Rehearsal payoff

Ahhh so it has been a little time since I posted. I think my last post was singing the praises of someone who had little rehearsal. Now to the flip side of that, there is my rehearsal process for Simaba on the Lion King. It's coming along very well, on fact next week I get to run the show for my BOSSES, AND FELLOW CAST MEMBERS.... Whew so yes all eyes will be on my every move, step and note. On the other had it makes me a little sad. Why? Because I love to rehearse. Most love to get on stage in front of an audience and get praises etc. Me? I love the process of discovering and creating and learning. The trying new things and looking at me angles etc.. I spoke about this briefly to a dear friend of mine, a visual artist, and he found my point of view shocking. I said. Think of my Craft as a photo or painting. You need the right idea, subject,lighting, shadow, medium etc... So in my mind I am constantly playing with these variables in rehearsal and that's the fun of what I do. There is a scene where I say " Timon, you could have died..." 4x's. Each time of course is different, but 4 ways isn't enough. In rehearsal I get to try it 100 ways and see what that feels like. T me that is EXCITING... Am I boring you yet??? I'm sending this post via my iPad and for some reason it won't let melts a rehearsal photo...I'll try and add some later

OMG..... This chick is fierce

Well finally the new website is up and running. The feedback has been amazing to say the least. That makes me very happy. Here's to hoping that it continues to be received so well. Today on pride rock (our nickname for lion king) we had a cast member return to the cast. She left for a little over a year to work on the mega hit Book of Mormon. I fell in love with her awesome talent and fell in l e all over again today. After a year of. Or doing this show she returned today. The original plan was for her to watch the show and have a reversal to get her feet wet again. It's live theatre and the show MUST go on. Just before the show started we for d out that indeed we were short a few females. Our brilliant dance captain grabbed this performer, quickly reviews the show... Rehearsed whatever needed to be reversed... And in a matter of minutes this brilliant performer was ready, focused, and back onstage by the time the curtain went up. So the next time you see dance captain next to a cast member, you now know that they are always working to make the show happen for you. I get asked all the time what I had to do as a Dance Captain when I was in the cast of Hair.... Oh so many stories to,tell. Once I had to combine 4 roles into one and one of them was a female who sang very high. Ugh I survives but it wasn't easy. Who knew I could sing so high..... Act II is about to begin so I have to run. Just wanted to share a little joy from the Pridelands with you....

An Opening for the History Books

So It has been a long while since I wrote anything here oin this blog.  I am not exactly sure why I let it go, but I am very clear on why I am picking it up again.  You will find out the numerous reason why as you continue to read and follow.   OK so now that all the symantocs are out of the way I can officially begin.... well begin again....  wait...begin again, again!!! 

So Last night I was invite to attend the opening of a play.  The play was called The End Of The Rainbow.   Yes you are correct it does sound like a quote about the death of the legendary Judy Garland.  You are correct because it was indeed about that very subject.  IN short I will say the show was the BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.  I could ramble for pages and pages about the brilliance I saw onstage.  INstead Ill let you eaither catch the show or read the reviews.  

For me the more important part of the evening was being able to watch excellence onstage.  Being able to see this craft we call performing being executed in such a way.  I was speechless for most of the show, hand over my mouth and I kept saying to myself "how does she do it, shes so good....amazing.  How does one know they are even capable of such an impossible feat?"  The questions went on and on and on.  I then paused for a moment grabbed on to the person next to me and started crying.  Not because I was sad, but I was excited to dig back into the craft of acting and grow as a performer.   I thank the evening for that and that alone is one of the reasons I am running back to this blog to share.

Today I woke up and I was excited to get to work at The Lion King on Broadway and begin trying to translate what I saw onstage into my own performances....  If you have not been motivated in such a way recently...I hope you get to experience it soon.  I do feel my life is changed in an instant. That sounds like a song title.   "Changed In An Instant"  anyone know of any?? let me know and Ill record it