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Thursday, June 30, 2005 Dawn as Actress I've been good about posting this month. :-) The news: A few weeks ago, I had my first theatre audition in about three years (how time flies!); I had exactly one day to prepare, which included learning a song and finding myself a monologue appropriate for kids. Tuesday morning I woke up and got the word in my inbox: I'm in! So come fall I have a paid gig doing children's theatre, focusing on elementary schools in underprivileged areas (the first leg of the tour is five weeks in Detroit, later expanding through the rest of Michigan--I think there's an out-of-state portion somewhere there too). This is great--I haven't done real theatre in forever. (Don't worry though, I'll still have time for plenty of music.) I think my last show was two summers of the ever-popular A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Nichols Arboretum (for those who are in Ann Arbor: yes, they're doing the production again this year. That makes three out of the five summers that Shakespeare in the Arb has been happening, three out of five summers that they've done the same play). After the first year, most of the cast vowed we'd never do an outdoor show again--we were rained out multiple times, cold--cold in Michigan in July and August!--running around in skimpy fairy costumes, and half the cast ended up with performance-related injuries. For example, Titania stepped on part of a tree and it pierced her foot, which meant that afterwards a golf cart brought her from location to location in the Arb between scenes. Most of us came back for another run anyway. But after the second year I was done. Yet "Midsummer" is still my favorite of Shakespeare's comedies, probably due to the fact that it was the first one I ever saw performed; I think I was in fifth grade when I saw the high school's production, went home, and immediately read the entire play. (There you have it, kids can understand Shakespeare. Interestingly enough, during "Midsummer" we did a few performances just for schools, and the elementary schoolers were probably our best audiences. I remember well-prepped kids silently mouthing the lines with us as we spoke. And even more kids looking at the fairies in awe.) But for all its magic, I probably won't be able to sit through another production of it in the near future; I'm still rather Midsummer-ed out. Mmm, I'm excited about all of this. 
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