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violet_angel) wrote2009-11-26 09:50 am
violet_angel) wrote2009-11-26 09:50 am
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Happy Thanksgiving...blah blah blah
Yeah, it's Thanksgiving. Two days off of school - that's what I'm especially thankful for right now! I feel like I sort of did the thankful litany with the 8 days of happiness things, so I don't really feel like doing the whole litany again. Ok? Of course it's ok...it's MY journal! :P Seriously, those I'm thankful for have been told personally. I don't feel the need to do it on here.
I'm pretty much packed. Just have to put stuff like deodorant, make-up, toothpaste and tooth brush in the suitcase and then put the electronic stuff (laptop, camera, etc.) into the backpack. Mom and Daddy get in around 2:30, so I'll hit the subway around 1 and head out to meet them. We'll take a taxi into Manhattan and get settled into the hotel. We'll do dinner at Junior's where Daddy can be thankful for pea soup and Mom and I can be thankful we don't have to eat it. HA! Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy, which should make the trip to Liberty Island and Ellis Island not as fun as it could have been. But we'll make it work. Tomorrow night we'll be MARVELOUS with The Marvelous Wonderettes. YAY! Saturday we have no plans for the morning, then it's the matinee of Ragtime. The more I think about it, the more I'm sure they'll love it. We're talking about the man who cries at the Hall of Presidents at Disney World, so he'll LOVE all the rah rah patriotism crap. I swear I was absent the day they handed out the patriotic gene. Or perhaps I'm more like Oliver in The Vertical Hour: "I do have a button marked 'patriotism'. But - let's say - I'm choosy about who I allow to press it." And then in the evening we're seeing South Pacific! Woohoo!!! Sunday it's church and brunch...and probably then American Girl Place and FAO Schwartz. All in all it should be a good time. :)
Watching the parade - or showcase of selected shows which is what the first hour tends to be - right now. Love how they jazzed up the Billy outfits. /sarcasm. I really HATE this song. And I'm not a huge fan of the show as it is on Broadway anyway. Yuck. Hair did well. At least it was a group number and not the overtired (I love it, but come on...) "Let The Sun Shine In". As for Stamos...that only proved why I have NO desire to see that show. I do wish either CBS or NBC had next to normal on, but it probably would have been "Superboy..." which is fine, but I'm SOOOOO tired of that being the showcased song for the show. Though it could be oddly apropros for Thanksgiving for some families. So yeah... That's my morning. Woo and hoo.
A couple of people have asked about the play. It's kind of hard to talk about right now since it's still in progress. Essentially it's an "aftermath and growth play" - meaning the characters are dealing with the aftermath of things in their lives and growing. Way oversimplified, but there it is. I know the most about Catharine (the primary character), then next most about Max (the stranger who comes into Cat's life), and then least about Tori ( Cat's sister). While the scene I turned in for critique had a flashback, I'm thinking I'll follow my instructor's thoughts and just have Cat narrate that - spare the audience the horror of SEEING what happened - so that means that right now it's a three-person play. Which may be ok. We'll see. The scene I turned in for critique dealt with Catharine revealing the darkest secret of her past to her sister during a storm (go me with the inadvertent symbolism), so it was pretty dark. Thankfully they all thought it was very well-written. There were some lines they thought maybe shouldn't be there...I don't know. I can see their point, but also I think with the right delivery they wouldn't be AS harsh as they read cold. So we'll see about that. It also didn't follow directly the other scenes I'd turned in, and I'm not sure everyone read the note because there were some who were like "But what about Max?" Um, I explained that in the note I put on the front of the stuff I gave you to read. But it's all good.
*random* Ok, this performance seals that I will NOT go back to Shrek. I'm sorry. They took the bullshit cop-out way of doing things when they inserted this stupid song. No no no no NO! /random
Um... Yeah, I think that's about it. For now.
Have a great day everyone!
I'm pretty much packed. Just have to put stuff like deodorant, make-up, toothpaste and tooth brush in the suitcase and then put the electronic stuff (laptop, camera, etc.) into the backpack. Mom and Daddy get in around 2:30, so I'll hit the subway around 1 and head out to meet them. We'll take a taxi into Manhattan and get settled into the hotel. We'll do dinner at Junior's where Daddy can be thankful for pea soup and Mom and I can be thankful we don't have to eat it. HA! Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy, which should make the trip to Liberty Island and Ellis Island not as fun as it could have been. But we'll make it work. Tomorrow night we'll be MARVELOUS with The Marvelous Wonderettes. YAY! Saturday we have no plans for the morning, then it's the matinee of Ragtime. The more I think about it, the more I'm sure they'll love it. We're talking about the man who cries at the Hall of Presidents at Disney World, so he'll LOVE all the rah rah patriotism crap. I swear I was absent the day they handed out the patriotic gene. Or perhaps I'm more like Oliver in The Vertical Hour: "I do have a button marked 'patriotism'. But - let's say - I'm choosy about who I allow to press it." And then in the evening we're seeing South Pacific! Woohoo!!! Sunday it's church and brunch...and probably then American Girl Place and FAO Schwartz. All in all it should be a good time. :)
Watching the parade - or showcase of selected shows which is what the first hour tends to be - right now. Love how they jazzed up the Billy outfits. /sarcasm. I really HATE this song. And I'm not a huge fan of the show as it is on Broadway anyway. Yuck. Hair did well. At least it was a group number and not the overtired (I love it, but come on...) "Let The Sun Shine In". As for Stamos...that only proved why I have NO desire to see that show. I do wish either CBS or NBC had next to normal on, but it probably would have been "Superboy..." which is fine, but I'm SOOOOO tired of that being the showcased song for the show. Though it could be oddly apropros for Thanksgiving for some families. So yeah... That's my morning. Woo and hoo.
A couple of people have asked about the play. It's kind of hard to talk about right now since it's still in progress. Essentially it's an "aftermath and growth play" - meaning the characters are dealing with the aftermath of things in their lives and growing. Way oversimplified, but there it is. I know the most about Catharine (the primary character), then next most about Max (the stranger who comes into Cat's life), and then least about Tori ( Cat's sister). While the scene I turned in for critique had a flashback, I'm thinking I'll follow my instructor's thoughts and just have Cat narrate that - spare the audience the horror of SEEING what happened - so that means that right now it's a three-person play. Which may be ok. We'll see. The scene I turned in for critique dealt with Catharine revealing the darkest secret of her past to her sister during a storm (go me with the inadvertent symbolism), so it was pretty dark. Thankfully they all thought it was very well-written. There were some lines they thought maybe shouldn't be there...I don't know. I can see their point, but also I think with the right delivery they wouldn't be AS harsh as they read cold. So we'll see about that. It also didn't follow directly the other scenes I'd turned in, and I'm not sure everyone read the note because there were some who were like "But what about Max?" Um, I explained that in the note I put on the front of the stuff I gave you to read. But it's all good.
*random* Ok, this performance seals that I will NOT go back to Shrek. I'm sorry. They took the bullshit cop-out way of doing things when they inserted this stupid song. No no no no NO! /random
Um... Yeah, I think that's about it. For now.
Have a great day everyone!