Last week, we were in the very first town MCT ever resided. It was a really cool thing for us to experience- everyone there was so supportive and glad to have us. Our host family insisted we put all our food and purchases from the grocery store and cafe on their account, so we saved a lot of money pre-spring break style. Unfortunately, after the show when we counted the t-shirts and cds, at some point during the day someone in the cast had taken a shirt and cd from us when we weren't looking. This is the first time that has ever happened, and luckily it was only one of each so our profit didn't take a huge hit, but it is really disheartening when children as young as that are already beginning to steal. We were both really sad more than upset.
On sunday when we were driving to our residency for this week we were able to stop through Great Falls and have lunch with Doug and Lynn and Amber and Mike, our good friends and favorite people we've stayed with. It was so great to see them, and it turns out that the week of my birthday we'll be really close to Great Falls (but in a really small community) and they invited us back to take me out for my birthday! I'm so excited. This job has been outstanding for meeting some really great people.
This week we had to cut from the numbers that auditioned, and while it's always sad, these kids really, really want to be here and are so enthusiastic to participate. One of the cast members reminds me of Tommy Wiseau from The Room in his acting. It's AWESOME. I am ready for our break, though. Starting saturday, a week off!!!!
I've been hearing a lot of really great and encouraging audition opportunities and acceptances into career paths from my close friends recently; it is wonderful to get those tidbits from people and hear about successes people close to my heart are having. I hope this good fortune keeps spreading to everyone.
I have to submit a teaching video next week to the company in Jersey to possibly get hired for the summer. I would love to work there, not only to do something on my terms and work with kids again, but also because it would put me only an hour outside NYC so I'd be super close to Jack & Stacy and a few others who are living there now. Then off to the Windy City.
6 weeks until I'm off the road for an unspecified amount of time- I bought my ticket home to Wichita for May 20th. Looks like my plans will start to gel soon.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Chuck Mee
I am itching to create. I feel jittery with possibilities of jobs, directing, using the fragments of ideas to piece together a hodge-podge of a show. I don't need it to be successful, I just want to do something that is inspired in my brain and manifested with the creative impulses of others. Am I the only artist who is working who wants to quit everything to follow some irrational and fiscally irresponsible urge just to feel alive?
This is probably what drives actors to heroine.
*kidding.
Also, I had a phone interview with a theatre company based out of New Jersey for the summer today. I hope things go well, because it seems as though this could be a potentially awesome fit.
And, I wish Harry Potter was still being written. I feel lost without him.
This is probably what drives actors to heroine.
*kidding.
Also, I had a phone interview with a theatre company based out of New Jersey for the summer today. I hope things go well, because it seems as though this could be a potentially awesome fit.
And, I wish Harry Potter was still being written. I feel lost without him.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
When Two Become One (like the Spice Girls song)
Sort of fell behind in the updates here. Plus side- I have everything and nothing to write about. Here we go!
Feb. 22nd was Dave's birthday. I was sly in secret cake plan- friends of ours from the office in Missoula let me use their house to make him an ice cream cake. It was baller. It was also nice to have a few people to share his day with in Missoula. We get lonely, and we had a great dose of good times and great people for a solid 7 days.
Outside of Missoula, I found my 16 year old best friend. She was so much like JMo that I fell in instant rapport with her and we were two peas in a pod all week long. I had a great time teaching that week. We had only a few funny things that happened during the auditions (On Dave's birthday!) on of which was a 8 or 9 year old saying aloud while we were explaining the auditions, and in complete silence- "I like sponges." I'm not too sure where that came from or why, but it tickled me. When asking for the kids to do a piece of their audition like they are the "toughest guys they know, like they just walked in off their harley" one little boy yells "My aunt has a big dog!" I at first just said okay..... Then later realized that a big dog is also a brand of motorcycle. Not nearly as funny when it wasn't random.
From a few weeks ago, I found some notes I took about the little 5-7 year olds. There was one little boy who had red hair and was a fire ball and he did a karate kick, said his name then "I talked to my lawyer and he said I'm 6." another girl graced us with "Sydney, age 7. What's up diggity dog?" Kids are hilarious.
When we were in Missoula last week, we were able to do a lot of awesome things like cook in our friends' house, hang out with people, karaoke with strangers- we are involved in a company wide scavenger hunt and are on a quest to get some awesome pictures of us doing random things on this list. One was karaoke with a stranger. We picked Sweet Caroline and had some awesome interpretive dance moves going on. It was baller. The show went well, we had a visit from one of the CEO's and got some great feed back and suggestions as to how to make our process stronger. It was needed.
This week, we hit a very interesting hippie town in the middle of no where. No cell towers, no restaurants, a grocery store with a large candy selection and not much else. We are staying at the Bates Motel equipped with aged hippies in speedos who hang out in the natural sulfur springs all day, making the place reek of patchouli and rotten eggs. The food is outlandishly expensive (a sandwich was $5.50 for turkey on wheat Dave said) so we have sustained on Lays Stacks chips and hot tamales. I have written a lot of letters and read three books. I mentioned Ellen Hopkins in my last post- read her. She is incredible.
The kids here were very interesting, they obviously want to participate but it was like pulling teeth to get anything out of them at some points. The show went over well, minus an unfortunate hitch with our accompanist and the difficulty of the score for our show. But, all things considered, it was a success. Plus we had 3 sets of identical twins in the show, two kids with rat tails and a gay. We all know how I love the gays, so that was exciting in such a small community.
AND today is the first day off Dave and I have had since January 3rd. We milked a cow, held a chicken, petted some horses, visited some kids from our cast and I got a massage. It's been like heaven.
That's about all the boring ramblings I have to update on, but I figured it was just as easy to roll them from two weeks into one post. Pretty sweet. On to a city outside of Kalispell tomorrow, we're going to catch a matinee of Alice in Wonderland before heading to our hotel. And only a few more weeks until spring break! Week off- here I come!
Feb. 22nd was Dave's birthday. I was sly in secret cake plan- friends of ours from the office in Missoula let me use their house to make him an ice cream cake. It was baller. It was also nice to have a few people to share his day with in Missoula. We get lonely, and we had a great dose of good times and great people for a solid 7 days.
Outside of Missoula, I found my 16 year old best friend. She was so much like JMo that I fell in instant rapport with her and we were two peas in a pod all week long. I had a great time teaching that week. We had only a few funny things that happened during the auditions (On Dave's birthday!) on of which was a 8 or 9 year old saying aloud while we were explaining the auditions, and in complete silence- "I like sponges." I'm not too sure where that came from or why, but it tickled me. When asking for the kids to do a piece of their audition like they are the "toughest guys they know, like they just walked in off their harley" one little boy yells "My aunt has a big dog!" I at first just said okay..... Then later realized that a big dog is also a brand of motorcycle. Not nearly as funny when it wasn't random.
From a few weeks ago, I found some notes I took about the little 5-7 year olds. There was one little boy who had red hair and was a fire ball and he did a karate kick, said his name then "I talked to my lawyer and he said I'm 6." another girl graced us with "Sydney, age 7. What's up diggity dog?" Kids are hilarious.
When we were in Missoula last week, we were able to do a lot of awesome things like cook in our friends' house, hang out with people, karaoke with strangers- we are involved in a company wide scavenger hunt and are on a quest to get some awesome pictures of us doing random things on this list. One was karaoke with a stranger. We picked Sweet Caroline and had some awesome interpretive dance moves going on. It was baller. The show went well, we had a visit from one of the CEO's and got some great feed back and suggestions as to how to make our process stronger. It was needed.
This week, we hit a very interesting hippie town in the middle of no where. No cell towers, no restaurants, a grocery store with a large candy selection and not much else. We are staying at the Bates Motel equipped with aged hippies in speedos who hang out in the natural sulfur springs all day, making the place reek of patchouli and rotten eggs. The food is outlandishly expensive (a sandwich was $5.50 for turkey on wheat Dave said) so we have sustained on Lays Stacks chips and hot tamales. I have written a lot of letters and read three books. I mentioned Ellen Hopkins in my last post- read her. She is incredible.
The kids here were very interesting, they obviously want to participate but it was like pulling teeth to get anything out of them at some points. The show went over well, minus an unfortunate hitch with our accompanist and the difficulty of the score for our show. But, all things considered, it was a success. Plus we had 3 sets of identical twins in the show, two kids with rat tails and a gay. We all know how I love the gays, so that was exciting in such a small community.
AND today is the first day off Dave and I have had since January 3rd. We milked a cow, held a chicken, petted some horses, visited some kids from our cast and I got a massage. It's been like heaven.
That's about all the boring ramblings I have to update on, but I figured it was just as easy to roll them from two weeks into one post. Pretty sweet. On to a city outside of Kalispell tomorrow, we're going to catch a matinee of Alice in Wonderland before heading to our hotel. And only a few more weeks until spring break! Week off- here I come!
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