Guys and Dolls has a Happy Ending
So long summer 2009. I remember my life in shows I do, especially over the summer. Last summer I didn't really do a show, so I feel like I lost the entire year. Well, 2009 is all about Guys & Dolls.
I'm really glad I decided to do the show. I went back and forth at the beginning about whether it would be worth it, but overall it's been a great experience. I enjoyed playing a few different guys... even if it was ensemble it was a challenge to come up with so many characters. Not sure anyone in the audience noticed, but it was fun for growth as an actor.
It was a little emotional for the show to end. The deeper and deeper I get into this adult life, the more important theatre is to me. It's the only opportunity to be a kid again, to laugh, to cry, to be everyone you'll never be able to be on stage, to surround yourself with people who are as sensitive as you are, as in need of that rush of being on stage, of falling in love again and again every night, starting a fight, going through all of life's emotions in repetition, in the safety of a script, set, with an end, and again you do it night after night until you close... and then... well, it's finding the next show to relive it all again.
Without theatre... my life feels so different. I think there's a healthy way to involve theatre in my life without becoming obsessed with it. I need to be very careful because it's like a drug... and I can become addicted to it, craving it, going on audition after audition, feeling the highs, the lows, taking the rejection, getting in to something, performing, and on and on...
Now that Guys and Dolls is over, I have Hello Dolly to look forward to this spring. In the meantime, I'm going to focus on getting my life in order. I'm almost 26. 26!!! That's... really close to 30. And 30 is when I am supposed to get married and have kids and such. Eeks. So I have 4 years to get my life together. I'm confused about my age and what being 26 is supposed to mean. I feel so young and so old at the same time. I guess this is a true quarter life crisis.
I'm really glad I decided to do the show. I went back and forth at the beginning about whether it would be worth it, but overall it's been a great experience. I enjoyed playing a few different guys... even if it was ensemble it was a challenge to come up with so many characters. Not sure anyone in the audience noticed, but it was fun for growth as an actor.
It was a little emotional for the show to end. The deeper and deeper I get into this adult life, the more important theatre is to me. It's the only opportunity to be a kid again, to laugh, to cry, to be everyone you'll never be able to be on stage, to surround yourself with people who are as sensitive as you are, as in need of that rush of being on stage, of falling in love again and again every night, starting a fight, going through all of life's emotions in repetition, in the safety of a script, set, with an end, and again you do it night after night until you close... and then... well, it's finding the next show to relive it all again.
Without theatre... my life feels so different. I think there's a healthy way to involve theatre in my life without becoming obsessed with it. I need to be very careful because it's like a drug... and I can become addicted to it, craving it, going on audition after audition, feeling the highs, the lows, taking the rejection, getting in to something, performing, and on and on...
Now that Guys and Dolls is over, I have Hello Dolly to look forward to this spring. In the meantime, I'm going to focus on getting my life in order. I'm almost 26. 26!!! That's... really close to 30. And 30 is when I am supposed to get married and have kids and such. Eeks. So I have 4 years to get my life together. I'm confused about my age and what being 26 is supposed to mean. I feel so young and so old at the same time. I guess this is a true quarter life crisis.