shakespeare festival

the shakespeare festival took place and was great fun!

everyone was so good, so good job everyone!

i performed come away death (again) but this time with mark libatique to help jillian, jose, mark, and rory out with their skit. i sang it a bit lower than joe trapanese's version and along with the way i sang it, it was a lot sadder or something because dr. solberg said it really set a mood and mr. mallm told me the next day that he was amazed because he had never heard me sing before and that i moved him. =) how nice. and i got a delo letter, which was really very nice. after the first rehearsal dr. s asked if i needed mark because i sounded fine on my own, but i insisted on having mark. =) i think it sounded nice and it was the first time we've ever performed a duet in public (we've done the national anthem for a few games but always with at least another person).

and of course, i also did my lady percy speech and i think it was okay. haha.

some of the really good parts? hmm. i did quite like the twelfth night scene, alexis's rendition of "patience" was amazing and really quite beautiful and moving, peter and timothy were excellent at "brush up your shakespeare," and nadia gave the best monologue she ever has--hamlet's flesh melting speech =) and a lot more. everyone was excellent in general. everyone understood their monologues and delivered them convincingly. in fact, in some cases, i had seen their monologues before or seen them act before this year and it was nice to see how everyone had improved, some in leaps and bounds. paula, gid, and yasmeen were also excellent accompanists and all the singers were awesome. emily petrick's voice was so beautiful that at rehearsal i told mark to see the beautiful moment with me and he stayed even though he had to go to the bathroom. haha.

as for our actual shakespeare class, we finally finished casting for as you like it! =O and krystle and emily really have to get that script done. = but anyway, i wanted to be celia at first, then i wanted to be audrey, but i didn't get either, so now i'm corin. =/ oh well. lol i'll find a way to make it work and make it funny. and it's nice that bansri and aaron actually have parts now. yay! but we might have to make new roles for everyone to have a part. we may present it as a tale being told by a grandfather and a nanny to a young girl.

btw, casting was so hard because matching talent to roles was almost impossible. =O in case anyone missed it, the parts are listed at the end of this entry.

i have faith that as you like it will turn out well. i don't really have an official role right now, but i'm guessing i'm the producer but i'm still doing a bit of director stuff which is fine with me.

lit mag stuff is due after break (not to mention newsletter...) so i'll put up a possible submission or two here even though no one reads this.

i guess it's just to get my thoughts out. =)


presenting the cast of as you like it:

Alexandra - Denis
Krystle - Rosalind 1 (1.1-3.3)
Maria - Forester (singing)/Props
Lisli - Lord 1
Bansri - Audrey
Alexandria - Jacques dB
Karla - Duke Sr.
Tyniesha - Lord
Jan - Charles
Amalia - Le Beau
Gina - Phebe
Michelle G. - Hymen
Aaron - Orlando 1 (1.1-3.3)
Summer - Corin/Page (singing)
Justin - Amiens (singing)
Mingo - Orlando 2 (3.4-end)
Michelle L. - Lord 2
Nicholson - Oliver 1 (1.1-3.3)
Alexis - Jaques
Karen - Touchstone
Emily - Celia 1 (1.1-3.3)
Hira - Rosalind 2 (3.4-end)
Emir - Duke Fred
Alberto - Oliver 2 (3.4-end)
David - Silvius
Heefa - Daughter/Costumes
Nayantara - Nanny
Paula - Grandfather
Jacqueline - Oliver M.
Elysse - Celia 2 (3.4-end)
Michelle - Adam (tent.)
Rosie - William (tent.)