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I thought I was happy when I finally came back home - I was in my native land, I had my friends and loved ones nearby, and I was back in the vicinity of my beloved bookstores and restaurants.
I was wrong. I didn't realize how happy I could be until the world handed me a perfect weekend on a platter. Any weekend that starts out with baking for friends, segues through a performance of 'Wicked,' then follows up the next day with brunch with a dozen or so of my closest friends, an outing to see 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe,' and ends up with planning my Holiday Cookie baking list while watching spiffy genre shows with my husband really can't be beat. Unless, maybe, someone were to send me functional Birthday Mail-Order Wings, or a teleportation machine. Barring that, though, it was an amazing weekend.
Watching 'Wicked' reminded me, though, of how much I miss theatre. I miss going to see plays and musicals, true, but I also miss performing in them. I was never a strong enough singer to take part in musical theatre, and I'm not a talented enough actress to move much past 'Second Fairy From The Left,' but that doesn't make it any less fun to be on stage playing a part.
I can get part of my acting needs filled by roleplaying - I'll admit that, while I don't need spotlight time in game, I definitely don't mind it, and I love playing dramatic scenes for an audience, even if that audience happens to be just the one other person I'm working with. Even so, it's not quite the same. The windup isn't there, nor is the excitement and not-quite-fear of knowing that you have a particular part to play and an audience taking the energy from your performance and feeding it back to you.
I have too many hobbies as it is, and I don't want to give any one thing up to throw myself more fully into theatre. But that doesn't stop me from missing it, and wondering if there might be a way to work it in on top of everything else in my delightfully hectic life....
I was wrong. I didn't realize how happy I could be until the world handed me a perfect weekend on a platter. Any weekend that starts out with baking for friends, segues through a performance of 'Wicked,' then follows up the next day with brunch with a dozen or so of my closest friends, an outing to see 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe,' and ends up with planning my Holiday Cookie baking list while watching spiffy genre shows with my husband really can't be beat. Unless, maybe, someone were to send me functional Birthday Mail-Order Wings, or a teleportation machine. Barring that, though, it was an amazing weekend.
Watching 'Wicked' reminded me, though, of how much I miss theatre. I miss going to see plays and musicals, true, but I also miss performing in them. I was never a strong enough singer to take part in musical theatre, and I'm not a talented enough actress to move much past 'Second Fairy From The Left,' but that doesn't make it any less fun to be on stage playing a part.
I can get part of my acting needs filled by roleplaying - I'll admit that, while I don't need spotlight time in game, I definitely don't mind it, and I love playing dramatic scenes for an audience, even if that audience happens to be just the one other person I'm working with. Even so, it's not quite the same. The windup isn't there, nor is the excitement and not-quite-fear of knowing that you have a particular part to play and an audience taking the energy from your performance and feeding it back to you.
I have too many hobbies as it is, and I don't want to give any one thing up to throw myself more fully into theatre. But that doesn't stop me from missing it, and wondering if there might be a way to work it in on top of everything else in my delightfully hectic life....
