theatre resume

I've added a PDF of my theatrical experience to my music page (since all the shows involved music). I've updated it to include the upcoming Camelot.

Last week at rehearsal, someone asked what shows I'd been in. That's when I realized that the last show I was really "in" was Oklahoma, in high school. I didn't have any intention of becoming as involved in community theatre as I did; it just sort of happened because theaters needed pianists and I had friends involved. I auditioned for Joseph... at the Beck Center in 2003, but was not cast since I'm not a dancer (when I played for it at Elyria, the dancing wasn't as intensive). The piano was on stage in Forever Plaid and 1940s Radio Hour, and I sang in a quartet for Cabaret, but I don't really count those as being "in" the show.

I pretty much went non-stop with only brief breaks from the summer of 2002 through spring of 2004, then I went on a hiatus to get my life organized. Later that year, I was diagnosed with cancer, so that further put things on hold. I was almost involved in a show in Medina in 2005, but that collaboration fell through. Although I left myself open to the idea of doing another show, nothing really piqued my interest, and no one was begging me to play.

So now I'm leaping back into it with Camelot, actually music directing rather than merely playing. We'll see how much I do after this. The sheer time commitment (with no pay) of Schoolhouse Rock Live kind of soured my motivation for theatre (well, that, and my grandpa was in ill health, and I was planning to go see him once the show opened, but he passed away right before opening weekend), but I'm sort of past that now.