Children's Theatre and Underwear

I am now going into my fifth week at Lexington Children's Theatre and it has been an experience to say the least. Our first show is an original piece entitled "I Dedicate This Ride: The Making of Isaac Murphy" and has solidified that I would never like to work on a new piece without the writer being there to guide and rewrite and help in creating the final product. The "script" at first was, as Celie from the Color Purple would say, "a dusty old mess," but I feel like through a lot of hard work and creative freedom we edited it down and cut and paste the script into a workable play. But through all the cuts and edits that were necessary I still feel some form of regret because the author wasn't there to put his input in. Anyways, yesterday was opening day and our first public show and the adults seem to really enjoy it and think it's a great story. I think majority of the kids were lost though, but we'll see how they really feel starting tomorrow when we have school performances.

Other than that I have created a new word, Kentuckedy. It's the Southern Baptist Preacher way to say it. I had to record the curtain speech using a Southern Baptist Preacher accent, and needless to say I need to work on that "character" a little more. Not that it's bad, and the people who told me to do it are displeased, I am not happy with the overall product. I guess that's what you get when you only get three takes and have to say a page long speech in under a minute.

Something way more exciting than all of that is I will be a make-up artist for an underwear fashion show in October. I'll basically be contouring abs and thighs as you want to draw focus to the underwear, and I'm not usually a fan of being that close to people's crotches, but I think it's a great opportunity and it's for a good cause since the show benefits Lexington Fairness, a gay rights organization. We'll see how it goes!

I should finish watching Go Diego Go since I'll be essentially playing him in Junie B Jones.

Peace and Love