Random Ramblings

Our New Year's Eve party went well. Josh & Jill ended up cleaning the house, which was great, because there was no way in hell I had any time to pitch in and help. The Masur New Year's Eve concert (Beethoven's 9th, of course) went well, too, and as I was walking back to my car after the concert, I got a call from JF. He was driving into New York, he said, and he'd heard the concert on the radio. He wanted to apologize for not getting back to me about coming to the open dress (I had a free ticket and had invited him), but apparently he had just come in from Canada (?!?) that morning, and wouldn't have been able to make it anyway. Then he said, "What are you doing now?"

I told him that I was on my way to get my car so I could drive home. He said, "You should come down to Times Square and hang out with me!" I was like, no, my roommates are having a party, and besides, I want to be home by midnight to kiss my boyfriend. Then he said, "You are such a sentimental sap!" I'm like, okay, whatever, JF. Just because I don't want to be mobbed by hundreds of thousands of people and I actually want to be with my boyfriend on New Year's Eve I'm a sap. Oy.

Aida rehearsals have started. Of course, I'm frustrated with Elbows, who can't count or speak Italian (remember, she couldn't speak French for Faust?), and she has this really annoying habit of singing the solo parts badly and then forgetting to cue us in. Not only that, but she can't hear where we're messing up. Luckily, our accompanist rocks. She has taken over the job of singing our cues, and she actually can sing the Italian well, play the piano, and help us come in.

We've got 75 people in the chorus, which should be oh-so-interesting when we get on stage. The stage seemed crowded with 45 people for Faust. I'm not sure how they're going to fit 75 chorus members and 40+ supers, as well as the soloists on the stage. They're going to have to use the whole stage, which means that there's not going to be any backstage, which will be tough when all 75 of us have to sing backstage. I'm just going to have to be very patient for the staging rehearsals.