Fame

Recently I have joined an amateur dramatic society. In doing so, I have discovered several things. It is very different being a mover than it is being a dancer, being a singer is different to being a mover and it is extremely frustrating joining the cast late when everyone knows everyone else and all the parts have been given out. I was already aware from years of hiding my (lack of) dancing prowess in large groups of fellow females that I wasn't going to be a star dancer. These dancers are always at the front of the stage in any appropriate (and not so appropriate) song showing off their moves. The movers on the other hand are allowed to bumble along at the back doing simple repetitive actions as long as they don't get in the way of the dancers. Oh and everyone has to sing at the same time. Now singing and dancing (or rather moving) has never been a problem for me before - at clubs, in my room, whatever, but when I realised I actually had to do the same movements at the same time as everyone else I came to a grinding halt. Which is where I currently am.

Learning the songs isn't really a problem - I have the music (yes, I know I technically can't read music but I can feel where it goes if you see what I mean) and I also have the Broadway musical soundtrack, which is the version we are doing. So that's fine - or at least it would be, if people made a final decision on whether we were singing something, or if it was going to just be the dancers singing it, or the principal cast members...and so it goes on.

Hopefully by the end of all this we should have a great show. I really hope so as it's on for several days, including a matinee.

The day afterwards I'm singing Faure's Requiem.

Always was a glutton for punishment