MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This year I'm spending Christmas in New York City! I generally visit New York in the summer, so this is a treat. Anyone who knows me knows that New York where I intend on living as soon as I graduate, so I'm incredibly grateful for any time I get to spend here!

Besides being Christmas Eve, December 24 was also my sister's sixteenth birthday. We spent our first day back in the city celebrating both holidays with a trip to Rockefeller Plaza to see the tree, Radio City Music Hall for the Rockettes' Christmas Spectacular, the Nederlander Theatre for Disney's Newises, and lastly to our friends' house in Washington Heights for Christmas Eve dinner. It was a spectacular way to start off the trip!

Seeing the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City is absolutely something you should try to do once in your life. It's quite the spectacle! The Rockettes were brilliant, as expected. Their precision is especially astounding to me. As a dancer I know how difficult keeping those perfectly straight lines can be or kicking at exactly the same height, but my god, they were right on it. The rest of the cast was impressive too, particularly the other dancers. 

Oh the woe that is being only 5'4". No future in the Rockettes for me, sadly.

Our second show of the day was Newsies. I've been interested in seeing it since it was playing at Papermill, so I was glad to finally get the chance! The dancing was beyond compare. Actually, overall the talent level was incredible, although the storyline was lacking. Still, I was beaming through the entire show, so two thumbs up from me. 

Chances are you've all gathered from my being a BFA MT major that I hope to someday be on Broadway. Trips like this always refresh that dream for me. Every show I see gives me new drive to improve so that I may be on that stage someday soon. I can't wait for the spring semester to start so that I can be in the studio everyday practicing. And in about two years, this city will be my home!

Taking a step away from Broadway dreams, we'd hoped to meet up with some director friends for coffee but schedules didn't quite work out. However we did get to visit some old friends from Virginia and then watch my sister open her presents. And our Christmas pajama tradition continued despite being in New York, hence the above picture. 

Tomorrow I'll be venturing back into the city to visit the Discovery Museum's Spy and Harry Potter (!!) exhibits and hopefully see Les Mis with college friends. 

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas wherever you might be! xoxo

Holiday Cheer from the Super Sophomore Squad

The theatre and dance department's holiday party was tonight and the Fab Four never miss a chance to dress up.

Last year we surprised everyone with our super tacky Christmas sweaters.

This year we had to find a way to top it. 

Sadly, our numbers have dwindled, but we decided to transform into Santa's Super Sophomore Squad and spread the holiday cheer!

Jocelyn Moss as J. Frost

Sarah Hall as Deck the Hall, Sarah

Anna Lee McFadden as Angel Lee

Yours truly as Fa La La Fiona

The Fab Four!

"Samya Claus" (center) didn't have time to finish her shirt but she was part of the squad in spirit!

Happy Holidays all!!! xoxo

Juries

Tomorrow is the dreaded jury. When I audition to be accepted into the BFA Musical Theatre program at my school. Dance call starts at 8:30am, so wish me luck!

My friends Jocelyn, Sarah, Anna Lee, and I have been practicing pretty much nonstop. Hopefully we're ready! 

Even after our 8am Fundamentals final we practiced! That is dedication!

And then we procrastinated with photos...

(Also I feel tall in this picture. And I LOVE IT.)

In a freezing studio.

Juries, juries, juries. AHHHH.

Outfit Details:

Leggings - Forever21

Sweater - Goodwill

Socks - Macy's

Scarf - gifted

More song practice. Singing "Show Me" from My Fair Lady and "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" from Finian's Rainbow.

Hopefully juries will go well tomorrow, as well as my Accounting final, which I've barely studied for thanks to jury stress. Oh goodness, I cannot wait for finals week to be over. THREE MORE DAYS!

Deadly Sins

Friday night I helped out with several friends' World Theatre History project on Dr. Faustus. And by helped out, I mean I got to dress up and be in a video, so really I was thrilled to do it!

I was one of the seven deadly sins for the project (although only four were actually included) and ended up being Lust. Anyhow, here are a few pictures from the night!

Getting ready!

Lust's makeup

Goofing off

Whole cast

Sins and devils

Photo by Alexa Holloway

Faustus and Lust

Photo by Alexa Holloway

Photo by Alexa Holloway

Deadly sins

Photo by Alexa Holloway

Ahh! What fun it was to be a part of this project! 

Finals Week

 Oh my goodness, outfit photos? What?! 

Today has been a day full of studying for finals and of course some procrastination breaks to take pictures!

Tomorrow my finals actually begin with an 8am presentation for Fundamentals of Theatre. Luckily, I'll be rewarded that night with the Department Holiday Party! And my fellow sophomores and I have something fun planned...you'll see soon enough!

The rest of the week includes my BFA Musical Theatre audition jury, Honors Accounting final, Design project, and Acting scene presentations. Four more days!

In other news, it was actually cold today. The past few weeks have been 70+ degrees. Surreal weather for Kentucky. But now it actually feels like December, something I hadn't realized when I put on this outfit!

Outfit Details:

Dress - Forever21

Thigh Highs - Macy's

Plaid blazer - Vintage

Necklace - Vintage

Sometimes I realize after the fact that my outfit was perhaps not so flattering. This is one of those times. But live and learn, right?

Best of luck on finals if you have any! xoxo

The Busiest Time of the Year

It's the busiest time of the year and as a result I've been neglecting the blog! Let me catch you up...

One week ago I was performing in Revuesicals as Lois Lane in Kiss Me, Kate.

And a Disney party, where I went as, what else, a cat. Marie from The Aristocats to be specific.

The day after that was Last Chance to Dance.

Then life was simply too busy for pictures...finals, piano concerts, scene presentations. Just utter chaos, really, culminating in "Fun Cabaret" last night where I won Best Dressed!

Finished off today with rehearsal for my acting final, filming for my Fundamentals final, and the performance of a directing scene that I took on last Wednesday. 

Onward to finals week!