Where to begin?

Well good evening!
Yet again I'm running to catch up with this blog, so much going on!
So I'm going to jump right in and update you on last week as, yet again, I need to do 2 weeks update tonight - starting to become a pattern!

So, firstly I had my singing assessment on Monday morning. I performed "Life On Mars" and "Windmills of your Mind". It went really well and I put a lot in to it. Unfortunately I did have a bit of a mind blank on a line or two in "Windmills of your Mind", which I was almost expecting as the song goes round like a circle in a spiral, it's like a wheel within a wheel, never-ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel and you get really confused! Hehehe. So I got a B+ for that one and an A for "Life On Mars" - which I was really chuffed with as I felt it went brilliantly.

During the week I had to contact my manager at work to arrange for me to have that Saturday (the 5th) off for an important all day rehearsal. We arranged that I would work my shift on Thursday (the 10th) instead. Here I used my people skills and my skills in negotiation. It also displayed my commitment.

On Wednesday in our stagecraft lesson we watched the video of our performances and had to give feedback to each other on how we think they did as well as to judge ourselves. I had been in a band with Andrew McCulloch, Katy Forrest and Christy Mcintosh and we had chosen the genre - Country music. Our task was to
1. Write an original country song
2. Do a cover of a song from a DIFFERENT genre and turn it to country style
3. Do a cover of a country song in a DIFFERENT genre.
We wrote a country song called "Dear Old Billy" or maybe it was "Poor Old Billy"? For our song to be turned country we did "Live and Let Die" and for our country to another genre we did "Ring Of Fire" in a bluesy style. We all dressed according to genre - I wore my long wavy red wig (I wore it for the show"Anything Goes" last September) in bunches with a cowboy hat, checked shirt, denim mini skirt and brown boots. We definitely looked the part! I also spoke in a Southern American accent - yeehaws and all.
We did have a few musical glitches but our stagecraft was definitely evident! The other bands had mostly good feedback for us which was encouraging. I only wish the Fat Sams video had been as enjoyable to watch (I'll get to that in the next post).

"Streets" rehearsal on Saturday was great as we had the whole cast there for the first time and we got to know one another as well as get a rough idea of how the show is going to be. I'm very happy to be in it along with Ian Stobbie as we knew each other in Perth Youth Theatre and I hadn't seen him for years, it will be good fun to work with him. I'm glad that I got a different character assigned to me (due to someone else dropping out) as I think the part of Brooke will be great fun - she's a bad girl, but a really interesting character, I think.

Those were the most notable moments of that week I reckon.
On to next week which was actually this week but...the...yeah....