This week has been absolutely insane. First off, Once On This Island (OOTI) has been taking up all my spare time. At this point, my schedule consists of class, rehearsal, eating, and sleeping. I haven't had much time for anything else. But the show is coming along and it looks absolutely amazing. Originally, OOTI was a show that I was impartial about, maybe even not a favorite of mine, but what our director has done with it... it's unlike any other version of OOTI I've seen or heard about. We had our first rehearsal with the band today (it's just piano, and then we had the drummer and bass player come in), and it sounded so cool!!! I'm such a music geek. We made a joke out of it--you know you're a music major when you fangirl over a sitz-probe. Or, as our Jewish accompanist likes to joke, "If you need to relate to me what Christmas morning is like, you'd probably tell me it's like a sitz-probe".
We had Friday night off to go see the other show that Steinhardt is doing, Carousel. My first comment was that I didn't know we had so many skilled dancers! I kind of figured that because we were all music students, dance abilities came way last. But I was pleasantly surprised by the dance talent in my program. And again, like every time I see a program event, I got super excited and super proud of what people in my program can do. The skill level is simply unbelievable (yes I know, I'm geeking out again).
Classes have been pretty much the same as last semester, except for my Graphic Novel class. Not sure if I wrote about this already, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it. It's so interesting to read comics and discuss them in class and recitations; I never thought there was much to comics, but there's so much you could talk about. There's aesthetics, style, genre, tone, the list goes on and on. And I'm also reading some classic, Golden Age comics like the early Fantastic Four and The Spirit and such. It's going to be a fun class!
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