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ASM 1: Do you know if we’re doing goop?

ASM 2: Yes we are teching goop.

#in piano tech rn and just overheard this and I have no idea what it means but should I be nervous #tech theatre #theatre #theater #tech theater #musicals #plays #Broadway #opera #backstage #rehearsals #tech week #hell week #summer stock

The people who can break through Do Not Disturb: mom, dad, brother, sister, stage manager.

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So uh...I'm in Minnesota? Maybe I'll post some rehearsal quotes and whatnot? Apparently I only post here when I'm on faraway contracts.

#your favorite theatre kid turned opera singer chiming in to inform you that I am in fact alive #theatre #theater #opera #rehearsals #broadway #musicals #Youtube

What was your wildest audition theatre kids because mine still is a callback 9 years ago where over the course of 15 minutes I nearly shattered my glasses, rode a shopping cart like a scooter, and fought for my life sight reading a score that I think was written in fucking crayon

#to this day it has not been topped #i was afraid to tell it publicly for the longest time because i was still in school there #i was 19 when it happened if it was me today i would have walked out #auditions #audition season #opera #musicals #musical theater #musical theatre #theatre #theater #broadway

Welcome back to a brand new episode of “Amy actually isn’t dead and just never updates anymore for no discernible reason”

Merry audition to all who celebrate and may the odds be ever in your favor

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#now that I finally can post photos from the shows #DMMO #des Moines metro opera #Des Moines #Iowa #ia #opera #theatre #Broadway

uh...hi???

Anybody still here? Bueller?

Anyway after a very tough 3 years of pandemic cancellations and numerous rejections, I've traded in the streets of NYC for the corn fields of Iowa (temporarily!). I'm out here at Des Moines Metro Opera for the summer and couldn't be happier!

This also means that I'll be in tech soon so maybe send me some hell week stories or whatever :)

#tales of hell week is back baybeeeeeee

how strong is gaff tape? well buckaroo 3 years ago on a shoot the foot of my monopod kept falling out and a technician gave me some gaff to hold it together so I could get through the rest of the day and that tape is still holding strong to this day like I never bought another monopod despite the one I have objectively being broken and also the gaff tape rendering it impossible for it to fit inside it’s own case so I gotta carry it around all fucked up but honestly at this point I’m never replacing it it’s just gonna be taped from now until the rapture and that tape will probably still be intact after the nuclear winter

#did I come back to tumblr literally just to post this nonsense #apparently but also this is 100% true #it is a single subway ride between me and B&H I don’t even have to change trains what is wrong with me

after 3 months of audition season i'm about ready to live in a cave in montana

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alright so in my ongoing project to digitize my sheet music collection I stumbled on a book of Leonard Bernstein songs I forgot I had and whilst I was scanning i was reminded that for no discernible reason Lenny boy wrote a whole song cycle that’s literally just recipes

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Oh hey! I know those pieces! The Opera company I worked for did them as an opening for the Julia child's Opera bon appetit. They're absolutely wild. And I try to explain them to people, and everyone is like that's absolutely not a thing. And I'm like yes it was because I had to track down four chefs hats for it.

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IM SORRY THERES A JULIA CHILD OPERA

alright so in my ongoing project to digitize my sheet music collection I stumbled on a book of Leonard Bernstein songs I forgot I had and whilst I was scanning i was reminded that for no discernible reason Lenny boy wrote a whole song cycle that’s literally just recipes

#every composer has at least one piece that’s like “why does this exist

hey look! it's a backstage vlog! after literal years!

it took me so long to get around to finishing editing this that i no longer drive that car

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not all rehearsal facilities in NYC are like Ripley-Grier most of em you gotta say the magic word to a sketchy doorman then ride an elevator from the Eisenhower administration and then hope that bitch lands on the right floor because if not you’re gonna wind up in some guys living room

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Allow me to add that the vast majority of these places are not at all labeled as rehearsal facilities from the outside because they’re located in high rises so you really are taking your life into your own hands

#opera america/the national opera center is the only one I’ve seen thus far with a literal label outside the building

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I played like five seconds of a Sondheim accompaniment today accurately with acrylic nails on and frankly that should have been the test they made us take to get out of music school

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I also may and or may not have been sight reading which is an absolute idiot move on my part but also sight reading is the worlds greatest tool for procrastination and on top of that it was one of those “I have one minute left in this lesson and I just got an idea” teacher moments

#Copland is ultra strict and piano is one of the things that you learn to some extent whether you like it or not #but also I’m graduated for good now and some of my music Ed profs needed to chill because piano ain’t the centerpiece of teaching voice

I played like five seconds of a Sondheim accompaniment today accurately with acrylic nails on and frankly that should have been the test they made us take to get out of music school

#I have two students auditioning for into the woods and another auditioning for 13 #god help me #I don’t play too much while teaching because it’s hard to listen and play at the same time and I’m not the worlds best pianist #but still even just the melodies are BRUTAL

Me: *assigns a Sondheim piece*

Also me: *realizes that I now have to play it*

Also also me: WELL IF IT ISNT THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY OWN ACTIONS

#same with literally anything from Wicked because every song from that show is in like 5 keys #i play myself every damn time

“How long should we make the opening?”

“Idk just fuck me up man”

#not doing this show just organizing some stuff in my iPad #I have a couple students auditioning for it tho #into the woods is just one really long song with some dialogue sprinkled in and you cannot convince me otherwise #into the woods #theatre #theater #broadway #stephen sondheim #musical theater #musical theatre #shows #plays

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