Musical Theatre Mondays

With this blog, I tend to take the approach of writing what I feel like writing about. Which often means I'm probably not writing about anything that is currently relevant in the musical theatre world. But the Venn diagram of relevance and personal interest has overlapped this week. CATS . They are making a movie. And unlike the 1998 movie that was just the West End production on film...its got some CGI. And by some, I mean lots. I'm not going to go so far as to make any assumptions about if they movie is actually going to be good or not, but I literally can't stop thinking about it. I didn't know the plot at all before this week and I can't stop laughing. If you want to learn more about the plot to Cats like I did - I suggest here .  (I will be a Wikipedia stan for life.) I have so many questions that I'll probably compile in a more legitimized blog post once the movie is out, but for now, the only way to summarize my feelings is in Elmo GIFs. Before

The walls in my mind are wallpapered with one question in bold, all caps font: WHAT SONG SHOULD I AUDITION WITH?!? I think about it obsessively. I talk to my husband about it constantly (sorry, honey), I've even tried to get some  tips  from the pros. And somehow still come up blank with each new audition. I'm gonna level with you. I haven't been cast in two years and I'm questioning everything. I'm honestly one audition away from singing the Ducktales theme song . (But like...don't you think in the right setting that this would be brilliant?) But since you've come here hopefully looking for advice and not to sulk with me about my song choice woes, here's what I know. The general rule I've learned from those who are much more wise and more successful at auditioning than I is this: Sing something that will help the production team cast you in this show. Okay... So what does that even  mean ? Do you sing a song from a show by the

WARNING: Grab one of those old timey fainting couches before watching this video or make sure you're sitting in a safe environment where swooning from romance won't endanger you. I unabashedly love Oklahoma . It was the first musical I was ever in and it's got some of the best Golden Age bops of the Rodgers and Hammerstein persuasion. It was also one of the very first posts on this here blogamajig. So when I heard it was being revived, I was pleased, but had no real desire to see it (just wait 3 months and a local high school will do it, amirite?). But this song? The OBC that dropped on Friday? Has me contemplating an impulse trip to NYC. First of all Damon Daunno: And secondly, Ali Stroker! I cried when she won. She's incredible and the video below proves it. It's pretty magical to me to see a show often deemed as cheesy and old be modernized without changing a single word. People are realizing how complex and emotional these s