It’s been a While

I fully recognize that I have not posted in a really long time.  I’ve just been kind of uninspired recently.  But today is a rainy saturday, and I have already been to an audition and then the gym, so now I have a few uneventful hours ahead of me and I think it is the perfect time to bring everyone back up to speed.

The show ended well, it ended up being so much fun.  I haven’t done a dance show that ran as long as this one, so it was cool seeing how the show evolved over the coarse of the performances.  I was in a lot of numbers, and it was impossible to have a “perfect” show.  Each night at least something got a little fudged.  But for that reason, the show was kind of this fantastic beast that we tried to tackle each night, and each night it wiggled away from us for just a second in a new and cunning way.

The final performance was probably the highlight performance of the run.  Energy was amazing, the audience was great, and it was just a good way to go out.  All in all I think the theater would have liked to have had a bit more of an audience, but especially the last weekend the weather could not have been worse.

New England got hit with a massive nor’easter on thursday, which happened to be the day we had to get back up to New Hampshire.  So the cast and I had a wonderful 8 hour day of travel through crazy blizzard conditions.  Ironically, New Hampshire was warmer so it was down pouring when we got there.  Also the wind was intense (like hurricane intense) and left a good part of the city without power for the rest of our run.

Here are just a couple pics I took of Manchester:

This was our cast house.  I’m 85% sure that I was allergic to something in this house, because my allergies would flare like crazy whenever I was in it.  I’d leave for rehearsal and get better all day, get back at night and immediately I would feel the sinuses start to scream.

This would be the lovely street that is also home to the Palace theatre.  beautiful beautiful theatre, it was really great to perform in it.

So now I’m back in the city.  I left to come back to New York the next morning, and I do have to say the trip ended up being much longer than I would have expected, partly because the turn over in Boston was less than smooth (it included being dropped off on the opposite side of the city from the bus, the T line being down, and my travel partner almost getting one overed by Megabus)

But I’m back, and back to reality.  The last two weeks I have been auditioning like crazy, literally minimum of one audition per day.  I feel like I have been really productive in going to all these calls, but at the same time it is really draining going to audition after audition.  I just want someone to hire me!  Especially with the summer season coming up, I would love to get cast in someone’s season.

I’ve had the luxury of having time to catch up with lost time with the bf and some friends in the city as well.  Last night I got to go to a bday party for a cast member of mine from Swing Fever and then meet up with some friends from school who were in town.

The bf has been in DC the hast few days but he finally gets back tonight.  That means that I had to do a major clean up of the apartment before he got here.

Recently I’ve spent a lot of time killing time.  Be it at an audition waiting to be seen, or in the apartment waiting for a call.  I don’t like all this down time which is why I’ve been taking a lot of dance classes and spending a good amount of time in the gym everyday.

However, on a rainy day like today I don’t even feel the least bit guilty about not doing anything.  I even lit the Christmas candles (technically not XMas, just vanilla and pine) that we still have, and it makes the apartment feel so warm and cozy.  Maybe I’ll even change back into my pjs.

So that’s all for now.  I hope to be better about blogging now, so my next post should be sooner than later.