Updates

Wow. I have not blogged in a really long time... Fezziwig ended a while ago (it turns out it wasn't on a boat). Anyways!

December 28: Sister Kenny's Children rehearsals start.

(sometime in) January: Miracle Worker Rehearsals start

So those are my two shows (Miracle Worker runs for a month or so, so I won't be too bored).

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!

Guess what???????????????

Fezziwegs Feast is actually ON A BOAT! The boat doesn't go anywhere, but it's docked on Harriet Island! http://www.actorsmn.org/node/452 will explain all about it!

Another Show!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray! Hooray! I am in another show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got into 'Fezziwegs Feast' with the Actors Theatre of Minnesota! We perform in the Lowry Theatre downtown St. Paul, and it is a Dinner Theatre! So the cast gets to serve the audience (except not the kids... boo~hoo)!

I've got to go to rehearsal now!
Farewell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Annie

Wow. Annie opens in less two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope every one's ready!!!!!!!!!! I'm kinda nervous because we are using an actual dog for Sandy! And guess what her name is??????? ANNIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope she comes to Sandy instead of Annie...

We are running the show every day this week! Well, since I share the role with another Annie (there are two casts of orphans and Annie's, but the servants, Warbucks, Grace etc. are in every performance), I am running it with the Red Cast (I'm in the Red Cast, the other Annie is in the Orange) every other day.

Me and (well, let's just call her Annie) Annie get to work with the dog before rehearsal on Wednesday! Yay!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately... good news comes with bad news sometimes. I am still kinda-sorta getting over the flu. And it turns out (this is what the doctor told us) that while I was sick, some sort of gunk dripped into my throat, causing it to be on the edge of an infection... so my throat really hurts, and my voice is not fully restored. I just hope it gets better in time for opening!!!!!!!!!!!

But guess what??????? There are only TEN performances! And since there are two casts, I only perform FIVE times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the shortest run of performances I have ever had IN MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish there were more, it's a great show (REALLY funny!).

I have to go do homework (yes, in the midst of all this, I occasionally go to school), but I will post more later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More Updates!!!!

Okay... I have not been very good lately at updating my blog, so I will fill you in.

October: Rehearsals for Annie with Ashland Productions (Annie). I also sent in my head shot and resume for the show Fezziwegs Feast, and they will tell us if I should come in for an audition. October 31st: First performance for Annie.

November: Run of Annie

December: Rehearsals start for Sister Kenny's Children @ History Theatre (ensemble).

January: Run of Sister Kenny's Children. Rehearsals start for Miracle Worker @ The Theatre Garage (Helen Keller).

February: Miracle Starts running.

Oh! And guess what?

Merrick and I have Swine Flu.

This actually happened a while ago, but I just forgot to write about it...

So do you remember when I wrote that I auditioned in front of Nancy Kremer? That agent from Hollywood? Well after she told my mom about taking my head shot and resume and sending it to some directors, about 3 day's later I think it was, she e-mailed my mom offering to be my manager/agent! I think of it it more as a manager because she does the same thing for other people to (wheres as an agent would be focused on only me), such as Amy Adams! So a couple day's later we got a contract in the mail (that was incredibly long!) that both my parents and I had to sign.

Yay! Finally more pictures!!!!

Let's see... in this picture we have our old dog Thurston, and on either side of him there are our friends who were over at the time. Then around the chair is Stryker, Merrick and I when we were younger.

And here is cute little Merrick on his first day of Kindergarten.

And here is a picture my Dad took while him, Merrick, Stryker and I were out on the lake while we were on vacation.

If you want more pictures be sure to leave a comment saying so!

Updates

My blog has not really been following my acting career, so here are some updates:

August: Summer Vacation, My Birthday!

September: Nothing

October: A Taylor Swift concert!!!

November: An audition for The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at SteppingStoneTheatre (again)

December: Sister Kenny's Children and Miracle Worker Rehearsals start.

January: Rehearsals for MW and SKC... still

February: MW and SKC open.

oh yeah, and school

Abby

So just this morning as my Dad was feeding our foster dog, Abby, I noticed how she eats... she take's one peice of her food, bounds from the dining room through the kitchen, and into the living room, then eat's it. She eat's her entire bowl like that!!!

Wait Until Dark!

Yes, I am auditioning for 'Wait Until Dark' soon. So if I get into that I will have two shows to do soon...

This post shows how boring I am when I have no shows to do.

New Show!

Well it turns out I won't be bored for the next few months, I am in the ensemble in Sister Kenny's Children at the History Theatre. Rehearsals don't start until late December but I have two more more auditions coming up; I have an audition for a TV show that is not yet titled, and for a show called 'Wait Until Dark' with the Bloomington Civic Theatre and Gallery Theatre Company.

Lets hope I will find some way to amuse myself.

Vacation!!!

I'm glad that Ramona is finally over. That was the longest run of a show I've ever had. Counting previews there were 70 performances! We were doing 11 shows a week.

But that does NOT mean I want to take a really long break during Summer vacation.

So far I have auditioned for 3 things. The first was last Tuesday when I auditioned for the Buddha Prince at LionTiger Arts that performs in New York at Central Park for a Weekend. The next day I auditioned for a Nickelodeon/Sears commercial. Thursday I auditioned in front of a woman named Nancy Kremer, and she told my Mom that she would take my head shot and resume, and send it to producers in Hollywood for movies that I could be in.

Now there is only one more audition left. On Wednesday I have a Callback at the History Theatre for Sister Kenny's Children. I did not have to audition because the Artistic Director at the History Theatre (he's directing it) asked me just come to Callbacks, not auditions.

The only problem is that I have no results yet.

Scariest Day Ever

Okay, so maybe not the scariest day EVER but it was still pretty scary.

This is why: So yesterday was a two show day (one at 10:30, one at 7:00). The first show was okay except for the second scene the strap on my overalls broke. I couldn't snap it again because the snap broke. Finally when I had like 10 seconds offstage one of the costumers pinned it back together. Yes, that happened onstage. But that is definitely not the worse part.

After the show I had a dentist appointment because I had a toothache. Once I got there the dentist looked at my teeth and told me that the filling on one of my cavities had come off, so my tooth was weak cause of the cavity, which made it split. Once the dentist told me that, this is how the conversation went:

Dentist: Looks like she will have to get her tooth pulled.

My Mom: Oh. Well Scarlett nothing to worry about it wont have to happen right now.

Dentist: Oh, no we are gonna pull it right now.

Oh joy.

When they actually pulled it it didn't really hurt, but then the problem came afterwards.

Once I got home it wouldn't stop bleeding.

We waited about 2 hours then called the dentist. They said to take an old washcloth and press it up and the spot for about a half hour. I did that and it still wouldn't stop, after 2 and a half more hours after that I had to leave for my show, and yes, still bleeding. We are called an hour before the show. We do Warm-ups for half an hour, then get into costume. I spent the entire warm-up session in the crew office (the office for the crew members where we are not normally allowed), then got into costume with Gauze in my mouth. The entire show I wasn't feeling well.

My mouth is still bleeding.

True Scary Scary Adventurous Story

I meant to blog this story a while ago but I have not had the time. Anyhow... last Wednesday night it was almost midnight and I could not sleep, everyone was in bed except for my dad who was (well I had thought he was) upstairs reading. So I started up there to tell him I couldn't sleep. As I was on the stairs I heard him talking to someone, I had no idea who it could have been considering it was 11:55 p.m. So I went up and sat on the couch and saw he was outside on the balcony on the phone. He was saying things like " Yeah they're heading up the hill now, they look like they might be in their mid-twenties." When he got off the phone he told me he had been talking to the police, because he had spotted to teenagers in our alley trying to open (no, not ours) a garage. We watched from the balcony as two police cars pulled into the alley and started looking around. Soon my dad and I ran downstairs because a policeman had come to talk to him.

My dad and the cop were outside while my neighbor came out of his house after seeing all the lights and the 3 of them stood out there talking for a while, soon my dad came inside and we went back up to the top floor as he told me they were sending the dogs after them. 

We watched from the balcony for a little while longer, but then I had to go to bed at 1:00 a.m.

As far as we know they still haven't caught them.

True Story.

Ramona!

Ramona Quimby at the Children's Theatre started on the 17, and it has been very tiring.

Tues.-Fri. is 4:30-9:30 p.m. (5 hours), Sat. 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. (9 hours) and Sun. is 12:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. . The only day we have off is Monday.  

For Tech week (on stage, lights, costumes, technical stuff) it is 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Then a break from 4-6, then more tech from 6:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. That is for a week.

Wow.

Thurston: the final road trip

In August 2007 my family went on vacation for a week and we left our two dogs Jekyll and Thurston with my Grandma. Thurston was very old (around 15, 16) and sort of sick, while Jekyll was blind and not quite as old as Thurston.

                               Jekyll                    Thurston
                                                                 

We came back and picked up the dogs about a week later, but in the following week, Thurston seemed to be growing more and more sick, my family used to, and still think, that he was homesick and missed us while we were gone and that's why he grew sick, and most people agreed because my  Grandma had treated him really well. Soon he could not feel his legs anymore and we had to feed him in his bed because he couldn't walk. He was going through a lot of pain and someone had to be with him every minute, so after about a day and a half, we had to put him down.

 That picture is when they were on their way to my Grandmas house.

More Pictures

Here is a picture of me now.

That is me in ' The Miracle Worker' at Torch Theatre where I was Helen Keller.

The Olympians

Next, I am going to be Ramona Quimby in Ramona Quimby at the Children's Theatre, but I am missing out on QUITE a few things, such as the Fun Fair at my school, which is on Opening Night, and a ton of school because each day there are 1-2 performances during the day, so I am missing some fun days at school to. But the worst one is D.I., see, D.I. is a team that I am on with 5 other kids at my school, it stands for Destination Imagination, and the first time we meet, we choose a challenge, there were 6 choices, 4 of them were mostly just improvisation, the other two were mostly building, and our team chose one of those. Our challenge was to make two machines that worked together to do at least two tasks, such as tying a knot, lifting the other one, stacking, catch and release etc. So we chose to do lifting, where the first machine has to lift the second, stacking, and catch and release. We also had to design a skit to go with the theme of working together, so we made up a skit about a Robot Olympics, that takes place in 3012, and it starts with the kid who was playing the announcer, playing the Olympic theme song on his saxophone.

Announcer: Hello and welcome to the 3012 Robot Olympics the triathlon of lifting, stacking, and catch and release, we have here the Dragon Team, designed by (Japanese name and Japanese name).

My friend and I were the Dragon Team, and we found some some Japanese names on the Internet.

Announcer: And over here is the Tiger Team, designed by (Japanese name and Japanese name)

Did I mention this takes place in Japan?

Announcer: And here we have the other team designed by six American kids. We will start here with the Dragon Team... Go!

Me (to my friend/other robot): Ready? Okay, on the count of three I will lift you, 1, 2-

Friend: What?! I thought I was going to lift you, I was programmed to do it.

Me: No! We talked about this on the way over! I am going to lift you!

And it went on like that until...

Announcer: Enough! Disqualified!

Me and Friend: What? Disqualified?! It's your fault! (pointing to each other)

Then the rest of the play goes on with the 'Tiger Team' fighting with each other and getting disqualified, then it was time for the machines; the lifting went well and so did the catch and release, but then the stacking came... We had to get at least 3 objects stacked, and they had gotten 3 already, and one of the manned machines was on it's way to stack the 4th one, when I looked at my watch (I was timekeeper, and we had 8 minutes), and I was supposed to just say

" They only have 1 minute left" when (of course) they had a minute left and my watch said 6 minutes 36 seconds, so they only had a minute and a half left! And I knew to stack just one took a long time, so the second I could, I said my line and they were still stacking the 4th one! So then of course, the 4th one get stacked but the pile falls over, luckily, 3 still stayed up by the time the Timekeeper called "Time!"

Later our team and our two coaches went to the award ceremony, where they find out who is going to the State Competition or not. There was also another team from my school (because there were 12 kids who wanted to do it and they split it up) and they had chosen to do a different challenge, which means both of us could  win and go to State. The Ceremony was AWESOME!!! AND... both teams made it to State! 

And then the second I got home came the bad news, I called my mom and it turns out that I can't go to state! It is the day of a Ramona rehearsal!!!!!!! 

 

The Matrons Daughter

If you are reading this you just might have read my mom's blog 'Minnesota Matron', so obviously, I am her ten-year-old daughter. 

First I am going to explain the title of this Blog... I live to act, sing, or dance, I have been in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at SteppingStoneTheatre

No, this is not from The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, this is from The Sound of Music, where I was Marta (thats me with the braids). Anyway... I have been in 4 shows at SteppingStoneTheatre; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Prince and the Pauper, Almost to Freedom, and Anansi the Trickster Spider, Stepping Stone is probably my favorite theatre of all time, everybody there is SUPER nice, and I have met around 75-80 kids from all the performances there. Then right inbetween Prince and the Pauper and Almost to Freedom, I got into the Home Place at the Guthrie, yes THE Guthrie, well I was pretty excited about that, and it's funny how different the Guthrie is from SST (Stepping Stone), at the Guthrie there was one other kid in the show and we shared the role of a poor Irish girl named Maisie McLaughlin, that was a great show, I got to meet Sarah Agnew, Simon Jones, Charles Keating, and a whole lot of other people, one of the best parts was snack central, see, in each dressing room there were six lockers, Sarah Agnew shared a dressing room with two other women, and they were so nice and awesome, that they filled an entire locker with candy for me and the other girl who shared the role, they would find out our favorite candies and fill up the locker, then they named it snack central.

I'll blog more about other shows, and soon I'll have more pictures!!!!! Anyway... be sure to read my moms blog, Minnesota Matron.