Well, I'm back in Louisville...for 2 days lol
I came back to celebrate my birthday with my family and then it's back to Falmouth!
I get a haircut tommorow, dinner with mom and my brother and sister, saturday i'm going to see my little brother's baseball game, then dinner/birthday with my dad, sunday church with the fam, and then back to rehearsal!
Busy weekend, but lots of fun! :)
Friday, May 30, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Feelin' Nostalgic.
Ok, so I'm not gonna lie, it's really frustrating that I wrote a blog entry last night and...it's not showing up. :(
But anyway-so this weekend was really relaxing, the people I'm staying with went camping so I pretty much hung out around their house and sat on their porch and read by the lake. Unfortunately, the pollen in the air is AWFUL so I'm feeling a little under the weather...booo!
But rehearsals are going well--if I can just forget my little girl voice (damn all those "my friend the dictionary" lessons lol), and always have the "woman" sound lol That probably didnt make sense at all haha.
I cant believe I turn 20 in under a week...that's crazy! I was just thinking that it was only 4 years ago I was about to play Maria in "Sound of Music" with CCT and about to turn 16 years old. I took a little stroll down memory lane today and found some pictures and cards and emails I had stashed in a little memory box that I took with me here--GOD I AM SO HAPPY I'M NOT 16 ANYMORE! WOW. Reading some of the stuff I wrote and said made me feel so great about the person I've become. I'm still not as confident as I could be, but seeing just how insecure 16 year old megan was really helped me. I've had people tell me I've changed over the past year, (I think in a good way but that's my own opinion), and seeing those emails and journal entries really made me happy with my life as of now. It was really funny to look at my resume from then to now and think that 16 year old megan would have fallen over knowing all the great shows I've been a part of since then and all of the amazing people I've met just in a few short years.
So, yep, I'm feeling nostalgic. :) but it's a good nostalgic :)
-meg
But anyway-so this weekend was really relaxing, the people I'm staying with went camping so I pretty much hung out around their house and sat on their porch and read by the lake. Unfortunately, the pollen in the air is AWFUL so I'm feeling a little under the weather...booo!
But rehearsals are going well--if I can just forget my little girl voice (damn all those "my friend the dictionary" lessons lol), and always have the "woman" sound lol That probably didnt make sense at all haha.
I cant believe I turn 20 in under a week...that's crazy! I was just thinking that it was only 4 years ago I was about to play Maria in "Sound of Music" with CCT and about to turn 16 years old. I took a little stroll down memory lane today and found some pictures and cards and emails I had stashed in a little memory box that I took with me here--GOD I AM SO HAPPY I'M NOT 16 ANYMORE! WOW. Reading some of the stuff I wrote and said made me feel so great about the person I've become. I'm still not as confident as I could be, but seeing just how insecure 16 year old megan was really helped me. I've had people tell me I've changed over the past year, (I think in a good way but that's my own opinion), and seeing those emails and journal entries really made me happy with my life as of now. It was really funny to look at my resume from then to now and think that 16 year old megan would have fallen over knowing all the great shows I've been a part of since then and all of the amazing people I've met just in a few short years.
So, yep, I'm feeling nostalgic. :) but it's a good nostalgic :)
-meg
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
3 days later!
Ok, since Thursday, LOTS has happened. For starters, I wont be in "Oklahoma" this summer b/c I'm going to be Mary Jane in "Big River" at Kincaid Regional Theatre in Falmouth, KY! I'm so excited!
To make a long story short, this theatre about an hour away from NKU needed a Mary Jane (the pianist from "Hair" is their musical director), and so I called the director and arranged an audition, had it Sunday and I get to do it! They're going to house me until the end of the show's run, and I could not be more thrilled to be in it! It's so funny how my entire summer changed from only 3 days ago!
More later!
Meg
To make a long story short, this theatre about an hour away from NKU needed a Mary Jane (the pianist from "Hair" is their musical director), and so I called the director and arranged an audition, had it Sunday and I get to do it! They're going to house me until the end of the show's run, and I could not be more thrilled to be in it! It's so funny how my entire summer changed from only 3 days ago!
More later!
Meg
Friday, May 16, 2008
Good News All Around.
Well tommorow I head back to NKU, for a few days. We have 2 shows left of "Hair"! And then Carnegie auditions on Sunday--I still cant decide if I'm going. My throat has been feeling very strange and I'm afraid of pushing my voice b/c it's still healing. Idk, we'll see.
Anyway--so this is going to be extra boring as...nothing has really happened this entire week! lol Tommorow I babysit and then drive back to Hair, and that's about it. THANK GOD dean is letting me stay in his dorm room while he's doing summer orientations for students. He was so sweet to offer.
In case any of them read this: A BIG congrats out to Dean and Andrew for their new BFAs!! yaaaay! So happy and proud of both of them!
And 3 of my friends in high school were all cast as amazing parts in "Into the Woods"--so happy for them as well! Good news all around!
Well, it's about time to go to sleep...the going away party for Trent is tommorow, so it'll be a late night tommorow lol
-meg
Anyway--so this is going to be extra boring as...nothing has really happened this entire week! lol Tommorow I babysit and then drive back to Hair, and that's about it. THANK GOD dean is letting me stay in his dorm room while he's doing summer orientations for students. He was so sweet to offer.
In case any of them read this: A BIG congrats out to Dean and Andrew for their new BFAs!! yaaaay! So happy and proud of both of them!
And 3 of my friends in high school were all cast as amazing parts in "Into the Woods"--so happy for them as well! Good news all around!
Well, it's about time to go to sleep...the going away party for Trent is tommorow, so it'll be a late night tommorow lol
-meg
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
How to Return Home.
I really had been looking forward to coming home...til I actually got into the doorway.
To be perfectly honest, I wish I could drive back to nku, tonight. It's only been 3 days and I just cant even put into words how it feels to be back. So...today's entry isnt filled with 'yays' or smilyfaces, which i feel is fine considering usually i only write about things to yay about. I did find a song by my favorite composers Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk called "how to return home" from their musical "the bad years", here's the lyrics:
Your bare feet sliding on the old wooden floorboards,
Home at last and silent but still you’re shaken,
like walking into a museum, somehow out of time.
It’s all the same except the girl in the hallway,
Where she’s been and who she will ripen into,
Your childhood’s on the other side of a gulf to damn wide to climb.
Take silent breath.
Hold in the change.
Tell yourself you still live here.
It’s the only way
you’ll get through this holiday.
Count the hours.
Hit the showers.
Wash yourself away.
The house is pulsing in an alien language,
Why or where it came from, you couldn’t fathom.
But somewhere deep within you answers the girl you were then… again.
Take a silent breath.
Hold in the change.
Tell yourself you still live here.
Take your bags upstairs.
It’s the only way you’ll get through this holiday.
Never mention all the tension.
It’s the price you pay.
How to return home,
and how to survive,
a practical guidebook.
How to go back,
How to walk in and unpack.
How to grow up.
Simply show up.
How to take a breath.
How you take a breath.
Hold in the change.
Tell yourself you still live here.
How you go upstairs.
Show that you’re okay
this thanks-giving holiday.
Do your best here.
You’re a guest here.
Close your eyes and pray.
How to return home.
How to return home.
How to return home.
Your bare feet sliding on the old wooden floorboards,
home at last and quiet but still you’re shaken.
there's a video of laura osnes singing this, it's amazing: ok, my internet is being stupid, but if you're really curious, go on youtube.com and search laura osnes and how to return home.
-meg
To be perfectly honest, I wish I could drive back to nku, tonight. It's only been 3 days and I just cant even put into words how it feels to be back. So...today's entry isnt filled with 'yays' or smilyfaces, which i feel is fine considering usually i only write about things to yay about. I did find a song by my favorite composers Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk called "how to return home" from their musical "the bad years", here's the lyrics:
Your bare feet sliding on the old wooden floorboards,
Home at last and silent but still you’re shaken,
like walking into a museum, somehow out of time.
It’s all the same except the girl in the hallway,
Where she’s been and who she will ripen into,
Your childhood’s on the other side of a gulf to damn wide to climb.
Take silent breath.
Hold in the change.
Tell yourself you still live here.
It’s the only way
you’ll get through this holiday.
Count the hours.
Hit the showers.
Wash yourself away.
The house is pulsing in an alien language,
Why or where it came from, you couldn’t fathom.
But somewhere deep within you answers the girl you were then… again.
Take a silent breath.
Hold in the change.
Tell yourself you still live here.
Take your bags upstairs.
It’s the only way you’ll get through this holiday.
Never mention all the tension.
It’s the price you pay.
How to return home,
and how to survive,
a practical guidebook.
How to go back,
How to walk in and unpack.
How to grow up.
Simply show up.
How to take a breath.
How you take a breath.
Hold in the change.
Tell yourself you still live here.
How you go upstairs.
Show that you’re okay
this thanks-giving holiday.
Do your best here.
You’re a guest here.
Close your eyes and pray.
How to return home.
How to return home.
How to return home.
Your bare feet sliding on the old wooden floorboards,
home at last and quiet but still you’re shaken.
there's a video of laura osnes singing this, it's amazing: ok, my internet is being stupid, but if you're really curious, go on youtube.com and search laura osnes and how to return home.
-meg
Monday, May 12, 2008
Blue Lights.
So this week began with...blue police lights lol
I was driving back to Louisville after the show on Saturday night with my car filled with all the stuff from my dorm room, and it was about 12 or 1 AM. I was about 30 minutes away from Louisville and I saw about 10 deer standing by the highway so I slowed down so I wouldnt hit any of them. Any of you that know me know that I've had lots of car troubles and I dont need to hit a deer. So, I slowed down to about 30 mph and carefully moved throughout that little patch on the interstate...all of a sudden I saw blue police lights! A cop pulled me over for going too SLOW. I'm probably the only 19/20 year old that's happened too lol He let me go with a warning partially b/c I almost started crying and was in complete shock he even pulled me over to begin with! I told him there was deer all over the side of the road and at that moment, one walked across the road! HA!
So then I made it home, and have had a very lazy day today, watching "brothers and sisters" all day (catching up on the 1st season)...and then I found out I have to retake the ACT in June b/c I'm one point lower than what NKU is allowing me to take a REAL math class. I'm not happy about it. Not at all.
But it is summer and I start my job soon and "oklahoma"--thank god.
-meg
I was driving back to Louisville after the show on Saturday night with my car filled with all the stuff from my dorm room, and it was about 12 or 1 AM. I was about 30 minutes away from Louisville and I saw about 10 deer standing by the highway so I slowed down so I wouldnt hit any of them. Any of you that know me know that I've had lots of car troubles and I dont need to hit a deer. So, I slowed down to about 30 mph and carefully moved throughout that little patch on the interstate...all of a sudden I saw blue police lights! A cop pulled me over for going too SLOW. I'm probably the only 19/20 year old that's happened too lol He let me go with a warning partially b/c I almost started crying and was in complete shock he even pulled me over to begin with! I told him there was deer all over the side of the road and at that moment, one walked across the road! HA!
So then I made it home, and have had a very lazy day today, watching "brothers and sisters" all day (catching up on the 1st season)...and then I found out I have to retake the ACT in June b/c I'm one point lower than what NKU is allowing me to take a REAL math class. I'm not happy about it. Not at all.
But it is summer and I start my job soon and "oklahoma"--thank god.
-meg
Saturday, May 10, 2008
End of the Year...
One more show and I can go back to Louisville! 2 shows left after tonight.
Dean was great enough to let me stay in his room last night, b/c we had to be out of the dorms by like 6 yesterday. So he had orientation or something today so ruth and i hung out in his room and watched 'laguna beach' all day--which i've never watched before--but i really like now!
My car is packed up to the ceiling with all of my stuff this year--I'm really going to miss everyone here this summer. I cant wait to go back and everything and do 'oklahoma' but still, i'm going to miss my friends here. Lots of stuff has gone on this year and I'm really happy to say that my friends here have made this entire year great. :)
So today:
yay for Laguna Beach
yay for summer
yay for a successful and good first year at NKU
-meg
Dean was great enough to let me stay in his room last night, b/c we had to be out of the dorms by like 6 yesterday. So he had orientation or something today so ruth and i hung out in his room and watched 'laguna beach' all day--which i've never watched before--but i really like now!
My car is packed up to the ceiling with all of my stuff this year--I'm really going to miss everyone here this summer. I cant wait to go back and everything and do 'oklahoma' but still, i'm going to miss my friends here. Lots of stuff has gone on this year and I'm really happy to say that my friends here have made this entire year great. :)
So today:
yay for Laguna Beach
yay for summer
yay for a successful and good first year at NKU
-meg
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Summer!
Finals are officially OVER! YES!
I had my Acting2 final today and my math final. Pretty much back to back!
Anyway--so I get to go home on Sunday (laaaaate night on Saturday b/c of "Hair")
Only 4 more shows left--and then "Oklahoma"! It's going to be nice to go back to back finally versus closing a show and having a month or two to be in that "I want to do a show" mood I get into.
I was told today I need to be a better dancer/mover. So I'm going to work my butt off this summer on that, my goal is to have a solid double by the end of the summer. Hopefully, that'll happen.
SUMMER 08:
Work MT Spotlight Camps/Dance Camps
Voice lessons with Sharon/Dance lessons with Donna
Work on guitar/piano/write some more
Work on Audition Material
"Oklahoma"
yay for summer!
I had my Acting2 final today and my math final. Pretty much back to back!
Anyway--so I get to go home on Sunday (laaaaate night on Saturday b/c of "Hair")
Only 4 more shows left--and then "Oklahoma"! It's going to be nice to go back to back finally versus closing a show and having a month or two to be in that "I want to do a show" mood I get into.
I was told today I need to be a better dancer/mover. So I'm going to work my butt off this summer on that, my goal is to have a solid double by the end of the summer. Hopefully, that'll happen.
SUMMER 08:
Work MT Spotlight Camps/Dance Camps
Voice lessons with Sharon/Dance lessons with Donna
Work on guitar/piano/write some more
Work on Audition Material
"Oklahoma"
yay for summer!
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Some Thoughts.
Usually, finals week is tense and very highly stressful.
It has surprised me. I've never been so calm and carefree as I have been this week. I've been writing a little bit, I've asked my mom to get my guitar restrung for this summer, have some ideas for maybe a couple of songs :) My voice final is behind me--and given that I had bronchitis about a week ago, I felt good about it (finally!) Those that know me really well know that I tense up in my voice masterclasses here for some odd reason lol
Only 2 more to go--Acting2, and Math095. 1 scene and a test and then SUMMER. Well, not completely, I have a friday and a saturday show of "Hair" and then I get to go home! 2 more shows after that, next Friday/Saturday. 10 days after that, "Oklahoma" starts--could that be any more different? "Hair" vs. "Oklahoma" lol
I'm so looking forward to starting rehearsals for "Oklahoma"--I love the people at CenterStage and I cannot wait to start another show with them! And I cant wait to work musical theatre summer camp there too. yay for summer.
Anyway--I'm not sure if I'll write anymore til after I'm home so to whoever reads this--cheers to a successful fun first year at NKU...third college is a charm!
-meg
It has surprised me. I've never been so calm and carefree as I have been this week. I've been writing a little bit, I've asked my mom to get my guitar restrung for this summer, have some ideas for maybe a couple of songs :) My voice final is behind me--and given that I had bronchitis about a week ago, I felt good about it (finally!) Those that know me really well know that I tense up in my voice masterclasses here for some odd reason lol
Only 2 more to go--Acting2, and Math095. 1 scene and a test and then SUMMER. Well, not completely, I have a friday and a saturday show of "Hair" and then I get to go home! 2 more shows after that, next Friday/Saturday. 10 days after that, "Oklahoma" starts--could that be any more different? "Hair" vs. "Oklahoma" lol
I'm so looking forward to starting rehearsals for "Oklahoma"--I love the people at CenterStage and I cannot wait to start another show with them! And I cant wait to work musical theatre summer camp there too. yay for summer.
Anyway--I'm not sure if I'll write anymore til after I'm home so to whoever reads this--cheers to a successful fun first year at NKU...third college is a charm!
-meg
Monday, May 05, 2008
YAY for...
Sealed (for a while), signed, delivered...I'm back.
Yay for A's in Music Theory Finals!!!
Yay for a great opening for HAIR
Yay for only 1 final tommorow--voice
yay for cute dresses with heels
yay for absolutely beautiful weather.
yay for freedom.
:)
Yay for A's in Music Theory Finals!!!
Yay for a great opening for HAIR
Yay for only 1 final tommorow--voice
yay for cute dresses with heels
yay for absolutely beautiful weather.
yay for freedom.
:)
Friday, May 02, 2008
YAY for today!
YAY for today:
1. yay for sleeping in (no dinosaurs class EVER again!)
2. yay for great jazz finals
3. yay for no music theory test
4. yay for naps
5. yay for hot tea
6. yay for being safe
7. yay for opening of Hair
8. yay for getting my voice almost completely back
9. yay for emasumac this weekend and having fun with skenny
10. yay for the end of the semester!
1. yay for sleeping in (no dinosaurs class EVER again!)
2. yay for great jazz finals
3. yay for no music theory test
4. yay for naps
5. yay for hot tea
6. yay for being safe
7. yay for opening of Hair
8. yay for getting my voice almost completely back
9. yay for emasumac this weekend and having fun with skenny
10. yay for the end of the semester!
"Hair" opens tonight...
So..."Hair" opens tonight!! yeeaaaaaa
Just hanging out in the green room for right now--melissa is asleep on the couch, we are soooo tired!
UPDATE:
I'm kinda almost full voice--thank god. I had bronchitis this past week and megan + getting sick = not a good combination. I haven't been sick since I was like 9 years old, so I never know what to do when that happens. lol
It's the last day of classes and my jazz final is in half an hour--we have to do our "The Wiz" combination and our hip-hop combination. I'm actually going to miss that class--it's gotten me really flexible and the teacher is great. But Im taking jazz 2 next semester so it's all good.
Today: Jazz Final, Voice Lesson, amphitheatre shenanigans, Music Theory 2 test...NAP....SHOW. dear lord, i sound like sara kenny's facebook status lol
oh yea, and that letter? 5 days.
-meg :)
Just hanging out in the green room for right now--melissa is asleep on the couch, we are soooo tired!
UPDATE:
I'm kinda almost full voice--thank god. I had bronchitis this past week and megan + getting sick = not a good combination. I haven't been sick since I was like 9 years old, so I never know what to do when that happens. lol
It's the last day of classes and my jazz final is in half an hour--we have to do our "The Wiz" combination and our hip-hop combination. I'm actually going to miss that class--it's gotten me really flexible and the teacher is great. But Im taking jazz 2 next semester so it's all good.
Today: Jazz Final, Voice Lesson, amphitheatre shenanigans, Music Theory 2 test...NAP....SHOW. dear lord, i sound like sara kenny's facebook status lol
oh yea, and that letter? 5 days.
-meg :)
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