til then you better run, run-a freedom run, Freedom run away!

You'll get URINETOWN...away with you to URINETOWN...it's unisex at URINETOWN...all by design....

for the first time, in god knows how long, I am really REALLY enjoying being in a musical! Maybe it's the fact that I'm NOT wishing I could sing all four parts because the people who are singing the others suck, or maybe it's that as I go through my libreto, I keep finding my character name with really pretty solos, or maybe it's the fact that the score alone is bigger than any of the scripts I've handled since The Oresteia...but whatever the reason....I LOVE being in Urinetown! EVEN THOUGH I'm an alto trying to sing coluratura soprano, lol!

I LOVE the way Hilary rehearses...we waste no time in going over the lines, we have to sightread everything the first time, which I'm astonished, but I can actually kinda do! I mean, even WITH all the crappy six-flat key's, and natural notes all over the place, the time switches AND the bizarre rythm, which has ALWAYS been my weak suit! And she's harsh, too! "When Dean sings WRONG, you guys sing..." LOL! "HOW many of you people read music? Oh, all of you? You see that funny thing that looks like a zed? That means SHUT UP!" I love her SO much in this show! SHe made so much fun of me yesterday because the night before was closing...in one song we did last night, the music slows down a lot, and she looked straight at me and said "That should sound just right for you today, Alleah!" I laughed SO hard, holy crap!

And then Kelly Booker, the dance assistant, and fellow chorus member gave me a ride home, and we talked about B2B and the boys we mutually know the whole time...it was funny I was talking about how Geoff was bitter about me during Honk, and she just burst out laughing, and screamed "YOU'RE the EX!!!!!" oh. man. SO much fun!

But yeah, now I'm sitting in my living room on this GLORIOUS day off, and practicing along to the soundtrack and Kaitlyn and Amber keep making fun of me... good times, good times. Brianna will probably be mad at me, because I refused to go to her house today to practice X-mas carols for the Elf gig on the first, but honestly I needed a day off SO bad. I can practice songs I've known since I was a child another day. Today, I am taking care of biz-ness! woo!

Anyways, I'm gonna go...do dishes, or clean up my room or....somethin. I dunno. Just lounge around and love the fact that I don't have to go anywhere today if I don't wanna! BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!


(I DO NOT attack my keyboard when I type Amber and Kaitlyn! :P *raspberry*)