WE WILL ROCK YOU
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This is my new year’s blog. I’m going a little insane wanting to act. Even though I’ve had a lot of successful endeavors before Christmas, the new year has got my blood pumping. I have bought an organizer for the first time and I have already organized the next week into a great week of work. I’m going to try not to let the stress of my regular job get in the way. It is stressful, I had this jerk of a man tell me off and threaten me for doing my job and trying to get him stop taking pictures of We Will Rock You. It wore on me. It didn’t matter how nice I was to him he elevated to physical threats even though he was in the wrong. I want to learn from that kind of energy and I don’t want to take on the stress and for this reason I’m going to concentrate on yoga and start taking classes.
On the subject of We Will Rock You, I have to talk about this whole drinking in the theatre. I understand we will rock you is promoted to be a rock theatre show, so I can understand it, but at work I have been mad about how all theatre etiquette has gone out the window. I really can understand with this show, but now Canstage and the other Mirvish theatres are doing it and it really takes away from the sacredness of the theatre to me. It becomes more like a movie. Tonight drunk guys were yelling, we have a huge problem trying to stop people filming and taking pictures during the show. I feel I can talk about the, because I have worked at the Canon Theatre for 3 years now and I have watched it falter and fast, so they can make more money in drink sales. Patrons keep saying comments to me about how with the times this is and maybe, but there is something wrong about it. It brings the show down while you’re drinking your beer. I’m not saying it’s wrong for we will rock you, but the example that we will rock you gave to all the other theatres in the city. I think the Elgin is okay still. I’ve served the Mirvish business men and just by the way they talked about the theatre you could tell they were businessmen and not theatre folk. They clearly didn’t understand what it could mean to be up and performing a beautiful solo while some guys are in the front row drinking beer. The theatre brings the audience and the performer together emotionally and a beer in hand separates that bond, I feel. I’m mad about it also because I don’t need to go to my part time job and get threatened.
On a better note, we are remounting the show I did with Column 13 theatre and I may be doing another one with them. I’m excited about that. I also did an off the wall stand up routine for a cabaret at my work Christmas party. It was awesome, I was so wired after. I had the whole crowd laughing pretty damn hard. I love writing comedy. My friend and I spent last year perfecting a great comedy show and he left to go on adventures, which he needed, so I can’t wait until he gets back so we can start rehearsing.
I also ran into a self realization just lately. Well it was more something that I needed to do as a person. It was hard, But I have friends that I have been friends with for a long time and the desperation they are showing, because lack of work and even lack of auditions is overwhelming them and it is hard, but to be hearing about it all the time was wearing me out. I backed off from certain friends I tried to help them, which I always try to do, but the desperation of it all showed all over them. When I backed off though a relief came over me that I had never felt before. It was amazing. Guilt came in, because I naturally care. Everyone has their own journey and sometimes we can get in each other’s way and I realize that my journey is going far away than some of my friends. We are definitely not parallel and even though they want me to be on their journeys and understand what they are going through, I’m not. I’m building towards a confidence that is going to make me fly and I’ve been there before in school. I had to relearn in out in the real world, but I am figuring it out. I respect everyone and their own strengths, but I have mine to fly on with and people coinciding with me will come and naturally be beside me and the people that were beside me can fly their own way and I will never be offended. I believe this now. Even though I feel my resume is not strong enough I know it will be when I show how strong I am and becoming.
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