Friday, December 16, 2011

In which I splurged my little sister in the face and laughed maniacally

Christmastime and theater: they'll keep a girl from her blogging, that's certain.  But, I managed to find this little time slot here on a rainy day between decorating the Christmas tree and performing a musical tonight.  Both of my little sisters and I were in Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity, which ran last week.  I was a musician, playing my mandolin, singing harmony and two solos.  Pretty fun...until I got a sore throat. Thankfully, it healed in about two days.  However, I didn't allow myself enough recovery time, because I was hoarse the following two weeks.  Which meant singing in front of a live audience songs in which I have to shoot into my head-voice with raspy vocal cords.  But, I managed to make it through with relatively few embarrassments (upon returning backstage after singing a particularly tough song, Olivia came up to me and said encouragingly, "Your voive only cracked twice!" Ah, little sisters; gotta love 'em.)  All in all, it was lovely.  Here's a picture from the Noah's Ark scene:


I also wrote, directed, and acted in the Christmas program at church this year.  It was somewhat difficult trying to work with people who aren't as passionate about theater as I am to put together a play, but it came together alright in the end, and I'm glad I did it.

Tonight and tomorrow night the youth drama group that Olivia and I are in is performing Bugsy Malone, a musical about kid gangsters who shoot each other with whipped cream guns called "splurgers."  Our stage manager spray painted toy guns and taped cans of silly string to them, and that's our splurgers. I play a character named Bronx Charlie, who basically goes around "splurging" people.  And at one one point I get Flash Frankie, played by my little sister.  And there's lots of singing and dancing throughout, and it's really, really fun.

Aaannddd, aside from theater, I've been trying to get in some schoolwork and figure out a celebratory post for Christmas....the facebook swapping thingie day!  Just nine more days....wow.  Time flies when you're an artistic human who knows awesome people.

Anywho, once Bugsy is over, hopefully I can get around to making this Blunderkind video I've been thinking of for months. Until then...

DBF OUT!
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3 comments:

  1. Kellie Ann Cassel10:58:00 AM

    Wow! Your theater experience sounds amazing! I actually just got done filming a funny little video with my friends, and we all await play to start hopefully next month or in February. Christmas shopping has seemed to occupy a lot of my time lately. I'm soo excited for Christmas too! Our youth christmas party is tonigt so that should be interesting.
    Was that you in the purple on the left in that photo? If so, cute shirt! I'm glad you get to do what you love. :) Merry Early Christmas!

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  2. Caroline2:09:00 PM

    Man Kell, you're really good at finding me! 'Tis I in the purple; thanks, it's one of my favorite shirts :)
    Funny videos rock. I'm so glad you get to do that with your friends; film and theater are awesome about bringing people together. That's part of why I love it so much.

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  3. the other Pevensie girl8:43:00 AM

    Theater sounds absolutely incredible! It's awesome that you get to have these experiences with it. Congrats on the writing/directing/acting for the Christmas program, too! It must have been wicked to be doing all three. And the Bugsy musical sounds too funny. I wish I could see it!

    Oh man, I've been brainstorming about the all-important facebook swappy post for AGES. Hopefully we'll all come up with something by the end of the week. I can't believe it's so close!! Also can't wait to see this Blunderkind vid that you mentioned. I'm sure it'll be fantastic!

    And last, but certainly not least, I had a feeling that was you in the picture! I must agree on the shirt, it's lovely! Both you and Kellie have impeccable taste. (:

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