I spoke too soon. My voice was rubbish today. I’m so glad I didn’t know anyone in the audience; it was embarrassing.
Oh! And I should mention that yesterday, a miracle occurred, and I managed to get my voice well-enough in shape that I didn’t horribly embarrass myself. My solos in the Glamour Dream weren’t as strong, and I couldn’t really belt, but my stuff in the other dreams went off without a hitch! And it looks like last night’s petty exertions on the stage didn’t wreck my voice for tonight! (Oh–we filmed last night. They changed the date. Har.)
In other news, Steve finally got a hold of the copy of Trojan Women I ordered a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, my computer isn’t recognizing the DVD. I’ll have to try it on someone else’s laptop when my other roommates return. Feh.
*drools* mozdev.org makes my morning beautiful. Open-source = hotness.
Ooh! An LJ community formed around everyone’s favourite Angel/Lost crossover concept, the JJ&J challenge. *snort*
Meanwhile, I just rewatched the last couple minutes of last night’s Lost (after seeing these meltworthy promo pics), and man, I must have been really tired (or just emotional, as I am a sap), because the subtle, quiet C/C-age is GUH-inducing. Charlie’s hand tentatively touching Claire’s back as he gently guides her out of the trees… the way he brushes a stray strand of hair out of her face and tucks it behind her ear… how he looks all proud and protective and giddy. *squeaks* Great googly moogly, I love my OTP! Theirloveissopure! Stupid amnesia.
And seeing Sayid and Shannon walking down the beach together, I never noticed how short Naveen Andrews was before. IMDB says 5’9″. Hah! He’s shorter than James Marsters! *snorks*
Also, Jin and Sun are so beyond awesome there are no words. And Charlie and Jin were so unbelievably cute. Silly boys. Charlie was acting like such a babydaddy; it was adorable. Chungy — have you gotten btfenet to work yet? Do you know enough Korean to understand what Jin said to Claire?
I HATE THIS. Why now, why today? I woke up with a frog in my throat and the inability to sing in my head voice. And my belt sounds like that of someone who has been chain smoking since age 6. And we’re performing tonight. And I *am* the Soprano line. And I doubt I’ll be any better tomorrow, when we’re FILMING. I’m so glad the majority of my friends came last week.
Lost. GUH. (Though would it have killed the writers to have some C/C moments?)
Promo for episode 21, “The Greater Good”, at Lost Multimedia. Aaccording to lost-tv.com, it will air May 4th. Then it’s “Born to Run” (1×22) on May 11th, “Exodus” (1×23, Pt 1 of 3) on May 18th, and the two hour “Exodus” (1×24/25, 2/3 of 3) on May 25th.
Dear LORD that was fun! We had a refresher runthrough for “Lady in the Dark” tonight, but rather than slog through another serious rehearsal, we pulled out all the stops and sang the show at warp speed with crazy, histrionic, and often sultry choreography. At one point, Michael (Kendall, Liza’s scorned love interest) came onstage wrapped in toilet paper, walking like a zombie. We ended up forgoing the ending completely when Michael reentered and bodily tackled Perry (Randy, Liza’s other love interest) to the ground when he proposed marriage in their final scene. All was madness! And with my sore throat, it was seriously painful to laugh.
I like to think I contributed to the initial downslide into wackiness, as I wasn’t able to sing tonight due to my throat (and generally tried to talk as little as possible), so instead I performed my solos through exaggerated mime. During one of the fashion office scenes, Steve (the Stage Manager) donned a red velvet dress we kept backstage as a prop and vamped with our mannequin. I bustled onstage and pretended to fuss over him. It’s a testament to the concentration of our actors that only Perry and Serena, our accompanist, even noticed our charade, out of 5 or 6 people onstage. Then in the Wedding Dream, for the song “The Princess of Pure Delight”, Steve joined Jenny (our Liza) and played the part of the Dean of Sorcerors. I left my post to play the princess, and Alex stepped up to be the minstrel (who wins the princess’ hand in marriage). Note that Alex is a head shorter than me, and female. At the line “happily ever after”, I dipped Alex, put my hand over her mouth, and “kissed” her. Hilarity. During “Tchaikowsky,” we formed a conga line. SO MUCH CRAZY FUN.
Afterwards, we discussed our cast Sondheim Cafe, to be held the last week of school, where we shall each present a song from Sondheim’s oeuvre, and perhaps stage some group numbers as well. We’re thinking of opening with the Forbidden Broadway parody “Into the Words” (that trip your lip and fry your brain and sprain your tongue…), then having the girls do “Everybody Ought to Have A Maid” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and the boys do “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story. I’m toying with the idea of doing “Lovely” or “That’ll Show Him” from Forum or something from West Side Story, but I’m very much open to suggestions. I know surprisingly little Sondheim, though that’s about to change, as Jill burned me practically his entire body of work last week. I’m just missing Frogs and Saturday Night, but if anyone has suggestions from one of those shows, I’m sure someone else in the cast could provide me with an mp3.
Now trying to download tonight’s Lost. It’s being quite stubborn and slow, so I probably won’t be able to watch until tomorrow morning. If only I HADN’T BEEN SPOILED BY SOME IDIOT THAT DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO USE A FRICKIN’ LJ-CUT!!! Not that I’m in the slightest bit bitter. Oh well, I just know ONE huge, honkin’ spoiler and none of the context, so please, no one post anything spoilery in the comments until tomorrow.
There are four new clips of tonight’s episode of Lost up on Yahoo. I’m choosing not to see them for fear of spoilers (and I’ll be able to see everything after rehearsal), but if you find yourself channeling pre-“Moth” Charlie and craving the Smackfarthing, be my guest!
And I should probably clarify re: the fandom post “Hall of Shame.” For a lot of those listed, ie Animaniacs, The Phantom Tollbooth, Pinky and the Brain, Earthworm Jim, etc, the shows/books themselves aren’t shameful, but my fannish devotion certainly was. Past Me makes Present Me recoil in unholy terror. I was obsessed. Think of the extent of my fannishness now. Compared to me at age 9, I’m downright mellow.
Oh, and one fandom I’ve noticed that I left out of the Hall of Shame was “Little Shop of Horrors.” I dressed up as Audrey II for Halloween in second grade. Don’t ask how that works.
Working on the environment for my old ladies. Meant to make flourescent lights. Turned up the “glow” too high on first guess. Made a lightsaber1.
I *so* need to make “outtake” images of my grannies in a Duel of the Fates. And then I’ll put one of them in my Imperial walker from last semester.
I really need to get out more.
1Ignore that the models are unposed and that I’m still in the preliminary stages of modeling and texturing and lighting the environment. And that the models are still in basic T-pose. Cookies: Hattie and Edna.