Cast Recordings and Kettlebells

Tech week in heels = lots of knee/ankle KT tape.

I’m going to be playing ENID HOOPS in a local production of Legally Blonde! I’m STOKED!!!

OKLAHOMA rehearsals start on Monday. Get to play with some of my favorite people. CANNOT WAIT!

It’s the perfect start to my 5 day weekend (except not really because I work on Saturdays, but I’m choosing to ignore that until Friday at 2am.)  HOLLER!

Watching ALIAS for the first time, and while I’m totally invested, I want to kick Sydney Bristow. How on earth is she getting by as a double agent? This girl is insanely emotional. Sometimes I just can’t…

dajo42:

what if you thought you weren’t getting a kiss at midnight and you were upset about it

and suddenly there’s an explosion of light in the sky

and john barrowman just descends gracefully and gives you the biggest kiss in the universe

Wow, I hadn’t thought about this, but now if it doesn’t happen I will be severely disappointed!

Slowest day at work EVER. Counting down the hours until the most KICK ASS New Year’s party of all time! Circus theme! (I’ll be going as a plate spinner, and yes, I will post pictures!)

As I’ve mentioned, circus themed party. Plate spinner.

About to head out to play with my costume designer friend, to find the perfect costume! Will probably end up wearing my Sweeney costume, which had no shortage in the upstairs department.

Les Mis…did not like it, AT ALL. I thought the singing, with the exception of a VERY small minority, was dreadful. 

I thought Hugh Jackman (who I LOVE) was very miscast. I don’t think his voice suited the role AT ALL. Why did he belt Bring Him Home??

Anne Hathaway - not the worst part of the movie. At least she was acting (very much over-acting, but at least some attempt was made…the same cannot be said for mostly everyone else.)

Russell Crowe - just straight up embarrassing from start to finish.

Loved Young Cosette, Gavroche, Enjolras (though there was some scooping action I did not appreciate), Eponine, Hair Hag, the factory foreman, the lovely French soldier who did the “You at the barricade listen to this…” bit, and most of the students, and Marius (he was a little muppety with the singing, but for the most part I liked him a lot. Empty Chairs was very moving.

Amanda whatever her name is was dreadful. And I’m pretty sure the C was dubbed in, because with her terrible breath control and technique there’s no way she could have hit that note.

The Thenardiers - where were they?? Such fun characters turned incredibly BLAH.

And I didn’t much care for the direction either - most of the shots were either sweeping landscapes or incredibly close close-ups (which made the non-acting even more evident.) The movie just had no movement - it was one level the ENTIRE time - no tension, no build, no desperation whatsoever.

Thoroughly appalled. Harsh, I know, but there you have it.

ETA:  I think the live singing did the entire film a huge disservice. Everyone just looked and sounded EXHAUSTED (and not in a “we’re poor and desperate and it’s acting” kind of way.) I mean, how can “Bring Him Home” be perfection after 20 takes? That score is difficult enough to sing through ONCE, let alone multiple takes one right after the other. I think the quality of the film (at least from a musical standpoint) would have been much better had they recorded it in a studio.

Please keep my best friend and sister from another mister, A, in your thoughts. She teaches music at a studio in Newtown. By some small miracle, all of their students are OK. But she isn’t handling things well. Please just keep in her in your thoughts along with everyone else. I would really appreciate it.

I can’t believe I’m waking up to “Mass Murder in Newtown, CT” splashed across my TV screen. I feel sick.

broadwaybuzz:

ANNIE - NOW PLAYING ON BROADWAY!

Bill was my Sandy trainer when I performed in the Annie sequel Annie Warbucks last year. He’s a really cool guy and the work he does with shelter dogs is just amazing. (And his dogs are just so gosh darn CUTE!!!)

Tonight one of my besties demonstrated circular breathing. It was both creepy and fascinating.

SO HARD IN LIKE. Full on butterflies and everything. We have good chemistry, there’s no denying it. But as always, my physique makes me question. Plus he just had his heart broken. Such complications.

But still. Like is nice.