Theater & Me

Theater has been a big part of my life, I thought I would take the time to post a few picture of me in costume from a few shows. I few of them need descriptions so here we go.

This first picture is an oldie but a goody. This is me as the singing fairy in Midsummer Night's Dream. This was my freshman year. my friend Melissa is right to the right of me facing the camera, she did my makeup and later that school year she died horribly in an incident with a car.



This next one is me playing the guitar and singing "Figure Eight" from Schoolhouse Rocks! Live! That was our show my senior year, and boy was it fun. We did i think 6 matinée performances in three days for the elementary school children in our area. That was followed my three evening performances then another weekend of shows. We were all about dead on our feet after that. I can't believe that we made it through, but we did.

The other thing about this play was that there were over 20 songs in an hour and a half which meant that they tried to make it so none of us strained our voices by not having all of us in every song. It worked to some extend however I think I was in about 19 songs which was the most I believe out of our entire cast. That was because I have a good voice and I don't have a problem learning music and my voice is strong so I could handle it. In fact I was darned proud that I could sing that many songs in such a short time. Not that the music was very hard at all, but anyway. Time to move along to a different reverie. (Did you notice that my shoes match my shirt, I was really happy to be able to wear my favorite shoes in a play)




The next is of me during Bye Bye Birdie. I played the mother of a character named Kim so during rehearsal things were a bit confusing because when the director would say, "Kim, I need you to do such and such a thing" we would have to ask him if he meant actual Kim, or Sam who was playing Kim. Good times, well sort of I didn't really like that show but i worked my butt off for that director mostly because when I got the part of the mother he said that I wasn't a good actress. I sure showed him. In this picture we are singing "Ed Sullivan" isnt my little family cute. This is my husband in the show and my daughter right after we have found out that we will be appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and that Kim will get a kiss from her favorite singing on live television.

This one is my real family all dressed up in our costumes from "Cinderella" we were all dressed up for the ball or the wedding, I'm not really sure but I think it is the wedding since my brother is dressed up in his Minister costume. That was a fun show and all the family was in it. Mom made my costume, isn't it amazing. I Love It! Mom's dress she found at Goodwill I think and very cheaply I might add. The rest are dressed up in other costume pieces. I love costuming and looking and designing costumes. We don't dress like this every day or wear the crazy makeup either. Silly us and how cute.



This show was done actually the same summer as Cinderella. Actually it was just after we closed Cinderella that I was approached my some family friends to take this role. I had less that a month to learn my lines and everything, I think it was 2-3 weeks actually, so I had to work really hard but it was a fun show. A comedy, where I played a gold-digger. This picture is a publicity shot not a scene from the play, but it is funny. The other characters in the picture are my love interest/fiance and his other fiance who is very lower class but she knew him first hilarity ensues with gangsters, best friends and siblings, and babies. all in all that was one fun summer. By the way, my mom made this dress a well, and yes I am wearing fake nails.