So I only have one more AP and then it's off to work on the script for Twelfth Night, filming the Asian drama parody, and rehearsing for the Strawberry play.
No one is giving me their schedules so I'm getting very frustrated -- I need to start doing schedules!
I was at my sister's best friend's bat mitzvah, and we sat with a very lovely couple during the lunch afterwards. One of them is a member of the board at The Attic Ensemble, which uses the Barrow Mansion for their theatre. He said that they might let us use the stage - I need to get his card from my sister and figure things out. He ALSO said that they knew people in London who would let Claudia and I stay with them - then I can stay for the week I want to, hang out with Johnny and Lara, and get my creative juices stirring (they're both VERY creative people, especially in acting -- good ideas!) It'd be wonderful.
I can't wait for the start of rehearsals for Twelfth Night, actually. I'm anxious for it.
We still need to finalize the cast -- but Joseph Trapanese has given us his blessing to use the music he composed for Feste. I already have the sheet music and the MP3s, so that's wonderful.
The literary magazine has taken off, finally. We're getting a bunch of submissions, and I finally handed in something - a story I wrote last year, but still. I need to get back to writing, so I'm trying to think of something else specifically for the magazine. I need to break out of this rut I'm in.
Off to Algebra Homework!
earworm: "Smoke," Natalie Imbrugalia
13 May 2007
03 May 2007
Sebastian the Turtle
I recently became the proud mama of a British racing green MINI Cooper which I named Sebastian the Turtle, after Sebastian from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and...because he looks like a turtle. He's adorable.
Anyway, I was talking to Summer when we were walking home, and we came up with the idea of a hot guy that turns into a car and then everyone wants to keep him. I'm debating of writing it as a screenplay - I'm sure Sebastian would be more amiable and easy to work with than some actors.
APs are next week (my Spanish AP's on Tuesday and History's on Friday), and after that I should be free to relax and work more on Rudesby Algorithm things. Mackenzie said she was going to ask if we could use the Hudson School's old theatre today. I hope we could - it'd be so much easier. After APs, we're still going to work on the movie and on the Strawberry play. Dante also said he was going to teach me power chords on the condition that I accompany him whenever necessary, which I have no problem with.
Yay for creativity.
Earworm: "Espacio Sideral," Jesse & Joy
Anyway, I was talking to Summer when we were walking home, and we came up with the idea of a hot guy that turns into a car and then everyone wants to keep him. I'm debating of writing it as a screenplay - I'm sure Sebastian would be more amiable and easy to work with than some actors.
APs are next week (my Spanish AP's on Tuesday and History's on Friday), and after that I should be free to relax and work more on Rudesby Algorithm things. Mackenzie said she was going to ask if we could use the Hudson School's old theatre today. I hope we could - it'd be so much easier. After APs, we're still going to work on the movie and on the Strawberry play. Dante also said he was going to teach me power chords on the condition that I accompany him whenever necessary, which I have no problem with.
Yay for creativity.
Earworm: "Espacio Sideral," Jesse & Joy
01 May 2007
In the beginning...
So! First post. Welcome to my new blog. To introduce myself, my name is Massiel, I'm 17 and a junior in high school. I love writing, theatre, music, New York City, England, and art in general. I want to go to Oxford University and take a course in Orientalism.
The Rudesby Algorithm was actually an idea suggested by an old English teacher of mine who did the same thing when she was younger with her sister and friends (they were the Patched Fools) after I fell in love with the theatre thanks to performances by Propeller, an all-male Shakespeare British theatre company. They were performing both Twelfth Night and Taming of the Shrew at BAM on their world tour, and I quickly became obsessed. (Bunch of sweet guys, by the way.) I offered the idea excitedly to my best friend, Summer, and she agreed.
It all started from thre. We decided on a name (we grabbed a dictionary and called out words that sounded nice), a production (Twelfth Night), and a test project (Summer's own play "The Not-So-Lovely Tale of Strawberry Fructose".) We're still getting the cast finalized for Twelfth Night, which will be rehearsed in a nearby park and eventually put on in mid-to-late September. (We've not fixed a date nor have we gotten a venue, which is why the date's iffy.) As it is, we're more focused on Strawberry, because it'll be performed before the school year ends, so for a while, this blog will focus more on that. I'll also sprinkle in a bit of other things I'm working on (teaching myself how to play the guitar, practicing my piano, my writing.)
While I can't speak for Summer, I cheerfully dedicate the company to Dr. Sara Solberg, Emma Solberg, and the entire Propeller cast. This sounds cliche, but I probably would have simply enjoyed theatre rather than loved it if it weren't for their influnces.
The Rudesby Algorithm was actually an idea suggested by an old English teacher of mine who did the same thing when she was younger with her sister and friends (they were the Patched Fools) after I fell in love with the theatre thanks to performances by Propeller, an all-male Shakespeare British theatre company. They were performing both Twelfth Night and Taming of the Shrew at BAM on their world tour, and I quickly became obsessed. (Bunch of sweet guys, by the way.) I offered the idea excitedly to my best friend, Summer, and she agreed.
It all started from thre. We decided on a name (we grabbed a dictionary and called out words that sounded nice), a production (Twelfth Night), and a test project (Summer's own play "The Not-So-Lovely Tale of Strawberry Fructose".) We're still getting the cast finalized for Twelfth Night, which will be rehearsed in a nearby park and eventually put on in mid-to-late September. (We've not fixed a date nor have we gotten a venue, which is why the date's iffy.) As it is, we're more focused on Strawberry, because it'll be performed before the school year ends, so for a while, this blog will focus more on that. I'll also sprinkle in a bit of other things I'm working on (teaching myself how to play the guitar, practicing my piano, my writing.)
While I can't speak for Summer, I cheerfully dedicate the company to Dr. Sara Solberg, Emma Solberg, and the entire Propeller cast. This sounds cliche, but I probably would have simply enjoyed theatre rather than loved it if it weren't for their influnces.
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