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Sep. 13th, 2008
A rather quick turnaround
Sep. 13th, 2008 06:51 pmI auditioned this morning for Juneau Lyric Opera, a local group who've done some pretty impressive productions in the past. I didn't feel like I was at my best - I'm still getting over this cold, and that combined with having been out late last night wasn't doing good things for my voice - but I felt like I finished strongly, which is the most important bit. Anyway, it was a fairly brief affair; they didn't seem like incredibly chatty folk (most likely they were trying to get through the roster without keeping people waiting), but they were friendly enough. Given that I don't know any of the folk there, and that they're not even starting rehearsals until early next year, I'd figured that I wouldn't hear from them for a month or two, if at all.
So imagine my surprise when I get a call from the director roughly eight hours later asking me if I wanted to be in the chorus for The Mikado. He seemed excited about offering me the part, too, which added to my general sense of taken-abackedness - admittedly, he might just be a generally enthusiastic person, but he said that it was good to see new people who wanted to join up. I guess I can see that; the Juneau labor pool has been slowly drying up over the past couple years, and while there's always been a high percentage of talented and artistic people in town, that pool has to have been shrinking as well. So, hurray, I guess. I'm looking forward to it.
Brian and I went to visit kitties at the shelter today, partly to spend time with them and also partly to see if any of them seemed like they'd be a good friend for Dexter. We didn't find any who seemed exactly right, but it was fun meeting some new ones. They had a very sweet Himalayan named Sierra who'd unfortunately been back there a few times; she was lovely, but rather timid, and Dexter's rambunctious enough that we were concerned she wouldn't be happy with us. Which is really too bad, 'cos I'd have loved to give her a good home.
The 80s dance last night was most excellent. I got several compliments on my outfit, and Lydia and I quite literally danced the night away, until our feet hurt too much to continue and we were both starving (yay late-night Pel'Menis). Plus I got a lapdance! And gave her one too, to David Bowie and Queen singing "Under Pressure". So it was pretty sweet altogether. Also, the midnight screening of "Thriller" was awesome. (Although in hindsight, during the transformation sequences, the Michael Jackson/plastic surgery jokes sort of write themselves.) If my apocalypse has zombie-Michael-Jackson leading a troupe of dancing zombies, I won't be too upset, because it will have been greatly entertaining.
So imagine my surprise when I get a call from the director roughly eight hours later asking me if I wanted to be in the chorus for The Mikado. He seemed excited about offering me the part, too, which added to my general sense of taken-abackedness - admittedly, he might just be a generally enthusiastic person, but he said that it was good to see new people who wanted to join up. I guess I can see that; the Juneau labor pool has been slowly drying up over the past couple years, and while there's always been a high percentage of talented and artistic people in town, that pool has to have been shrinking as well. So, hurray, I guess. I'm looking forward to it.
Brian and I went to visit kitties at the shelter today, partly to spend time with them and also partly to see if any of them seemed like they'd be a good friend for Dexter. We didn't find any who seemed exactly right, but it was fun meeting some new ones. They had a very sweet Himalayan named Sierra who'd unfortunately been back there a few times; she was lovely, but rather timid, and Dexter's rambunctious enough that we were concerned she wouldn't be happy with us. Which is really too bad, 'cos I'd have loved to give her a good home.
The 80s dance last night was most excellent. I got several compliments on my outfit, and Lydia and I quite literally danced the night away, until our feet hurt too much to continue and we were both starving (yay late-night Pel'Menis). Plus I got a lapdance! And gave her one too, to David Bowie and Queen singing "Under Pressure". So it was pretty sweet altogether. Also, the midnight screening of "Thriller" was awesome. (Although in hindsight, during the transformation sequences, the Michael Jackson/plastic surgery jokes sort of write themselves.) If my apocalypse has zombie-Michael-Jackson leading a troupe of dancing zombies, I won't be too upset, because it will have been greatly entertaining.
A rather quick turnaround
Sep. 13th, 2008 06:51 pmI auditioned this morning for Juneau Lyric Opera, a local group who've done some pretty impressive productions in the past. I didn't feel like I was at my best - I'm still getting over this cold, and that combined with having been out late last night wasn't doing good things for my voice - but I felt like I finished strongly, which is the most important bit. Anyway, it was a fairly brief affair; they didn't seem like incredibly chatty folk (most likely they were trying to get through the roster without keeping people waiting), but they were friendly enough. Given that I don't know any of the folk there, and that they're not even starting rehearsals until early next year, I'd figured that I wouldn't hear from them for a month or two, if at all.
So imagine my surprise when I get a call from the director roughly eight hours later asking me if I wanted to be in the chorus for The Mikado. He seemed excited about offering me the part, too, which added to my general sense of taken-abackedness - admittedly, he might just be a generally enthusiastic person, but he said that it was good to see new people who wanted to join up. I guess I can see that; the Juneau labor pool has been slowly drying up over the past couple years, and while there's always been a high percentage of talented and artistic people in town, that pool has to have been shrinking as well. So, hurray, I guess. I'm looking forward to it.
Brian and I went to visit kitties at the shelter today, partly to spend time with them and also partly to see if any of them seemed like they'd be a good friend for Dexter. We didn't find any who seemed exactly right, but it was fun meeting some new ones. They had a very sweet Himalayan named Sierra who'd unfortunately been back there a few times; she was lovely, but rather timid, and Dexter's rambunctious enough that we were concerned she wouldn't be happy with us. Which is really too bad, 'cos I'd have loved to give her a good home.
The 80s dance last night was most excellent. I got several compliments on my outfit, and Lydia and I quite literally danced the night away, until our feet hurt too much to continue and we were both starving (yay late-night Pel'Menis). Plus I got a lapdance! And gave her one too, to David Bowie and Queen singing "Under Pressure". So it was pretty sweet altogether. Also, the midnight screening of "Thriller" was awesome. (Although in hindsight, during the transformation sequences, the Michael Jackson/plastic surgery jokes sort of write themselves.) If my apocalypse has zombie-Michael-Jackson leading a troupe of dancing zombies, I won't be too upset, because it will have been greatly entertaining.
So imagine my surprise when I get a call from the director roughly eight hours later asking me if I wanted to be in the chorus for The Mikado. He seemed excited about offering me the part, too, which added to my general sense of taken-abackedness - admittedly, he might just be a generally enthusiastic person, but he said that it was good to see new people who wanted to join up. I guess I can see that; the Juneau labor pool has been slowly drying up over the past couple years, and while there's always been a high percentage of talented and artistic people in town, that pool has to have been shrinking as well. So, hurray, I guess. I'm looking forward to it.
Brian and I went to visit kitties at the shelter today, partly to spend time with them and also partly to see if any of them seemed like they'd be a good friend for Dexter. We didn't find any who seemed exactly right, but it was fun meeting some new ones. They had a very sweet Himalayan named Sierra who'd unfortunately been back there a few times; she was lovely, but rather timid, and Dexter's rambunctious enough that we were concerned she wouldn't be happy with us. Which is really too bad, 'cos I'd have loved to give her a good home.
The 80s dance last night was most excellent. I got several compliments on my outfit, and Lydia and I quite literally danced the night away, until our feet hurt too much to continue and we were both starving (yay late-night Pel'Menis). Plus I got a lapdance! And gave her one too, to David Bowie and Queen singing "Under Pressure". So it was pretty sweet altogether. Also, the midnight screening of "Thriller" was awesome. (Although in hindsight, during the transformation sequences, the Michael Jackson/plastic surgery jokes sort of write themselves.) If my apocalypse has zombie-Michael-Jackson leading a troupe of dancing zombies, I won't be too upset, because it will have been greatly entertaining.