Things Musical Theatre Girls Say (Response)

This video and the vides that it is in response to are both hysterical. Thanks to Rae for showing me these!

NHTA 10

Happy 10th Anniversary NH Theatre Awards

For the complete winner list go to the NH Theatre Awards Website or here: http://http//caughtintheactnh.blogspot.com/2012/02/2011-nh-theatre-awards-winners.html

I love the NH Theatre Awards because it really exposes me to shows I may have not seen throughout the year as well as new theatres to add to my ever growing list of places to go see shows at. Last night was fabulous. Prior toe show Matt and I went out to dinner at Ignite Bar and Grille which is a few doors up the street from The Palace Theatre. The food was delicous. As previously noted Music Man was nominated for 9 awards so it was a very exciting night for me and the rest of the cast. There was pretty tough compettion all around but I was so excited that Ashely Hughes got Best Actress in A Musical for playing Marian Paroo. It was certainly well deseved. Paula Troie also got in the top 3 for best costume design but was beat by Allison Szklarz for her costume design for The Dionsaur Musical at Peacock Players (one of the many shows I wished I had seen.) Milford Area Players also won several awards for their Production of August Osage County which I am quite excited about. I was impressed by the performances my favorites were definitley Guys and Dolls- Actorsinger (Love Sit Down You're Rockin The Boat) The Dinosaur Musical Peacock Players, Oliver Manchester Community Theatre Players amd The Drowsy Chaperone New London Barn Playhouse. I was so happy for my co-worker on Princess K.I.M The Musical Toby Tarnow for her award for Children And Yoiuth Theatre. I have worked with her twice before now (once as a theatre camp counselor and once backstage for Man Who Came To Dinner last year.) It was certainly a well deserved award as I am costantly impressed with everything the Rivebend School of Theatre Arts puts on.

Shows with Multiple Wins
The Dinosaur Musical Peacock Players Best Youth Production, Best Youth Actor (Taylor Morrow) ,Best Director (Keith Weirch) , Best Musical Directo (Judy Hayward, Best Costume Designer., Best Sound Design (Rich Loomer) Best Lighting Design ( Keith Weirch,Norm St Germain Jeremey Robarge)
The Drowsy Chaperone New London Barn Playhouse Best Production (Professional Musical) ,Best Actress (Anne Torsigerler Bri ( Best Actress) Best Musical Director (Joel Mercier) , Best Director (B.T. Mcnichol) Best Chroregraphy (Sarah Case&Keith Coughlin )
Tom Ford also took home an award for Best Actor in A Musical for A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Measure For Measure Peterborough Player Best Production Drama Comedy (Professional) , Best Sound Designer (Kevin Frazier), Best Scenic Designer ( Charles Morgan) Best Costume Designer ( Lara de Bujin), Best Actress Karen Peakes)
The Drowsy Chaperone Community Players of Concord
Best Production Musical (Community) , Best Supporing Actress Candace Azerola
August Osage County Milford Area Players
\Best Director Vick Bennison Best Supporting Actress Deb Shaw Best Productin Drama Comedy (Community)
Suessical The Musical Peacock Players
Best Supporting Actress Youth Megan Dwinell Best Supporting Actor Youth Nathan Schwartzberg



Congrats to all winners and nominees for the 10th Annual NH Theatre Awards.


I hope Okalhoma will get nominated for a few things next year. I look incredibly foward to the prospect of that. :)

2011-2012 Viewing Schedule

2012 Viewing Schedule

Listed by venue then by month, Shows that are bolded are definites all others are subject to change due to schedule or budget.

Actorsinge

May- Chicago

November- Annie

Lyric Stage Portland Maine

Blithe Spirit

Milford Area Players

March Night of One Acts

July Shakespeare In Hollywood

October The 39 Steps

Palace Theatre

Royalty of Rock and Pop

Peacock Players

Beauty and The Beast

Riverbend School Of Theatre

Anne Of Green Gables

Riverbend Youth Company

April Clue The Musical

August Damn Yankees

November Oliver

In keeping with my ongoing goal of seeing a show at new theatres here are the theatres I am hoping to add to my ever growing scedule

1. CommunityPlayers of Concord
2. Capitol Center For The Arts
3. Manchester Community Theatre Players
4. New Thalian Players
5. Not Your Mom's Musical Theatre
6. Peterborough Players

This list will be updated once I get the schedules for the theatres and determine what shows I want to see there.

National Tours

June 3rd Beauty and The Beast Very excited to see this!! Beauty and The Beast was my first Broadway show and I look forward to seeing the touring producion of it and seeing Caroline Kittrell again since I haven't seen her since we left NLBP. :)
Suessical The Musicrrial TBA Still waiting to find out info from Maggie Politi about when it is coming to Boston.
Billy Elliot is coming to the Boston Opera House in August. I am hoping to go to see this with my family for my birthday. I don't know what day we will go see it yet.

High School Shows

Souhegan Anything Goes

Pentucket Regional High School Wizard of Oz

College Shows

4-21 A Midsummer Night's Dream UMASS Amherst

Summer

Listed by Venue

(Some shows subject to change based on schedule and budget)
If bold it means it's a definite

Arundel Barn Playhouse Arundel Maine

Aug 26th Beyond The Rainbow

Hackamatack Playhouse Berwick Maine
Boeing Boeing

Interlakes Summer Theatre Meredith NH
All Shook Up &Singin In The Rain

Back up choice Annie

Maine State Music Theatre Brunswick Maine

42nd Street

Back Up Choice Sunset BLVD

New London Barn Playhouse New London NH)

Legally Blonde The Musical or HAIR

Back Up Choices Oklahoma or Our Town
Winnipasaukee Playhouse Laconia NH
The Last Night of Ballyho

The schedule for Andy's Summer Playhouse has not been announced yet.

Summer Viewing Schedule will hopefully be finalized by Memorial Day Weekend or the beginning of June!

My main theatre related goal for 2012

Happy 2012 followers!

My main theatre goal for 2012 is to PROMOTE PROMOTE PORMOTE

Promote what you may ask?

Why Princess Ki.I.M. The Musical of course!!

I am so happy to be part of such a wonderful creative team. What we have come up with is an amazing play based on my mom's children's books Princess KIM and The Lie That Grew and Princes KIM and Too Much Truth and it's JR versiom counterpart. It's been quite a busy 18 months but I am so proud of what we have accomplished and so EXCITED for what's to come. Our first single will be relesed in March and I am stoked for that.

Now as I said my main goal of this year is to promote Princess KIM The Musical. We are hoping to build up a following of local theatres to come to ou premiere and also theatres from around this beautiful country. I have already put the twitter page up and the facebook fan page will be up in 3 weeks (Feb 8th is the day)

What I am hoping is that my theatre friends will help to spread the word about this amazing project I am working on and also that they will spread the word to theatre companies they have worked at that we already have on our ever growing mailing list :)

Winds of Change

So the use of this blog may end up changing slightly. Here are the reasonss

The primary focus of this blog was to post my Milford Cabinet Articles. It has grown in leaps and bounds since it's inception in the fall of 2008. However. the primary use of this blog has never been lost. The reason why this might be changing is because the Telegraph and the Cabinet are going through a lot of personell changes in terms of their freelancers. Budget cuts have hit both papers hard and have caused freelancer budgets to be cur in half. Due to this the amount of stories I am able to write will be very minimal. It will largely depend on what is not already being covered by other people at the paper. I am trying to stay positive about this but we'll see how long that positivity stays afloat. I had started a seperate blog for my fanfiction but eventually realized it made more sesne to combine both blogs together. Lately my life has been cosumed with work, Princess KIm stuff and rehearsals for Oklahoma (and practicing at home) so I haven't had much time to myself to write. Once I compete all the fanfictions that are in progress I will go on a much needed hiatus from writing fan fiction to get my priorties straight. My main theatre related priority is Princess Kim folllowed close behing by Oklahoma. Rehearsing at home and rehearsals take a lot of time. On that note Oklahoma is very well. This week we are working on learning the dance to the Farmer and The Cowman which is fun. I haven't done square dancing since I used to g to my mom's illustrartor parties at Boyd's Mills Press in Honesdale PA.. it's taking a bit of time to get used to that dynamic of dance again. tis fun nonetheless :)

I will still be reviewing shows that I see on this blog but I am getting an indication that I may get more of a following on Tumblr so I may eventually end up moving this blog over in that direction by March. We'll see what happens. I am not sure how much of a follwing this blog is still getting here on Blogger to be honest. If have you are a follower in this blog and still read these entries please leave a comment letting me know you still read these entries Ifenough people respond back then I will keep this blog on blogger.. if not then as of March 1st this blog will be making the move to Tumblr and if you choose to make the move with me you can do so.

Thoughts- On Where I Began and Where I am Now

So I was just looking over some old NLBP pictures on facebook. It made me look back on numerous things. Not just season itself the issues that unfolded after I left that led to my depression. I reflect on that summer the amazing time I had and realize that I am a stronger actor for having worked there because it was a step to every aspect of my career in theatre... it was a stepping stone for everyone in my group in a way i suppose. I don't like to touch on the depression so much but more so what the process of it taught me. I have spent a lot of time since leaving New London trying to carve out my niche in theatre. My main goal in the theatre is to eventually work for a theatre in the public relations office and then do acting on the side. Since leaving the Barn Playhouse I have definitley built upon technical, pr and acting experiences and I must admit I'm pretty happy with where I have found myself. In 2008 after I graduted from NEC I did some PR work for Peacock Players for a month (the very same theatre co I did theatre camp with in high school) and landed a job for the Milford Cabinet , a local newspaper where I have been writing freelance for four years. Sadly, due to budget cuts that job may be ending soon but I sure have built up quite the portfolio over the past for years. I then got involved in heping out backstage with Riverbend Youth Co and Milford Area Players shows. At the Barn Playhouse I mostly did props work for tech work since leaving I have had my hand at sound desigm and spotlight operator. Quite a great experience. Running the sound and the spotlight certainly gave me a different vantage point for viewing the show from. I kind of came full circle last summer doing PR for Nancy Barry ar Interlakes Summer Theatre in Meredith. It was a great experience and I am thankful to Nancy for the opportunity to work for her again. :) I also had my first article published in a NH travel magazine called NH To Do in Summer 2010 that highlighted summer theatre all around NH. Quite an accomplishment.

As far as acting goes I am still trying to build up my resume. Last year after a four year hiatus *Yes the last show I did previously was Annie Get Your Gun at the Barn. I was cast in the PTA Poduction of The Music Man as a member of the Ensemble. I must admit comparing my performances in Annie Get Your Gun and Music Man helped me to realize how far I have really come as an actor. I have to admit in Annie Get Your Gun I was awkward some of the time because that really my first role in a musical either and I don't think I really grew into my character until the end of the 2 week run. Music Man was vastly different. I found myself much more easily adjusted to my character in the ensemble which made it much simpler for me to interact with other people in the scenes I was in. Both shows were great experiences. With Oklahoma rehearsals underway I am excited about what's to come and am so blessed to be part of another AWESOME PTA cast.. a great mix of familiar faces from last year and new ones. It's going to be a wonderful four months.


I have an equal amount of emotions for the place that started it all. The skills I gained at the Barn Playhouse really helped shape who I am as a theatre artist. I am blessed to know all the people I worked with that summer and am so happy to hear of where their paths away from New London have led them all. They have all gone of to do such amazing things and I am happy to call all of them my friends and have them as part as my ever growing theatre family.

Snow's on the mind but my mind is thinking SUMMER

So I have my viewing schdule pretty much solidified till the end of May. It's the summer where things get difficult. So many shows to see at so many different theatres. Due to family vacations time will be short and some shows may not even be options especially since a few of them over lap with their schedules.

Definites: Singin In The Rain and All Shook Up (Interlakes Summer Theatre) Blithe Spirit (Lyric Stage Portland Maine), Beyond The Rainbow (Arundel Barn Playhoue)

Other theatres on the docket

New London Barn Playhouse: Thier summer season looks to be good this year. It includes Ragtime Oklahoma, Legally Blonde The Musical, Our Town, A Legendary Romance and the Straw Hat Revue

Top Choices: Hair or Legally Blonde The Musical

Back Ups: Oklahoma or Our Town

Hackamatack Playhouse Berwick Maine

Thier season includes Burt and Me , Oklahoma Boeing Boieng and Harispray

Top Choices: Boeing Boieng and Oklahoma

Back Up Hairspray

Ogunquit Playhouse Ogunquit Maine  This theatre may not be in our budget but  I am hoping we can make  it fit somehow. .  I haven't been there since 2005 when I saw CATS so  I look forward to the possibility of going back there again.

Their season  includes  9 To 5   Always Patsy Cline  Buddy The Buddy Holly Story, Damn Yankess 

They still have one show they have yet to announce.

Top Choices: Always Patsy Cline, Damn Yankees

Back  Ups  Buddy The Buddy Holly Story   9 To 5
Maine State  Music Theatre Brunswick ME
Thier season includes  A Chorus  Line, Legally Blonde The Musical  Sunselt BLVD and 42nd St
Top  Choice  42nd St
Back  Ups   A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde

I am also hoping to go see the Billy Elliot National Tour for my bday in August,  We will see how that will fit in  the schedule.  I am also stil awaiting the release of schedules  for  summmer shows for Wellsely and BU.