ok, let's not beat around the bush. i've been very neglectful of my blog. it's not that i don't love you blog. but life has been really busy. but i will admit, four months is too long. so here's the long and the short of it. september was september. october was nice. halloween crept up on me and i had no time to build the la carlotta costume i wanted so i pulled together a bunch of costume pieces i had to make this fantastic willy wonka. but at the last minute it was unseasonably hot and rainy. so i grabbed some fabric i had and whipped up a pretty stellar caesar costume 20 minutes before leaving. casey and i had a terrific time and she got so crunk she couldn't wear her shoes so i lent her mine and i went barefoot. she then ripped a full mum out of a window box in center city and carried it with her to the diner we went to so she could 'sober up.' she completes me. november was hectic. i was a cast addition to the christmas show at the broadway theatre. while i hate holiday shows, they are so generous with tthe use of their space to the miss liberty pageant, i really couldn't say no when asked. and despite my initial trepidation, i had a blast and met some wonderful new friends. most memorable experiance was the blizzard of 2009 that postponed one performance and sufficiently stranded me in laurie's attic in mannyunk with some delightful chums. it was like we were the franks hiding from the germans but with pizza and internet access. also, i finally saw all of zoolander that weekend and fancy myself something of a 'blue steel' officionado now. don't hate.
five minutes into christmas show rehearsal i found out i was cast in singin' in the rain at the broadway and would be reprising my role of 'production tenor' from 2002 at three little bakers. psyched. i love that role. bad news, not enough guys in the cast for me to just cameo so i have to tap dance. now for those of you who don't know, i'm not really a tap dancer. so doing it in front of 1100 hundred paying costumers sort of gives me a panic attack. but ya know what? i'm writing this after my third performance of the show and i'm really holding my own. in fact, next weekend i'm being moved to the front of the formation by the choreographer! sort of proud of overcoming that fear.
i have also met some really awesome people doing this show and am also insanely happy and feel very blessed to be working with my friend ted in the same cast for the first time and am really pleased that this affords us the opportunity to become closer friends. as well as finally meeting/ falling in friendship love with his lovely girlfriend samantha (she's our lina lamont and is fantastic). also big ups to ted for learning a boatload of tap-ography to play don, because he was in the same tap boat as me, but is totally looking like a lifelong tapper.
At the same time as the christmas show and rehearsing singin', it was time for my most favorite event of the year - the miss liberty pageant. miss liberty was held january 3 and it was pretty much a flawless evening and i received many compliments, which is awesome. but even better, my new miss liberty is katharyn nicolle. k-dizzle was miss new jersey's outstanding teen in 2008. she is super intellegent, overly talented (pointe ballerina), drop dead gorgeous, and just an all around nice girl ... and she drives a convertible so having her as my girl is a match made in heaven. i can't wait to go to miss new jersey with her this june. look out ashley shaffer, we're coming after your job!!!! no worries though ashshaf, cos you'll have had to pass it on to katie hope by then cos you'll have won miss america by then ... hopefully!
ok. this is really long, but now your up to speed. i'll try to be better at this now.
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