Sooo.....

I had my picture taken tonight of a guy I barely know feeling up my boobs.  That is all.

Hoping for the best!

So I just got my list of possible repertoire for voice lessons this semester, and I'm really excited.  Regardless of the fact that I don't want to spend my life in the world of classical music, I feel that it's good to still try to excel in it.  It's helped so much with other aspects of singing and music in general.  I bought a book of mezzo-soprano arias when the cool people from American Music came and set up shop in OP and there's some great stuff in it.  I decided to do one from an opera called "The Saint of Bleecker Street."  Not 100% sure what the show is about, but I like the song and Dr. C said she did too, so I figure it can't be a bad choice.  It's definitely gonna be challenging (it ends on a high G# that's held out for 8 counts...which is slightly reaching for me as a mezzo) but I'm looking forward to it and I really wanna put a lot of work into it.  I'm gonna be doing a Rachmaninoff too (not sure which song yet), which I'm uber-psyched about.  I LOVE his piano works, so I'm hoping his vocal works are just as good.  I'm still debating on my musical theatre choices.  I'd really like to do "A Change In Me" from Beauty & the Beast, but that might be a tad cliche.  We'll see.  I feel like I should do a really good, challenging Disney song before I leave here.  Haven't decided on a second MT song, but I'd like to do one from a serious musical (something like "Ragtime" or "Parade") because I feel like some (okay, maybe most, I don't really know) people in the music department look at musical theatre as the "fluff" music, it's always the "oh-i-wanna-do-something-fun-but-not-serious" music.  Basically, if you pick a musical theatre song, it gets pushed to the back burner in lessons.  I understand that the goal of the department is to improve the student's ability in classical music, but if the student wants to pursue a career in non-classical music I think the teachers should still take it seriously.  So that's my goal for this semester, to balance the two out better.   Anyway, I'll stop my musical musings now.

We just had our second rehearsal for Rocky Horror and I'm excited/anxious about the following weeks.  I'm not really gonna say anything about it here just because, well, we wouldn't wanna spoil anything :)  lol.  Although I will say that this is only my second speaking role in a musical, and the other one was Louise in "Gypsy," in which Louise turns into a stripper.  In this show, Janet turns into a slut.  I'm beginning to sense a frightening pattern.