How LOW can you GO?

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Throat hurts. Not in a good way. I had to show off at call-backs and go as low as I could on scales and now I am cast as an Alto2 and I can't hit the notes! I am gonna be Sister Mary Super Flat and Off-Key and that kind of SISTER ain't good!

Thankfully, my more musically trained and melodic other half purchased a digital recorder for me and after tonight's rehersal I got to hear just how low that E really is and just how horribly I tried to hit it. So now it's practice for three weeks until I sound like Kathleen Turner in those corny Fancy Feast ads or think of: a woman hopped up on Sudafed; Megan Cavagnah as Marla Hooch singing It HAD TO BE YOUUUUU in A League of Their Own and mix that up with your average Tenderloin cross dressin-street walker and you will about have what range I am supposed to sing in.

Hey Von Trapp; got a light big boy?

I keep imagining that any nun that sings that low was a prison guard in a former life. Not a big stretch really. When your good to mama...Jesus is good to you?

How DO you solve a problem like Maria?

Made it! Who would have thunk-it?

Bye bye Fiddler on the Roof 2006 and HELLO Summer Theater with VMT 2007. For my audition I rocked the house with Mein Heir from Cabaret and I got the kudos of some of our more, classically trained Ziegfeld gals and did a pretty darn good reading for Frau Schmidt (housekeeper) Austrian/German accent and all.

However, it appears that I am at that wonderful age for limited middle of the road-gal-roles. Too old to play a 20-something and too young to play anything over 40. Which means I get to wear a habit and "fill out" the nun chorus. Now, I had a speaking role, albeit, a short one and I had about a minute solo last year so ask me if I am bitter at all and watch the drama soar! I realized something this weekend at rehersal, which is now that I am back doing theater, I really need to put myself out there. I am not talking head shots, etc.. but I want to be involved in perhaps a more meatier role.

For now, I will have to settle for Sister Shaken, not stirred.