Broadway Baby!
Paul just called me to say that he heard back from the head casting director for Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. She said that she would love to hear me sing!!! Paul says that she owes him one, so this is great! He wants to get me coaching and stuff to find the right songs immediately, then when he gets back from pitching me to EMI in Dubai in early March he'll help me practice auditioning. He says that I should choose songs to sing NOT from the show, but brush up on the whole musical just in case. Exciting, yes? I'm pretty thrilled. We'll do the audition mid-March, I guess. Hey! That'll be when my brother is visiting from Canada! AND when Chris and I are getting legally married. What a neato time for me!!!!! Four great things in one month!
I'm really going to work hard at this. You only get one shot at an audition for Christine on Broadway!! Wow.....
Thank you, Amma...!!!!!!
Tonight Paul's going to listen to those Middle Eastern tracks and see if we can make something out of them for the Dubai pitch. I hope we can..... O Saathi Ree is such a beautiful song, and I want the best pitch we can get.
Chris and I had such a wonderful time when I came home tonight. We were looking up Muddy Waters info for this new part that he's auditioning for in a Sony/BMG film, and he started singing. He sang to me, and it was the sweetest thing. He doesn't have a voice at all, but the thought was just so, SO SWEET! I used to hate when guys sang to me. Actually, I only like when guys who can't sing sing to me. That way there's no pretension, no self-awareness, no selfishness involved at all! Just singing for the love of the other.
Then we made up little blues five-liners and sang them out loud!!!! It was so new for me! Just to be able to relax that much, especially about music. Then he was demonstrating his Tennessee accent for me, which I found stupid-sexy, and I started talking in a Southern accent back!
"Well, Ah say!" I drawled.
He laughed. "What is that, Blanche DuBois?"
"Why Stanley, Ah do declare!"
I love him.... I never imagined that I could be so comfortable and happy with someone. To be myself, to be silly, to love and be loved so deeply and unconditionally....
Sigh.
And wouldn't you know it, I sang beautifully when I came home from my lesson. I cried through half of it from being so frustrated and upset about my passagio issue, and then everything was fine later!!! Yargh. I knew that I just had to work through it. I have to warm up that whole area to make it so that it's supple and so that I don't valve my sound. It's going to take some time, Amy said, and I have to accept that. But I listened to the second half of my lesson on my AWESOME Sony recorder and it sounded really beautiful. Some bumps and cracks, but my voice is beautiful! I have to keep reminding myself that when I feel like throwing in the towel altogether. It's really such a fragile thing, voice. So personal.
Saw John today! It was really nice. We had a great time talking! At the end he was hugging and this guy walking past looked over his shoulder to smile very poignantly at me. Very sweet.... but I felt badly at the end. He seemed very sad as he went away... But I didn't want to think anything presumptuous about why. Complicated, really. But a very nice time nevertheless.
x
Stefanie Rose
I'm really going to work hard at this. You only get one shot at an audition for Christine on Broadway!! Wow.....
Thank you, Amma...!!!!!!
Tonight Paul's going to listen to those Middle Eastern tracks and see if we can make something out of them for the Dubai pitch. I hope we can..... O Saathi Ree is such a beautiful song, and I want the best pitch we can get.
Chris and I had such a wonderful time when I came home tonight. We were looking up Muddy Waters info for this new part that he's auditioning for in a Sony/BMG film, and he started singing. He sang to me, and it was the sweetest thing. He doesn't have a voice at all, but the thought was just so, SO SWEET! I used to hate when guys sang to me. Actually, I only like when guys who can't sing sing to me. That way there's no pretension, no self-awareness, no selfishness involved at all! Just singing for the love of the other.
Then we made up little blues five-liners and sang them out loud!!!! It was so new for me! Just to be able to relax that much, especially about music. Then he was demonstrating his Tennessee accent for me, which I found stupid-sexy, and I started talking in a Southern accent back!
"Well, Ah say!" I drawled.
He laughed. "What is that, Blanche DuBois?"
"Why Stanley, Ah do declare!"
I love him.... I never imagined that I could be so comfortable and happy with someone. To be myself, to be silly, to love and be loved so deeply and unconditionally....
Sigh.
And wouldn't you know it, I sang beautifully when I came home from my lesson. I cried through half of it from being so frustrated and upset about my passagio issue, and then everything was fine later!!! Yargh. I knew that I just had to work through it. I have to warm up that whole area to make it so that it's supple and so that I don't valve my sound. It's going to take some time, Amy said, and I have to accept that. But I listened to the second half of my lesson on my AWESOME Sony recorder and it sounded really beautiful. Some bumps and cracks, but my voice is beautiful! I have to keep reminding myself that when I feel like throwing in the towel altogether. It's really such a fragile thing, voice. So personal.
Saw John today! It was really nice. We had a great time talking! At the end he was hugging and this guy walking past looked over his shoulder to smile very poignantly at me. Very sweet.... but I felt badly at the end. He seemed very sad as he went away... But I didn't want to think anything presumptuous about why. Complicated, really. But a very nice time nevertheless.
x
Stefanie Rose