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[sebastienne]

sorry for the drunken entry, guys. but i'm gonna leave it up because it amuses me, and people have been very sweet about it :)

*hyperventilates*

somebody in Oxford is putting on Earnest.

The Importance of Being Earnest.

On stage.

Where I am.

And no, I'm not talking about some big profesional production. I'm talking about a student. Auditioning.

Auditioning for actors for The Importance of Being Earnest.

Let's ignore probability for a moment.... let us just revel in the fact that there is a possibility, no matter how slight, that I could conceivably be playing Lady Bracknell on a stage in front of people. Do you know how complete my life would be if I were to get this?!!!

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[coconutswirl.livejournal.com]

A HANDBAG!?

My old theatre company staged Earnest years ago. I must've watched the play 50+ times and I never tired of it.

Loved your drunken entry. Sexuality IS fluid, dammit.

/back to lurking

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

it is my favourite play by my favourite playwright... i could never get bored of it, either.

and, yes, i am of the opinion that sexuality is fluid - but it's nice to be in a room with 6 other people who are all feeling the same way. :)

[ladylick.livejournal.com]

break a leg, my darling! xxx

ps my college musical is anything goes! reminded me of singers' prom...wish me luck for my audition :)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

break a leg, dearest! go on, break two!

in olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now god knows - anything goes!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

oooh, it's my favorite play as well, and i'd audition!, but you'd blow me out of the water in the genuine-accent department. [le sigh]

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

well, it's only karma or something - when i auditioned for 'angels, punks and raging queens' they asked me, on the spot, to read my scene in a New York accent.

all i can say to that is, ouch.

do you think an obsession with the play, and with Wilde in general, will work against me? it is going to be very hard not squee my way through the audition, but i am going to have to try.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i think it will be a very good thing that you are familiar with the play, but it'll be important to remember that The Director Is In Charge, so if they ask you for something that seems out of kilter with the way the play is in your head, you've got to do it anyway. :-)

when are these auditions, by the way? (and, if i can speak to singer!sebastienne for a moment, what can you tell me about choruses, a capella groups, etc., that have auditions? i'm singing the mozart requiem over at univ, which is all fine and well, but the fliers say "oxford's largest non-auditioning chorus", and lemme tell you, you can tell. it's good for getting one's voice back in shape, but i need vocal musicians, man.)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

well, i found out about the play this morning in the OUDS newsletter, and e-mailed the girl, i don't know, i assume she's director or something like that. i'm auditioning wednesday afternoon, she's just conferring with someone else to decide the time.

well, i am in wadham chapel choir, which is non-auditioning, but still fairly good. there are a couple of stX people in it. there's an a capella all-girls group called in the pink, i saw their flyers up in the News Cafe. other than that, i don't know much about what's going on chorally in oxford, to be honest.

...there is a non-auditioning choir doing mozart's requiem?! i suppose it's too late to get involved now, and no choir is ever desperate for altos....

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

last night's rehearsal was, in fact, described as "night of the living altos" by a friend of mine back in the bass section. When Altos Walked the Earth. we'd never seen so many -- usually it's the sopranos who swarm and overrun the place. :-) (if you can sing tenor, they might be interested to have you come down, if you already know the requiem -- but that's just a guess, and the thing is thursday of 8th week, so it probably is a little late to be beginning. but my flatmate came down for the first time last week, and didn't come yesterday, so you know, there are people with hardly any practice time ...)

tell me about your chapel choir, and i'll hunt up some other stuff to see about other choral things.

[definitely in need of a Singer icon]

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

hmm. i do know the requiem quite well, but only the alto line - so i might sit this one out, but i shall see if i can make it along to the concert at least.

well, wadham chapel choir is also terribly short of tenors, although the sop/alto/bass balance is quite good. apparently they're better this term than they've ever been before, although they are in need of a soprano or two who are really confident in the very top of their ranges, and from what i remember, you are one of those, aren't you?

we rehearse from 4pm on sunday - about an hour and a half, then tea & biscuits, then another half-hour, then a pretty-pretty candlelit evensong in the wadham chapel. afterwards, you get free dinner.

we're just in the process of beginning carols for the big christmas service. we also sing carols from the minstrels' gallery during the wadham christmas dinner, and get as much free food and wine as we can consume whilst still being able to sing.

let me know if you come across any decent-sounding choirs... much as i love the pretty-pretty evensong services, i'd love to be doing some concerts again.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

they are in need of a soprano or two who are really confident in the very top of their ranges

[swoon]

and look how close wadham college is to where i live! (is there a particular Way One Dresses for pretty-pretty evensong? or can a person just show up?)

:-D

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

yes, it's just a personal observation, that we seem to have mostly 'shy sops' when it comes to the top notes of descants and things.

no robes or anything; just smartish. i think they might be instituting some kind of a dress code for the carol concert, but in general people wear whatever.

the woman who runs it is katharine[dot]pardee[at]wadham etc... you might want to e-mail her to express interest, but then again, new people are turning up every week so i don't think it's by any means imperative.

[parsnip.livejournal.com]

Theatre! Wilde! Lady Bracknell! Possible period costume!

(Don't be surprised if I stalk you to rehearsals if you make it... :p)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

don't be surprised if i spontaneously combust if i get it!

(or, get very sad if i don't get it... i try not to pin all my hopes on every audition i go to, but it always comes back to self-loathing vs narcissism in the end.)

[miyo-chan.livejournal.com]

if you make it.. tell me so i can come down and see you in it.. i've not tlost my Earnest Virginity yet and student stuff is sooo much better sometimes.
<333 wilde-ness <33

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

well, i've still not heard back from them with a definite audition time...

but i want to do this so so so so so very much!

[miyo-chan.livejournal.com]

break many legs *nods*

[puellaepie.livejournal.com]

where can i get tickets?

[gatty.livejournal.com]

We were going to do the Importance for year 12 play, and then we found out that Max and Sam the actor protege children (who have now left, thank god) did it hideously recently. So we are not. And I was going to be Lady Bracknell. Ah well.

Times change and change is hope.

*giggles* Brecht ate my brain.