Cabaret Audtions!!!

And the winner is....Woodward Hall!

     However, more importantly this week was auditions for Dean College's Annual Campus Cabaret.  This is a show that consists completely of student choreographed pieces and each year has a theme.  This year the show is "A Journey of the Hollywood Musical".  The first few weeks of school everyone is going crazy trying to choreograph, learn, teach, and rehearse pieces to audition for the show.  Each piece that auditions does get considered, and this year the two people choosing the pieces were the Dean of Dean School of Dance Joan Palladino and the jazz professor/director of Cabaret Michelle Dasilva-Ball.  They had to pick from close to 40 dances and musical numbers and narrow it down to what they think is the best for the show.

    The past four weeks I have been rehearsing four different dances choreographed by my very talented friends.  If you think that's to many I know people who auditioned in seven!!! Thankfully that was not me, I would be honored but do not have any idea how I would be able to do that and everything else I do on campus.  The dances I auditioned in with my friends are: Dancing Queen, from Mamma Mia; What You Own, from Rent; Bushel and A Peck, from Guys and Dolls; and finally a Lion King themed piece.  After hours of rehearsal it all comes down to the few minute you are in the room to audition the piece, hoping that it goes well.  The hardest part is waiting to find out it the pieces get in, it is a long three days.

     It is stressful when you audition dances, even if you did not choreograph them.  It makes you wonder when a piece does not get in is if it was because of the way that you danced it.  The one thing they say to everyone at the auditions is to dance as if you were on the stage.  More importantly I do not want to let the choreographer down, I want every piece I audition in to get it the show. 

     So did I get in the show....YES!!!!!!!!!!  Two of the pieces I auditioned in made the show, Bushel and a Peck, and Lion King.  My roommate is in five, yes five dances.  It is really going to be a good show this year.  I believe that there are 16 pieces that got into the show and they are all going to be amazing. 

I do suggest that people come see the show on October 29, to buy tickets go to the performance page to buy Tickets.  These are tickets for every show on campus just not the dance department, and I do suggest that you go to as many as possible because both the Theatre and Dance shows are AMAZING!!!!!!!!

     So now the tough part comes for the choreographers, the show is in three weeks and they need to finish the piece, clean the choreography and costume it.  My joke today has been that I may not be able to choreograph a dance, but I can plan and costume it.  This is what I did with my friend for Bushel and a Peck, once I see something I just know.  These weeks are going to be busy, but well worth it now that I will finally be performing in the show.  My freshman year I was in the audience, sophomore year I volunteered and worked it as an usher, and junior (and hopefully next year as a senior) I will be in it!!  A week of auditions and waiting now lead to rehearsals beginning next week. But it is all about balancing and that is apparently what I do best.  

~Christy