Tuesday, 14 June 2005

It was a blast!

The show went over REALLY well! We had a lot of fun. And I have a couple of fans now (hee, hee)!

I managed to finally get my dress finished the night before...around midnight! But, it worked out. We have one more show this Saturday and then we're done for the season.

It was nice to have a venue in which to try a few different things. I was in 5 numbers (Cell Block Tango, Whistle Down the Wind, Oklahoma!, Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend, and All That Jazz). One was a solo (Diamonds). Nothing like having several men following you all over the stage!

One of the women in my theatre group teaches vocal lessons, so I've decided to work with her for a while to get my range and control back and to improve. Over the years, we all develop bad habits and once in a while we just need a tune up. However, I've never really had much in the way of formalized training. So, I decided that the best way to combat any future problems is to study opera. Once you can do the classics, you can do anything.

I've been trying to record something on my computer at home so that I can put a sound link on the website, but I'm going to have to get it done professionally. Unfortunately, it means doing a cover song because I don't have music written for the lyrics that I have. I don't know what's involved copyright-wise, so I'll have to check into it first.

I've had the opportunity to get up on a big stage in the last couple of months. I know the tech guys at the conference centre downtown fairly well. Every now and again, when I want to test out my stuff on a big system, they let me come down and do a "sound check". It's kind of like my own private concert. The first time I was singing "Bring Me To Life" and had an audience of building staff and construction workers. Was kind of cool!

Anyway, there are some auditions coming up this summer for a theatre group in Edmonton that I'm going to try out for. It'll mean more exposure as they get alot of media coverage in the newspaper, on the radio and on television. And being as my agent says there really isn't anything here right now, I have to start to build some more experience if I even think of attempting to go anywhere else.

My agent's alright, but her clientelle consists mostly of background performers.  I'll need to work my way toward an agent who deals with principle performers.

Well, got to run. I'll try to share the rest later.

Take care.

B.

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