Deep Dark Winter

So it’s been a long winter already and we’ve only had snow for a week and a half. The darkness comes early these days, too. The nicest thing about this season (for me anyway) is the feelings of peaceful isolation that the snow brings AND the fact that spring now has to be right around the corner! Oh please let it come quickly. I am working on a very restful project right now. I am understudying at the Guthrie. Please, no pity for me – I am truly enjoying not having to drag myself to the theater each night while picking up a paycheck. Of course I live with the chance that any moment… My sister just called. She should know better than to call right before a show…I thought she was the Guthrie. How dare she…my heart is slowing now. I will be alright. Ok, so an understudy gig is a little nerve-wracking.As for other projects, I am working on finishing a grant for  the Twin Cities Opera Guild. Christina and I have a educational program about opera/music-theater for high school kids. If you know of some kids in MN who could use some opera influences, please contact me with a school name.  Before I start a new project in January (Jeune Lune), I will visit my brothers on the west coast. Send your best thoughts and prayers in that direction if you would please – brother Ken is starting another round of chemo for his cancer and fighting brilliantly. Good vibes from loving readers never hurt, however. Enjoy the beautiful season. 

 

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Hi from Cambridge. It has been a long time since I last posted…what can I say…I haven’t developed the blog habit yet. Here are some pictures of the tour. More to come.

 

Back in Cambridge!

Here I am…or here we are rather. The cast and crew of Jeune Lune’s Figaro and Don Juan Giovanni have brought the shows to the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA. I have been living with the roles of the Countess and Elvire (I am in both shows) since January, believe it or not. We started work on the shows in January 2007, opened DJG in March, Fig in April and closed the shows in Minneapolis in June.

After such a long run, I thought I would be ready to put these shows to rest in June. Not the case. I can’t wait to do it again. There are three reasons for this off the top of my head:
1) Jeune Lune – I promise I will elaborate later
2) Mozart – needs no elaboration
3) ART and the cool theater-goers of the Boston area. I love this place.

Oh..and…quality time with my sister. Christina Baldwin is in the cast too. She’s my little sister in real life. She played Carmen in Jeune Lune’s production of that opera at A.R.T. two years ago. I played Micaela (with platinum hair). Both times we have toured here at A.R.T. we room together. We used to share a room all through our childhood until I moved out to go to college, so it brings back memories, ah the memories. I look forward to being bossy in ways that are so repressed when you live apart from one another with your significant others and small dogs.

 

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