The past few weeks

I have had a great past couple weeks with tons of stress and a couple of shows. The next few weeks I have an equally busy amount of time with Junior Prom, SAT IIs in US History and Math I, AP exams, SATs, and Senior Prom. I'm more worried about the SATs and AP exams, but I will get through them soon. The proms will be sick with my great friends and I'm excited to have some fun with them. The more excited part of my past few weeks were alll the shows I saw, they were all very good, but all different. Here are the shows I have seen:

West Side Story twice,

9 to 5: The Musical,


and In the Heights today.


My favorite of the three was West Side Story hence seeing it twice. I am not sure if it is my true favorite though, it is very hard to compare it to Spring Awakening. Spring Awakening will always hold a special place in my heart and that is why I am traveling 2 hours to go in Philadelphia to see the tour. They really need to have the tour come around northern New Jersey. I am going to be there on Friday June 26th, but it will be there from June 23rd to June 28th at Phiadelphia's Academy of Music. It is supposed to be a great theater and their website is easier compared to others I have worked with at www.kimmelcenter.com/broadway/. I always use the facebook group at www.tinyurl.com/SAPGO which keeps me updated. I can't wait the cast is gonna be epic and they have a blog at http://totallytrucked.blogspot.com/, they are great and cool :)


Anyway back to the other shows, West Side Story was freaking amazing with the most brilliant cast I have ever seen. They are all great, but the standouts were Karen Olivo, Curtis Holbrook, Josefina Scaglione, Matt Cavenaugh, and Cody Green. Karen Olivo and Josefina Scaglione are prefection and are Anita and Maria. Curtis Holbrook and Cody Green are triple threats and play their parts amazingly! They both definitely excel in dancing out of the three though. Matt Cavenaugh has a heavenly voice. I told him at stage door that I loved his vibratto and he looked at me like I insulted him. I actually meant it as complimentary, but it's possible that I sounded sarcastic. Please see this show, everyone needs to see it!!! The next show was 9 to 5: the musical and I was pleasantly surprised. Although it was very campy, I enjoyed it the whole time. All main chararcters were great including the Stephanie J Block, Meghan Hilty, Allison Janey, and Marc Kudisch. They all had outstanding voices and great acting skills. My favorite of the four of them was Stephanie J Block, she has such a powerful voice and brought it out at the perfect time. Now to In the Heights, I had a couple understudies, but they were still all great! The standouts for me were Jon Rua, Mike Balderamma, and Mandy Gonzalez. They were all so talented and amazing singers! I will hopefully be seeing these shows more in the future and I'm supposed to see Hair, West Side Story again, and the Singing Forest this week. I am very excited about all three and I shall talk more about them later.

SAts

What a LOOOONG day. SATs just take so freaking long, why can't they just let us take it one day during school, it would just make everything a lot easier you know. Throughout the test I had Spring Awakening songs stuck in my head. This week I got a bunch of people to agree to come to the tour with me to Philladelphia. I think almost 20 people which would be AMAZING and I would get a bunch of people into it :) Then I'll be able to talk to them about it becuase no one else I know really likes it or hasn't seen it at all. Spring Awakening is showing at Philadelphia's Academy of Music and forutnately for my group of peeps, it is starting after my school ends which is from June 23rd to June 28, 2009. To buy tickets to performances, please visit http://www.kimmelcenter.org/broadway/ . The Facebook group that I am apart of is http://www.tinyurl.com/SAPGO . Hopefully, anyone reading this page will check it out becuase it is a truly inspiring show with an incredibly talented cast including Blake Bashoff from Lost which is a big favorite of everyone's including me :) Trust me PLEASE check it out, everyone NEEDS to see this show!~!

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Today was another blah Saturday full of nothing to do or eat in the house. It was also a day full of fighting with my mother. I guess she really doesn't understand how I feel about acting. She thinks it's a joke and that it is a waste of my time. I want to take a course over the summer @ BU in Chinese and Acting, but she wants me to stay away from it no matter how much it hurts me. I have always felt like I was out of place when I did sports even though I am athletic, but it was more of something that my mom pushed on me. I still remember in 5th grade when my mom told me that I couldn't do the chorus at the middle school because it is gay. That is a harsh statement for a young kid to take in and I also remember being devastated when she said it. I stayed away from singing until I tried out for the musical Grease in 7th grade and I got the part of Roger. It made me so happy and I enjoyed it a lot. The year after a new music teacher came to my school and she screwed everything for me. She chose Oz as the musical and she gave all the leads to girls. I got a flying monkey. I came home very disappointed and I quit a half an hour later. I am not going to completely blame my mom on this one, but she did kinda push me in the quitting direction. Ever since then I have not really thought about singing and acting until a few months ago. I am so glad that I saw Spring Awakening and that it inspired me to quit following what my mom wanted for me. I finally decided to follow my heart and do what I wanted to do :)

Stress!

So, this is my first post and I was kind of apprehensive about the whole blogging thing. I think it'll help me get some tension and stress out through writing about what has been going on lately. So let the purging begin. I feel so stressed out with SATs in a week, college, my future career, and high school. Every time I do anything my mom is just on my back, stressing me out worse saying that I am not going to get into any college and my SATs are gonna suck. This just makes me completely angry and frustrated because I KNOW that I will get into a college and my SATs will probably be around my GPA. My mom I guess also doesn't want me to go for what I believe I might want to do: theatre. I was impacted immensely by the show Spring Awakening and if that show is going to be the future of Broadway, I REALLY want to be a part of it. I can sing and listen all day to that music and not get bored ever throughout the day. My dream would be to audition and make the tour, but I doubt that that dream would ever happen considering I don't have the experience or the training. Hopefully I can change that with singing lessons that my mom has promised me (I take driving lessons, she gets me singing lessons) but I doubt she will get them for me. I know I have a good voice, but it needs some guidance from a professional that knows their stuff. Also, I am trying to take an college level acting class over the summer @ BU while I accumulate some college credit and take Chinese or Environmental Studies. But once again, my mom has problems with this plan AFTER she recommended I go there. She is really unfair and I just feel like a blockaded West Berlin right now. Singing some Bitch of Living and Totally Fucked will definitely help right now :) I must do my SAT math work so I will follow up tomorrow hopefully (if I'm not studying intensely for math). I think I might just get addicted to this blog thing :)