If you’re going to do karaoke, you’ve got to know your songs! Our choir, Vocal Point, had it’s season ending party this week. And it was at a Karaoke Bar. I wasn’t going to sing. I save my karaoke singing for home. With a ladle for a microphone. And my family as my audience. They’re…
One of the things I hate about doing a show is checking for friends after the performance. When the applause ends, the actors leave the stage. And we get out of our costumes and make up. If you know that you had family or friends in the audience, you get changed quickly. Otherwise, you can…
After our Friday performance of Burn, we got a surprise. Before we could go out and greet our family and friends after the show, we were told to head back upstairs. Matt, the director, wanted to talk to us and was bringing some other people. Ominous… It turned out that John Muggleton and his wife…
After a show opens, there’s usually a “line run”. Between the end of one week’s performances and the start of the following week’s performances. It’s when the actors say their lines to each other but usually there isn’t any action or movement. Often everyone is just sitting around. Or it’s a Zoom call. The tricky…
I was busy the day I went to the audition. I donated blood. And had to head straight to the audition to get there just after 7pm. No time for dinner. Fortunately, I had a big lunch. I had to leave the audition early, also. I had a line run at 8:30. Both the donation…
May was a better month for staying on track for weight loss. I managed to get my average weight down to 205.8lbs. That’s down 3.1lbs from April. My heaviest was 209.6lbs and lightest was 201.2lbs. It’s a combination of things. Intermittent Fasting. Getting to bed early. Not watching as much late-night TV. And getting in…
I’m only a third of the way through the performances for Burn and already I’ve got to think about the next thing. There’s an audition this week for The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig. The Peninsula Players are putting it on. It’s a fun play. Comic. The show goes up in November. But they are…
Today, I mark 365 days of doing Duolingo. Parlez vous francais? Voce fala portugeus? A year ago, I started some Duolingo lessons to pick up some phrases in Portuguese. We were going to Portugal in October, and I thought it would help. I was consistent. Practicing daily. I opted for the paid version, so I…
Vocal Point Choir’s season is finished. We had a our Feelin’ Good spring concerts on May 31 and June 1. I couldn’t be at the May 31 concert, but I was there for the June 1 one. What an awesome feeling it is to sing with the choir! I love it. There’s something about the…
We opened our play Burn last night. After weeks of rehearsals. It’s funny because the audience is such an important ingredient to any show. They provide the extra something. We put on the play for them, but they give us their attention. And that commerce of sorts results in an energy. And that energy affects…
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