Lately I've been most thankful for theatre. I mean, yes, I am grateful for the theatre every day of my life... it's my career, my passion, hopefully my paycheck.... but with three callbacks this week and one next week, I'm even more thankful for this art. I can't get enough of the natural high that comes from being on stage. I love the ability to become a completely different person. I love the energy you get from an audience and I love how the theatre gives people an escape for a few hours. I love that the theatre can entertain, educate, inspire, and challenge.
Tonight I went to a callback for Curtains, where I think I somehow managed to hold my own doing the can-can choreography. We all sang part of "The Woman's Dead," the first of the show's two comic funeral dirges. I was also one of six girls to read for Niki Harris, the show's ingenue. I have dance callbacks for Guys & Dolls tomorrow night, during which I have to tap. (I don't tap. I think the most tap I've ever done was a summer class in jr. high.) The vocal/cold read callback for the same show is on Saturday. Best of all, I found out today that I've also been called back for Rent; that callback is a week from today, Monday the 17th. (All three shows are at Tacoma Musical Playhouse.)
I feel so incredibly lucky that the folks at TMP have taken such an interest in me. It may be community theatre instead of pro, but it's good community theatre, and it's resume building. More importantly, being in one or more of these shows gets me back on stage, and I've been away from the stage for too long. Things are movin' and shakin', folks, and I can't wait to see what happens next.
That's what I'm grateful for today. What are you grateful for?
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