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My Life In A Nutshell!
Thursday, 3 June 2004
And yet ...another month passes us by!!
CATS! Now and FORRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER!!
and ever...
and ever...
and ever....
and ever...
and ever....

Ok grant it, I LOOOOVE the people I'm working with and I love the theatre and the talent that surrounds me there, and I will say with out a doubt, once again, as I have MANNNNNNY times before....this job KICKS ASS compared to the one I once had. (Last Summers NIGHTMARE ON SHERKSTON ST.) But... I'm slowly growing tired of the feline and the MEMORY...sweet lord if I never hear that song again for a looooong time it may be to soon. hehe

But asides from that.... I'm still having a GREEEEEEAT TIME here in HALIFAX. The city keeps getting more and more tourists and the show has been extended through JUNE, now we're just waiting to see if we'll be extended through July. - Part of me wants the contract to run until the end of August like it's suppose too. - BUT WE ALL KNOW that it's not going to happen, unless out of the blue a surge in ticket sales takes over us. However I think as a cast in whole, we're ready for this one to be over.

The other day we had another cast member taken out of the show, she wrenched her neck BADLY doing one of the dance moves in the production and was out for a week, her side kick came down with a heavy cold and he's been out for the last three days. Tonights performance found our Macavity slugged in the face (accidentally) during the fight scene... and an up and down of sore throats, colds yada yada yada.

As for me, I'm still kickin' so to speak. I made another friend out here, his name is Patrick, a great guy. He's a probations officer and also does a lot of drug testing at a community center here in Halifax, etc..etc.. etc. He has a huge interst in musicals which his partner does not share. So we talk about that sometimes, ...but I have to say between him and my friend Dan, don't know who's a bigger musical fan. BUT... they share two diff sides of my life and somehow meet in the middle, that ones hard to explain so I wont'. - BUT... they are two gifts in my life, ...just like the rest of my family and friends, and loved ones.

I'm trying to keep my friends numbered here in town, ...I guess I shouldn't...but people who know me, should know that I CAN NOT do "Goodbyes" very well.. and meeting someone new, growing attached to that person and then having to leave them at some point just kills me.

I know... as Billy Joel writes "Life is a series of Hello's and Goodbye's - I'm afraid it's time for Goodbye again." Either way, stuff that like just gets to me, and I know I shouldn't let it --but...it's just the person I am. So Deal with it. - I do. :D

Anywhoo... Adam (who I believe has been mentioned in a previous BLOG entry)... and Patrick will remain my Halifax friends, if I ever find myself back in the city at least I'll have a couple folks to visit. - Besides those working at the theatre as well. They've been a HUGE welcome to my life as well, so Thank God for email and the ability to keep in touch with them when I do go.

There are a few things I'm VERY MUCH looking forward to doing when I get home in mid-July - August. (The CNE, going to see HAIRSPRAY, The PRODUCERS, sleeping in MY OWN BED AGAIN!! - Visit friends that I haven't seen for the past few months, ...getting in touch with some new friends I made back home before I left....and starting life (once again), but this time making it out into the world on my own at home. (That means something to me, and I guess I'm the only one that it matters for. LOL)


On the writing front, I've completed the score to a complete show, ..and ACT ONE of dialogue, now I just need to finish ACT TWO and see what happens from there. ALSO started composing yet ANOTEHR brand new show...this freedom away from everyone and everything has been great, because it's forcing me to write. - I can't go out, I can't call up friends back home and hang out with them, so I sit down and I compose and work my ass off, and some good stuff has been flowing from these finger tips and the melodies in my head.

My life, my friends, my family , the sights and sounds of my day have all found their way into the lives of the characters I've been creating. - RELATIONS...my musical about "coming out" and the terms that go with it, was spawn from pictures I've found here at the apartment where I'm staying, but also from conversations I've had with my incredible friend Dan, and my own relationships, David has had some influence, and just conversations with people I know.

Cast members from CATS have come over and sung through most of the music, a few have asked for pieces to be added to their Audition repertoire, which is always cool, and most importantly hearing them sing through my music, just gives me more and more inspiration. Something that I don't have back home as well.

Writing the new script that I've been working on hold some of my best music to date I think. - I listen to the new tunes and I'm just awed and filled with joy. - The story has it's ups and downs, and is something new (I won't say FRESH because God knows there are soooo many works out there that hardly anything can be FRESH anymore) but... it's something I've never tactled before, AND a new genre of music which I've never really tempted, but feel at home writing.

Ontop of all of that... my life just keeps on ticking by. I have up days and down days, mostly up, which is GRRRREAAAT. - But the weather here is bizzare, gloomy A LOT, and yet people still remain chipper through all of that. I've HARDLY watched t.v. since I've been here. - I've seen some stuff, Patrick has been kind enough to tape Queer As Folk for me, so I'm totally caught up on that, and I saw the American Idol finale, yada yada. I've been purchasing a few BOX SETS that have made me happy. Saved By The Bell....(Awww MARK PAUL. LOL ) and IN LIVING COLOR are my new ones. - I've managed to watch all 7 seasons of FRIENDS, 2 seasons of Will and Grace, and part way through seasons 1 and 2 of Married With Children. (they usually go on before bed, and I fall asleep part way through, but WHATEVER.... it's good company at night.)

What else it write about? Hmmmmm....I think for the most part that's about it. THINGS are GOOD, life is GOOD, people in my life ARE GOOD, ...(CORRECTION.... GRRRRREAAAAAT!!!) ... and overall I still feel TRULY blessed, and loved.

I hope my friends know that I feel the same way about them. I'm truly blessed to have them, and love them with every ounce of my being.

That said, ....I'm gonna sign off until the next BLOG entry...probably be another month from now. - But we'll see what happens.
Until then...

NOW and FOREVER...LEE :P MEOW! (oy vey!) heheh
xoxo





Posted by musicals/leemusic at 12:59 AM
Updated: Thursday, 3 June 2004 1:34 AM
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