Hey folks. Time for entry two, eh? People, people! Please! It’s hard to type through your rapturous applause!
So, it’s tech week for Spring Awakening. Things are winding down, or rather, winding tighter and tighter until I feel like I’m about to snap. In five days we’ll be performing our little German expressionist masterpiece for an audience of people who don’t know what they’re getting themselves into. It’s going to be a wonderful show.
This morning I felt a strange, lingering pang in my stomach. Fearing the malaria, I immediately consulted my local physician. He calmly informed me that I was hungry, and the only prescription, in addition to more cowbell, was to eat something. That was just what I did.

I met my friend Kelsey in the pit, and we set off on our adventure into…

The Rowan Cafe (or “The Caf”). As you may be able to tell, it’s usually full of other ravaged students seeking nourishment. Usually that entails a pizza and/or a salad, maybe a burger for protein. If you happen to be of the vegetarian persuasion (here’s looking at you Bri, Maggie, Michele, Ruprecht, Gaston, Adolf, Aloysius…) and are still craving the strange entity known as “food”, they have plenty of options for you too. Even veggie burgers (wow!).
My stomach filled, I decided to do some work for my Acting II class.

The class, taught by David Sullivan, is held in the Lab Theatre. The Lab Theatre, or as it’s sometimes called, Studio Theatre, or as it’s even more infrequently called, The Black Box, holds productions that are usually run entirely by students, typically down to everything but the writing (and even then, in some cases). Lab’s last production was an original piece written by a teacher from Pennsylvania called Youth In America. It ran for four performances and even sold out at one point. The next production for Lab is an original commedia dell’arte directed by faculty member John Bellomo.
Anyways, back to my acting class. Currently, Professor Sullivan is directing his students in a production of Tennessee Williams’ Spring Storm throughout the course of the class. We’re doing in-depth character work and research to enrich our ability to prepare for a role. We’re even finding our own costumes. Which I needed to do. Where could I find an inexpensive suit that fit the style of 1930’s Mississippi?

The theatre student’s Mecca! The Goodwill store. Glassboro’s local Goodwill offers poor college students great deals on strange clothes that old people felt were a little out of style so they sold them. Sure enough, I found a nice blue suit that looked like something out of [obscure 30’s Mississippi reference here]. With that done, I decided to check the call board.

The call board is the heart of the theatre department. Most of the time, when faculty needs to get in touch with their students, they post it here. Everything from audition notices to love notes (”hey wuts up”) to advertisements for some obscure school are posted on the ol’ board. It’s a great resource that you should check often.
I noticed that there was an audition sign up sheet for John Bellomo’s piece on the board this time around. It stated that if I wanted to audition, I needed to prepare a one minute comedic monologue. Where the hell was I going to find a comedic monologue?!

Oh yeah. The library.
The Campbell Library is a great resource for a theatre student in that it has everything from Albee to Zimmerman. If you’re looking for monologues, or just want to sit back and read Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, the library’s the place to do it. I usually go there once a week to read a play up in their lounge. It’s about the quietest place on campus.
I spent most of the weekend in rehearsal for Spring Awakening, so here’s some shots of the process (most of them just being Kevin goofing off with the ladies).
We even got a dinner break, which we took to go to local Italian eatery, Little Beef’s.
Tonight we perform two scenes from the play for students of the theatre department as a preview. So I guess I’d better go prepare…!
Actually, I’m just out of things to say.
Take care.
A.