nervous – CSOPA

January 2015

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #11

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, audience, awesome, band, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, cultural centre, dark, deer in the headlights, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, excited, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honest reaction, honey, improvement, kessia, killer, kind, kirsten, lines, live music, lurch, macdonald, makeup, mark, meowntain, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, moving in, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, quote, rad, randolph, raven, school, set, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stoked, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, tewksbury, the tango, theatre, tickle, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, wonderful chaos, yoga|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) January 9th, 2015 NUMBER OF DAYS UNTIL WE ARE IN THE CULTURAL CENTRE = 1 NUMBER OF DAYS UNTIL FIRST AUDIENCE = 5 Today was our last day in the banquet hall. Honestly it's going by so fast I have to constantly remind myself to enjoy every moment. Today started

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #10

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, audience, awesome, band, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, cultural centre, dark, deer in the headlights, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, excited, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, improvement, kind, kirsten, lines, live music, lurch, macdonald, makeup, mark, meowntain, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, moving in, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, set, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stoked, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, tewksbury, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, wonderful chaos, yoga|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) January 9, 2015 DAYS UNTIL CULTURAL CENTER = 1 SOOOOOOO EXCITED. Our set has been moved in if I'm correct. We (the cast) are moving in soon. I can't believe it. It honestly seems like a month ago we were still working through and learning songs. It has gone by so

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #9

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, audience, awesome, band, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, dark, deer in the headlights, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, excited, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, kind, kirsten, lines, live music, lurch, macdonald, makeup, mark, meowntain, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stoked, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, tewksbury, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, wonderful chaos, yoga|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) Jan 4, 2015 So today was super rad and really interesting because we did our first run through of all the dances with the orchestra. Of course there were some bumps in the road. But we ran everything from the bug tap number, to the tango, the salsa (sorta) style

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #8

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, awesome, band, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, dark, deer in the headlights, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, excited, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, kind, kirsten, lines, live music, lurch, macdonald, makeup, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stoked, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, wonderful chaos, yoga|

http://youtu.be/UgOhrhZWrYw Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) January 3, 2015 Today was our second sitzprobe, which was totally awesome. Of course there were the little bumps in the road. As Andrew called it 'Deer in the headlights look' when a song didn't sound exactly like the rehearsal track which I was very guilty. Other

ADDAMS FAMILY Rehearsal Journal #7

Tags: abs, acdc, addams, arts, awesome, brittany, caylen, chilliwack, christmas, coffee, cold, csopa, dark, denevers, director, discoveries, enter, exit, facial expression, family, fruit, game, gomez, grandma, hannah, harmonies, hilarious, honey, kind, kirsten, lines, macdonald, mic, morticia, move toward the darkness, musical, nervous, orchestra, parodies, performing, posture, practicing, rad, randolph, raven, school, sitzprobe, sleep, soreness, stay awesome, stumble through, tales, tangles, tango, tea, tewaking, the tango, theatre, tomorrow, trischa, veggies, wednesday, wonderful, yoga|

Written by Hannah deNevers (Morticia) January 2, 2015 Today was our first sitzprobe! Sitzprobe is a German term used in opera and musical theatre to describe a seated rehearsal—the literal translation of Sitzprobe—where the singers sing with the orchestra, focusing attention on integrating the two groups. In case anyone didn't know. Basically we

January 2014

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #22 (THE END)

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, 8 hours, a game, advertisement, align entertainment, amazing, annoyingness, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, baby, backpacks, band, basket case, bawling, beautiful fairy, beauty sleep, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, boyfriends, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, brittna, buhler, bummer, burpee, butt, Carmen, caroline, cast, centre, challenges, challenging, charming, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, closing, clough, clutz, coffee, comfort zone, core, costume, costumes, count-down, crazy, crunches, cry, crying, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, dinner, director, directors, donkey, dragon, dress, dress rehearsal, dressing rooms, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, eye glitter, eyelashes, family, fantastic, farquaad, fat, fiona, fiottnay, fire alarm, fire curtain, fly down, fly up, flying, flying deer, freak flag, friends, gah, gingy, glover, go, go go go, great moments, green, groans, grow, guilty, handsome, harness, healthy, horse, ignore, improve, incapable, instruments, intentions, interesting, intermission, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, klutz, knees, krista, last day, lie, life, lift, lights, lisa, love, maddy, magical, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, mics, miley, Mississippi, mom, monitor, mr October, musical, musician, nervous, new years eve, night, no excuses, no regrets, noob, nose, nutrition, ogre, ogress, open arms, opening, opening night, opinions, orchestra, pages, passionate, peed, performance, performing, peter pan, piggies, pinky swear, Pinocchio, plank, pleasant, poop my pants, pooped, pooper-scoopered, positive, potential, practice, prince, project dance, projections, props, Q2Q, quarter, quickly, raven, rehearsal, relationships, robinson, rockstar, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, screwed up, self-confidence, shoe, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, slow clap, sounds, speed, spilled, spinach, stairs, stinky, story of my life, stretching, stronger, stumble, stunning, supportive, talent, tap, tea, team, tech run, teenager, thankful, theatre, theory, thoughts, toe bag, toodle-loo, tools, trischa, two show day, ugly ogre, unbalanced, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, warmup, watching, water, wonderful, wrap, y, yoga, your beautiful selves, ze piggy music|

Jan 26, 2014 Well, that's a wrap. Shrek's all done, and for me CSOPA's all done. But to be honest, as sad as it is, I'm ready. I think after A Year with Frog and Toad I didn't feel like my time at CSOPA was over but now I do. And that's not at all

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #20

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, 8 hours, a game, advertisement, align entertainment, amazing, annoyingness, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, baby, backpacks, band, basket case, bawling, beautiful fairy, beauty sleep, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, boyfriends, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, brittna, buhler, bummer, burpee, butt, Carmen, caroline, centre, challenges, challenging, charming, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, closing, clough, clutz, coffee, comfort zone, core, costume, costumes, count-down, crazy, crunches, cry, crying, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, dinner, director, directors, donkey, dragon, dress, dress rehearsal, dressing rooms, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, eye glitter, eyelashes, family, fantastic, farquaad, fat, fiona, fiottnay, fire alarm, fire curtain, fly down, fly up, flying, flying deer, freak flag, friends, gah, gingy, glover, go, go go go, great moments, green, groans, guilty, handsome, harness, healthy, horse, ignore, improve, incapable, instruments, intentions, interesting, intermission, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, klutz, knees, krista, last day, lie, lift, lights, lisa, maddy, magical, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, mics, miley, Mississippi, mom, monitor, mr October, musical, musician, nervous, new years eve, night, no excuses, noob, nose, nutrition, ogre, ogress, open arms, opening, opening night, opinions, orchestra, pages, passionate, peed, performance, performing, peter pan, piggies, pinky swear, Pinocchio, plank, pleasant, poop my pants, pooped, pooper-scoopered, positive, potential, practice, prince, project dance, projections, props, Q2Q, quarter, quickly, raven, rehearsal, relationships, robinson, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, screwed up, shoe, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, slow clap, sounds, speed, spilled, spinach, stairs, stinky, story of my life, stretching, stronger, stumble, stunning, supportive, talent, tap, tea, team, tech run, teenager, thankful, theatre, theory, thoughts, toe bag, toodle-loo, tools, trischa, two show day, ugly ogre, unbalanced, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, warmup, watching, water, wonderful, y, yoga, your beautiful selves, ze piggy music|

SUNDAY NIGHT. I'm currently eating an actual dinner right now. And sitting. And still slightly green. And it's awesome. Super sorry I haven't blogged in a while but I've been doing this weird thing called performing. I'm in this show called... um... Shrek. I think. Either way it's pretty awesome. So I'm going to take

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #19

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, 8 hours, a game, advertisement, amazing, annoyingness, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, baby, backpacks, band, basket case, beautiful fairy, beauty sleep, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, boyfriends, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, brittna, buhler, bummer, burpee, butt, Carmen, caroline, centre, challenges, challenging, charming, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, clough, clutz, coffee, comfort zone, core, costume, costumes, count-down, crazy, crunches, cry, crying, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, director, directors, dress, dress rehearsal, dressing rooms, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, eye glitter, eyelashes, family, fantastic, farquaad, fat, fiona, fiottnay, fire curtain, fly down, fly up, flying, flying deer, freak flag, friends, gah, gingy, glover, go, go go go, great moments, groans, guilty, harness, healthy, horse, ignore, improve, incapable, instruments, intentions, interesting, intermission, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, klutz, knees, krista, last day, lie, lift, lights, lisa, maddy, magical, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, mics, miley, Mississippi, mom, monitor, mr October, musical, musician, nervous, new years eve, night, no excuses, noob, nose, nutrition, ogre, ogress, open arms, opening, opinions, orchestra, pages, passionate, peed, performance, performing, piggies, pinky swear, plank, pleasant, poop my pants, pooped, pooper-scoopered, positive, potential, practice, prince, project dance, projections, props, Q2Q, quarter, quickly, raven, rehearsal, relationships, robinson, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, screwed up, shoe, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, slow clap, sounds, speed, spilled, spinach, stairs, stinky, story of my life, stretching, stronger, stumble, supportive, talent, tap, tea, team, tech run, teenager, thankful, theatre, theory, thoughts, toe bag, toodle-loo, tools, trischa, two show day, ugly ogre, unbalanced, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, warmup, watching, water, wonderful, y, yoga, your beautiful selves, ze piggy music|

January 16, 2014 WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. First two-shows-in-one-day complete! A morning show for schools and then our second preview night. In between shows people were either sleeping, doing homework, eating, or just chilling. It was nice to have a break to work on my audition material. I think our morning show was pretty good but definitely not

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #18

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, 8 hours, a game, advertisement, amazing, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, baby, backpacks, band, basket case, beautiful fairy, beauty sleep, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, boyfriends, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, brittna, buhler, bummer, burpee, butt, Carmen, caroline, centre, challenges, challenging, charming, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, clough, clutz, coffee, comfort zone, core, costume, costumes, count-down, crazy, crunches, cry, crying, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, director, directors, dress, dress rehearsal, dressing rooms, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, eye glitter, eyelashes, family, fantastic, farquaad, fat, fiona, fiottnay, fire curtain, fly down, fly up, flying, flying deer, freak flag, friends, gingy, glover, go, go go go, great moments, groans, guilty, harness, healthy, horse, ignore, improve, incapable, instruments, intentions, interesting, intermission, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, klutz, knees, krista, last day, lie, lift, lights, lisa, maddy, magical, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, mics, miley, Mississippi, mom, monitor, mr October, musical, musician, nervous, new years eve, no excuses, noob, nose, nutrition, ogre, ogress, open arms, opening, opinions, orchestra, pages, passionate, peed, performance, performing, piggies, pinky swear, plank, pleasant, poop my pants, pooped, pooper-scoopered, positive, potential, practice, prince, project dance, projections, props, Q2Q, quarter, quickly, raven, rehearsal, relationships, robinson, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, screwed up, shoe, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, slow clap, sounds, speed, spilled, spinach, stairs, story of my life, stretching, stronger, stumble, supportive, talent, tap, tea, team, tech run, teenager, thankful, theatre, theory, thoughts, toe bag, toodle-loo, tools, trischa, ugly ogre, unbalanced, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, watching, water, wonderful, y, yoga, your beautiful selves, ze piggy music|

January 15, 2014 FIRST AUDIENCE! I honestly do not understand the people who don't get nervous. Like what?! I honestly almost peed my pants when the orchestra started playing the first couple notes of our show. I remember when I taught intermediate musical theatre at CSOPA all the kids would say that they're nervous. I