summer 2009

well so far things are going well on my break. Man do i wish i was in a show. i could not audition for anything cause i will be gone during the shows.....so gay!!! but look on the bright side i might be in a professional show this time next year, and i will be able to audition for shows by the fall, which i am very excited for. i know summer has not started but i have had a great time so far. more updates to come.

I'll drink to that

So here i Am in Hollywood, at school in AMDA. I am having a pretty good time, and i am learning quite a lot about the business and other aspects of it. I am meeting tons of people and people who have worked on Broadway and other professional stages. most of them are my teachers. Speaking of teachers, i just love my voice teacher!! she is the only one on the voice faculty that is an opera singer, and she is a damn good one, and she is gonna train me to be one as well. which i think once you can sing classically or in an Opera style i think you can sing musical theatre very well, cause they are related, closely, Musical theatre and Opera. So i am hopefully going to have a stellar voice once i come out of here.

I have been reading the notebook recently and i have fallen in love with it. it has a special place in my heart and means a great deal to me. i have not finished it yet, and on purpose, i want to savor in the greatness which is that book. Life here is good, but holly wood gets rather old after a while, and i want to go home A LOT. i am still in love with Sacramento and all it has given me. Well till next time, this is Joshua Smith Signing off.

So much to do So little time

Well in a few weeks i will be off to AMDA in Hollywood. Where i will be going to school. I am going to miss everything here so much. I am going to miss a certain someone more than they know. I just hope they don't get mad if i call them all the time. I am excited though to be going to school. I get an apartment and i have to share it with two other guys....fun! I am taking my computer and other things to make my room feel like home. I also will have orientation when i go down there, which will be fun i hope. i also have what are called first demonstrations, where i preform one minute of a song and also of a monologue in front of the artistic director of AMDA. i am going to sing HEY THERE from The Pajama Game, and a monologue from the play, The Mercy Seat.

Then classes start, and im just so excited for that. Finally actual classes that will challenge me. I hope they make me a better performer, they should. I'm just excited to meet everyone and make new friends. but i will sure miss Sacramento, i just made a whole bunch of friends. but i will keep them close to me.

Summer Part 3

So Little shop of Horrors opened last weekend, and it went better than i thought. There were a few minor mishaps, but nothing too bad. We are getting reviewed by the Sacramento Bee and the Davis Enterprise. The Bee gave us 3 1/2 stars, and a good review. the enterprise has not written anything yet. over all i think the opening weekend went well. Well i am really looking foreword to my camping trip with my friends. It should be a lot of fun. we are going to Big trees national park. Yeah i have been before and it is a wonderful place, and there should be lots of hiking!! I have finally gotten pre approved for my loan for school, so now i just have to get a few things signed and then i can get my loan and pay for school and go to school in the FALL!!!! i so worry about the future, and about owing my parents money, and how i am going to pay them all back. i shouldn't have to, but i guess i do according to them. So stressed, even though i should not be. my heart hurts, like emotionally, i don't know why, cause nothing is wrong. I just think about things and i get so sad, my mind wanders and i think the worse will happen, when it probably won't. i am in love, and it is the BEST feeling sometimes, and the Worse.

i really need to start managing my money, saving my pay checks and only spending money on gas. i am going to stop eating out. i am not going to buy anything, unless i really have to. not working full time is killing me, but its good on my sleep and hang out times. i just need to make money, if i had a lot i would be in great shape. I also need to loose a lot of Weight!! Gosh i now have time to go on lots of walks, and i prob will go on lots of walks in Hollywood when i am in school.

Feelings are tumbling over

so, with only one more weekend of The Secret Garden, and having rehearsals for Little shop EVERYDAY i have concluded that my life is going to be very hectic these next few weeks. Also i may be working full time. not quite sure yet. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays i would be alone. GAY! The camping trip i am taking this summer will be well deserved after all of this. Life is great right now. Love is in the AIR!!

summer part 2

so today we had an orientation for our new contractors for my work. so i will be still working for the rest of my summer. Also we have two more weekends of secret garden and then it closes. i will be happy when it does though cause i am really sick of the show. there are some great parts of it, and i love my part, but over all to me, it is really boring, and i really want to focus on Little shop of horrors. And on the other hand, i wish i was not doing little shop so i could have more time for everyone in my life. and for me.

My school called me yesterday, and i guess i need to get them my transcripts from Webster, which i hope Webster can give me.

Summer

sorry i have not posted for a while, but the night of my first posting i got really sick. i threw up. it was bad. and i was still sick for two days. so here i am, not 100% better but still much better. i want to thank everyone who took care of me. Jay and my mom and dad and god. thank you all so much.

So i have just been cast in DMTC's summer show little shop of horrors, as the lead role of Seymour. i am very excited.

Also it is official that i will be laid off come june 30th, so i have one week and two days left. so i will be juicing the hell out of the hours and trying to get as much money as possible. and i will try to find another job. for one and a half months.

Oh and i am going camping at the end of July. so excited!

also loan people are giving me shit, and my dad, and my dad is doing a lot for me for these loans and i thank him a lot. i love him so much. and he is really excited i got Seymour, so this show is going to be for him.