Flights, Shows & Re-caps...

Lovelies, I'm back - AGAIN- in the Hapmtons & loving it. I also loved my time at home in Minnesota and wanted to do a little re-cap for you!

The Things I did:

- Saw Little House on the Prairie the Musical starring a grown up Melissa Gilbert (who played Laura in the TV series) as Ma Ingalls. She did a very respectable job! And my lovely friend No.Lo. played the school teacher Miss Wilder - she was so funny - and looks scarily like the woman who played Miss Wilder on the TV show!

- Watched Twins whoop the Yankees (FINALLY) on Wed. afternoon with Coffee Man and his entire Coffee Crew! (It was a business outing & they got to bring family/ friends along! Was a blast!)

- Went to have coffee with Graydon Royce of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. We talked shop. (aka Theatre) I love chatting with him & hearing his ideas on shows. He's a REALLY smart & articulate guy. Guess that comes in handy when you're writing those theatre reviews.

- Took 2 Yoga classes from my girl Becks at Core Power Yoga. AWESOME classes - I sweated my ass off!

- Attended 2 weight watchers meetings - and LOST 4 POUNDS!!! I'm on my way, lovelies, on my way!

- Went cosmic bowling with Winterhalter at Park Tavern (did anyone else know that Ladies bowl for free on Tuesday nights AND drink for FREE from 9-10pm? I didn't!) Was a nice surprise! Plus I got some good scores - I'm a decent bowler friends!

-Holls for drinkys on Friday night at Moscow on the Hill. That was fun! We went to Pizza Luce after with the brilliant director R.Go.

- Auditioned for Grey Gardens at the Ordway/Park Square theatre - was a pretty good audition, but no callbacks. ...Son-of-biatch.

- Hung out with Craw for her going away from the Guthrie party on Wednesday night - the Cue bar was packed with her nearest & dearest.

- Saw the new Star Wars exhibit at the MN science Museum with Coffee Man. We have such fun together - he makes me giggle! (Plus his eyes match the color of his Audi car, so that's kinda fun!)

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:

- SANG my ass off at the Ordway! Hooray for Legally Blonde Medley and the Vaudeville Medley! (Plus the people I worked with were SO fun & SO cool!) Was fun to rock it out & have the people I care about be able to see me do my thing!

Now onto Hot times in the Hamptons AND coming BACK to MN in another 12 days for the State Fair! (Hell Yes, lovelies - I'm coming home for some Sweet Martha cookie Lovin'!)

Another Day, Another Audition..

Hello lovelies!  My thought of the day today is "Why am I so rockin' & no one is hiring me??!!"  

Seriously.

I auditioned for Stages St. Louis this morning at Equity and then went to the Beauty & the Beast chorus call for Westchester Braodway Theatre.  Fun times, friends - fun times! 

So here's my schedule for this morning:

6:15 am.  Wake up, Get Dressed & Have Coffee with Roomie

6:30 am  Leave house & take the train to Equity.

7:00 am. Arrive at Equity Building and wait for 1/2 hour for it to open the doors.  (While standing in line with other crazy "I need a specific time slot" actors)

7:30 a.m. Go inside & warm up - literally.

8:30 a.m. Sign in for Stages St. Louis (got a 10:10 appointment)

8:35 a.m. Have coffee with good friend Drea at Pax.  Mmmm.... Pax... (2nd cup of coffee - are you counting??)

9:15 a.m. Take cab to Nola Studios for chorus call. (only 10 blocks from pax - friviolus??)

9:30 a.m. Get my card (number 44 baby! - this means I'll be seen aprox. at 11:10, because the see 40 girls an hour and the call starts at 10am)

9:40 a.m Walk Back to Equity & get pretty!

10:10  a.m. Sing for Stages St. Louis (I sang I want to Go To Hollywood from Grand Hotel -- and friends - I hit it out of the ball park!!  The song was fun, I showed tons of character & personality!!  Hooray!)

10:25 a.m. Walk back to Nola & get ready for that audition! 

11:00 a.m. Sang for Westchester Broadway Theatre's Beauty & the Beast (sang Meadowlark - and acted the pants off that one, too!)  

11:15 a.m. Found out I wasn't asked to stay & dance -so I went to work on the UES!

11:20 a.m Stopped at Starbucks on the way to the train for ANOTHER coffee (this time de-caf! Does anyone else love the skinny vanilla lattes as much as I do??  They are really qutie lovely!_

.... Which is where I'm at now!  

Overall, rockin' auditions -- some of my good girlfriends were asked to stay & dance.  Not so for Miss Musical...  But, obviously there's a "bigger plan" for me that I need to accept!  It's just frustruating in the mean time!  Back to work -- I almost got caught!!  Aaurgh!

Definition of Insanity...

According to our friend & founding father, Benjamin Franklin, The Definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results....  

Which is the PERFECT Segue into Miss Musical's auditions in NYC!  Hooray!  

Today I pulled myself away from my perfectly lovely bed at the crack of dawn (6 a.m. if you're so curious) threw on my clothes and hauled my tail into the Equity Building to audition (again) for North Shore Music Theatre.  My lovely roommate, Roomie, accompanied me on the 6 a.m. N train.  

We were one of the first twenty crazies (aka. actors) that got the good fortune to stand in line before the equity building opened at 7:30 a.m.  Whilst this is very cold, it's also very good because it ensures that you have which ever time slot your little heart desires!  (I usually pick 10:10 - just enough time from the 8:30 sign-in to grab a Starbucks Latte and get pretty.)  

AND (joy of joys!) I got to also be seen for a company in New Jersey that's doing a new-ish musical that has a "dark comic" character in her mid to late 20's!  (Of course, I went - hello?! - 

Dark & Comic spells Miss Musical backwards!  ... wait a minute... no it doesn't!!)

So the North Shore audition went OK - sang 10,432

 Sheep & it went alright but the piano player took my tempo SO fast!  (His fingers were on fire - and my song was not meant to be a patter song).  He also looked as if he wanted to slit his wrists with the corners of my audition book....  

Ahh, those brooding musicians....  

I still smiled and thanked him on my way out. (while thinking "You screwed up my fucking audition!!!" as loud as I could in my head!)  

Oh, well, it's just an audition - and let's be honest even if they called me back Allie Frank the

 casting director (who shoots daggers at me with her eyes) would drop any notion of my getting cast in a heartbeat....  Sigh.... (now is a good time to refer back to the title of this particular blog...)

I tried not to let Angry Pianist bug me - and went into the second audition for New Jersey McWeird - O Never-Heard-of-Em Theatre company.  Fortunately I knew Steady Eddie was in the room playing piano.  He's my new Favorite!  He rocks it out & is SO good at taking tempo & going with the actor!  So I did the Boyle A or B technique (where I offer them song A or song B) and they chose Song B.  

Song B. was Lay Down Your Head from Violet.  It went beautifully - I felt like I truly did my best acting work of the day in there.  The top vocal wasn't what I wanted - came out very soft - but really, who cares - I still hit it & they all said they liked the song!  Hooray!

Oh- and on the way out I ran into the very nice gal who ended up getting the part in a show we were both auditioning for back in December.  (It was between me & her for this one part of a peroxide blond - she got it, but is just lovely - so I really can't be mad or bitter!  Even though I am just a smidge...)  We chatted for a bit & she seems to be having a busy new year!  (as am I - hopefully some things will be "meant to be" for me & will be unveiled as time moves on..)

Also, ran into the Twins today -- I love those girls!  They are so darn funny & nice!  Have become really good friends to me!  Hooray!  

Question for my readers - this guy has been asking me to go out for a drink with him.  He works in the business & I really prefer not to date in the business.  Plus, I really just don't want to date right now....   The idea doesn't excite me anymore...  So do I tell him "Sorry - but thanks for the offer" or "Sorry, thanks for the offer but I try not to date in the business".  Or if you have a third option you'd like to share - I'm all ears!  

Cashmere Mafia and More....

It was a GREAT weekend, my friends, a great weekend! I have been taking excellent care of myself this past weekend - so that's always nice & enjoyable! Also, I found out that I was accepted to a "Build your Book" musical theatre class that is VERY hard to get into! (FYI - Build your book is another term when I add sheet music to my audition book and work on new material for musical theatre!)

Saturday was quite eventful for me. I woke up late (I am the queen of sleeping in -- don't know how I'll ever manage when I have a family & little ones someday!)

Then I.....(get ready for this friends!!)

did laundry,

changed my sheets,
went to the tailor and had alterations done,
folded laundry,

went to grocery store,
went to the bank & deposited my paycheck,

made lunch (tomato & mozzarella with basil & olive oil! Yum!)

went to the gym for 45 min AND showered!
(And all this BEFORE 4pm! Hooray!)

THEN I went to work at the Pan Asian Palace in midtown until midnight!

So that left today, Sunday, with almost nothing on my "to do" list! I Love that!

I met up with my brother for church at St. UES Church (which reminds me A TON of St. Fabulous Church in Minnesota - love it!). After the service bro & I went to eat at the lovely Pershing Square Cafe across the street from Grand Central Station! The 20's & 30's group was meeting there & it was our second time attending the monthly brunch!

Great fun & good fellowship & EXCELLENT food - who could ask for anything more?!!

After the brunch my bro went on a run in Central Park and I walked from 42nd Street to 86th Street to look at Barnes & Nobel -- my fav. bookstore -- but I got a little distracted along the way so I stopped and tried on clothes at Express, Zara, NY & Co. and looked at Beauty Stuff in Sephora. (Damn you Lexington Avenue and all your fine shops!)

Well, one latte and 35 blocks later I was at Starbucks on 77th and Lex waiting for Bro for a little while, but that was OK, considering that I had the new issue of OK magazine to read! (I love me some trashy tabloid magazines!)

THEN Bro picked me up and we headed off to do a Sam's Club Run in Jersey where he lives. When we got there at 6:15 they were CLOSED! Can you believe it?! Closed! Now, I know it's a Sunday night and I know that it's right after the new year, but C'MON! 6:00 closing??!! In New Jersey of all places... Uugh. So we trucked it to the Wal-Mart next door. (This was not nearly as exciting of an idea as Sam's Club, but then again, not too many things rouse me like a good old fashioned bulk market run!) Plus, because I am a faithful Minnesotan, I like Target more! I suppose that Wal-Mart does have lower prices - but they just don't have the fancy Red-Dot-ness that sets me all a twitter! Anyone else with me on the Target lovin' there??

So tonight I came home from North Peach, New Jersey and made it back to Actoria at 9:25! Hooray - my gym closed at 10 -- this gave me exactly 30 min. to burn off some of those calories I wasted on the "skinny" latte's that Starbucks is advertising in their windows now!

300 calories less and feeling great I went home from the gym and promptly sat myself in front of the tube to watch the new show Cashmere Mafia. (Not as cool as the 612 Mafia, but who is, really?!) It was a really fun show! And fun to see where they ate -- I always like to try the places featured on shows!

So that friends was my fun & exciting weekend! Now it's off to bed for this girl. I must get my beauty sleep. Will see all my acting buddies tomorrow at "A Catered Affair" Chorus Call. Hooray! (Thinking of singing Lily of the Valley and wearing my new purple dress from Calypso! Fun times at Telsey & Co - fun times...)

As always, your tune humming blogger,

Miss Musical

Old Friends are great!

Today I was fortunate enough to have my teeth cleaned and also visit with some great family friends. (Random yes, but Les randoms was already taken as a blogging name - so my ADD is taking over & you all get to take a peek into my day today...)

SO the teeth cleaning went fairly well until she did that scrappy, scrappy thing. Uugh. I hate that metal on teeth noise. (Is anyone else with me there??) Anywho, got my pearly whites even whiter & then the doctor came in... Needless to say, I thought I was going to have a perfect exam as usual. Not so, friends... Not so.

I have 3 freakin' cavities!! WHAT??!! Cavity free for 26 glorious years and now I got THREE at once. I brush! I floss! What gives?! So now that's another $450 that's going straight out of my budget! Uugh... I'm taking donations if anyone has an extra chunk of cash laying around.... Just send it to the starving Actress Fund in New York - I should get it...

BUT on the upside I had a lovely meal tonight with the Senora family. (I call them this because it's my former Spanish teacher, her husband & their two lovely daughters - the Senoritas...)

So went to the Senoras home for dinner and Senor Senora had an AWESOME stew made up! (Yum - I love a good meaty stew!) So that was fun!

We chatted & caught up about life, family, books, men, etc. The Senor & Senora of the family are SO cool! Very vibrant & full of life! AND they are involved with a ton of activities! Just up my alley! :)

Got to hear all about Senorita G's ice skating ventures - she's going to go to Prague. She's really REALLY good! Such a young lady now! I can't believe it! And so calm & conversational - just a joy to be around! (...perhaps that comes from being around such a great baby sitter growing up!)

Her little Sister - Senorita C - was totally off the wall. She's a 'tween and is just a hoot! She's jumping on everything and picking up her cats and running all over! Very fun! She also played the Guitar Wars video game on the Wii (is that how it's spelled??) and she was quite good at that! Just a bundle of energy & very sweet!

Both Senor & Senora were doing well - was fun to chat with them. Both were busy with work & such! I was looking around their house & thinking "Gosh, it must be nice to own a home & have stability..."

There's always a little piece of me that wants to say "screw theatre & get a real job!" But let's be honest - If I listened to that voice I'd no longer be a fabulous (unemployed) actress in the city!

So the moral of today's blog: (morals??) 1. Brush your teeth & get regular checkups... but don't get too wigged out if you have a little mishap hear & there. 2. Unexpected meals with family friends are quite pleasant. And, because there's a history there, the people who invited you usually care a lot about you & your well being.... And couldn't we all use more people like that in our lives!

Until next time, your tune-humming blogger,

Miss Musical

There's a First Time for Everything!

Well, friends, welcome to my little blog! I'm having a little tiff with myself right now - mainly regarding the two most important things in my life: musical theatre and men. (I'm guessing that this is what this blog will mainly be about... But you never know... I always have a couple of surprises up my sleeve!)

So I'm still fairly optimistic about my career and the fellas, however neither is happening to appear at the time when I want it!! Here's what my heart desires (and not necessarily in this order)

1. Working in Theatre on Broadway or Tour (heck let's be honest - I'll take major regional tour!)

2. Find a kind man who loves me & who I can love in return.

Sounds simple enough, right?

WRONG!!!

And here's the kicker - whenever one is going well, the other goes well too! But when one area is going bad, then the others seem to follow in suit. Perhaps this is the laws of attraction working within my life, but let's be honest here - some people just get REALLY lucky! I had a big break-out role when I lived in Minneapolis, but after a year and a half in NY with no bites and a handful of callbacks... well... what am I supposed to think?!

SO I've decided to start this blog to track the change in my life that IS going to occur in the next year! And you, dear reader, get to come along for the crazy ride that is my life! Buckle Up!