Nay, gentle maidens, you sing well but vainly.

[chanaleh]

For months, I've been idly thinking of auditioning for mitgsp again with Ruddigore this spring. When I didn't get into theatreatfirst's Much Ado, I thought, Well, maybe that frees me up. I listened to the opera about 85 times in a row. I decided that Mad Margaret actually rather bores me and that what I really would love to sing most of all -- besides possibly Dick Dauntless! -- is Dame Hannah, but that even the bridesmaids' chorus would be charming and fun. I started contemplating either "Oh, foolish fay" or "My lord, a suppliant at your feet I kneel" as an audition piece.

Then I realized the closing performance of Ruddigore is scheduled for the afternoon of May 10, exactly when muchabstracted &co. are graciously planning me a bridal shower, for which my mom has already bought tickets to fly in from CA. Meh!

Then I thought, well, sometimes they cast people even if there's a performance they can't make. Especially if they're just in the chorus, but hey, even sometimes if they get leads (and given how many non-students have been in recent mitgsp shows, I'd been starting to think I might actually stand a chance at getting a named role again).

Only, in examining my calendar for the next 2.5 months, I have come to the conclusion today that I must be Off My Fucking Rocker to even think about trying to squeeze into this show. Because I already have commitments practically every single weekend (never mind that I still want to find a few days to go visit my mom sometime in March or April). Even shoehorning in auditions and four (count 'em, four) rehearsals for SomerVaudeville (May 28) is already proving difficult. And if I walked into auditions tonight with three to five conflicts a week inked into my audition form, they would have to laugh.

So I didn't.

Meh.

... On the plus side, I'm dragging Tiger Boy along with the usual gang to see Sudbury's Yeomen on Thursday night -- with discounted tickets, even! And I've wanted him to see that show ever since MIT last did it.

Also on the plus side, perhaps this will mean I actually manage to go contra dancing again sometime between now and June...

Comments

[currentlee.livejournal.com]

let me know if you want to go to any of the scout house dances; i can be your ride.
(although i slept through the one tonight...d'oh!)
and you could take me to the mit ones, since i have no earthly idea where they are.
(i'm glad you figured out you couldn't do the show before you auditioned...it's much worse realizing it after.)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

The MIT ones are much more... beginner-friendly. Most of the hardcore contrarians I know find them dull, relative to Thursday Contras. But, they're low-key (and certainly convenient!) and plenty active enough for me -- when I even manage to go to *those*! But I'd love to bring you sometime.

Scout House would be awesome, but my Thursdays are currently booked up until, well, April. See rant above. x-) If I'm not still working in Concord by then, I would take you up on carpooling!

[currentlee.livejournal.com]

but there are monday dances as well at the scout house.
either way, i'd love to have a dance with you.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Mondays! I'd forgotten about those. :-) That, I might even be able to do this week (3/3).

[currentlee.livejournal.com]

let me know.

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

It's been too long since I've gone to Thursday night contra (I swing dance on Monday nights).

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Heh. This reminds me of when trowa_barton was considering auditioning for Arms and the Man, which was going to close about 2 weeks before our wedding. I calmly, but firmly informed him that there was no way in hell that that was going to work. :)

[zenala.livejournal.com]

Not quite as good as the excuse of not auditioning due to being on Beauty and the Geek...

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Ack. Do not even get me started. A perfectly good low E flat, wasted!

[cycon.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, I'm dragging Tiger Boy along with the usual gang to see Sudbury's Yeomen on Thursday night

Don't forget your blindfold. ;)

[saxikath]

I know the feeling, having too much else to squeeze in. Brigadoon isn't too demanding so far, but its performance dates do mean I have to miss something else.

Actually, my schedule right now is much saner than it used to be. I look back at the fall of '04 and wonder what I was smoking in order, first, to decide that was a good idea, and second, to survive it. :) (That was the fall I was working full time, editing the Enigma, in Anything Goes with its heavy rehearsal schedule, and choreographing Iolanthe. Yeesh!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_opus_/]

I went through the same angst with the MITG&SP show (Iolanthe) before our wedding.

Of course, just looking at my fiancée's face when I suggested auditioning made the decision pretty simple.

:-)

[drwex]

Hooray for attacks of sanity!