f1r5t p05t!!1! Aka, why blog, Marg?

Yes, I'm completely pathetic. Whatever.

I've been meaning to get a blog for a while now - I'm the kind of person who needs to rant and rave and spew garbage into the ears of anyone who'll listen. What better place for that than online?

The title took much consideration and careful hours of planning. -Okay, that was a lie, I came up with it in about twelve seconds. But it's still meaningful: I plan to go into musical theater, where you have to "shut up and sing" and leave whatever else is in your life behind, the moment you step onto the stage. The "stupid" is because I am a complete idiot and what I post won't always make sense, but this is more for me than you readers, so nyah.

For the two people who read this and DON'T know me IRL, here's an intro: My name is Marge/Margee/any variation thereof, except Maggie. I'm a senior in high school, applying to CMU's drama school. I enjoy long walks on the beach music of almost any genre, devouring fiction by the fistful, and failing at drawing and life in general. I have one mother, one father, one brother, one best friend and one brain cell left (his name is George). This blog will probably die in a week, but I hope I can actually keep something up for once in my life.

To continue: On stage, I wish I was an ingénue, but my mother, director and friends insist I'll be much better as the comic lead. They're right: I'm too tall, too fat and too loud to be a believable romantic lead. Ah well, I can still use the music for auditions, and I can always dream, right?

And now, to business (or, more likely, bitching about my life): I have a flu of the non-swine persuasion, so I'm hoping Dad will let me stay home tomorrow. It's not like anyone's doing much of anything this week, since we have Friday off and we had a super-long field trip today to Ohav Shalom Synagogue (which was very cool).

As for shows I'm in right now, I'm still waiting on a script for Cinderella (as the Fairy Godmother) which may not appear until Monday (!!) if at all (!!!!!). Also, the music director for this one is also doing Titanic, which would be a million times more cool if it didn't open the same week as our show. So schedules will be wonky.

I'm also in Alyssa and Sean's respective One Act Plays, both of which I'm trying to get off book for by the end of this week. In Alyssa's I'm the usual bitchy diva, but in Sean's I'm sort of ingénue-y, which is awesome! I'm engaged to this guy whose mom is basically Mrs. Lovett.

Also trying to work out costume designs for all three shows. Just for my characters, but that's tough enough. I think one of the old fur coats in the closet plus my Confirmation dress will work for Alyssa's, but I probably have to lose about 15 pounds to fit back into it :( . Sean's play is completely up in the air as for costumes right now, but a white blouse and dark skirt/pants always works. The godmother is going to be hardest - the Director doesn't know what she wants yet (unusual for such a micromanager) but Mother dearest went shopping while in Portland for her conference, so we now have fabric with sparkly gold stars to play with. Yay!

Once I work out how to post pictures on here, I'll kick Dad off the desktop and scan some sketches for you to look at, instead of walls of text.

I'm going to try and force myself to post daily or at least weekly, in the hopes of continuing this thing as long as possible. In the meantime, here's my deviantArt account (in case you feel like torturing yourself with my art)

http://raequiem.deviantart.com/

~Marge