I know, I know, it's been forever since I posted last. I think it's actually been since Halloween, which seems like years ago! But now that a lot of craziness is over with midterms being done, I'm in the home stretch to the end of my first semester, which seems insane!!! Things, though, are starting to pick up again as I head into finals. Everything is piling up, finding new songs for this class, new scenes for that class, memorizing dance combinations and poems, etc. It gets a little nuts at times, but I really enjoy all of it so at the same time it's both stressful and exciting. Classes are going great. In musical theatre I have completed my first song, which I did for my midterm, If I Ever Loved Him from Angel! :) It was a blast and went really well. Now we are currently working on our second songs. Mine is Practically Perfect from Mary Poppins. It's amazing and I have such a fun time with the role!!! My two friends John and Caitlin are playing the roles of the Banks children, Jane and Michael, in my scene so it should be a ton of fun acting and blocking, but we haven't gotten there yet. At the same time we're preparing our third songs which are free choices, this provides the biggest problem to me, which is surprising. Most of my friends, as soon as we found out about the fact our third song could be anything, knew what they were going to do, or at least had a few ideas...me, on the other hand, am kind of clueless. Since I've now become the crazy soprano ingenue, I'm taking a little time to get used to it, but it's such an amazing blessing. It's opened my eyes to so many possibilities and roles I can play one day. So as I'm working in the library, as I'm writing this, I'm printing sheet music and getting ideas from my fellow librarians! I'll post later on what I decide.
In acting we have just performed our final scenes for the first time, and I love my scene. It's from the play Eastern Standard and it takes place between a brother and sister when the brother is telling his sister he has AIDS. I mean its so tragic, but it really has great potential, not to mention I get to work with one of my great friends John, who is playing the brother.
VPS we're currently working on the world of Shakespeare. Over break I read the play Merchant of Venice, which was alright, and then we were given a monologue from the play to do for our final. It's memorized, now I just need to get that "Shakespearean" feeling into the text so it sounds very believable! Besides that though, we've learned everything we need to know for the final. So our task is perfecting it before the end of the semester. As well as intense yoga...yey! :)
Well, as far as dance goes, it's all about learning final dance combinations, memorizing them, and then making them neat and polished before the big day when we perform them all. I believe we have 3 combinations for jazz, 2 for ballet, 3 for tap, and 4 for theatre dance. I'm not sure, it might be more or less for each class. But dance class is a blast, especially theatre dance, I love it!
So as you can see, I have a very busy schedule here at AMDA, not to mention I work three jobs (library intern, hall monitor, and usher) so my week is nuts!
I love New York although, it's an amazing city to live in, especially the upper west side. I think tonight my friends and I are going to see a movie in time square, how amazing is that? :) It's things like these that really make this whole experience worth it.
It doesn't hurt to have some of the most amazing friends a girl could ask for! Everyone I've met here is so kind and caring. My group is amazing, we're all so different it's really interesting! Each of us possess something another person can learn from. I can't express how happy I am to have met all these wonderful people. I would list them all, but I'd probably forget like 20, so I might as well not. I just know I am blessed to have them come into my life!
I hope to post more in the coming days and weeks until my return home in February to make everyone back home happy! And myself to remember all the wonderful experiences I have had!
It's two weeks until my birthday, and I CANNOT wait! :)
I also can't wait until I come home in Feb., it'll be a much needed break!
LOVE,
R
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