okay, I think I'm due for an update, however short it may be. So rehersal for FotR started yesterday. I like the cast, I think they're mostly all friendly/good hearted people which is nice. I don't feel as left out as I did last year w/COE. Plus I'm super happy with my part, and to be learning about this culture I really don't know enough about (a rabbi's coming to speak to us tomorrow at rehersal, how awesome is that? I'm excited).
I should mention as well that today was the last day of classes and therefore my last day of high school. It really hasn't hit me yet, so I can't say much on the topic.
I have a doc's appt tomorrow for my job this summer, which includes a drug test. I hope it doesn't show up on the test if I shoot up tonight, haha. (Shoot up, snort, I don't know what the verb is for doing drugs, lol)
Well, Cirillo called me about casting today, and I got cast as Motel (pronounced like Muh-tle if I heard them correctly). From what I know about Fiddler on the roof, Motel is the biggest supporting male part, so that's cool. I have a solo song, "Miracles of Miracles" if anyone knows the music. I'm really excited, it's exactly the part I wanted. Plus, he has sortof a jewish accent, so it will definitely be a challenge. I don't know any of the other casting yet though, because they just called me and told me what I got. I think she'll send the entire cast list via email over the weekend.
This is random, but I just want to say that Angels in America is one of the most amazing pieces of film I've ever seen. HBO made a 6 hour miniseries in 2003 based on the tony and pulitzer prize winning play (a play in two parts). I bought it maybe two and a half weeks ago, and I've already watched it twice. I'd love to see it onstage. I'm definitely going to get a copy of the script. Has anyone heard of it? If you haven't seen it, you need to.
This was probably another procrastination entry, but wvr. I'm about 5 and a half pages into my senior paper....5ish pages to go
Sooooo...Drama tonight was great. It was really sad that it was the last real meeting. I'm super happy about the officers and the play. Congrats Kalli, Louie, Beth, Anne, and Paul!
George Washington Slept Here sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. You guys have to keep me updated next year with how it goes, and I'll try my hardest to make it back for it!
On the note of George Washington, this is a hillarious and only slightly explicit video about George Washington:
A quick journal entry while I'm procrastinating now. This weekend was uberly fun. Ali invited Anne, Kyle, and me up with her to her lakehouse in Maine. It was an awesome time, and it was really nice to escape school and assignments for a few days. Thank you so so much Ali (if you read this)!
Drama tonight...I'm excited to see how BATB went, and to pick the new play/officers!
Just a random observation...but it's funny how the things you want the most always seem to be the farthest away...
I was sick today if you were wondering where I was. I'm feeling better now though. And instead of working on my senior paper or giant bio lab today, I edited/put together another video, lol. So, without futher ado, the best of Cooking with Courtney:
(Courtney, if you don't like the way I edited this, I can put up the originals...)
oh wow....what a whirlwind of a week. Beauty and the Beast went perfectly. Honestly, I had the most fun on this play than I've ever had before. It was the perfect play to go out to. And I think we've also seen that there's a lot of previously undiscovered (and already known) talent in the underclassmen and junior pool. I know drama club is going to be just fine next year.
I could go on forever about BATB, but I'm just going to say that this play especially has made me realize how much I'm going miss SHS Drama club, all the amazing friends I've made through it, and all the hillarious and poignant memories.
omg, wow, what an amazing night. Opening night of BATB went fantastic, and what a response from a thursday audience! I had about 10 little girls talk to me and a few asked for all of our autographs. I'm sorry, but those moments are the best ever, it makes you feel so good. I thought everyone did so well. Haha, sam's wig falling off was the best thing ever. I wish that would happen every night, lol. Well anyways, here's hoping for three more performances that will go as well as tonight's!
So this news is kinda late to be posting here, but for those of you who haven't heard, I'm going to NYU next year! I am so frigging excited I describe it. Everything I see about NYU makes me even more excited.
Don't get me wrong, it's going to be tough and sad leaving somers and all the great memories, but I'm just super super excited...I hope there won't be a dichotomy between appearance and reality...but only time will tell : )
Oh yeah, I probably should mention something about BATB too, seeing as tech week started wednesday and I haven't updated in a while. I think it's going really well...I absolutely love the costumes and the mechanical rose, they're truly unsurpassed by those in past shows. Courtney and I went to the choreographer's dance studio today and learned how to fox trot for the dance scene...I think it's going to look really good. We'll see.
Well...the academic bowl went slightly less well than expected tonight. Just to paint a picture for you, some examples of answers last year were "Prophase I", "The Monroe Doctrine", and "Boyle's Law"...and this year they were "Madonna", "Hollaback Girl" (sp?), and "Monopoly", hardly answers from something that claimed to be an "academic bowl", lol. It was just a lot more trivia than school-knowledge oriented. Well, whatever...I really don't have much remorse that we didn't do well...just that we didn't get the chance to be tested on real academic knowledge.
But besides that, I thought day of silence went well today. I always find being silent makes the day go by a lot faster....has anyone else found that, or is it just me?
pretty eventless weekend so far...it's nice...how's everyone else's weekend going?
my sis came home today. she's a real surprise sometimes. We were driving home from lunch, her, my mom, and I, and she spotted this lost looking blind college-age guy on the side of the street, and she had us pull over so we could help him find his way. I thought that was really generous and kind of her. Sorry that was kinda random, but it was an interesting little story.
We bought the Holiday and watched it tonight as a family. I'd forgotten what a feel-good movie that is. If you haven't seen it, see it!
Wow...I just saw this...Sherie Rene as Ursula and Norm Lewis as King Triton? I may actually have to see little mermaid when it comes to bway. Sherie seems a little miscast to me, but she's amazing nonetheless
And I'm definitely still swooning over NYU. My parents and I went to their event for the top bunch of accepted students today and it was definitely a huge help. If it weren't for the whole theatre thing I'd probably be ready to set my deposit down now. The "theatre thing" being the fact that I can't double major or minor in theatre (with my major being math), and the fact that all their good extra-curricular theatre groups are exclusive to tisch students (that's their theatre college)...which personally I think is crap. They do have one theatre group for the College of Arts and Sciences that I applied to, but from what I heard of it (which is very little) it doesn't sound like it even does musicals or anything interesting. So that's just something I have to figure out, but otherwise I love NYU right now. Plus they gave me lots of free stuff (haha)
So yesterday I went to see Pirate Queen. I actually was pleasently suprised. So basically it was about this woman leader/captain of the Irish clan O'Malley, her name being Grace O'Malley. (This was a true story, btw...however colored it might have been). And it was basically about Ireland's conflict with England and Grace's conflict with Elizabeth I (who I thought made an exquisite dynamic antagonist-turned-protagonist). The music and lyrics were written by the same team (Boublil and Schönberg) who wrote Miss Saigon and Les Mis. Personally, my opinion of Boublil and Schönberg is that, just as with Sondheim, with most of their music you don't get the full pleasure in the first listen, but rather in the fifth and on. So consequently, much of the music was very passionate and gorgeous (I even got goosebumps of multiple occasions), but unfortunately I feel like I didn't fully appreciate it. Thus, I am very anxious for the possibility of a recording of Pirate Queen. So anyways, the music had an irish flare to it as well as the dancing (a former riverdance choreographer choreographed it...and sorry for the lack of a thesaurus in that note, lol), which made for some beautiful scenes. The dancing was spectacular I thought. The talent was great as well. Stephanie J Block who played Grace was fantastic, truly worthy of the lead. The rest of the cast was very talented as well, each notable in their own way. The play was long, but so were Miss Saigon and Les Mis, and I don't think that hindered its overall presentation. My only criticism is that plot-wise it started out a little slow. Staying with the plot, it definitely wasn't as epic as Miss Saigon or Les Mis, but I think the plot was better than a lot of garbage I've seen on bway.
I honestly would like to delve into more detail of the Pirate Queen, but I am extremely tired...tty'all later
Okay, so I'm very happy. NYU invited me into their honors program today. I hate to brag, but I'm super super happy. Amongst many other things, it means a substantial scholarship, free tickets to basically every bway show and some concerts, and a mandatory honors trip to some exotic country. Apparently only the top 8% of people accepted to NYU get into this program.
For anyone who's bored tonight, I'm going to be performing "If I Can't Love Her" at the Barnes and Noble in Holyoke for Community Music School of Springfield at 7:00/7:15 ish tonight. Anyone's welcome : )
just a quick update...March madness was a lot of fun. Usually I'm not a huge fan of the pep rally's, but I definitely felt the school/senior spirit. Plus the togas were a lot of fun.
True colors was yesterday. It was fun and informative as always. My first session I went w/court and nick to watch a documentary film called "Daddy and Papa" about four different stories of gay men/couples trying to have/adopt and raise children. It was really well done and interesting. Then the second one I went to (w/court, nick, colleen, julie, erin, and vicky) was about the oversimplification of sexual orientation labels. The woman who did it was really good, it made for a really engaging workshop, I thought. Then finally I went to one about dealing with bigots. The guy was kinda crappy at presenting, but the subject started a great conversation of everyone's experiences, so it ended up being a really good workshop.
One thing new in the college department. I got into Brandeis. So, I was pretty happy about that, it was up there on my list of schools I like the most. So now I'm just waiting on Tufts, which I should know soon...
so basically kevin doesn't know that i'm on his journal right now. oh snap. courtney is amazing and what would the world be without her? it would be a world of black and white. a world of nothingness. a world of sorrow and sadness. i bow down to her. courtney is truly the queen of the world. one day, everyone will realize this and make her her own country. it will be way bigger than freaking genovia. one day, in fact, france, england, spain, portugal, and the czech republic will join together to make shizzlevekia. run by the shizinator. move over, governator. here i come.
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