Too Busy to Write Anything!

This weekend I was so busy I haven't had time to update anything. We had auditions for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at Walterdale and I have been rehearsing for On The Wire when I wasn't at the auditions. It will be a great show based on the awesome turn-out we had. Tonight I had the Q 2 Q and final dress for On the Wire. It's in great shape especially considering we hadn't run it since Sunday. It will be nice to have an audience to keep us on our toes tomorrow night! 8 p.m. at Fort Edmonton Park - I think there are still a few tickets left!

Train Wreck...

That's all I can really say about my rehearsal tonight. Actually, I can say more. The song is coming along. It totally changed tonight, but it is coming along and I am not worried about anything but the finger snapping! I think we were better in the rehearsal than we thought because it was the weird line screw ups that were messing with our brains (I am using the royal 'us', I think). Anyhow, I would like to think it was not as bad as it felt, but it does mean that I have a lot of work to do. Lines, lines, lines...

Fun Times at the On The Wire Photoshoot!

Here's what I looked like. I will post the actual media photos when we get them! I liked wearing the falsies (eyelashes, that is...).

Laughing Lots

I am having so much fun in rehearsals for On the Wire. It's a wild little ride and we have a lot to do in a short time, but it certainly is fun. I am so glad I am doing it. Last night we worked on the song. It will need a lot of work, but I think it should be fine. I also have a lot of work to do on my lines, but they are coming along!

Home for a Rest...

Okay, so I am back home and I am tired already. This is not the fault of the trip itself, but rather the return to laundry, messy kitchen, laundry, tight schedule, writing a paper (at midnight), doing payroll (at 11 p.m.), having to get up to hand the paper in, kids fighting (they were up late, too) and having lines to learn. I would love to come home to a kitchen as clean as the one I left (or cleaner, that would be awesome) but I don't think that will ever happen. I would love to not have all the laundry to deal with. Maybe some day.

I did have a great time in Toronto. It started off quite fast paced with lunch, a movie, dinner and a pub on Saturday. Then dim sum, a play, and dinner on the Sunday. We slowed down for Monday and Tuesday and fit in a mani and pedi and another movie but mostly visiting. That's what it was really for. I did want to get to a play and managed to get to the Tarragon for Daniel McIvor's new work, Communion, a great 3-hander for women of a certain age (well 2 of them, anyhow). I preferred seeing that because that is very much where my head is at with regards to theatre right now. For movies we saw Hot Tub Time Machine (a delightfully good cheesy movie) and Repo Men (extremely high budget for fake blood - but good - filmed in Toronto). It was nice to go and not have to worry about a sitter...

All in all, it was a good visit. Annie and I talked ourselves out and that was good. I got away and breathed in different air and walked a tonne and that was good. I drank some wine and laughed loudly in conversation and in watching a film and that was good.

On The Wire - Oh, Just one more thing I am doing...

A couple of weeks ago I got this message from a friend saying a company was looking for a 40+ actress to play an 'aging starlet', singing skills preferred but not essential, for a show to start rehearsing in the latter half of March and which goes up mid-April. If the dates worked, I thought I could squeeze it in, and they did (bizarrely so). Last night was the first rehearsal (we had the read-through last weekend) and it was so much fun. It's right up my alley - lots of different voices (we had a bit of discussion as to which ones) and silliness and the cast and director are so much fun to work with. It is called On the Wire and will go up in April at the Selkirk Hotel (well, down the street - they eat supper first and then come down) and only runs three nights. Lots of fun! I am thinking I will have a good time with this one!

Hello... Hellooooo... Hellooooooo....

I heard an interesting segment on CBC Radio the other day about Echo Chambers on the Internet. They were not talking about the physical echo chambers that you can stand in and hear yourself, but rather a media/issue echo chamber. These phenomenon exist outside the Internet as well, and basically they work in that people tend to surround themselves with like-minded people so that they hear they things they believe in echoed back to them by everyone else. It was nice to have a name for what I see happening around me in a lot of situations (both situations to the left and to the right). It is easy to believe that you are right when everyone around you agrees with you and it can even amplify your belief because the echoing builds on it. I think it is where a lot of people go wrong. Instead of questioning what they believe (like good scientists do), they find confirmations of their beliefs which put them even further out of touch with anyone outside the circle. We need to challenge, not only what others believe, but what we believe ourselves. Check the facts. Recognize the alternative opinion. Read far and wide. Surround yourself with people who will challenge what you think. Don't live in an Echo Chamber. It's not a good thing.