Monday, July 18, 2011

The Barn Theatre


Immediately following school I moved to Augusta Michigan to join the company at The Barn Theater where I have been able to be in the ensemble of both Man of La Mancha and Chicago. It has also been a pleasure to be featured in the late night bar show that occurs right after main stage performances. During the day I work in the costume shop and on top of that work in the bar, at concession stand, usher, dress people, etc... before during and after the shows! See some of my bar show songs on my Youtube.com channel such as...

Eric Tsuchiyama and I singing

"My little Red Hat" from 110 in the shade


and Annie Wessendarp, Elyse Moon and I in

"My Big French Boyfriend" from Toxic Avenger

Up Next are auditions for Cinderella.... to be continued....

Cinderella 2011

CINDERELLA

Cinderella was such a blast! I was cast a Joy one of the EVIL stepsisters with native Michigander Natalie Sparbeck as my sister. We even had a princess day at the Barn where children got to dress up and have tea with Cinderella and her prince (the step sisters were not invited). After the show the princesses and princes got an autograph with the fairy godmother and Cinderella. Bar show for this show was filled with Disney themes. During the bar show I got to sing "true loves kiss" from Enchanted (video to be posted soon).


Friday, February 4, 2011

GREASE

My final show at Kent State University is GREASE! I'm very lucky to be working with guest director Mac McIntosh and guest choreographer Felicity Mrnak. This is the first time I have worked with someone from the Roe Green visiting director series and working with new people is always a plus. The show will be running in mid February, to order tickets you can visit the website. As Rizzo in the show, I am very excited to be singing in a much different style since we just finished doing Brigadoon in the fall.

The next project is our Senior Showcase! A group of selected seniors from my program will be presenting a showcase to directors, agents and people in the "biz". This is a great opportunity to network with people from the industry before I take the big leap to NYC! I will be singing
"pulled" from the Addams Family musical that is currently on Broadway. (the link is from the Broadway show :) ) This year we will be teaming up with the University of California, Irvine at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. We have all chosen our songs and on Saturday we are all going to get new headshots with Cleveland Photographer Eric Mull! We have to raise much of the money ourselves and we are accomplishing this by having bake sales and raffles at the shows, hopefully we will reach our goals.