
Our set is SO COOL, by the way! I am completely in love with it. Our set designer/builder really came through and created a quirky, adorable little Georgian lodge.
Opening night was probably my favorite performance we've had so far. There is no better feeling than performing a comedy for an audience for the first time. You remember how funny the script is and you get a boost of adrenaline and confidence when they laugh at anything you do, because it means you maybe actually know what you're doing!
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| The view from our condos! |
Park City is beautiful! I loved exploring during my free time. It is like a town in California that was somehow transplanted to the mountains of Utah.
The rest of rehearsals went well! We pulled this show together so fast, but everyone was somehow so prepared for opening night. There were a few emotional breakdowns (including from myself) but that is to be expected from such an intense process. In a way, the craziness of the past three weeks has really prepared me for anything in the professional world, because I've learned the stamina and healthy habits I need to start forming now in order to survive in any repertory theatre.
Our set is SO COOL, by the way! I am completely in love with it. Our set designer/builder really came through and created a quirky, adorable little Georgian lodge.
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| Not the best picture of me (far right), but you can kind of see the set and how cute it is!! |
I have really grown so close to this cast. I'm glad we still have a nice long run in Cedar City yet to come, because I'm not ready to say goodbye.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Park City Dress Rehearsal
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| Yay dress rehearsal!! (I get my own dressing room, how cool is that? Perks of being one of two girls in the cast!) |
I don't have much time to post, because it's in the middle of a show, but I wanted to upload this picture I took of my Scene 1 look. Look at those pearls and curls! ;)
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