Wishing, Hoping, Lighting a Candle... quote of the day by Eric Woodall

Lovelies, I'm such a slacker with the blogging! Uugh! Usually I'm so on top of this!

But have been preparing for the 8 week musical theatre forum with VP Boyle and also taking classes with Eric Woodall on Monday nights - I love that class! The more I take it the more I enjoy the work that I'm doing and I feel like Eric is good at sensing how to guide me away from old habits whilst adding a positive spin on what I can improve upon.

The quote of the day above was given on Monday - we were talking about if you should go into auditions even if you're a little under the weather. He said if you can still present a respectable product that you should go and that it's better than sitting at home "wishing, hoping, lighting a candle". (I drew a little picture of a candle in my notes - made me giggle!)


I sang I Dreamed A Dream in Class on Mondays- felt really good about the vocals and OK about the acting thing. I really LOVE singing that song & I'm going to sing it tomorrow for Musical Theatre of Wichita.

Update on employment of Acting: Still no Shows on the horizon (sigh) but I met two REALLY nice people today and tomorrow I have two auditions I'm looking forward to! Exciting, no?

So I've slept in the past 3 days (one word: Awesome.) and today was the first day this week that I auditioned.

The first audition for the Untitled Gershwin Project went great! I finally met Mark Brandon of Binder Casting, so that was fun! He's a good egg - but looked like he'd seen one too many auditions. I've heard that that people at Binder like your movement to be bigger so I tried to move a little more - sang Mambo Italiano - it always goes over well! Jose was playing at the piano and he rocked it out!


Second audition for this new soon to be on broadway show called Angels wasn't my best ever, but I felt OK about it. I sang the middle of Meadowlark and it went alright. I didn't give a tempo to the pianist because I thought everyone knows the tempo of Meadowlark.

I was wrong.

It was like the funeral durge of Meadowlark. But I tried to act the pants off it, so that was a fun challenge! I love me some Stephen Schwartz.... and coffee... and pretty dresses. All were a part of my morning!

Good times, lovelies, good times!


Tomorrow I have my audition for the Guthrie for Little House on the Prairie the Musical and also have my invited audition for Musical Theatre of Wichita! Both will be a blast! (Singing my new favorite Rogers and Hammerstein song at Little House & then going to sing I Dreamed A Dream and Love Song for MT of Wichita! Should be fun! (and nerve-wracking!)


And then I fly back to Minnesota tomorrow night! (and I just found out that my fav. vocal coach Andrew Cooke is all booked up this weekend - so if any of you lovelies who are taking from Andrew this weeked feel like you could move your lesson time to next Tuesday or Wed. that'd be swell! Mama Musical wants a lesson with Andrew Cooke! :)