disclaimer: i wasn't going to make this a political blog and that is still my intention. this however, is going to be a political post. the opinions of this blog are unabashedly liberal. if that bothers you, i'm sorry, but i still encourage you to read it.
yesterday morning, i was in a mood.
we had been waiting for the supreme court to rule on DOMA and Prop 8 and not only had they not, but they had essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act, disenfranchising minority voters in the very places that had tried so hard to keep them from voting not 7 months ago. so i was pissed.
and i was pissed that very few people seemed to care. and i said something snarky on facebook about how i wished that even half the people who had so gleefully been coming up with butter puns about paula deen days before cared that discrimination was just made law by the supreme court.
and i was scared about what that meant for the marriage cases coming up.
and then, through social media, i heard about wendy davis. and my day totally changed.
(continue reading after the jump...)
Showing posts with label nights to remember. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nights to remember. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
and the award goes to
my brother recently accepted a job about which he said: "i would call this a dream job but i didn't know to dream for a job like this."
sometimes you don't know something is a dream until it comes true.
i have often said that theatre is an addiction, not a profession. i have also said many times that the first thing we all hear in the first class we take is: "if you can be happy doing anything else, do it." we don't work in this industry because it makes us happy. we work in this industry because we couldn't be happy doing anything else. it's really a sickness. if you have a normal job, if you are happy doing anything else, you should consider yourself lucky.
as a theatre addict, i knew i had to do it - i had to be involved in this business. i first found my way in as an actor when i didn't know there were other options for me. later i found stage management, which i loved and will always consider myself to be a part of (i now say i'm a recovering stage manager. just like an alcoholic, i'll never stop being one, i just don't actively do it anymore). then came marketing and now producing. i like producing a lot, i think it's one that could stick for a while, particularly at my current company because i adore it.
missing in all of this, though, were your typically awarded categories of theatrical employment (with the possible exception of producing but i've never had a real yen to do that on the broadway level). i was a terrible actor. i can't draw or design to save myself. i thought maybe i wanted to be a director at some point but that was a fleeting goal at best. i've never been particularly compelled to write a play. i was always much more drawn to the behind the scenes work. being a part of it without being in the spotlight.
what i'm saying is that "attending the tony awards" was not a dream i ever had because i didn't know to dream for it.
(continued after the jump...)
sometimes you don't know something is a dream until it comes true.
i have often said that theatre is an addiction, not a profession. i have also said many times that the first thing we all hear in the first class we take is: "if you can be happy doing anything else, do it." we don't work in this industry because it makes us happy. we work in this industry because we couldn't be happy doing anything else. it's really a sickness. if you have a normal job, if you are happy doing anything else, you should consider yourself lucky.
as a theatre addict, i knew i had to do it - i had to be involved in this business. i first found my way in as an actor when i didn't know there were other options for me. later i found stage management, which i loved and will always consider myself to be a part of (i now say i'm a recovering stage manager. just like an alcoholic, i'll never stop being one, i just don't actively do it anymore). then came marketing and now producing. i like producing a lot, i think it's one that could stick for a while, particularly at my current company because i adore it.
missing in all of this, though, were your typically awarded categories of theatrical employment (with the possible exception of producing but i've never had a real yen to do that on the broadway level). i was a terrible actor. i can't draw or design to save myself. i thought maybe i wanted to be a director at some point but that was a fleeting goal at best. i've never been particularly compelled to write a play. i was always much more drawn to the behind the scenes work. being a part of it without being in the spotlight.
what i'm saying is that "attending the tony awards" was not a dream i ever had because i didn't know to dream for it.
(continued after the jump...)
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