MUSICAL QUOTING DAY! BEWARE: THIS BLOG WILL BE FULL OF REFERENCES TO VARIOUS MUSICALS!

Hey people.
How's it going first of all? Good? Good for me, too. I'm okay. I picked this flower, right over there is where it grew...
okay, here's how it's gonna go
The person who guesses the most right answers (aka knows where each quote is from and can recognize it in the blog)
I'll give you the first one-the very first few sentences of this blog were from SHREK the musical. Yes, SHREK, it may seem stupid to you, but it's actually really good. Don't judge it by the cover, 'cause it's a real good book! (Hint: that last sentence was a reference to a musical as well)
Okay, I'll stop actually pointing them out.
OMG. The cutest thing just happened. I have this dog named Maggie, and I just let her inside. She comes up to me sitting at the computer and puts her head on my lap and whines for my attention. So cute. Of course, I don't give her attention until she stops whining because if I give her attention while she's whining, she'll learn to whine every time she wants attention, and I don't want that!
I continued to do morning workout this week, but I had to leave early today because I felt like throwing up. I didn't actually throw up, but it wasn't a good feeling to be working out with. So, I just took it easy the rest of the morning. Then I had Beginning Jazz Dance first period, which was, as always, fun but hard since I am NOT a dancer (although i hope to become one soon!)! Which brings me to another point...I hate hate hate being told that I can't succeed in musical theater because I'm not a dancer. It's the most ridiculous crap I've ever heard. SO many people have made it in show biz without being able to dance. Of course, those people do usually have something else about them that's amazing; for instance, Idina Menzel, who is amazing, always claims that her dancing sucks, but she has a flipping amazing voice. I don't have a flipping amazing voice. I have to work on that. But what was my point? Oh, yes. Non-dancers CAN make it in musical theater, and people who believe otherwise are ignorant of the singers like Idina who have made it without being able to dance.
Speaking of Idina, she and her husband Taye recently released their first picture of their son Walker Nathaniel Diggs...and he is SO cute!!!!!


And, thankfully, the baby is not unnaturally green! :)

For now, I'm going to sign off. I may or may not add some stuff into this post later, because I only put a few musical references, but right now my sleeptime awaits me!
Always
N

I'm SO SORE!!!

Today, I did morning workout at my school. It's for athletes (mostly cross-country or track runners) but I decided to go anyway. It's the hardest workout I've EVER DONE IN MY LIFE! I am so badly out of shape. Grrrr...
Being sore sucks. And you know what sucks even more? I'll be even MORE sore tomorrow (fortunately I don't have to go tomorrow) and even MORE sore on Wednesday, which is the day I go back. And then it repeats on Friday. And repeats again next week. And the week after. All the way until late October/November when I start doing morning swim for swim preseason instead.
I also had rehearsal today! It was amazing! We learned the music for "Tradition" and we're really good! I think the show will turn out to be amazing. So come see it if you're in the area!
That's all I really have to say today. Not much. Maybe I'll say more tomorrow. Maybe not. Either way, good bye for today/tonight.
-N

I'm tired...and it's only 8 forty something...wow

I'm trying to stay optimistic about this week. I really am. But it's kind of hard to stay optimistic when I've got a really hard history test on Friday!!!! AAAAAHHH!!!!!!
AP History is a good class, but it's challenging in the first three weeks already! And so I welcome myself to AP high school.
Okay, one good thing about this week is Friday is only a half day!!! YAY!!!
Also, did any of you see that movie Adventureland? Yes? No?
Well, I thought that movie was hilarious. So I bought the "games games games" shirt from amazon. It should be coming in a few days! I'm pretty darn excited about that. Almost more excited than I am about Friday being a half-day. I said ALMOST!

Last night, I went to my first rehearsal for Fiddler on the Roof (did I mention I'm in the ensemble of Fiddler on the Roof at my school?). The rehearsal was thoroughly boring. It was basically a full read through of the play, which is totally necessary, but for an ensemblemember with no lines, it is quite uninteresting. I'm very excited about Fiddler, however. My absolute favorite scene is the graveyard scene, and I really wanted to be Fruma Sarah, but now I'm hoping that I get to be in the graveyard ensemble.

So to get to Broadway...
-Not news, but have you listened to Shrek the Musical? Don't underestimate it because it's Shrek. I highly recommend seeing it. Brian D'Arcy James (Shrek) has the most amazing male Broadway voice ever. I really love it. And you need to see it next time you go to NYC!

In other news...
-Ellen Degeneres is the new fourth American Idol judge! And no I'm not kidding!!! This season is going to be AMAZING!!!!!!!

Gosh...it's been AWHILE...

...Since my first post!

I'm really sorry to the person who looked at it. Really, I am. But you've got to understand! I've been busy, you know? With school and stuff.... I had summer school, stage managing, homework, volunteering, summer school, homework, volunteering, stage managing, camp, volunteering, homework, summer school, stage managing, and Hawaii. (The last one is one I actually like...and camp I liked too) Not to mention I started school on August 20th. Seriously. But I'll be laughing at all of you suckers when you get out on June 25th and I get out on May 22nd again. I'll already be done with my sophomore year, and you guys will have another month of it. HA!

I actually did have a decent summer, though. I enjoyed my volunteering and my stage managing. Homework and summer school, not so much. I took Chemistry. Ew. But like I said, my volunteering and stage managing were very enjoyable. I volunteer at the shelter for pregnant ladies who have no where else to go and I take care of their kids while the moms are busy doing whatever pregnant moms who have no where else to go do. Then, I stage managed a show called High School Musical 2 (Yes, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2!!!!) in my community. I'd never worked backstage at a show before, so I didn't really know what to expect, but I ended up really loving it and I want to do it again next summer! And not just for volunteer hours (oh yes, did I mention that I did stage managing for fun not for money? I would love it if I got money, but I'm not complaining-it was a great experience!)

I am loving school so far this year. It's fairly hard, but I like it. Thanks to my taking chemistry over the summer, I can now take two performing arts classes, both of which I am finding to be thoroughly enjoyable. :)

1.) Beginning Jazz Dance- fun, but I'm very uncoordinated...this will help me in later theater life though!

2.) AP World History-VERY hard...my first AP...I like it, but it's still the hardest class I have ever taken. Nevertheless, I love history and I find my teacher engaging to listen to in class. He kind of intimidates me just a tad.

3.) Concert Choir-we only sing worship music in this class, and I love worship music, but it would be nice if we could sing something else for a change so that all of the non-Christian people who like to come to our concerts can be entertained too. I think there should be a balance between the two.

4.) Bible-I love this class. It's very relaxing for me yet I still learn things. Yay.

5.) Geometry-FAIL! I am so bad at geometry it's amazing. I just don't get it. I'm more of an algebra person.

6.) Spanish 2- I actually love Spanish. Is that weird? Maybe. But who cares?

7.) English- I'm kind of indifferent to this class so far. We have to write essays, but the essay topics haven't been super duper interesting, nor has any of the homework been extremely hard. I guess I'll just have to wait for a bit and then judge the class.

In recent theater news...

-9 to 5 closes: Frankly, I'm sad about 9 to 5 closing but not completely surprised. It was only entertaining for adult/teen women/gay men who love Megan Hilty, Alison Janney, and Stephanie J. Block, and possible Dolly Parton. Straight men and little kids are not the main crowd for that kind of show (no offense to any straight men or little kids who love 9 to 5 and are reading this blog right now), and unfortunately, it's mostly families that make up the Broadway crowd. Same reason that Spring Awakening, Avenue Q, and [title of show] all closed as well. That and because our economy is in the pooper.

-Idina Menzel, Tony award winner for Wicked, and her husband, Taye Diggs, had their first baby last Wednesday. His name is Walker Nathaniel Diggs. Doesn't "Walker Nathaniel" sound like some duke or prince's name? "Duke Walker Nathaniel" or "Prince Walker Nathaniel"...

Anyways, I think this baby will be extremely cute, considering how good looking his parents are. I wish the Menzel-Diggs family good luck in the bringing up of Walker Nathaniel. May he become a wonderful and incredible person! I will also be praying for them. They'll need it.

I can't think of any other theater news.

Did anyone here watch Glee? Comment about your thoughts on Glee...

Yours always,

N