Long Live the Champagne Celebration

Happy "Day After Vanlentine's Day" Day!  Yeah. Feb 15th.  It's special too.


So.  Opera.  This picture captures the opera beautifully:

zis is ze opera owl

Lots and lots of singing.  Some yawning.  But mostly singing.  And that's fine because I don't have to do any of zat.  (My character is Russian.  Hence the Z's.)  The costumes are fabulous though!  Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the gowns we've been working on for the past thousand years.  Soon though I hope to have some that I can steal and post.  This weekend is tech and first dress is on Sunday so soon means very soon!

On a somewhat unrelated note, I spoke to a future summer employer of mine and it turns out that soon I must sign my first contract to work this summer at Tommy O's Northern Stars Playhouse in my hometown.  I thought about how exciting it was going to be to go from opera to Midsummer to summer stock and even to do the research grant with dramaturgy.  Well, a few minutes after getting off the phone, I watched this video which a friend had posted on my facebook wall:

After watching it, I thought about how excited I was last night to think that the next morning I was going to get up and go to work to sew knife pleats and then I was going to directing class then to modern drama then I would go to dance and then I would work scenes with fellow directing students. And that's how my day went.  And it was fantastic.  Thinking about it, I know that this is what I want to do with my life.  I want to make theatre.  I want to have the vision.  I want to help someone carry out their vision.  I want to make the vision come to life.  I want to make the vision beautiful.  This is what I want to do.  I want to be a part of life. Theatre is life.  And I want to be there for it.  So cheers, to life.  Cheers to theatre!