Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *squee*

Sock n Buskin (Carleton U theatre company) is doing Urinetown this winter, auditions in November. I have long wanted to see Urinetown, but even moreso to be in it. I am so auditioning for it.

That's on top of Orpheus doing The Producers next spring, if I play my auditions right, this will be a very entertaining year for being in theatre.

Happy Halloween! Did you set your clocks back?

OW!

Rehearsal was loooong today, long scene, involving all the cast, and ending up with me falling to the floor, obstensibly dead. However, I am not *actually* supposed to hurt myself, by say...landing wrong on my right shoulder such that it's sore enough that I have a hard time lifting anything with that arm.

Plus: I get an on stage kiss
Minus: The slap I receive afterwards is well deserved, Gaston is not a very nice person :)

I do have to say though, this over the top, larger than life villain role...pretty fun on many levels. There is something very engaging playing someone so obviously despicable, so ready to hurt people, so ready to use people to get his way. My ideal line up of characters this year (a long shot, but it's my ideal scenario), is an egotistical womanizer, a mean cop that arrests people for peeing without paying, and a nazi scriptwriter.

I think if I miraculously land all those roles, I will have to find a role next year of someone who loves to pet bunnies and give gifts to orphans.

I have been pondering the SCA. I have done little SCA in the past year. I don't miss the activity itself, I have filled my time amply with other activities such as theatre (and others). I am not missing the social contact, as I have met and been able to socialize with a lot of people in other ways (both old friends and new). However, I do miss specific social contact with specific people. Simply losing touch with a friend and making a new friend is a mixed blessing. I do get to make a new friend, but I have lost some contact with an old friend with whom I had some level of rapport. I miss the post-revs, or meeting good friends on a Friday of travelling because I am staying with them for the weekend. My calendar is still very full (ridiculously sometimes), but it's been so long since I crashed on finitedancer's hide-a-bed, or geeked out with black5sugars, or heard Martin sing one of his quirky songs around a campfire, or danced Rostiboli with Helen, or received a backscratch from freya46, or given thirstysmurf a hug...

...and it's not like I can't simply make an effort to reach out to these people outside the context of the SCA, but there are simply only so many days in a month, and I haven't left myself with a lot of free ones. My fault certainly, and a state I don't regret for the most part, but I still definitely feel a need to crash an Kingston post-rev sometime soon.