Luck Be A Lady

So I'm ranting a little bit this morning. I can't do it on Facebook unless I block certain people and I'm not in the mood to create more settings.  And now social networking becomes censored which pisses me off because I have to worry about hurting people's feelings when all I am doing is stating how I feel or what I'm doing at any given moment. I know, I know.... just change my settings. Well, I might have to just do that. I have recently re-established a relationship with someone who was a very important part of my life/family. While the circumstances are not necessarily the happiest, things are definitely improving for them and I'm glad I can be a part of their life. That being said, there's some garbage from the past that occasionally permeates old relationships. It's not the two people that have issues with the past. We're way, way past all that. It's people who weren't even around at the time that are causing the trouble. All I...

Seriously, I am living a double life theatrically. I'm helping to music direct 'Rocky Horror Show' and just started rehearsals for "White Christmas" which I am directing. Can you imagine doing a mashup of music from those two musicals? It's almost like my brain is having seizures when it hears "Rose Tint My World" against "Snow, Snow, Snow".  Luckily for me, my music rehearsals don't clash with my directing schedule. It's just strange having the music from these two shows running through my brain like they do at 1:30 in the morning. I looked back at my Sept. 11th blog and while I had every right to worry I am glad that I got enough actors and dancers for my show and I'm very happy with the caliber of talent. What really gets to me though is the insane conflicts that performers now throw at us. I cannot, in my mind even think of being in more than one show at a time. I used to go from show to show when I was younger (and single...

Oh, how I love Stevie Ray Vaughn and this song. I'm relating to it in more ways than one right now. I am finding myself at a bit of a loss right now. I am soon to be happily ensconced in directing a show that I love but am wondering if there will be enough quality performers to cast it. There are so many theatres around here and so many that are doing musicals at or near the same time. Beyond that, there are more theatres in the next county that actors are migrating to and of course some go to the big city and try their luck there as well. There once was a time when there were only 3 to 5 theatres in this county. Now there are at least 9 plus 3 or 4 more in the next county that actors like to flock to.  Once there was only one theatre exclusive to musicals. Now this county has 4 plus there's one in Tacoma that takes a lot of our talent. What makes things more difficult is that there's never enough men to fill a roster so you're always scraping, begging and borrowing...