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SHREK Rehearsal Journal #22 (THE END)

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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

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #17

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, 8 hours, a game, advertisement, amazing, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, baby, backpacks, band, 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, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, director, directors, dress, dress rehearsal, dressing rooms, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, 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, 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, monitor, mr October, musical, musician, new years eve, no excuses, noob, nose, nutrition, ogre, ogress, open arms, opening, opinions, orchestra, pages, 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, robinson, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, screwed up, shoe, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, slow clap, sounds, speed, 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 14, 2014 Well I'm not going to lie, today was a bit more of a bummer. Basically every time I stepped on stage I screwed up. Or some aspect of my performance didn't work like me tripping to the ground in tap, my tap coming off of my shoe resulting in me tapping in

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #16

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, 8 hours, a game, advertisement, amazing, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, baby, backpacks, band, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, boyfriends, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, brittna, buhler, burpee, butt, Carmen, caroline, centre, challenges, challenging, charming, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, clough, coffee, comfort zone, core, costume, costumes, count-down, crazy, crunches, cry, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, director, directors, dress, dress rehearsal, dressing rooms, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, 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, instruments, intentions, interesting, intermission, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, knees, krista, last day, lift, lights, lisa, maddy, magical, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, mics, miley, Mississippi, monitor, mr October, musical, musician, new years eve, no excuses, noob, nose, nutrition, ogre, ogress, open arms, opinions, orchestra, pages, performance, performing, piggies, pinky swear, plank, pleasant, poop my pants, pooped, positive, potential, practice, prince, project dance, projections, props, Q2Q, quarter, quickly, raven, rehearsal, robinson, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, slow clap, sounds, speed, 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, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, watching, water, wonderful, y, yoga, your beautiful selves, ze piggy music|

January 13, 2014 Dress rehearsal numero one! I'M POOPED. We started off two hours earlier than we usually do in previous years and still didn't get out until 11:15. I think it's because there's a ton more technical additions to this show as well as fast costume and makeup changes. No fire curtains were dropped

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #15

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

January 12, 2014 Today was a bit of a longer day than yesterday but still just as fun! We started right at ten to finish the Q2Q. The second part of Q2Q went by in about two hours. I think this was because we were all more comfortable with the stage, the set pieces, and

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #14

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, 8 hours, a game, advertisement, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, baby, backpacks, band, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, boyfriends, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, brittna, buhler, burpee, Carmen, caroline, centre, challenges, charming, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, clough, coffee, comfort zone, core, count-down, crazy, crunches, cry, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, director, directors, dressing rooms, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, eyelashes, family, fantastic, farquaad, fiona, fiottnay, freak flag, friends, gingy, glover, go, go go go, great moments, groans, guilty, healthy, horse, ignore, improve, instruments, intentions, interesting, intermission, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, knees, krista, last day, lights, lisa, magical, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, miley, Mississippi, musical, musician, new years eve, no excuses, noob, nose, nutrition, ogress, open arms, opinions, orchestra, pages, performance, performing, piggies, pinky swear, plank, pleasant, positive, potential, practice, prince, project dance, projections, props, Q2Q, quarter, quickly, raven, robinson, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, sounds, speed, spinach, stairs, story of my life, stretching, stronger, stumble, supportive, talent, tap, tea, team, teenager, theatre, theory, thoughts, toe bag, toodle-loo, tools, trischa, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, watching, water, wonderful, y, yoga, your beautiful selves, ze piggy music|

FIRST DAY WITH CAST IN THE CULTURAL CENTRE! So I've had numerous rehearsals that go by quickly but none have ever gone by as quickly as today's. Seriously, when Lisa (the best stage manager ever) told us this was the last scene we'd be tech-ing because we only had a couple more minutes

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #13

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, a game, advertisement, arts, audience, avianna, awesome, backpacks, band, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, boyfriends, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, buhler, burpee, Carmen, caroline, centre, challenges, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, clough, coffee, comfort zone, core, crazy, crunches, cry, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, debbie downer, diaphragm, director, directors, drums, earplugs, energy, epic, eyelashes, family, fantastic, farquaad, fiona, freak flag, friends, gingy, glover, go, go go go, great moments, groans, guilty, healthy, horse, ignore, improve, instruments, intentions, interesting, intermission, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, knees, krista, last day, magical, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, miley, Mississippi, musical, musician, new years eve, no excuses, noob, nose, nutrition, ogress, open arms, opinions, orchestra, pages, performance, performing, piggies, pinky swear, plank, pleasant, positive, potential, practice, project dance, Q2Q, quarter, raven, robinson, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, scary, school, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, slow, speed, spinach, stairs, story of my life, stretching, stronger, stumble, supportive, talent, tap, tea, team, teenager, theatre, theory, thoughts, toe bag, toodle-loo, tools, trischa, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, watching, water, wonderful, y, yoga, your beautiful selves, ze piggy music|

January 9, 2014 Well today marks the last day rehearsing at CSOPA for Shrek... and for me, forever. If it wasn't my last show I know it would be complete excitement but because it is my last show it's a mixture of sadness and excitement... which are two completely opposite feelings. But enough of me

SHREK Rehearsal Journal #12

Tags: #csopashrek, 12 pack, a game, advertisement, arts, avianna, awesome, backpacks, band, bed, belt, best, bicycle, body, boot camp, bracelets, brain, break, brittany, buhler, burpee, Carmen, caroline, centre, challenges, chilliwack, choreography, christmas, Christmas break, clough, coffee, comfort zone, core, crazy, crunches, cry, csopa, cultural, davies, deathly sick, diaphragm, director, directors, drums, earplugs, energy, eyelashes, farquaad, fiona, freak flag, gingy, glover, go, go go go, great moments, groans, guilty, healthy, horse, improve, instruments, intentions, interesting, josh, Karen, kessia, kiss, knees, krista, mainstage, makeup, mason-albert, maxwell, merry, miley, Mississippi, musical, musician, new years eve, no excuses, noob, nose, nutrition, ogress, open arms, opinions, orchestra, pages, performance, performing, piggies, plank, positive, potential, practice, project dance, quarter, raven, robinson, roller coaster, run, run- through, sanity, sass, school, shrek, sitzprobe, six pack, skwarok, sleep, spinach, stairs, story of my life, stretching, stronger, stumble, supportive, talent, tap, tea, team, teenager, theatre, theory, thoughts, toe bag, toodle-loo, tools, trischa, unfocused, university, vitamins, vocals, voice, voices, water, wonderful, y, yoga, ze piggy music|

January 8, 2014 CURRENT DAYS UNTIL OUR CAST IS IN THE CULTURAL CENTRE: 3 CURRENT DAYS UNTIL OUR SET IS IN THE CULTURAL CENTRE: 0 Lovely. But crazy. Crazy for sure. I honestly cannot believe how close it is til we’re there. We will have an audience in less than a week. That’s mind blowing

January 2014