Alrighty, I'm getting this done early, so I am off the computer before midnight. If I'm not, then I will be up all evening talking to people, doing absolutely nothing, and yeah, just staying up for no reason. So, if I'm off before it's late, I'll go to bed sooner. At least, that's the idea. Anyway, on to my weekend.
I talked to Nick Albrecht today. The Millard South kid. And, yeah, he agreed with me on just about every subject. And, I apologize, but I really just need to rant and get it done with.
Little Red Riding Hood was good. Much less annoying than the MS one, which annoyingly overacted. I think Alex was just the right blend of cute and irritating.
Cinderella was ok. Good voice. Acting seemed forced. Not the most natural, and slightly overdone.
The Baker's wife was very, very good. Great voice, great acting. It was just great. Go Mackenzie!
Ben Legrow was . . . also ok. He had a decent voice, and decent acting. Just nothing special. He did his part, and did it well, but nothing really stood out as exceptional in my mind. The only thing that was less than good, I suppose, was the chemmistry between him and Mackenzie. Their relationship seemed awkward, and not the most comfortable on stage.
Jack was . . . a low point, I'm sorry to say. He had a phenomenal voice. It was really quite good, and in a few years he'll be fucking hot, but when he wasn't singing. Hell, when he was singing, he just kind of stood there with a dead look on his face. He just wandered around the stage and said his lines like he was reading a dictionary. Somone needed to pump him up with some energy. Just a little energy and his performance would've been VASTLY improved.
And the witch . . . ok, I guess. Her acting was pretty decent. I enjoyed it. And while she had a good voice . . . it didn't exactly fit the music, I guess. It was very operatic as opposed to . . . I don't know, belty, I guess. I think if she sang opera, she'd be superb, but in musical theater, there's not enough expression to make it genuinely interesting. And I'm sorry, her duet with Rapunzel . . . wow. I've never seen two people who blended worse in my entire life. They have beautiful voices by themselves, but when they sing together, it's like . . . doughnut pizza. It just doesn't work. This is the whole reasoning behind singing for your audition. You'd think Nabs would have noticed this and fixed it. Unless I've learned more about music in the past two years than she has in her entire life (yeah right), then she noticed, and just didn't bother fixing it.
Which leads me to my final rant: the apperant lack of pride on the part of the directors. Now, I haven't seen the broadway video very much, but apperantly, the blocking of the show was identical to the blocking of the broadway tape. This. Is. Disgusting. If that is the truth, I have lost a lot of respect for P. To just sit down and copy someone else's blocking is the most despicable thing I can possibly think of for a director to do. I sincerely hope that was not the case. But even if it wasn't, the blocking was still . . . uninteresting to say the least. And, well, Nabs has never really done much to improve the quality of singing in the show. Heck, looking back on it, she didn't even do much to improve the quality of singing in choir. She just played the piano till people learned their parts. I can count the times she actually gave me singing tips on my right hand. Heck, their casting of Matt Uehling so often is proof that Nabs doesn't coach the singers to do their best. It really would've been different if more work had been put in by the directors. But then again, they were working with two completely different casts, and probably didn't have the time to fix everything. Besides, I wasn't there, so I don't really know how much time and effort they put it. I just know that from the outside, it didn't look like much.
And I'm done! No more ranting about Into the Woods. I hope I haven't pissed anyone off. That's not my intention, I just needed to get this out before it drove me insane.
So, after the show, I went around and hugged people, and when I finally found my sister, it was obvious she had been crying. So, my mom and I took her to Village Inn to talk and calm her down. She's been going through a lot of emotional stuff lately. I don't really understand it. She has the most drastic mood swings and she doesn't even know why she does it. She's probably got a depression problem too. She's starting meds and therapy too. Poor girl. She's really cool when she's not upset. But she's been the most emotional person in the family since she was little. It's just who she is, I guess.
Umm . . . went home, did laundary, went to bed. Got up, went to work where I stole an ungodly about of cookies. That's all I did Sunday was eat Tollhouse cookies. And then I stole some for my family when they came in. And I stole some more when I was off, and then I came back and stole some more cookies. I'm all cookied out by now. Oh, and all three chicken baguette thingies are really really yummy.
Shit, I had sooooo much to say last night, and now I . . . don't. Odd. Ummm .. . it's Scott's 21st birthday today. He invited me to go out to eat with him but I had class. I almost skipped, but it's a Doc class, and he knows me too well to let me get away with anything. Damn class. I really wanted to spend his birthday with him too. He's still out as far as I know. I think we're going to do homework later, but I guess that depends on if he comes back tonight or not. He is 21 now, after all. He could spend all night in a bar if he wanted too.
And I missed World Civ and Physiology again today. Fucking A. And Dr. Murch-Shafer actually questioned my absences today. I didn't really know what to tell her, because there's no way she could possibly understand. Hell, I'm beginning to think I'm just a fuck myself. Goddamn. I WILL GO ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!! I have to. If I don't . . . I don't know . . . something bad will happen. I just have to decide what.
I may be taking a semester or two off of school. Sharon thinks it may be a good idea. I talked to Doc today, and if I left, I could come back with all the same scholarships. So, leaving definitely wouldn't be a bad thing. I'm really, really starting to consider it. Very, very strongly. I'm in a rut. I'm not going anywhere, and all my priorities are fucked up. I don't know what's going on with myself and I need to find that out before I can even begin thinking about my future. I just don't know how to continue going to classes I don't care about at the moment and do all that at the same time without getting really shitty grades. The sememster is half over now. I haven't been to World Civ or Phys in . . . shit, I can barely remember the last time I was in those classes. Think of all the quizzes and stuff that I've missed and are 0's in the gradebook. Fuck. I probably have a test coming up in World Civ, and I don't even know about it. I think I'm going to be lucky to scrape out of this semester with B's. I need to collect myself and regroup my thoughts. I just can't deal with it all right now.
