Rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal!

April has finally arrived which means performances of City of Angels are looming. Performances also mean rehearsals and tech. For all of this month, rehearsal will be my life... I will have barely any time to study and do work for my classes. My psych and chem midterm are both occurring next week. The best part is that my chem midterm is right before the preview performance. My midterm is from 6:30pm-8:00pm and curtain is at 8:00pm so I will probably have to take the test in costume and DASH over to CRH.

And because of rehearsal, I'm not able to attend NUMEROUS events. This Thursday is Rotaract's cruise around the San Francisco Bay, Moonlight Masquerade. Tickets are only $20 which includes a DJ and food, but unfortunately I won't have time. It's the day before tech. The theme of Men's and Women's Chorale Spring Show this year is "The Musicals of Sondheim and Bernstein". We're singing a medley from Into the Woods and West Side Story. And with West Side Story comes Gee Officer Krupke with choreography. I'll have to miss BOTH dance rehearsals for the song and I was really looking forward to it. Hopefully Ill still be able to be in that scene.

This past Monday was the start of never ending rehearsals. I will have nonstop rehearsals until our first performances in a week and a half. So six to midnight will be blocked off for the next two weeks and all day Saturday and Sunday. Fun! Tech rehearsals start this Friday so really have to get my game on with academics. I don't have ANY time to waste. I will get through this however difficult it may be. I'm just glad that everyone in the cast gets along and we're all very sporadic. This will be such a fun show. Although rehearsing for the show takes up so much time, it is a rewarding experience.

Today, we rehearsed with the set for the first time. Tomorrow, we rehearse with the orchestra for the first time! I'm SO excited.

Broadway Hot List

Current
August: Osage County (touring to SF)
Avenue Q (also on tour)
Billy Elliot
Hair
In the Heights (tour planned)
The Lion King (also on tour)
Mary Poppins (also on tour)
South Pacific (touring to SF)
West Side Story

Only on Tour
Rent
Legally Blonde
Xanadu

Broadway Bound
9 to 5
The Addams Family
Catch Me If You Can
Dirty Dancing
Dreamgirls

You're the One That I Want!

Tonight is the night! Grease is the word, is the word. Tonight, I will be watching Grease starring Taylor Hicks as Teen Angel. It's playing the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, which I haven't been since Legally Blonde played here for its world premiere two years ago. This means I have no clue where the stage door is located, so I must do some investigating beforehand.

This is the first show I'm watching that I don't know the lyrics to any of the songs... Every other show I've watched (and I've watched plenty), I've always listened to the cast recording and learned all the lyrics like the back of my hand. Well, I take that back, I went into watching Legally Blonde not knowing anything at all, but it was a world premiere. This is going to be an interesting experience. I am taking my mom and she probably knows the premise of the show and songs better than I do.

Until next time!!

I'm bad at this game...

While looking at my posting dates, I realized that I post very sporadically. Weeks go by when I just don't have a new post. I get so caught up in school. I know. School seems to be the excuse for everything even though I'm not even trying that hard. Explains why I don't do well in academics. Goes to show what kind of Berkeley student I am...

If I do want to transfer majors and even schools, I seriously have to step things up so that I don't disappoint myself when the moment of truth comes. I guess this would be a good time to start. There are about two months left of school. It should give me enough time to catch up on all the material that I'm behind... And midterms are in two weeks. Eek.

Wondermazement

Do you ever wonder how staples are made?

Spring Break

Alas, it is the long-awaited Spring Break and I am sick which prevents me from outisde humanly contact for fear of spreading this horrendous disease. I've had a sore throat the last two weeks ever since that night camped out in Lower Sproul waiting for Dalai Lama tickets. It hasn't gotten any better so I visited my pediatrician who I haven't seen in two years. He said that it might be a bacterial infection since I don't have a fever, runny nose, stuffy nose, congestion or fever. And my lymph nodes are swollen. Yay! He prescribed me a medicine that I can't take on an empty stomach because it'll be uncomfortable. But I also can't take the medicine on a full stomach since it'll lessen the effect. I only need to take the medicine for three days. Hopefully I'll get better by then. I need to pick up the medicine in the next 15 minutes or so...

Also, I still need to blog about the overnight wait for Dalai Lama tickets and the first time seeing Wicked. (It was AMAZING!)

Facebook Me!

For the last week or so, I've been living without Facebook. I de-activated it for many reasons. For the first day or two, I would have a dying urge to see what my friends were up to. I tried not to cave in, but I re-activated my Facebook to browse around and then quickly de-activated it. That happened for a few days, but over the weekend, I just stopped checking. It's nice not having a distraction while doing homework. Before I de-activated my account, I would just browse around aimlessly looking at people's photos, events, friend activity.

After doing so, I feel so detached from people's lives. Besides text messaging (for those who have a plan), instant messaging, e-mail and the good old-fashioned phone call,  Facebook was my main way of keeping in touch. (It sounds insincere, but hey, it works.) I know that in the next few days I will have to re-activate my Facebook so that I can keep up with other's lives and update others on mine. It also sucks not being able to stalk people. Just kidding. But you know you do it.

Now I need to make the effort to keep in touch with others. Maybe a call to the people I haven't talked to yet this year. And we'll see how everything goes from there.