I have decided to include in my blog reviews, thoughts, and personal statistics on all the plays I read on my journey to thespianism. (If you use this word in a conversation today you get to add five thespian points to your total!) Some of these plays I may have already read in high school for classes, or for personal amusement, but I will be reading many new works, and re-reading others. I have chosen to begin with "Hamlet", the review of which will be shortly following this. I will begin these posts with the personal statistics I mentioned earlier. Since I am sure you were curious by precisely what I meant by that, allow me to explain briefly.
As I read, I like to mark the work with post-it notes to keep track of scenes, monologues, and lines or exchanges that I find clever, or worth re-reading. These, I mark with orange post-its. Furthermore, I mark with green post-it notes any monologues I am considering memorizing or utilizing for future and yet unknown auditions; or those that I just want to re-read again later.
For my own future reference, I am going to start by creating a list here of past shows I have been involved in and/or seen. Characters in (parentheses), other types of exposure to specified play/musical through various media in [brackets].
Involved in:
Summer 2005- Annie (Orphan Kate) [film]
Fall 2006- Grease (Beauty School Dropout, Chorus) [film]
Fall 2007- Wizard of Oz (Jitterbug Dancer, Crow) [film]
Summer 2008- Little Shop of Horrors (Girl Group Singer) [film]
Fall 2008- Good News (Pit) [live- local HS]
Summer 2009- Fiddler on the Roof (Daughter, Russian Dancer, Son, Bottle Dancer, Fruma Sarah) [film]
Fall 2009- Once Upon a Mattress (The Jester) [film]
Spring 2010- Johnny Cash (Young June Carter)
Fall 2010- Footloose (Vi Moore) [film; live- local HS]
Winter 2011 (??)- Murder Mystery Audience Interaction Play (name of char.??)
Spring 2011- Honky Tonk Angels (Darlene)
Summer 2012- The Sound of Music (Maria Von Trapp) [film]
Fall 2012- All Shook Up (Assistant Director) [live- Chanhassen Dinner Theatre]
Solely seen:
Fall 2004- Cinderella [live- local HS; film]
Summer 2005- Phantom of the Opera [live- Broadway, NYC; film]
Fall 2005- Beauty and the Beast [live- Chanhassen Dinner Theatre, local HS; film]
Summer 2008- Sweeney Todd[live- Pioneer Place Theatre; film]
(Dates??)- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [live- Chanhassen Dinner Theatre]
Fall 2011- Anything Goes [live- local HS]
Fall 2011- Hamlet [live- Jungle Theatre]
And now, for... posterity. Or something akin to that.
The Early Years:
Fall 1997- [preschool plays] 3 Billy Goats Gruff (3rd Billy Goat); Rumpelstiltskin (Miller's Daughter/Princess)
Summer 2004 (??)- [Prairie Fire Children's Theatre] Pinocchio (Hooligan #8)
Fall 2004- [sixth grade Christmas program] --something about shepherds??-- (Matt(y) Hemlock)
Now that I've taken up a ridiculous amount of space with an exhaustive list of my theatrical experiences and exposure, time to move on to part two of the title of this post. NaNo. Allow me to elaborate.
NaNo, or NaNoWriMo, stands for National Novel Writing Month. It takes place in the month of November, and is a fantastic event wherein thousands of people spend a month staying up all hours of the day and overdosing on coffee so they can finish writing their novels. The goal is to reach 50,000 words within the month of November. No editing is allowed during the process which is really hard (and really good for) me. I'm a crazed perfectionist, which is why my writing process takes so long; and it really tends to hold me back.
Anyway, I've decided this is the year for me. I've participated a number of years and not yet "won" (winning being reaching the 50,000 words in the month) because I've always had musical going on, or black belt testing, or some other craziness coming up. However, I am allowing no more excuses. My novel is getting finished, or at least gaining 50,000 words this November. There are always excuses; and I've finally come to the realization that I will always be insanely busy, since that's clearly the way I like my life to be. Thus, I came to the conclusion I simply had to decide to do it anyway, and so here I am, prepared for the challenge. November may be a month of very late nights, but that's okay; because I will succeed!
That is what that picture link is on the upper left hand corner of my blog. Click there, and it will take you to the NaNoWriMo website, wherein you can create your own account and join in the frenzy this November! Have you always wanted to write a book? Has there been an idea just itching at the back of your mind, begging to be put down on paper? Here's your chance. Don't wait and put it off (like I also ended up doing a number of times) -- give it a go! You won't regret it.
And that about sums up the latest projects that I have cooking. Coverage will probably be found here within the blog for such things, including NaNo; instead of writing in my novel, I'll probably get frustrated and write venting posts in here. If I'm not posting here in November, however, that could possibly be taken as a good sign. Maybe I'll be on such a roll with my book I won't be able to stop and blog.
And now onto the next adventures! Hamlet review coming soon to a blog near you. And by that, I mean this one- so don't stray too far.
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