Just PLAYing

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These are all the plays I can think that I have worked on outside of church and school. At least 40 of them before I was 30, not counting the 2 during elementary school. At this rate I will certainly hit 50 before 35! Unless a baby butts in.

  1. Moses and the Freedom Fanatics (second grade)
  2. A Christmas play with a forgotten name (third grade)
  3. Gypsy (1990 – costumes)
  4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1990 – costumes)
  5. Rimer’s of Eldrich (1990 – costumes/asst. stage manager)
  6. Oliver (1991 – costumes)
  7. Matchmaker (1991 – Ermengarde)
  8. Merry Wives of Windsor (1991 – Mistress Page)
  9. Comedy of Errors (1991 – costumes)
  10. Dracula (1991 – stage manager)
  11. Sound of Music (1992 – stage manager/costumes)
  12. Spoon River Anthology (1992 – stage manager/lights)
  13. Large Fears, Little Demons (1992 – director)
  14. Taming of the Shrew (1992 – costumes)
  15. Romeo & Juliet (1992 – stage manager)
  16. The Wiz (1993 – assistant to the director)
  17. The Italian Straw Hat (1993 – stage manager)
  18. Charley’s Aunt (1993 – stage manager)
  19. Bye Bye Birdie (1994 – stage manager/asst to the director)
  20. A Children’s Hour (1994 – Karen)
  21. Twelfth Night (1994 – costumes)
  22. Lysistrata (1994 – asst. stage manager)
  23. A Girl’s Guide to Chaos (1995 – stage manager)
  24. A Doctor In Spite of Himself (1996 – stage manager)
  25. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1998 – stage manager)
  26. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (yes, 3 times) (1998 – stage manager)
  27. The King Stag (1999 – stage manager)
  28. Romeo & Juliet (2000 – stage manager)
  29. Toad of Toad Hall (2000 – stage manager)
  30. Stop Kiss (2001 – stage manager)
  31. Comedy of Errors (2001 – stage manager)
  32. Prelude to a Kiss (2002 – extra)
  33. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2002 – Ophelia)
  34. A Christmas Carol (2002 – stage manager)
  35. Double Exposure (2003 – stage manager)
  36. Twelfth Night (2003 – producer)
  37. Spike Heels (2004 – stage crew)
  38. Equivalent Lands (2004 – Naked Bride)
  39. Taming of the Shrew (2004 – stage manager/producer)
  40. Bemused (2005 – stage manager)
  41. The Winter’s Tale (2005 – producer)
  42. The Tempest (2006 – producer)
  43. Light’s Up Broadway (2006 – stage manager/Elphaba)
  44. Variations of the Death of Trotsky (2007 – Mrs. Trotsky)
  45. All’s Well That Ends Well (2007 – stage manager/producer)
  46. HMS Pinafore (2008 – stage manager)
  47. The Lift (2008 – stage manager)
  48. King Lear (2008 – stage manager/producer)

1928 – Edward Albee, American dramatist

I didn’t do it

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Things I haven’t done, that you probably think I have

  1. Downhill skiing My parents took us once when we were kids and I hated it. I totally don’t understand the appeal. It is cold, windy, difficult, why would you want that?
  2. Spent large amounts of time in Canada You would think, since I live in a border state, that I would have been there a bunch of times. In fact, I have been 2 or 3 times. My parents claim we went when I was a child. We ate lunch just over the border when my sister was visiting her boyfriend at camp. We spent our honeymoon in Montreal. That’s it. 3 times. I’ve been to Cancun more times than that.
  3. Smoked pot I never really saw the need. I had a roommate in college that did, but she was not all that into peer pressure. I was in the room sometimes when my friends smoked up, but I never tried it. It probably has something to do with my pessimistic nature: I’d get caught; I don’t need the muchies to eat too much; I’d get sick; I would do something stupid.
  4. Had a lot of jobs My parents owned their own businesses when I was growing up (still do) and my dad figured I should work for them.  So when I was younger (okay, it wasn’t a real job) I worked in the store, stocking shelves, collecting empties, running the register.  You know, they sold the store when I was twelve, but I was still a better cashier and bagger than the kids who work in our grocery stores.  When I got older I had a lot of tasks around the appraisal office (in our house).  I sorted, labeled, recorded photos.  I photocopied and filed appraisals.  I have only had 4 “real” jobs outside of the family, but that is a list for another day.
  5. Seen a lot of plays I enjoy doing theater, but it has to be really good for me to sit through a performance.  I’ve seen more than your average person, but not as many as I should have seen considering my love for it.
  6. Read many “classics”  Mark Twain called a ‘classic’ a book that everyone praises but which no one actually reads.  I have always been more of a current culture sort of girl.  I have read some of those books others would call classics: Little House on the Prairie, Little Women, David Copperfield.  But I prefer modern fiction.

1959 – The original Broadway production of A Raisin In The Sun opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City.

Barbie-Q

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Barbies not yet on the market:

  1. Vermonter Comes with snowboard, Birkenstocks, pint of Ben & Jerry’s, unshaven legs, long straight hair, clothing optional. Accessories include beat up 20 year-old Volvo or Subaru, shotgun, craft studio, co-op membership, and “green” house.
  2. Britney Spears Comes barefoot and bald with short denim skirt and ill fitting top. Wigs at various lengths and colors can be purchased separately. Also available, two baby boys and a big black SUV. Car seat not sold.
  3. Goth Greta With black hair and multiple piercings, this doll defies the typical Barbie stereotype. Come equipped with black eyeliner and lipstick and wearing fishnets and thigh high boots.
  4. Bruce and Jason Barbie’s gay friends. Civil Union from Vermont sold separately.
  5. Puberty Skipper Twist her right arm around backwards and her boobs grow. Twist her left arm around backwards and she sprouts pubic hair.

1959 – The Barbie doll debuts.

Mar 08

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I have been kind of lazy, just posting lists and not really blogging about them. I have been so busy with HMS Pinafore, that I don’t feel like doing anything else.

I am going to blog every day for the month of March though. I joined NaBloPoMo and the theme for the month of March is lists. So I have been making lists. Lists are hard. I am afraid come March 25 I am going to be making lists of everything I ate that day.

I know I don’t HAVE to make lists, I just have to post. But lists are fun. (was that poor sentence structure or what?) At least I thought they would be fun. I wish I was a better writer. I think of things to write about and then I don’t have time. Or I forget. Or I don’t want someone to find what I wrote and realize it is about them. Although, there is little chance of that happening, since the only people I know in real life who read this are the Lord, Best Lady and Mooch. And I don’t really have much to say (bad) about them. In fact, I am not even sure Mooch reads this any more. She has a full time job now. I suppose I could blog about her.

(are you still with me?)

Things I have been doing instead of writing decent blogs (not that you have come to expect them):

  1. stage managing HMS Pinafore
  2. teeching kids two right gud
  3. laundry
  4. shopping
  5. not cleaning
  6. watching Monk

Top 10

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 In honor of the iPod patent, these are my 10 most played songs on my iTunes.

  1. This Flower: Kasey Chambers
  2. Complicated: Avril Lavigne
  3. All I Wanna Do: Sheryl Crow
  4. Meet Virginia: Train
  5. Say Goodbye: Dave Matthews Band
  6. If I Had $1000000: Barenaked Ladies
  7. Anything But Ordinary: Avril Lavigne
  8. Galileo: Indigo Girls
  9. One Week: Barenaked Ladies
  10. Goodbye Earl: Dixie Chicks

2006 – Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod.

39 things I would do if I won $390 million

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  1. Hire someone to repaint the outside of my house and fix the shingles.
  2. Finish doing over all the rooms in our house.
  3. Buy new cars. A Ford Escape Hybrid either in Vista Blue or Kiwi Green for me.
  4. Buy a new car for my sister and each of our parents.
  5. Buy the most high-end Macbook available.
  6. Give a large donation to my church.
  7. Give a large donation to my college.
  8. Buy a theater curtain set for the high school auditorium.
  9. Pay for a really nice wedding for my sister.
  10. Get braces on my bottom teeth.
  11. Make a scholarship for Star Island in honor of my old friend Sarah.
  12. Make a scholarship for a girl, from our high school, going to a women’s college in honor of same friend Sarah.
  13. Hire a personal trainer and a nutritionist.
  14. Fix the steeple on our church.
  15. Buy a new house.
  16. Adopt.
  17. Buy a house for my sister.
  18. Invest.
  19. Hire a personal masseuse.
  20. Have a chef (to work with my nutritionist) and housekeeper.
  21. Completely rebuild the outdoor stage at the park.
  22. Do over the computer lab at my school.
  23. Make Girls on the Run free for girls in WSESU.
  24. Endow a really nice birthing room at the hospital.
  25. Pay off my parents’ house and apartments.
  26. Rehab the entire downstairs and Sunday School wing at church.
  27. Help Star Island with the electrical and fire improvements.
  28. Locate the two “Little Sisters” I had at Tye River and send them to college.
  29. Buy a radio station and hire John Ashley to play nothing but oldies and do contests.
  30. Boob job (smaller and higher).
  31. Buy a house on a loch in Scotland.
  32. Open a yarn shop.
  33. Buy a new building for the Drop in Center.
  34. Rehab and add onto the Morningside Shelter.
  35. Rehab and add onto the Women’s Crisis center.
  36. Repaint the Grange and get new lights and curtains.
  37. Help out the Nursery Schools and Childcare centers in our area.
  38. Give money to my town to fix up the town offices.
  39. Retire and travel the world.

2007 – United States lottery Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot ever offered of US$390 million.

Movies I can watch again and again

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Last year I participated in a March Movie Madness game.  This year’s game will be played with comedies.  My husband and I will be choosing the movies together (he may not know that yet).  I hope I do better this year than last.  I think I was in the bottom 3.

In no particular order (except the one I thought of them in):

  1. The Muppet Movie
  2. Say Anything
  3. A Fish Called Wanda
  4. Two Brothers
  5. Gosford Park
  6. Romeo + Juliet
  7. Mulan
  8. Shrek
  9. Finding Nemo
  10. Monty Python’s Holy Grail
  11. Sweet Home Alabama
  12. Princess Diaries
  13. Legally Blonde

1944: First televised Academy Awards

A dozen things about Vermont

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    1. Vermont does not allow billboard advertising. I love that. It is so nice to drive on the interstate (91 and 89) and not be faced with advertising every 10 feet. It is so obvious when you cross over into New York or Mass.
    2. John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont. Who knew?
    3. Montpelier is the smallest state capital. It isn’t really a very exciting town either.
    4. Also, Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonalds. What a claim to fame!
    5. The state tree is the Sugar Maple. Yummy.
    6. Brigham Young and Joseph Smith were both born in Vermont. So, Vermont caused Mormonism.
    7. The first postage stamp issued in the US was made in Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1846. I don’t have a pithy comment for this one.
    8. On July 2, 1777, Vermont became the first state to abolish slavery. How does that explain our nearly complete lack of blacks?
    9. Vermont was, at various times, claimed by both New Hampshire and New York.  And now?  Everyone thinks we are a city in Massachusetts.
    10. Vermont is the largest producer of maple syrup in the U.S., producing over 500,000 gallons a year.  I will only eat real maple syrup.  My wedding cake was maple flavored and the wedding favor was maple candy.
    11. Until recently, the only way a Vermonter could get a photo driver’s license was to drive to Montpelier.  Seriously, my permit (1992) was a thin piece of plastic coated paper.  Only in the last 10 years could you get a photo license locally.
    12. Vermont was the first state admitted to the union after the first 13 colonies.

      1791 – Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.

      Funeral Blues

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      I am going to a funeral today.

      No one likes going to funerals. No one enjoys them. No one looks forward to them. You are saying goodbye to someone you knew. Cared about. Loved.

      I am going to a funeral of a child today.

      I didn’t actually know Brady. His mom is the younger sister of a friend of mine from high school. My sister is friendly with Brady’s mom.

      Brady was 3 and a half. His death was an accident. A sad, horrible accident.

      He leaves an older brother and a brother to be born next month; his mom and dad; several aunts and uncles and cousins; grandparents on both sides and even great-grandparents. He was cute and lively and a little bit devilish.

      I am going to a funeral today.

      Funeral Blues 

      Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

    -- W.H. Auden