A New Personal Record

I am officially working on three musicals at once.

When I was a little girl dreaming of doing musical theatre, I had no idea that my life would take me on a path where I would be able to work on multiple shows at once like this. I also didn't think I'd be music directing, directing, playing piano, or conducting.

(The secret is that if you do all those things, you get to be involved in musical theatre way more than if you only want to be on stage.)

I am just blessed that every day my work is filled with music. Every day of my life is about making music. How could I ever complain?

As I'm directing The Marvelous Wonderettes and music directing West Side Story, I got a call from my professor at UCI, Dennis, asking me to become a pit singer for CATS that's in the middle of its run at Musical Theatre West. The show opened last weekend but one of the singers got sick so he needed someone to learn the score in a day. I was very flattered that he called me so I of course said yes. It was such a fun challenge for me to have NEVER heard this music before, get the music in the morning and perform it at night. I LOVE it. Call me crazy. But the challenge totally excites me.

And it really was a blast just to sing. No one can see me, I'm wearing all black hiding in the orchestra pit. But it doesn't matter. I get to sing and make music and do what I love.

So I will enjoy the challenge of the next 2 weeks of working on 3 shows at once. Now I just have to cope with the exhaustion... But it's totally worth it.