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Tootsie Yr2: STL part 4
Apr. 3rd, 2023 04:22 amThursday was our day to tour The Fabulous Fox!
( CLICK HERE for the Fox )
What an incredible tour. We all thanked Carl profusely.
Also, I'm extra-glad that I recorded my personal promo videos here!
What a cool thing to be able to say, that I played in the pit orchestra at the Fabulous Fox for two whole weeks!
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Friday was a weird day.
We had one show at night. I woke up with a headache and a sharp pain in my wrist (slept on it wrong? idk) so had kind of a 'meh' day of air-tromboning along with my audition excerpts, walking to the grocery for travel foods for Monday, chatting with Jameson, and posting my deluge of pictures from the Fox theatre tour.
We were supposed to get a strong storm with potential hurricanes, but fortunately it swung south...not so fortunately for the people of Little Rock, AR :( There have been a lot of catastrophic storm systems lately.
The show was fine, and I tried to practice my excerpts a little during the half hour before showtime but it was hard to concentrate.
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Saturday, a slow morning of breakfast, coffee, packing a little, making calls to try and get a space to record my audition in Fort Myers.
So far no one has so much as called me back, which is very disheartening, but I've got to keep trying.
Both shows went well and seemed to fly by...I felt very distracted with worry about making the audition recording, and with questions about submitting the material, until I finally caved and emailed the audition coordinator some of those questions.
The other thing is PRACTICING the audition materials between now and Thursday.
Pretty much the only time that I can do it is today right before each show, and tomorrow the same.
Monday is a travel day, Tuesday is loading in.
I'll be able to "air trombone" so I can get muscle memory down and solidify articulations and such, but that's not the same as actually playing.
These are the problems with playing a LOUD instrument.
All of this is why I'm hunting down a space, rather than crossing my fingers that the next theatre will have somewhere that I can do this.
It WILL work out--I mean if I have to record outside for pete's sake, I will--but as an INTJ leaving things to chance is like my kryptonite :p
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Sunday. Slept pretty poorly, but that's kind of been the case all week!
Breakfast and reaching out to more churches to ask about using their space.
Getting to the theatre for our last show at The Fabulous Fox.
I was thrilled to sign the completed wall tag!
It's way back in the labyrinth of the basement, but that's ok. It's awesome that it's there.
There are OTHER wall tags too! Everyone wants to leave their mark in this historic theatre :)
Wardrobe made one for themselves in their room:
And here is one in the Laundry room (photo taken by Katie, I had no idea this had been made):
A shiny arch for Production! (photo courtesy Molly)
This small one is above a hallway on the 5th floor, left by "The Pants"...that is, the men.
I was an idiot and didn't see that, and left my initials because the band dressing room is also on this floor. D'oh!
Our last show was just fine. We had a pretty big audience too.
A nice sendoff to Fort Myers!
When we got out it was only around 4pm! But we have a 5am bus call tomorrow, so a lot of people will probably want to pack and get to bed early (I know I do!). It's gonna be toasty in Florida, around 92 degrees!
( CLICK HERE for the Fox )
What an incredible tour. We all thanked Carl profusely.
Also, I'm extra-glad that I recorded my personal promo videos here!
What a cool thing to be able to say, that I played in the pit orchestra at the Fabulous Fox for two whole weeks!
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Friday was a weird day.
We had one show at night. I woke up with a headache and a sharp pain in my wrist (slept on it wrong? idk) so had kind of a 'meh' day of air-tromboning along with my audition excerpts, walking to the grocery for travel foods for Monday, chatting with Jameson, and posting my deluge of pictures from the Fox theatre tour.
We were supposed to get a strong storm with potential hurricanes, but fortunately it swung south...not so fortunately for the people of Little Rock, AR :( There have been a lot of catastrophic storm systems lately.
The show was fine, and I tried to practice my excerpts a little during the half hour before showtime but it was hard to concentrate.
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Saturday, a slow morning of breakfast, coffee, packing a little, making calls to try and get a space to record my audition in Fort Myers.
So far no one has so much as called me back, which is very disheartening, but I've got to keep trying.
Both shows went well and seemed to fly by...I felt very distracted with worry about making the audition recording, and with questions about submitting the material, until I finally caved and emailed the audition coordinator some of those questions.
The other thing is PRACTICING the audition materials between now and Thursday.
Pretty much the only time that I can do it is today right before each show, and tomorrow the same.
Monday is a travel day, Tuesday is loading in.
I'll be able to "air trombone" so I can get muscle memory down and solidify articulations and such, but that's not the same as actually playing.
These are the problems with playing a LOUD instrument.
All of this is why I'm hunting down a space, rather than crossing my fingers that the next theatre will have somewhere that I can do this.
It WILL work out--I mean if I have to record outside for pete's sake, I will--but as an INTJ leaving things to chance is like my kryptonite :p
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Sunday. Slept pretty poorly, but that's kind of been the case all week!
Breakfast and reaching out to more churches to ask about using their space.
Getting to the theatre for our last show at The Fabulous Fox.
I was thrilled to sign the completed wall tag!
It's way back in the labyrinth of the basement, but that's ok. It's awesome that it's there.
There are OTHER wall tags too! Everyone wants to leave their mark in this historic theatre :)
Wardrobe made one for themselves in their room:
And here is one in the Laundry room (photo taken by Katie, I had no idea this had been made):
A shiny arch for Production! (photo courtesy Molly)
This small one is above a hallway on the 5th floor, left by "The Pants"...that is, the men.
I was an idiot and didn't see that, and left my initials because the band dressing room is also on this floor. D'oh!
Our last show was just fine. We had a pretty big audience too.
A nice sendoff to Fort Myers!
When we got out it was only around 4pm! But we have a 5am bus call tomorrow, so a lot of people will probably want to pack and get to bed early (I know I do!). It's gonna be toasty in Florida, around 92 degrees!
