Stitch the Diva....
May. 3rd, 2004 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darth_stitch*snort*
Er. Yeah. Right.
*snorfles*
*loses it completely*
*starts laughing*
Sorry. I shall probably be quieter than the usual for the next week or two as we continue to rehearse for that play I'm in. Jaysus, singing can be tiring!
I never took voice lessons but yeah, I could sing on pitch and was good enough to sing in public ever since I was a kid. Of course, you get some kind of training if you're in a choir, which I was able to have. The trouble was, I had overprotective parents (read: my father) who violently objected to me coming home late at night from practice. So while I could get into choirs, I was never able to stay in them for long.
(Although *snerksnerk* Simon Cowell would probably verbally eviscerate me if I showed up to an American Idol audition. Hee! Star material, I definitely definitely ain't.)
Anyway, doing this play gig over at the *cough* theatrical institution I work in is all just for fun. I'm a writer and proofreader there, not an actual honest-to-god actress/singer. And this is pretty much a culminating activity for theatrial workshoppers (stage managers, lighting designers, costume makers etc.).
However, the material I've been given to sing is DAMN FUCKING HARD. The director, who was delighted with the performance I did in our last amateur theatrical, decided to really use me as a major lead for FOUR numbers. Jesus. That's FOUR damn songs I have to learn, all of which are fun but a bitch to sing. I've got two down and I think I can pull 'em off now, but the romantic duet is making me pull my hair out in frustration and I just don't want to think about the first song they've foisted on me. Bloody hell.
I'm looking on this as a challenge, however. Because the vocal coach and I discovered I really can reach the high notes, I'm just scared shitless of going for it. So the battle (again!) is in my head. *knocks head against desk*
I wanna do well in this, I really do. Not just because I don't want to be embarrassed in public but also because, hell, this is FUN. So I must rest my voice, relax, sort out my nerves and my subconscious and just...well, reach for it.
So my voice is tired and my throat aches but I feel proud that I managed to learn something new today.
Wish me well, folks or as they say - "break a leg."
Er. Yeah. Right.
*snorfles*
*loses it completely*
*starts laughing*
Sorry. I shall probably be quieter than the usual for the next week or two as we continue to rehearse for that play I'm in. Jaysus, singing can be tiring!
I never took voice lessons but yeah, I could sing on pitch and was good enough to sing in public ever since I was a kid. Of course, you get some kind of training if you're in a choir, which I was able to have. The trouble was, I had overprotective parents (read: my father) who violently objected to me coming home late at night from practice. So while I could get into choirs, I was never able to stay in them for long.
(Although *snerksnerk* Simon Cowell would probably verbally eviscerate me if I showed up to an American Idol audition. Hee! Star material, I definitely definitely ain't.)
Anyway, doing this play gig over at the *cough* theatrical institution I work in is all just for fun. I'm a writer and proofreader there, not an actual honest-to-god actress/singer. And this is pretty much a culminating activity for theatrial workshoppers (stage managers, lighting designers, costume makers etc.).
However, the material I've been given to sing is DAMN FUCKING HARD. The director, who was delighted with the performance I did in our last amateur theatrical, decided to really use me as a major lead for FOUR numbers. Jesus. That's FOUR damn songs I have to learn, all of which are fun but a bitch to sing. I've got two down and I think I can pull 'em off now, but the romantic duet is making me pull my hair out in frustration and I just don't want to think about the first song they've foisted on me. Bloody hell.
I'm looking on this as a challenge, however. Because the vocal coach and I discovered I really can reach the high notes, I'm just scared shitless of going for it. So the battle (again!) is in my head. *knocks head against desk*
I wanna do well in this, I really do. Not just because I don't want to be embarrassed in public but also because, hell, this is FUN. So I must rest my voice, relax, sort out my nerves and my subconscious and just...well, reach for it.
So my voice is tired and my throat aches but I feel proud that I managed to learn something new today.
Wish me well, folks or as they say - "break a leg."
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Date: 2004-05-02 09:09 pm (UTC)Be thinking of me in an hour, I've got a test! :P