"Where you gonna run to?"
I am really, really, really proud of myself for working out every day. This is something that I’ve always said I would/should do, but I never was even close to motivating myself enough to actually follow through with it. I think linking it so concretely to theatre helps make it happen. I’ve known that taking care of my body and making it stronger and more able would be good for my acting career in sort of a distant, general way. Thank goodness for SATE, which is forcing me to become stronger and more able right this very moment, or I literally will not be able to keep up with the training. I could always slip by at Iowa with the specific classes I took and productions I was in without pushing myself too hard physically, not even with Anton or ABM7. But Suzuki/Viewpoints training is not nearly so forgiving, and if I don’t keep up with a serious physical regimen, I will end up either hurting myself again (no more pulled-out back, please!), or at the very least I will be hopelessly behind everyone else and be embarrassed and angry at myself for not being able to do more. What’s cool is that I can see visible difference in my body, which was never true even when I was running or doing yoga fairly regularly. I have actual biceps all of a sudden, which is so cool because I’ve always wanted better arms and I’m actually starting to get them! I am also getting noticeably stronger, because I keep adding weight to my circuit training. I’m up to 10 lbs. on free weights (I know, I’m a wimp, but before I was using 5-ers, so it’s progress), and I just moved up a weight level on the bench press and the lat/delt machines. Yay for improving strength! And Margeau said in training on Monday that in order to really nail the Suzuki form, we needed to start doing 50-100 squats a day to build up our lower body endurance, quads and hamstrings in particular. So I added 75 of them to my routine, and I can already feel a difference. I better have a really nice ass when all is said and done.
My audition at Webster Groves went pretty well last night, though in all honesty I feel so rusty at auditioning that it’s hard for me to judge how well or poorly things go for me. There were a couple of really good women there, and I’m pretty sure I know who the men in the cast will be. All of them would be so much fun to work with, and Private Lives is such a classic British comedy, which would be really nice to say I’ve done. The director seemed a little screwy, but I’m prepared to deal if it means I get to be in a show again. Well see how West End Players Guild goes on Saturday. I don’t really know too much about Almost, Maine except what I could read in synopses and reviews online. But I did get to read A Shot in the Dark, and I LOVED it. It reminds of a French, period Scrubs, in that the characters and their respective circumstances start out as totally silly and ridiculous, but by the final act you realize that you really care for and about them and you’re totally invested in whatever is going to happen to them. It sneaks up on you, and suddenly it’s not all trivial fun anymore, but something with a lot of heart in it. I love that. It makes for such good, surprising theatre. Plus, all the women are wonderful characters, even the ones with less stage time. They are all really meaty and funny, and it would be great to get to work on any of them.
I've also been having a reunion of sorts with the Timbaland/Timberlake duo. I put on Shock Value in the car the other day and realized all over again how much I love that album. It's excellent to groove to in the car and get pumped about, well, anything, really. And of course, Shock Value made me want to listen to Future Sex Love Sounds, which is still in my car's CD player. I'm enjoying songs that I never really got into before, like "Damn Girl," which is so old-school R&B and can accurately be described as "groovy." And the beginning of "My Love" is always so much fun to me. The T/T pairing does some pretty sweet stuff, and it's nice to be able to enjoy fun, kind of shallow music again. I've not done that recently, for whatever reason. I missed it.
Ok, no more stalling. I must go write grants and look for checks and design a card that looks like a fold-down theater seat. I have the weirdest, coolest day job.
My audition at Webster Groves went pretty well last night, though in all honesty I feel so rusty at auditioning that it’s hard for me to judge how well or poorly things go for me. There were a couple of really good women there, and I’m pretty sure I know who the men in the cast will be. All of them would be so much fun to work with, and Private Lives is such a classic British comedy, which would be really nice to say I’ve done. The director seemed a little screwy, but I’m prepared to deal if it means I get to be in a show again. Well see how West End Players Guild goes on Saturday. I don’t really know too much about Almost, Maine except what I could read in synopses and reviews online. But I did get to read A Shot in the Dark, and I LOVED it. It reminds of a French, period Scrubs, in that the characters and their respective circumstances start out as totally silly and ridiculous, but by the final act you realize that you really care for and about them and you’re totally invested in whatever is going to happen to them. It sneaks up on you, and suddenly it’s not all trivial fun anymore, but something with a lot of heart in it. I love that. It makes for such good, surprising theatre. Plus, all the women are wonderful characters, even the ones with less stage time. They are all really meaty and funny, and it would be great to get to work on any of them.
I've also been having a reunion of sorts with the Timbaland/Timberlake duo. I put on Shock Value in the car the other day and realized all over again how much I love that album. It's excellent to groove to in the car and get pumped about, well, anything, really. And of course, Shock Value made me want to listen to Future Sex Love Sounds, which is still in my car's CD player. I'm enjoying songs that I never really got into before, like "Damn Girl," which is so old-school R&B and can accurately be described as "groovy." And the beginning of "My Love" is always so much fun to me. The T/T pairing does some pretty sweet stuff, and it's nice to be able to enjoy fun, kind of shallow music again. I've not done that recently, for whatever reason. I missed it.
Ok, no more stalling. I must go write grants and look for checks and design a card that looks like a fold-down theater seat. I have the weirdest, coolest day job.