Musical Theatre and Me!

In the past on this blog I have talked about my absolute love of musical theatre, and how obsessed with it I am!

What I haven’t talked about before is; before I became a singer songwriter, I was involved in performing Musical Theatre, in fact I was so passionate about it that for a long time it was what I wanted to pressure a career in, however I discovered a guitar and my life began to take another direction, and I stopped performing musical theatre… that was until very recently.

As I have also talked about on this blog, I have spent my last two summers, at French Woods Festival of the performing arts in Upper state New York. French Woods is a performing arts camp, which is well known for their musical theatre program, and something about being there reminded me of this passion that I let go off. During my two summers there I have been in both of the staff shows; First Hercules, and second High School Musical.

Being part of these productions, and spending time around these wonderful musical theatre performers, has inspired me to get involved with the musical theatre society at my university. At first I was nervous. It felt weird to me. Because I had been out of something for such a long time, I knew I would find it difficult, to stand up and sing, however I get over my fear, and I did it!

During this past week, we did our musical theatre Showcase, and I have got to say,

I had the best time.

During the showcase I performed in two group numbers:

Hello from The Book of Mormon
Over and Done With from Sunshine on Leith. (During this one I had a solo: you know the line: “his is the story of losing my virginity
I held my breath and the bed held a trinity
People I’m making no claims to a mystery
But sometimes it seems like
My sex life’s all history” It was a little difficult not to laugh.

During the showcase I also performed a solo, which was ” I Know Where Ive been” from Hairspray.

Everyone who performed was amazing! It was so much fun sharing the stage with such am amazing group of people, who have really helped me relight my love, and passion for musical theatre, and I cannot wait tout on our end of year show, in May.