SMASH production photos

Here are some more SMASH pictures!

Make-Up Class

One of my favorite classes this semester has been my make-up class. We've worked with Corrective make-up, glamour make-up, facial hair, middle age make-up, old age make-up, and extreme old age make-up. My friends and I have a blast! These are some of my best pictures. The really scary picture is from when we used Latex and tissue. My friend Rachel was a good sport to let me put that gunk on her face.

Sometimes we put the make-up on ourselves, sometimes we put it on someone else. For example, my friend Soren put a beard on me one class period and the next class period I got to put one on him. The class is so different--I love it!

The Director--Hyrum Conrad

Hyrum tells you when you're doing something wrong. Hyrum tells you when he wants you to change things.

Hyrum will make you do random things on demand.

Hyrum scares the heck outta me, but I love working with him.

I remember one rehersal he said to me, "Emily, what sound would you make if you were being stabbed and shot at the same time?" Before I could even think how to respond to that question he said, "Go."

I screamed.

"Good." he said.

I never know where I stand with Hyrum, but I guess he likes me since this is the second show he's cast me in (yay!)

More SMASH pictures

Now that it's over...

SMASH is over now (sigh)

It was such an amazing experience! I had a blast. Here are some pictures.

This is a picture of me and Jacob Chapman who played the part of Mr. Chichester Erskine. Mr. Erskine is madly in love with my character, Gertrude Lindsay, but Gertrude absolutely hates him. What fun!

Here I am on my roller skates. I'd cruise around the stage, trying not to take out audience members. Despite the skates being two sizes too big for me, I'd did really well.

SMASH

GREAT NEWS!

I made it into BYU-Idaho's production of SMASH by Jeffrey Hatcher. It's a ten person cast: 5 men, and 5 women. I feel really honored because out of the whole theatre department, I was selected to be a part of the show! For those of you who don't know anything about the play (I didn't either) this is a summary:

Based on the novel An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw, the story centers on Sidney Trefusis, a millionaire Socialist who leaves his bride on their wedding day because he fears his passion for her will get in the way of his plans to overthrow the British government. Sidney vanishes "underground:--desguises himself as a common laborer called "Mengels"--and infiltrates Alton College, a girls' school where well-bred young women are "fitted and fatted to be put on the marriage market." His plan: take over the school and plant the seed of radical Socialism into the fertile brains of the future consorts of cabinet ministers and kings. What he doesn't plan on is the presence of one Agatha Wylie, a sixth-form rabble-rouser, who falls hopelessly in love with both Sidney and his politics, and just happens to be his deserted wife's cousin. Love triangles, mistaken identities, Marx, Engels, pistols and the proletariat jostle for position in this adaptation of Shaw's last comic novel, written in 1883.

It's actually a lot funnier than it sounds. My character is Gertrude Lindsay. I pop in and out of the play at various times. I'm so excited!

Summer Semester

Well, it's time for Summer semester to start! I'm pretty excited. I'm taking some fun classes and I have cool new roommates. Good times. I have a couple of auditions this week, we'll see how they go. Other than that...nothing to report.