Vintage Tea - Sooo... what have you been up to?

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Oct. 22, 2009

Sooo... what have you been up to?

Quite, a bit, actually. It's been a rather busy and at times trying past two weeks. Here's a bit about what I've been doing lately.

Well, Christmas Carol practice started on the 11th, so it's been Christmas Carol 6:00-8:00 (sometimes 8:30) every night, Monday through Thursday. Right now we are doing Vocal Rehearsals, but next week it will be blocking. *is super excited*

Blocking is super duper fun! Basically, the director tells us where she would like everyone to be on stage, when we should move, when we should freeze, when we should sing, when we should wave... ect. All the good stuff. I blocked my Charwoman/Laundress/Keeper scene (In case you didn't know, I'm the Laundress) a few days ago

My mom and I decided to base our characters on various characters from books and movies, but one in particular stuck out to me. So my character is a mix between Bellatrix Lestrange from 'Harry Potter', and Nancy from 'Oliver Twist'

http://eternalopus.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/bellatrix3.jpg

Interesting Combination, is it not? :o) I'm supposed to be completely crazy, which is sooooo not like the real me, right? (Don't answer that)

Anyway, so today was costume fitting. It was a lot of fun! I tried to get good pictures, but the lighting was really, really bad there, so they turned out... O...K... but anyway. I shall commentate as I go along.

The place where the theatre stores all of their costumes is a gigantic old warehouse. It is a really lovely place, full of character! Many of the costumes are in boxes. Sadly, last year many of the christmas carol costumes were not returned to the theatre, so they don't have as many as last year.

The Room. It has gigantic windows!

In the room

At First, I had a hard time finding a good costume. You would think that it would be really easy since it..
1. Doesn't have to match (I'm one of the poorest characters in the show)
2. Can be ratty and ripped to shreds...

Regardless, I was being a picky customer. But finally, I found something I sorta-kinda actually liked. Behold my costume! (remember, it's SUPPOSED to be dreadful!)

My costume consists of....
A tan-ish shirt
A gray and white striped skirt (You can't really see it in the picture. Just know, It's ugly)
A black shawl
My brown boots
And a hat... not yet sewn

I look kind of dreadful in this picture, but I wasn't feeling a hundred percent..... well, we'll get to that in a minute.

After I finally got my costume together, it was time to have a little fun.

First, I tried on Mr. Scrooge's top hat. (I hope you don't mind, Mr. Scrooge!)

Again, sorry about the dreadful picture.

My little sister Heidi got in on the fun as well, and tried on a very brightly colored hat. This one is not for CC... the theatre stores all of their costumes at this warehouse.

So yes, that was our costuming experience.

So now, as to why I'm feeling crummy... well actually, I'm not the only one around this homestead who's been sick. My little brother has been sick with the swine flu for the past couple of days. He's finally getting over it. I hope I'm not next! My cousins Rayanne, and Ryan and Jimmy have the swine flu as well. I hope we all get better soon!

So, yes. Well, that's all. Have a great day!

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Oct. 23, 2009 - Costumes

Posted by Marvelousme

Oh,wow!! That IS a big room! Where is it?

You were right. Your costumes is not very nice on the eyes,but,hey,it's not supposed to be!

One thing,though. You are the Laundress,so your costume better be squeeky clean!

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Oct. 24, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by alizona

Wow, your hair is so long and pretty! I'm trying to grow mine out, but it splits and get dry on the ends, and just as it starts getting long, Mom says, "Your hair needs a trim!" So she cuts a few inches off, and we repeat the process. ;-)

Your play sure sounds fun! Although I'm not totally sure I would enjoy it. I'm in speech co-op, and although we've only done two or three lessons, I dread it. :P I've begged to be allowed to stay home, but to no avail. So if acting is anything close to public speaking... I might not find it as fun as I think.

But then... acting... at least you don't have to come up with any ideas yourself. You're given a script. Now I could probably handle that just fine. It's the coming up with ideas part that terrifies me most, I think. :-)

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