Dreamgirls, Grease, Sound Design and Auditions

Gosh life never slows down does it? So anyway on Saturday went and saw DREAMGIRLS - now even as a "musical theatre" person I have to say there were just one too many songs in there for me and it was probably drawn out by 20 minutes or so BUT in saying that JENNIFER HUDSON was worth the ticket price alone - her rendition of "AND I AM TELLING YOU" made me cry buckets! Just her sheer energy and freakingly amazing voice is cinematic gold!

Also on Sunday I had my first "proper" rehearsal for GREASE (click on the car for ticket details). I am playing Miss Lynch, the very proper (slightly drunk in our version) English Teacher - the kids (and yes they are kids!) in it are amazing but I feel VERY old! I am sure I am virtually the only person in the cast that actually saw the movie on it's First Release :o).

Apart from that spent the weekend getting sound together for THE AMOROUS AMBASSADOR (don't ask!) which is the next show at DOLPHIN THEATRE and today I auditioned for a role in an American Movie - which I am sure I won't get but hey you got to keep getting out there and doing these auditions and who knows maybe one day everyone will be bored with the Hollywood Look and decide that the cute, short, plump, girl from Nu Zild is just what they are looking for. Hey You Can Dream Right?