I got an email from Gayden Wren. :) He has not seen the show yet, but he did in fact read my name. Hopefully he read it in the program first, but then someone evidently sent him an excerpt from my blog. How embarrassing and/or awesome.

He wrote other plays, and books, for the record. The book I found particularly interesting: A Most Ingenious Paradox. It's about Gilbert and Sullivan's creations... The plays, for the record, are Ernest (A musical based on The Importance of Being Ernest) and Baseball, Sex and Other Facts of Life. None of which I've seen...

I'll have to try and see Very Truly Yours, and then the others, I suppose. I find myself somewhat limited, in that most of the musicals I know are Gilbert and Sullivan, and being that they only composed 14 or so.

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On Friday, August 21st, 1903, a man named Schuyler C Kelley was found to have been missing for a number of days. I just thought it was kind of neat, in a creepy sort of way. Luckily, my middle is Bertram, and this was over 100 years ago, so I'm relatively certain that there are no terminators out for me.

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In other news, I've been stumbling around again. I keep changing my mind, what I want to do. I am certain, beyond doubt, that I want to do musical theatre or at least theatre of some sort, and that seems like a solid choice, but I know very well that I want something else. The problem is, the something else I want is everything.

It is times like these that I get depressed, hmm? Thinking about all that I am interested in and curious about--sociology, anthropology, (which covers everything under the sun, so I could stop there, but I won't) computer science, algorithmic science, mathematics although I still despise the simple stuff. It bothers me that the simpler it gets the harder it is for me to do it. (Excepting addition, subtraction and multiplication) Other subjects too, I have a passing interest in.

But going back to the depression, it is because I feel that I will never be able to learn it all. That may be good for me, in that I will never run out of materials to study when I am bored. That's what I do, I think, when I get bored with one thing I move on to the next, but I never finish anything. At this rate, nothing of mine will be finished by a hundred years from now.

I was reading today about Scale-Free Networks, and I intend to read into it further--ways I could make use of it, for example. This is what started me off thinking about mortality and such, although it does directly apply to what I'm doing recently. (A lot of programming. MUSHcoding, but programming nonetheless--I'll finish learning Python one day. (At which point I will make a damn FICS client for FreeBSD that works)) I just don't know how it applies yet.

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I had a dream the other day where I was in a restaurant with my 12 year old brother, and I think 4 guys busted through the windows dressed as Ronald McDonald, brandishing weapons. 12-year old would not shut up, and I got shot for some reason. Grr.

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I'm trying a new thing where I separate subjects by three hyphens, see? I think it's working. I feel slightly more organized already.

The show was a huge success. 250 in the audience the first night, and 400+ for each of the others... That's standing room only. We were actually seating people in the balconies behind the lighting. Cast usually stands up there to watch and listen for queues, so the wings and lobby and prop room all had folks in victorian garb wandering about, in character about half the time. The audience didn't notice, though, so.

There's not really much else to note. I miss the show, and those I worked with already, but at least a few of us will be rehearsing Yeomen of the Guard together shortly. (The Ghost of Christmas Present is helping to direct that; we sort of put the community in community theatre <.<) I might try to do Little Mary Sunshine too, just for a change of pace. (Gilbert and Sullivan isn't quite boring, but I could stand to have more on my resume)

I've been considering, once again, the choices ahead of me. I have no mnoey of my own, though my 18th birthday is quickly approaching at which point I will no longer have to jump through bureaucratic hoops to get a steady, paying job. My parents pay for what they can, but we already have debts to be paid and such, so my education has come down to just plain old education, and learning from experience with the Off-Monroe Players.

I want to take vocal lessons. I know a ton of voice teachers through OMP, so that ought to be easy enough if I had the money. Getting more than my basic 'training,' for lack of a better word, in theatre might be a little tougher, though. I've been warned away from MCC's theatre program more than once by more than one person, but I haven't finished looking into transfer options yet. (I've considered taking the prerequisites at MCC, 'cause it's cheaper, and transfering to Nazareth or someplace. I need to look into it more seriously)

For the record, so far that poll down there has 2:1 going for Livejouirnal over Both... No one's voted for Blogger at all, which I suppose isn't surprising.

OMP stuff
I forgot what I wanted to talk about. I really did... This weekend went well. Very well, actually, I just remembered a lot of what I wanted to talk about.

It doesn't mean much to a lot of people, given TANYS's reputation, but HMS Pinafore took five... Captain Corcoran, Sir Joseph Porter KCB, and Josephine Corcoran, (the actors for their portrayal of the characters, of course) and our musical director and the orchestra. It sort of bolstered our performance, and I think it tipped the audience's expectations a bit too... (In a good way.)

We've had a full house anyway for most of the weekend, including Sunday which is fairly unusual. That's probably due to the Democrat and Chronicle, though, more than the TANYS awards. We were on the front page of D&S'c weekend section, (isn't that a great photo?) and then again we were mentioned in the weekend's list of ten things to do. (We were number two, just under Wynonna Judd... Not too shabby)

All of this means that more people are hearing about us, which is brilliant. Although we don't charge an entry fee, a larger audience means more donations and more snacks and such. Hopefully some of the new people will tell their friends, and return for the next show.

Other stuff
Beyond that, life is pretty boring.

That was great. :) That's not sarcasm, either. We performed brilliantly tonight, and the guy from TANYS watched and the whole audience enjoyed the show. More lively than last night's audience, but I think we performed better too.

I'm going to go to bed now, wake up at 9am, shower, eat breakfast, and have a great day tomorrow. Call is at 12:30, a matinee. I miss you folks whom I haven't seen for a while, but I'm having fun, so you have fun too. :)

I don't really feel like I must have been addicted to MUSHing, it was just something I did while I was bored, and I happened to be bored all the time. I envisioned a challenge with quitting, but there wasn't one really. I'll be back on the 1st, as I said. I was bored today, but I decided to wait and be strong and such.

Ignore the title, it was the openining night. Our co-director is just cool. :P

We did well, I think. The only thing we messed up was I think the Act I finale, and the audience didn't notice anyway.

So, there's one line that I've messed up every time in the past. Instead of 'Well spoke, well spoke,' I kept saying 'Aye aye...' Well, friends, last night I said the correct line! It was great. I stood there and said, 'Well spoke, well spoke.' It was even at the right time. Everything was perfect, but for one thing: Every other member of the chorus--every single one--said 'Aye aye' instead. x_x I just simply can't win.

I downloaded Google Desktop for Linux, which basically is just a fansy 'find' command that goes faster and also searches the web. I also got Picasa, which indexed all of my photos for me and stuff. I'm gonna use Picasa web albums from now on, instead of Photobucket, since Google is infinitely better at everything. Except, apparently blogs.

In case I hadn't already told you, Gayden Wren--playwright: Very Truly Yours, Gilbert and Sullivan and A Gilbert and Sullivan Christmas Carol (He likes Gilbert and Sullivan)--will read my name and see me sing and act in his show at some point in December. He won't be attending, but still... We're recording it, and he's receiving a copy. Neat.

Random thoughts:
I wonder why I have no tag for HMS Pinafore.

You all should get a Facebook account. I NEED TO SEE YOUR FACES.

If nothing else, you should get some IM and log on regularly or something... I prefer Facebook. All of my photos of you are, no doubt, ancient or non-existant. :(

See that graph down there for NaNoWriMo? It's standing still. No, that's not a mistake; I gave up. My life is simply too busy right now: HMS Pinafore opens in... 2.5 hours, we're leaving in five minutes, and it's going to be fun. Shows every Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the next three weeks. However, we also have two rehearsals a week for G&S Christmas Carol until December when it opens... So I'm basically working 5 days a week now. Ok, no big deal...

BUT: Our house is being appraised this coming Tuesday, I'm looking for a job again, (or planning on it--I shaved now, maybe I'll get one) trying to enroll at MCC this spring, trying to get off my butt to read the driver's manual, and so on.

I didn't just give up NaNoWriMo, but I gave up MUSHing too... I'll still be online, obviously, and I'll update my LJ more often, but you won't see me on 8bitMUSH or 8bitMUSH or 8bitMUSH or any of the other 8bitMUSHes.

I'll be back on December 1st, though... It's only three weeks. See you then :P

Apparently I stopped using Twitter, and never realized it, so here's a LIFE UPDATE for all of you folks who want an update about life.

I was sort of silly for not knowing who played Dora Lincoln, turns out I knew her all along. How incredibly amusing...

If you all didn't know, my blog is forwarded to Facebook now too.

Uh... Nothing else much is happening. The shows are going well. The Colonel Bogey March is awesome, check out this nameless band playing it.

I discovered Company of Heroes and Rock Band recently. Rock Band almost makes me want to waste my money on a PS3!

EDIT: Apparently it's available for the Wii. Wii Music looks alright too. I wonder.