wow, you guys...

no one showed up but Julia.
Still, come see the show.
As much as we all know it sucks, I'm still in it...

tickets are $7 per person.
Show times:
July 16 10:30 am & 8:00 pm
July 17 8:00 pm

At the Virginia Theater, of course.

At rehearsal today, we worked on my HUGE monologue at the beginning of the first act.
Its uber long. But the assisant director, David, who also plays the basketball coach, made me work through it with feeling and purpose.

You know, it got me thinking about the depth to acting.
It's not as simple as portraying another person.
You ask yourself, "If you were this person, who do you hate? Love? What is your purpose to speak?"
No, seriously, they made me tell David why I was giving the monologue, in which I quote Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

I worked it until it was eccentrically odd and badly acted through.
It's very hard to purposely act badly, but I did it.
I think Ms.Darbus is a bad actor but a good teacher and director. She's very passionate about what she does, so it's easy to let go and be extreme. Actually David wrote 10 page charachter analysises about all the parts, like how they moved, walked, talked, and motivations and things.
We had to write essays like that, but we had to write stuff like favorite foods, hobbies, aspirations, etcetera.
The weird part is that I'm a cast minority. I play an adult, nothing else. Most "adults" play students somewhere else, except for me and David. But he's actually an adult.
Usually, a director gives out orders to the majority. And for the first time, almost no direction applys to me in dances, bloccking, and singing.
So half the time I have to bother them with questions so I know where I am. It's annoying.
Aaaagh, I hate being a supporting role that's alone in its own group.

But the costume designs are amazing. David drew them, and he's really good. He saw me doodling, and said I was good.
*flattered*
Also I get lots of time to work while the rest of the cast has to just watch all bored. Muahahaa.

My younger brother is learning oboe 7 feet away, so I can't concentrate right now. The squaking is giving me a headache. As the charachter Jack Scott would say, "All for now, peeps."
Or m&m's...

And the band played on

as the helicopters whirred
drunk on the lawn and a nuclear dawn
my senses finally blurred.


It's on my iPod. sue me.

Anyways, my birthday was great. I am officially 13. yay me.
It was less, um...big than expected.
seeing as my whole family was WAY too tired from the bat mitzvah to do anything epic.
No party this year, whatever.
Just like any bat mitzvah, I got majors on two things:

Jewish jewelry: A 'chai' necklace(its hebrew for 'life', not pronounced like the drink), a necklace shaped like israel with a diamond on jerusalem, and a white mini mezuzah(a door post prayer) with a jewish star on the bottom.

And, more largely,

Money. As in a lot.
about 13oo dollars.

Yeah.

In other news, I'm running a booth tomorrow for the taste of champaign.
For hsm. I'm there from 11-1 if you all want to go. Julia is coming, i think, so....
COME! GRAR!
And after I'm out of my shift there, we can hang out and eat junk from the stands.
Sounds good, yes?

COMEEEE!
please?

Anyways, bye for now. I have other good thoughts, but I'm too lazy to type them tonight. off to roleplay and listen to Jack Johnson.

Auditions, and random interesting thoughts.

I was cast!
Finally!
They compared my voice to Patti Lupone.

Here is how my audition went:

I sang the default song, so to speak. Basically, the song that everyone learned whether or not they were interested in a big singing part. I swear, everyone else sang the solo songs for big parts. "The start of Something New" by far the worst number in HSM.

First off, my voice was partly dead because I have to sing for Bat Mitzvah practice, and second, the director was mouthing the words to me, which I didn't get till I was WAY off count....
No one has EVER had to mouth the Lyrics to me. They only do that to the desperate done deaf idiots who actually LIKE the play. Right?
Guess not. But I managed to stay on time for the rest of it.
And I'm an alto, right? So my high notes are weak. I tried to make it strong, and I just sorta made this awful squeaking, flat sound instead. The rest was fine. Good and strong.
Damn, Vanessa Hudgens is too mezzo for me.
I'm an alto. Once again, my loathing for sopranos skyrockets.
I quickly apologized for the squeak, legs shaking(seriously! it happens at every audition I go to!)

She was-is this amazing strong singer with incredible acting skills and a soaring range.
They said my voice was strong, the only reason I squeaked was because "my voice hasn't matured enough"
Also they were "disappointed I didn't want a singing role"
I told them I didn't care either way. They said I needed more confidence in my voice, which is kinda true.

But here's the thing: they asked me if Ms.Darbus was my first choice. I said yes. She's probably the LEAST corny char HMS has. Plus she wear tacky jewelry.
But the director and assistant directors wanted to have parts in the show. The director was planning on Ms.Dargus.
Obviously, didn't happen-I got the part!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Bat Mitzvah countdown-2 days. Frack.

Miranda, aka...

MiBu (Miranda+Bullok)
Mir Mir
Mira
Randa
Randy
Iran (mIRANda)

That's all I got.

So theres this girl whos bat mitzvah is a week from mine.
Yeah, hers was today.

Shit.

But then Rae Spooner and Pat Dessen gave me a necklace shaped like Israel, and it has a little diamond where Jerusalem is.

And then they babbled on and on about "You'll do great" and "stop worrying"

crap I already know. Shit.
I've got butterflies giving each other lapdances in my stomach again.

*uberquadruplesigh*

I'm so depressed. I wanted to go to that movie. Damn.

But hey, does anyone want to plan something this week? We're officially out of school as of today.
The weather is supposed to be NICE on the last day of school!
I hate the rain. It was freezing.
But I LOVE sunshowers.
lol, random much?
Anyway, I'm going to this theater camp over the summer. Basically, its a production over the course of a day camp. The play is

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!

ewewewewwwwwwwww
it was the only play in my age group. Again, damn. But then, acting is acting. Plus I like pretending to be an airhead, so it'd work.....

Thoughts on getting together for icecream this week?