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I was going to mention the great Shakespearean insult coincidence, but I see that broccolipwns already did. Wednesday he and violetclm went to the second of two pre-production workshops for Henry IV part I -- basically getting some background on (and playing around with) the play before the actual rehearsals start next month. violetclm was at various times Falstaff, Prince Hal, Hotspur, a rebel, and "a metaphorical roaring demon", and broccolipwns in his time played Prince Hal, a horse, a dog, and a member of the court.
violetclm has been incredibly busy with insane college-applications paperwork and hoop-jumping on top of all his ordinary busy, and this time next year will probably be onstage in some other state rather than just down the road, so it's very nice and poignant to be getting one more "seems like old times" round of seeing him and broccolipwns in a play together. Other actors include plaidsupersquid, nitoya2 and her brother, myriad_rainbows, mr_stupiddog, jongod's next-oldest brother, and if jongod would only show up a little earlier I'm sure he could be pressed into service too whether he liked it or not!
Tuesday night was the Santa Cruz shape-note group's holiday party, and I decided to make pepparkakor using a treble-clef cookie stamp -- click below if you'd like to see a before-and-after picture of how nicely they expanded and retained the design during baking.
Aside from the wonderful convention in January I've been very shape-note deprived this year -- from January through May we were basically rehearsing certain songs for the Coleman Barks show I still haven't managed to do a write-up about (interspersed with more seven-shape tunes for a change of pace), then meetings were off for the summer because of people touring or otherwise being out of town/occupied, and since then the usual hosts Shelley and Barry Phillips have been touring the UK and Europe (check out their amazing photo blog) -- so it was nice to get back together with people at the party and actually pick songs again, in addition to eating all the good food.
However, the songs were from a holiday list made up by the host (selected because of having some Christmas/Winter/etc. connection even if it was a bit of a reach), and myself and one other person being the only trebles and not particularly good sight-singers, on some of the more unfamiliar ones we were definitely losing it all over the place. So the following afternoon when I was reading the Cabrillo College catalog while waiting for the play workshop to start, and saw a new sight-singing class, I decided to sign up for it. I'll see how it goes! (I know this is kind of backwards having sight-singing to help with the shapes in addition to vice versa, but I usually figure I need all the help I can get!)
violetclm has been incredibly busy with insane college-applications paperwork and hoop-jumping on top of all his ordinary busy, and this time next year will probably be onstage in some other state rather than just down the road, so it's very nice and poignant to be getting one more "seems like old times" round of seeing him and broccolipwns in a play together. Other actors include plaidsupersquid, nitoya2 and her brother, myriad_rainbows, mr_stupiddog, jongod's next-oldest brother, and if jongod would only show up a little earlier I'm sure he could be pressed into service too whether he liked it or not!
Tuesday night was the Santa Cruz shape-note group's holiday party, and I decided to make pepparkakor using a treble-clef cookie stamp -- click below if you'd like to see a before-and-after picture of how nicely they expanded and retained the design during baking.
Aside from the wonderful convention in January I've been very shape-note deprived this year -- from January through May we were basically rehearsing certain songs for the Coleman Barks show I still haven't managed to do a write-up about (interspersed with more seven-shape tunes for a change of pace), then meetings were off for the summer because of people touring or otherwise being out of town/occupied, and since then the usual hosts Shelley and Barry Phillips have been touring the UK and Europe (check out their amazing photo blog) -- so it was nice to get back together with people at the party and actually pick songs again, in addition to eating all the good food.
However, the songs were from a holiday list made up by the host (selected because of having some Christmas/Winter/etc. connection even if it was a bit of a reach), and myself and one other person being the only trebles and not particularly good sight-singers, on some of the more unfamiliar ones we were definitely losing it all over the place. So the following afternoon when I was reading the Cabrillo College catalog while waiting for the play workshop to start, and saw a new sight-singing class, I decided to sign up for it. I'll see how it goes! (I know this is kind of backwards having sight-singing to help with the shapes in addition to vice versa, but I usually figure I need all the help I can get!)