Talk about a whirlwind. I felt like a real professional singer - flying off to Oxford for a Bernstein concert at the Ford Center and then returning quickly the next morning for a long day of rehearsals and a performance of the Mozart Requiem in Roanoke, Virginia. Both concerts went extremely well, but I have to say the best part of all of it was spending time with my family and friends.
Mr. B has been in his home state visiting family and friends as well and I've heard from him that he's had a blast so far. I'm excited for him to get back tonight! Being away is great fun but it really makes you miss your home.
Awwww that sad ASPCA commercial - the one with pics of all the injured pets with Sarah McLachlan's "Arms of the Angel" playing in the background - is on now... maybe I should go. I have a lot of chores to get done and a couple recitals to go to today!
I guess that's all for now. I'm just super busy!
Live, Laugh, and Love,
Kelly
10 April 2011
06 April 2011
Back in the Habit
And no, I'm not talking about Sister Act 2...
So now that I've had my sanity partially restored (I've been holed up in a theater for the last 3 weeks working on Hansel and Gretel), I can get back to more important things such as rambling on and on about my life, or lack thereof (oooo, another Sister Act reference!).
So the opera went well. Aparently I stole the show, but you know I just don't think that's hard to do when you're a 6'3" burly man dressed in drag with 3 inch hills, a wig that looks like Peg Bundy went to the 1987 Miss Texas pageant, and a form fitting dress made of bright green! Add to that that I've been breaking out the technicoloratura counter male soprezzo voice and sure I guess everyone else looks kinda dull... but the point was it was a blast and I had a marvelous time performing the Witch and there were two very fine casts singing what is quite possibly some of the most beautiful music written for the stage!
Now, on to more important things... like my return to Oxvegas this weekend to sing with my alma mater Concert Singers in a performance of Bernstein's Missa Brevis. My friend Clay is picking me up from the airport in Memphis in just a couple short hours and we'll be driving down to Oxford for rehearsal today and tomorrow with a wonderful concert on Friday evening! Then I'm off on another plane ride back to North Carolina and I'm driving straight to Roanoke, Virginia to singing solos in a Mozart Requiem on Saturday. Busy, busy, busy!
School is winding down very quickly. Isn't it always really weird that people beg for it to be over until about the last 2 weeks of school and then all of sudden everyone wants more time? Well, I'm one of those people, generally. I always procrastinate on my work and then it seems like everything is overdue by the end. I'll go ahead and tip my hat now to Miss Bottoms, who spent many a night in the music tech lab at Ole Miss working on last minute papers and projects! Miss you babe!!! So, I have a large research paper due on Sunday afternoon and I haven't even started the writing portion yet. EEEEEK!!!!
So, funny story... or scary story, depending on how you look at it. But as you may have gathered from a previous paragraph, I played the Witch in Hansel and Gretel. So, a couple weeks before we opened, I had to spend a Saturday morning in the costume shop having my final fittings and a makeup workshop for my character. Of course, I had to shave (yes, i've been with a beard for almost 7 years now) and Baby Kelly reemerged just before transforming into Priscilla Prettypuss (I kid you not, that's the witch's name in the score!). So this woman who is a brilliant costume designer asks me to shave there at the costume shop - I had no previous knowledge that I would be doing the makeup workshop that day so I missed my opportunity taking care of this at home. Deb (the designer) tells me she has a disposable razor that I can use, and of course my next question is, "Ok, do you also have shaving cream?" She grimaces and says, "Oh, I don't shave so I forgot that." (Which brings up so many questions, but we'll let that one slide). So then she hands me a Lady Schick disposable and a bottle of Dawn dish detergent and asks if that will do..... UMMMMMMM are you that crazy? Hell to the naw! So I had to go back home and do it with the proper utensils and then I went back and proceeded to have a bald cap put on me with tons of white clown makeup. I guess I'll get a pic for you all to see.
So, the last few weeks of my life have been out of control to say the least. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into blogging this week while I'm on a semi-leave-of-absence from North Carolina! Love it!!!
Live, Laugh, and Love!
Kelly
So now that I've had my sanity partially restored (I've been holed up in a theater for the last 3 weeks working on Hansel and Gretel), I can get back to more important things such as rambling on and on about my life, or lack thereof (oooo, another Sister Act reference!).
So the opera went well. Aparently I stole the show, but you know I just don't think that's hard to do when you're a 6'3" burly man dressed in drag with 3 inch hills, a wig that looks like Peg Bundy went to the 1987 Miss Texas pageant, and a form fitting dress made of bright green! Add to that that I've been breaking out the technicoloratura counter male soprezzo voice and sure I guess everyone else looks kinda dull... but the point was it was a blast and I had a marvelous time performing the Witch and there were two very fine casts singing what is quite possibly some of the most beautiful music written for the stage!
Now, on to more important things... like my return to Oxvegas this weekend to sing with my alma mater Concert Singers in a performance of Bernstein's Missa Brevis. My friend Clay is picking me up from the airport in Memphis in just a couple short hours and we'll be driving down to Oxford for rehearsal today and tomorrow with a wonderful concert on Friday evening! Then I'm off on another plane ride back to North Carolina and I'm driving straight to Roanoke, Virginia to singing solos in a Mozart Requiem on Saturday. Busy, busy, busy!
School is winding down very quickly. Isn't it always really weird that people beg for it to be over until about the last 2 weeks of school and then all of sudden everyone wants more time? Well, I'm one of those people, generally. I always procrastinate on my work and then it seems like everything is overdue by the end. I'll go ahead and tip my hat now to Miss Bottoms, who spent many a night in the music tech lab at Ole Miss working on last minute papers and projects! Miss you babe!!! So, I have a large research paper due on Sunday afternoon and I haven't even started the writing portion yet. EEEEEK!!!!
So, funny story... or scary story, depending on how you look at it. But as you may have gathered from a previous paragraph, I played the Witch in Hansel and Gretel. So, a couple weeks before we opened, I had to spend a Saturday morning in the costume shop having my final fittings and a makeup workshop for my character. Of course, I had to shave (yes, i've been with a beard for almost 7 years now) and Baby Kelly reemerged just before transforming into Priscilla Prettypuss (I kid you not, that's the witch's name in the score!). So this woman who is a brilliant costume designer asks me to shave there at the costume shop - I had no previous knowledge that I would be doing the makeup workshop that day so I missed my opportunity taking care of this at home. Deb (the designer) tells me she has a disposable razor that I can use, and of course my next question is, "Ok, do you also have shaving cream?" She grimaces and says, "Oh, I don't shave so I forgot that." (Which brings up so many questions, but we'll let that one slide). So then she hands me a Lady Schick disposable and a bottle of Dawn dish detergent and asks if that will do..... UMMMMMMM are you that crazy? Hell to the naw! So I had to go back home and do it with the proper utensils and then I went back and proceeded to have a bald cap put on me with tons of white clown makeup. I guess I'll get a pic for you all to see.
So, the last few weeks of my life have been out of control to say the least. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into blogging this week while I'm on a semi-leave-of-absence from North Carolina! Love it!!!
Live, Laugh, and Love!
Kelly
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