January 24, 2006
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The Daily News
1 My room is utterly abuzz with talk of the Spring Musical.
2 We tried to do a musical last year, but for some reason, nobody seemed interested.
3 I really want this to work. I don't offer to do musicals very often, and when I do, I get really ready for a great ride.
4 The last musical we did was Songs We've Heard,and that was quite a while ago. We've been musical-less for quite some time, and it was refreshing listening to all the songs and chosing our newest memories. Songs We've Heard was a sweet memory, and a lot of fun.
5 We are in our fifth day of planning. There's a LOT involved, not the least of which was clearing the boards for the dates, getting the songs gathered, making audition posters, packets, and all the rest.
6 On Saturday, I got together with Peter, Vivien, and Nhat, and we just sat in the Theatre listening to five CD's of Broadway shows, and compared what we had with my mom's list.
7 It was just a beautiful afternoon in the Theatre; the stage was lit like a coffeehouse, mic and guitar, blue stool with Van Gogh flowers, and we sat in the audience under the glow of the houselights, listening to the different Broadway songs and playing a mightily fierce game of Monopoly, the World's Longest Game.
8 It was just perfect. We added a rule called immunity, in which if you have say, a Baltic, you give it to the guy who has Meditterenean in return for immunity from his Monopoly.
9 It's a GREAT new rule, if you've never played that way before. It took them a while to catch on, but I just bought one Monopoly. At first, my money ran all the way down to a dollar, but soon enough, I just kept running around the board freely, because I was immune to all their Monopolies. They all kept eating each other alive, and I at one point got back up to over $7000!!!
10 Eventually, they got into serious collusion, and it all evened out, but it was really a fun way to chose music!
11 We were able to listen to five CD's of Broadway hits, and got a LOT of work out of the way.
12 Yesterday a few students came into the room and heard some wonderful songs that we had already chosen, and we got out our fliers, and the kids posted them all over the school!
13 So we begin Wednesday and Thursday after school in the Theatre. I can't wait to see how it goes. You never know.
14 I do know that we have a great new group just coming off a successful run of Once Upon a Time, and are just pretty eager to get out there and do it again.
15 So I can't wait! This sounds like it should be a lot of fun, and hopefully not too tough to do.
16 And just hearing the whole building singing and dancing once more brings some much-needed joy to all our hearts.
17 So we're all getting ready to rumble!
18 On a sadder note, I found out yesterday that Mr. Rocha was absent because his father passed away yesterday morning. I don't know too much else, but you might keep Mr. Rocha and his family in your thoughts and prayers today.
19 Peace.
~H~
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