Ok, guys, where are you? Shadowing Idina Menzel? Fording the rivers of Pennsylvania? Or did you see my new nail polish color, notice you weren't wearing that color, and decide to turn back because everybody else was, and we would clash? Don't worry! Everything goes with purple!
We were a lean, mean trio again this week. Which means that we got through a lot of stuff.
Trio from The Magic Flute? Yeah!
"Story of my Life" from Shrek? Yeah!
"A Heart Full of Love"? You bet!
"A Little Fall of Rain"? Can't hurt me now!
"First Time in Forever"? …oh wait. Here comes Marius, back from the bathroom.
We took turns being Eponine again. Everybody likes Eponine. She gets to be noble. She gets to sing really cool low notes, and she gets to die a beautiful, self-sacrificing death. She also gets the best vocal warm-ups.
We got a chance to delve into the nitty-gritty details of German pronunciation.
"It's i - E! and e - I!"
"Oh! so it's 'dye spyzen'"
"No, no, 'deeeee shpyzen', and you have to shove an h in there too after the s…"
This is not the first time this confusion has arisen.
And there was even time for some real, true, honest-to-goodness philosophizing.
"I was learning life lessons!"
"From whom?"
"From what else? Life!"
"Life is the worst teacher. It gives you the test before it teaches you how to do it!"
"Yeah. And you never know what you did wrong."
Well here's to you, Life. You may not have the pedagogy all down, but you sure have some fascinating, mind-blowing, beautiful, tragic, huge things to teach. Even if I did topple off a wall, even if they did break my wand, banish me from the kingdom….. count me in.
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