Bare

Come see me this weekend in the LA Concert Production of Bare: A Pop Opera

Friday and Saturday October 2nd & 3rd in Hollywood!

More information and tickets available at the Bare Website

Kittens inspired by....

Kittens.

Have you seen this? My dear friend Katie Horwitch shared this with me via facebook. I have watched it about five times and I am still laughing my ass off.

Watch it. Live it.

Unemployment

By 1:30pm I have finally shaved, watched three episodes of 30 Rock, considered casting away worldly possessions to live in the woods and done a disturbing rendition of "Music and the Mirror" in nothing but a towel.

Los Angeles Updates

Hello Everyone!

It's been so long since I've been able to update!

I wrapped up the season at Sacramento Music Circus with the opening of Cats and went home for a few days to the bay area for a visit. My little brother and nephew are really starting to become little people instead of babies. They are adorable and hilarious! It's exciting to watch them grow.

Then I headed back to Irvine for a couple days where I packed up my old apartment and moved out! I am now living on the border of Koreatown and Wilshire Park in Los Angeles in an extremely charming 1920's townhouse with my dear friend, Rachel.

During all of this activity I have also been working on some projects!

I have been lucky enough to assist Dennis Castellano with the Musical Direction of Sondheim's Putting It Together at South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa, CA. The show is a revue of Sondheim songs from several shows strung together with a new plot of a socialite party in Manhattan. The music and lyrics are by none other than the great Stephen Sondheim and the show was devised by Sondheim and Julia McKenzie.

The show begins previews September 11, 2009 and opens officially on the 18th. For more information please visit the South Coast Rep website. Directed by Nick DeGruccio.

I've also been rehearsing for an upcoming concert workshop version of Bare: A Pop Opera! I wasn't very familiar with the show before being cast in it, but I understand that it is quite popular. I'm playing the role of Lucas, who is a Catholic high school student and drug dealer.

The show runs October 2-3, 2009 at the Arts Works theatre on Santa Monica Blvd and Wilcox. Tickets are available through Brown Paper Bag Tickets. The cast features several UCI Alums and some other cool kids too. And did I mention that my featured moment in the show is a rap?

Yes ladies and gentlemen, my hip hop stardom is on the rise, and you don't want to miss it.

Let's be Real

It was nine seasons of Friends.

I don't want to talk about it.

I am: Fig Tart

A few weeks ago, Dennis and I drove up to Reno with Will (an actor in the company here) to see our friend Eric Weaver in 42nd Street at the El Dorado Casino. We had never been to Reno before. I had heard tale of this magical place from my dear friend Taylor Katai whose father lives there, but I still was not quite prepared.

Reno is a strange mirage of casinos and hotels in the middle of nothing. I hear that is what all the big cities in Nevada are like. Well, the show was great and Eric tapped his little heart out. Also, we realized part way through the show that another friend, Melinda was playing on of the leads. She was fantastic! And afterwards we found that another friend, Kristin, was the stage manager.

We hadn't had time to get dinner before we got to the show, so by the time it had ended we were famished to no end. We desperately searched through the casino to find a restaurant, which sounds easy but is no walk in the park.

Casinos are gigantic! And there are places where you feel like you are outside, but you aren't. You are in a some oversized hallway with a sky painted on the ceiling and mirrors and flashing lights enclosing in on you.

So, after stumbling around the hallways of trickery, we stumbled upon a restaurant called the Roxy.

As soon as we sat down these two sixty year old women at the next table started staring at us. If you don't already know this about me, crazy people love me. If there are a thousand people in an open field hanging out and one of them is crazy and one of them is me, that lunatic will without a doubt run directly over to me and ask me if he knows me from our time in the Japanese Interment Camp. No, sorry you loon, I've not trekked through Manzanar this lifetime, we must know each other from somewhere else. Then in his rage, he will through glitter in my face and tell me I've been a terrible wife and an even worse cat.

Dennis leaned over to ask me, "Do you know those women?

"No." I replied.

"Are you famous?"

"Not here. Not in Reno."

We went on to enjoy a lovely meal (Rosemary chicken is a dear friend to me). The two lushy old birds were finishing up their second bottle of wine when they decided to approach.

Drunk cougar number one asked us "Which dessert should I get?" whilst waving the dessert menu around like it was overcooked linguine.

"You should get whatever dessert you want to get," I retorted icily.

"Should I get the fig tart?" She obviously doesn't take hints well. At this point my sarcasm was tickling the back of my throat like acid reflux.

"I told you never to call me that."

Two can play this game, she thought.

"I'll call you whatevers I wants to, you fig tart!" The words were definitely slurring together like grapes in a wine bottle. "Fig tart! YOu're a figgg tart."

Luckily she got tired and left. And I was bestowed an extremely unexpected nickname.

Cats!

Cast is opening at Sacramento Music Circus this Tuesday!

Click Here for ticket information!

This is the last show of the season and my last show here as the Music Assistant for the summer.

Two months, seven musicals and eight seasons of Friends later (The girl I'm subletting from has every season. Don't judge me.), I will be heading back to Irvine where I will be packing up my apartment and beginning a post-college life in Los Angeles! Here we go!