I'm In Sacramento!!!

Hello hello!  It's Joel here giving you a small update on my first two days here in Sacramento.  I here working for Sacramento Music Circus and I am playing the nun Sister Sophia in the musical, The Sound of Music.  I had my first costume fitting this morning and I have to say, I looked like a nun.  It's been so long since I've had a costume of any kind (other than when I would play dress up on Sundays to lead the music) and when they put my headdress on me, I got a little teary eyed.  And not because I was wearing a black potato sack.  I am just very happy to be working again.  I wish I could reveal that much joy with my first vocal rehearsal.  For those of you that think The Sound of Music is a simple show vocally, I encourage you step inside the world of our musical director (I would reveal his name but I am working on being more Christlike).  Anyway, I don't know what those original Catholics were thinking but Latin is HARD!!!  I have never made up so many sounds in all my life.  And on top of that, sometimes I am singing 1st Soprano, then 2nd, then back to 1st all in a matter of 10 or so bars.  If you don't understand  1st-2nd Soprano, one is higher than the other but at times their notes are very similar until the second soprano jumps to the lower (harmony) notes.  Ugh!!!  I just kept saying as I was reading the music, "this was not in the movie".  So let that be a lesson to all of you that thing seeing the movies is just as good as reading the book or going to the theatre, it's not!  Because they always leave something out of the movie.

Alright, I've rambled on long enough.  I am sure in the coming days I will have funny things to say along with funny pictures but for now, know that someone in Sacramento who's staying in a humid hotel misses her family and friends in Vegas.