Me Gusta Classe de Teatro Musical!!!

Lovelies, It's nearly 1 a.m. here in NYC and Miss Musical is a little drunky-wunky right now -so please forgive if spelling isn't perfect, grammar sucks & I'm all over the map!

So - last night I had my first Musical theatre class with Woodall! Super exciting stuff - as he is one of the "casting gods" here in NY. But the coolest part of the class was just chatting it up with him & getting his viewpoint on my stuff!

I brought in Aretha Frainklin's "Since You've Been Gone - Sweet Sweet Baby" and rocked it. Was fun. He told me to do it like Rizzo in Grease - cool, no? Worked so well. Also, he's really into the just standing & singing & being honest.... that's cool & I totally respect that. It's makes you work harder in some areas & less hard in others...

Today I didn't go to my personal assistant job on the Upper East Side like I was intending, but instead decided to sleep in - beautiful stuff- and went to my chorus call for White Plains at Chelsea Studios for How 2 $ (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying). They asked for tall & statuesque girls, but must have wanted girls who looked like my roomie - because she got asked for a dance callback!! Yea, roomie! I'm pumped for her!

Got out of that audition early & went & got seen at that Equity Building for Flat Rock Playhouse - they were SO nice! (and they're doing some great shows for me -Dames at Sea and Meet Me in St. Louis --- HELLO - I'm a total Esther in Meet Me!) So I sang the Trolley Song from Meet Me in St. Louis and kicked it to the curb. People -seriously - why does Mama Musical not get cast more - I'm fierce at this singing & acting thing!!!

So tonight I went to my musical theatre class with Waldman - my last one in 3 months (sniff, cry). I sang the Wizard & I (which I would NEVER usually do, considering that I'm a Glinda not an Elphie) but I just connect with the material so freakin' much & I want to add it to my book! Plus, I'm singing it at the History Theatre benefit in Minnesota in another 2 weeks! Hooray!

Let me tell you, lovelies - I felt really great about singing it! Put a little green make-up and a black dress on me & let me have at that part! I'd give my left boobie to play Elphaba! (and if you haven't heard the songs from the show yet - you must you tube it immediately and watch the Wizard & I -- fantastic stuff!)

So that was fun! Then came home after chatting with my three new fav. gal -friends from classe de Waldman Musical theatre... had a half a bottle of Domanie Ste. Michelle Extra Dry Champagne (sparkling wine - whatevs...) and am feelin' mighty fine!

Am going to an audition tomorrow - for Les Miz & Light in the Piazza - ready to get cast, friends. I'm so ready to get cast..... or at least give a fierce audition!

It's Snowing!

Hello Lovelies,

FINALLY!  It's snowing here in NYC!  I've been waiting for this!  (and it's sticky snow - perfect for making snow men!)  I know I'll be making myself a snow man -- complete with a snow present to give me on snow-Valentines day. 

So I had one great and one terrible audition this past week!  I went to the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse audition on Sunday morning (they're doing Les Miz, Little Shop, All Shook Up and are also doing  a show that I was in the original cast back in Minnesota).   SO, I walked into the audition hoping for it to go well, because they knew about this show that only the folks in MN usually know about!  

Well, let me tell you, I SUCKED!  Laid a big egg in the room.  

I was so prepared to sing "Anything But Lonely" from Aspects of Love (to be considered for Fantine) and it just blew.  Big time.  

All the notes came out OK, but I had no connection with my imagined scene partner, I didn't hold the last note out liked I wanted to & pretty much was so tired that I felt like I was drunk.  

(Come to think of it, I probably would've given a better audition if I were drunk.  Must try that sometime...)

Oh, well - you gotta have some bad ones to appreciate the good ones!

BUT on Monday I did the chorus call for the new musical 9 to 5 (based on the movie) at Telsey & Co.  It went VERY well!  I sang Sara Evan's "Born to Fly" and ROCKED IT OUT!  Felt really good about how it sounded and also how I communicated with my "scene partner"!  Also, I took the beginning slowly and then sped up after 2 bars - this worked GREAT!  (that's a technique I learned from Jen Waldman!  Love it!)

Today I'm working at my personal assistant gig on the Upper East side & it's been a busy day!  Dinner reservations, car reservations, ordering orchids from the florist (see pic below!),

 looking at dresses on e-bay, playing with the two-year old & now off to get bras for the Lady of the House at La Perla.  (god that store is FANCY!  I'm so surprised that they don't ask me to leave when I go in there - I don't look like an UES tennis mommy....)

Tomorrow I have an audition for Pittsburgh CLO -- hoping that goes well!  Now it's time to go to the post office & return some stuff to Neiman Marcus & then off to Jen Waldman's AWESOME audition class!