Hot Mikado indeed!

So...remember that other time when I said I would be blogging more and posting recipes on Mondays?

Yea life catches up with you when you're the Stage Manager of a cast of 24 people. 

The Gondoliers was a great production. I definitely learned a lot from my experience. I learned how to deal with people, how to keep the director happy amongst other things.

Right now I'm working on an another production called Hot Mikado. It's based on Gilbert & Sullivans The Mikado only that it's set in the 1940s in a Jazzed up Japan. Very silly but also fun. I'm in the ensemble and I understudied the lead Yum-Yum. 

Glad to be on stage again, but man is it a lot of hard work. Understudying is not something I'm not used to. I understudied for Actress #3 in Jacksonville University's production of A...My Name is Alice. I just fell in love with the part of Yum-Yum though. I'm not totally bummed though, since I'm going to use her solo "The Sun and I" in my upcoming Senior Showcase (which I also need to work on! yikes!). 

Being in the ensemble is fun though. I get to tap dance as well as jitter-bug (something I've always wanted to learn). I've also made a lot of friends. It's so great being in a show because the cast ends up being your family for a bit. You spend a lot of time together, especially after hours, and you just are learning from the people in your community.

So that being said, I will try & try again to post here. I sometimes forget how much I love writing here.

xoxo.

michelle

Remember that time...

When I said I was going to start blogging more? Ha! Well it took me two months, but at least I'm starting to blog (better late than never!). So here I go again. I've been reading a lot of blogs lately, trying to get some ideas on what I want to write about. Right now I'm enrolled in an E-course taught by the lovely Elsie Larson, to better my blogging skills. Yes, I'm a nerd and I like to take classes outside of college. I studied abroad in Spain and took courses that had nothing to do with my major, fun huh? :]

Well as I've taught about what kind of blog I want this to be, I've realized I just want it to be somewhere where I can just let my creativity out. I have waaaaay to many hobbies and I feel like I need to document them. Why not? I'm sure someone will care out there in internet world. If not, well at least I can look back at my posts one day and see what a crazy kid I was trying to do all these hobbies while trying to get a college education.

With that being said, let's get this show on the road!