Hello from Oklahoma City!!
Yes I arrived here on tuesday of this week, and have been in rehearsals everyday since. Dude it is awesome here, I was greeted by a cool guy at the airport, and I was given keys to my rental car. Yes my own rental car. And guess what kind, a PT Cruiser! ha, a blue one. Yeah that's the rental car they give everyone, so in the apartment complex where they house us out of towners, there are a line of Cruisers around every corner. Man if I only had my drivers license.
Well Rehearsals have been incredibly intense. We're doing the show Swing which is a dance revue show, so there are 28 dance numbers! We have 7 couples of ensemble dancers, one featured ballroom dance couple, and 4 singers, and 2 of them have to dance as well. I have never gone at such a fast pace to learn a show in my life. On our first day of rehearsal we learned 3 dances!! And this just isn't any ole dance number, these are all fancy fast partnering, and swing footwork choreography. It has been absolutely kicking my butt!! AND I LOVE EVERY MOMENT OF IT!!! Almost every number we have is a "get it" dance number. You know those big like show stopping dances. It has been such an amazing experience so far, all the staff is wonderful, even the artistic director is cool and down to earth, and has a relaxed fun attitude about him, and they just have this demeanor that treats everyone who works here like a top notch union professional. It's truly awesome, I've never experienced this kind of atmosphere before. I wil definitely be coming back here if they will have me.
Some news for you all. I was offered a role this fall in the ensemble of ALL SHOOK UP, at the Carousel dinner Theare in Akron Ohio. And you know what else, they are going to give me my equity card!!!! That's right something I have been waiting for, and need to really set me up as a true professional in this feild. So Praise God!! I didn't have to acrew points, I was worthy enough to have it negotiated in my contract. YEAH. And I also got a call from Cree, (my future roomate)telling me that he found a place for us to live in Jersey City that he likes, so It looks like I will be living right outside of Manhattan afterall. But HEy praise God I have a place to live now as well.
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YEY for the equity card. you've mentioned concern about it a couple times. but uhm... for those of us who are not in the performing arts, could you explain what it is and why it's so important?
-amani
[bodily in oregon
heart in west philly - man i miss that place!]
Yay--of course you're getting your card!!!! It was only a matter of time, my friend:-) I am glad that you love the lyric--and can you really not drive the rental car they hooked you up with? How sad!
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