Operetta and Politics

WOW! It's been a week since I posted?! I really have no concept of time here, haha.

The count as it stands today--
Time spent in Ohio: two weeks, one day.
Our season opens: two weeks, minus one day.
Back to North Carolina: ten weeks, one day.
Back to Wingate!!: eleven weeks, one day.

I am still very excited to be here and am discovering more things about town, as well as stage management tricks. As far as Wooster, I went out to lunch with Jessie (aka Dr. Martin) to this place called The Parlor. I had water, grilled cheese, and french fries, all for the college friendly price of $3.51 and I know you all know how wonderful that is. Can I get an AMEN!? Haha. Something I'm hoping to search for is Japanese food, cause wow, do I miss Tokyo Bistro. That'll be dinner my first day back in Wingate. Anyone interested? Let me know, I'll go multiple times for sure. That and Bojangles. Oh, Bojangles, how I miss your cajun goodness. I'm also looking at the church options for Sunday, see how things are up north. Certainly won't be the same as FBC Monroe. Speaking of, I am very excited to get to participate in Relay for Life AGAIN here in Wooster as part of OLO's team. I'll probably be signing up to walk the evening shifts, and I'm very excited.

On the job front, we've got run thrus for our third show tomorrow and by Sunday evening we'll be staging show number FOUR! The fast pace here is a little intense but it doesn't feel like work, I generally find it all to be fun. With A Night in Venice this week, Stacy's been the lead, since she'll be calling this show, and tonight Rachel and I helped her go through props for the run thrus today and tomorrow. We set all the rehearsal props backstage, and make sure they get reset for top of show. During rehearsal I was on book, calling lines and that sort of thing.

My favorite bits of the shows we've been doing are the politics in the world of opera. In Of Thee I Sing, not only do they elect a man whose party platform is true love, but they vote against impeaching said candidate who has caused international turmoil because he's an expectant father. In A Night in Venice, the senators pass a bill forbidding their wives to go to the Duke's Ball- not that they'd ever stand for such an order, as these women wear the pants. It's all very amusing. I'd very much like to vote for true love. Also, if I could be in any operetta, right now I'd want to be Mary Turner in Of Thee I Sing because she is fabulous, and makes corn muffins, without corn. Tee hee, how coy.

I guess that's all to tell right now. I bought myself a Wooster deck of playing cards, haha. I got some mail from my mom and grandma, and that was pretty exciting, again, if anyone else wants to spend the summer in a world snail mail, I'll facebook you my address so I don't just open it up to cyberspace. :) And if your mail includes a return address, I'll write back asap, there was only a two-day travel time for both pieces of mail I got from NC.

Until next time--