TEMPORARILY UNPLUGGED

I am beginning to wonder if there are still 7 days in a week these days, since every time I turn around I feel as though another week has snuck up on me, yet again. Anywho, this past week I spent some time playing Galinda, Elphaba, Boq and Nessa from the Broadway musical WICKED at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. I was the reader at the callbacks along side some multi-talented actors, some of whom have now become friendly faces.

In doing so I got to explore the world behind and underneath the famous stage and along its many winding paths that are filled with so much character and history, dating back to 1930. Since WICKED is based on Gregory Maguire’s “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” inspired by the very popular classic “The Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, you are actually creatively instructed and guided to “follow the yellow brick road” in order to get to different areas behind the scenes. Sure enough there are yellow brick-like marks painted on the floor and throughout the many narrow corridors, which make your journey a little more fun.

Simply being at the theatre brought back the magic that exists within it for me, since I got my start acting on stage. Theatres are places where the energy runs high with the anticipation that goes hand in hand with each day being a new show with a new audience. Theatre holds the exciting, slight uncertainty of not knowing exactly what will happen while you are also fully aware that “the show must go on,” no matter what.

Overall, it was a pleasure working with the creative team, yet again, while meeting some new key players who have helped make WICKED the success that it is today and surely will continue doing so long into the future. I always look forward to any work I may get in the future working on any aspect of the show, and I know that it will be full of fun and adventure no matter whenever I am given the chance.

With WICKED behind me for now, I am gearing up to head out of the country, where I will be unplugged, so to speak, which means unreachable and offline for an entire week. Therefore, I will be unable to post next week, but will fully update you upon my return to the US, complete with some pictures, I hope. As a result of traveling without my computer, for once, I realize this means coming back to a mass of e-mails. However, I think it will be refreshing to be out of contact for a bit and worth being briefly on overload, when I get back.

Until then I hope you all enjoy your start to the fall season, which happens to be one of my favorites, and I will be back with a new blog as soon as I recharge myself and get plugged back in, after being temporarily unplugged.

 

“I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.” – Will Wright

Side Note: I will be thinking of and sending extra smiles to everyone who has come into my life thus far, whether they stayed for a short or long time, and whether or not they are still in it or not, on September 11th. It is a day that hits me in a strange way each and every year it comes around, as I am sure it does everyone, since I was living in NYC and in the middle of it all back in 2001. Thank you for touching my life and know that, good or bad, you have contributed to the person I am today and I wish you the best, always!