Last Dance

Last weekend the dance company that I've been interning with, (Koresh Dance Company) had an annual dance showcase, where they raise money for the company by putting on a show in the studio. I've performed in one of these earlier that they invited me to dance in, and knowing that I'm leaving the the town and the studio and ending my internship with them, they invited to dance last weekend.

Most of you philly folk know cause I sent out an email for the last chance to see me dance in philly. It was great! 4 shows on sat and sun. I was in a peice where it was just a duet with another girl, while another girl danced around us. It was a good partnering dance everyone liked it alot. I also performed my own piece, called a moment of improv with Alfie. God has given me a great sence of creativity, and performance ability to be able to make up things on the spot. so that's what I did. The best thing about the whole thing is that this is the time you can play, play with anything so I made a fun costume. I felt awesome cause I was surprised from my friends Andrew and Irene, who came to support me, now these friends are awesome for they have seen almost everything that I have performed in while leaving here in philly. Kudos guys, score's high for you.

My friend Danny came to, and of course my parents, love them. I danced to a spiritual, it was very heart moving. We practiced a little of the dance on tape, so I'll see if I can put it on here, other wise I will get a cop pretty soon, and will be able to post the whole performance of it later. enjoy.

When in doubt, sex it out!

That was the saying of the cast of CHICAGO.

We actually put it on the back of our show shirt. And you would think that most people who work at that theatre took that very literally, that's all I'll say about that.

The show is over now, and for that I am very glad, um, very glad. It was a hard experience to be in that show, but through the difficulties I have learned how to have better character, and to truly stand for what kind of person I want to be about. I actually did have the chance to leave that show early, but I wanted to prove to them and to myself, that I'm made of,and for stronger stuff. And that I am the kind of person who is not trying to burn bridges and leave a bad name for myself. But man it was very hard.

I put some of the closing night cast pictures up here for ya, the picture of me and Nora(who was our Velma) is us celebrating our best body award, by actually being able to eat again!

Me sexy on a motorcycle! Yeah I know I look cool. There was always craziness going at this theater, and sometimes I did get involved, (Now don't hate, just laugh!)

we managed to have a fun time in the costume shop!
Hahahahahahaha

a mind's thoughts

I'm sorry that I have let you hangin.
Life has been a whirl wind of emotions, and activities, events, people, and decisions.
But here we go.

It has been awesome to get offered this part in Evita. It has absolutely changed my whole outlook on life it seems. My friends say that they hadn't seen me happy and really smiling in months before I found out. I guess I really never knew how hard I was working, or worried moreover,( probably about not getting work).
But, I did get a job, and when people heard they were just as happy and fulfilled it seemed as I was. It's like they needed to hear the news to be encouraged themselves, and that does make me feel awesome that I could encourage others. It is very nice to know that people do see your hard work. My papa always tells me, people are always watching.
I got to go back to my hometown again, the wonderful state college, to sing in an alumni choir for Essence of Joy, it was an awesome experience, and what is really great about it is, there are people from the choir who are on Broadway right now,(including big brother James Lane), and now I am able to get advice from them about what to expect on tour, and how to survive out there.
It feels so nice to finally feel validated in what I do, and in who I am. especially when you have been devoting your whole life to one goal. back home in people who I'd run into were all about the praise, and exclaiming how I made it, and am living my dream. I have to admit I was kind of like, no not yet, it's just a necessary step to obtaining that, but some reminded me what it all means, and when I was in high school, or even college looking at the actors who come in on tours and do shows, and I how I dreamed of being where they were. hat is a very cool feeling. To know that I can inspire people. Getting this tour just makes me feel so great!
You know what else feels great, not having to jet around auditioning for a while. Oh man it has been such a load off my mind to not have to be so attentive to every audition in NyC, and just relax, and get off my horse, and rest in the fact that yes, I am a professional, and I'm good at what I do. Man I just praise God! Though it's interesting what kind of storm clouds show up, right when the sun starts shining it's brightest, but this to shall past.
Last week I received a call from a number I didn't know, it was a guy from NYC, He was apart of the entertainment company, Costuming, wanted to see when I could come in to the city for a costume fitting? HAHAHAH, whooo, let me just tell you, that feels awesome!!
Well I have about a month til I go up to the city for rehearsals, and there's a lot of last minute preparations, finances, and appts. to take care of, all that and packing and moving my stuff into storage, and seeing a whole lot of people before I go, Life's going to get busy here, so I may just post pictures up events sort of a photo journal.

remember love people as hard as you can

It's Official!!!

I hope you all had a fabulous fourth of July!!
I sure did, I go back home to Penn State, where I have friends whose families have tailgated the 4rth fest for years now, and have made it quite a known spectacle. I love it it's absolutely awesome. I'll throw some pictures from the days events just for some fun and added color.
(that's me performing a little of chicago!)
But more excitedly,
My mother called me early wednesday morning to let me know that a certain Fed ex package had come for me from some entertainment company, that she couldn't pronounce. (Troika) Awesome!!!! My contract!!
SO I got it from her blessed heart yesterday, and perused the components of the package. You know all the formal mumbo jumbo, and 4 copies of the contract. And this big ole Vocal score, whoo baby!!! Well, I bought the original soundtrack, and the movie version with Madonna, so I could know what's going on and not go into rehearsals feeling like a jack,well... you know. Here's the actual EVita Logo for my tour, if you see this picture for Evita, it represents the one I'm in, and probably means I'm coming somewhere close to you. Stay sharp folks, I will be putting a lot of info on here soon, and probably a little personal note about what it feels to get this and what it means professionally. Thanks for staying involved!

6 shows to a new beginning

Hello Hello,

Well folks I only have 6 shows of CHICAGO left, so if you want to come see how awesome and sexy and goofy and chocolate God made me, you'd better hurry up! I had a total of 8 people come see me, Kim and her sister, Jason Puckey, (that's him on the right) and a group from my church,(Andrew,Irene,Melody,Jason,Rachel, minus the 2 guys in the middle behind me). You know I had to give them all shout outs on my blog, You too can get a shout out!! And there will be pictures soon!!

The show is going very well, we are in the runnings for a couple of nominations for the Barrymores,(the philly Tony's). In fact we've had 11 judges come out of 15, and you only need 6. So it's a good show. But I am so glad it will be over soon. It has been a long process that I have learned alot thru, but it will be nice to not have all the burdens with it.

The Fun Stuff

So I finally had my contract offer and negotiations, and agreement, just yesterday, so that's it I am actually in the cast now, and I should get my contract papers probably thursday!!!!

WHHHOOOOOOOOHHHOOOOOOO!!!!!!

How awesome is this! This is exactly what I wanted for this time in my life, and God has just made it all happen. I am just so absolutely friggin excited. To get some advice on touring I had a 3 way call with 2 of my friends from AIDA, Latasha and Kim, who are both in tours(HAIRSPRAY,WEDDING SINGER), That was such an awesome conversation, and did so much to help me be more professional on tour. It's a long contract, I think about 10 months.

My rehearsals start august 20th, our first show is sept. 18, and the end date is, ok get ready.... july 6. Wooo baby. Right now I do know that I will probably have a layoff around christmas dec 18 to a day or 2 after my birthday jan 2 or 3. But I won't get an itinerary to I go out on tour, cause they are still booking it. But being the over excited somewhat anxious person I am I googled evita tour dates a couple of times and found some ticket places. So I do know that we'll be in, FL,IN, WI,AZ,ME,SC,VA,LA. I think greatest thing is that we're going thru my home town State College!(that's Penn State). Other close venues to philly are Baltimore MD, in january, and just so you philly guys don't feel to lonely without me for a year, Wilmington, DE. That's right we'll be doing I think a week engagement at the dupont theatere only a half hr away from philly in Wil, DE in May, and I'm pretty sure the dates are the 13-18. So now you all have to come see me. I told you if you didn't see me in the little shows around philly, you were just waiting to pay the big bucks to see me, and again, the tickets are only going to go up from here.