You can do it, Amy!
the shows that go on...
i think the interview went well. But they are interviewing a LOT of people, so it's hard to say. i think they liked me, and i really liked the place and people, but whether i am the best candidate - who knows...
They said they'd let me know either way by the end of next week. Which is Friday the 13th.
eek.
But i found a GREAT nursery and bought stuff, so it's all good.
; )
Amy, interviewing is so different today. It's great that all went well. In my day you wrote a lovely thank you note and received "formal" word, or a kind declination from the employer. Today they rarely let you know that you were passed over. I don't know if you would be the best, but from what I know of you, you'd be pretty darn great at whatever position you went after.
L
Well, thanks.
This was a VERY informal interview, and seems to be a very informal company - in a good way.
(Although i saw the woman who interviewed before me - they were meeting in the small lobby when i walked in, and i assumed she worked there because she was so casual. i might go to a rehearsal dressed like that, but not to an interview!)
I haven't had a job interview in a looooong time either, but in MY day you wrote a thank you note too.
I never wrote a thank you note. But as an interviewer, I appreciate them.
Amy, that is good. You did what you can control (gave a good interview). The rest you can't affect.
David, do you think that is a gender-related trait (writing thank-you notes)? As an interviewer, does it affect your decision?
I interview PCA candidates constantly - I mean when I need someone, I read 100 resumes or letters and have 20 phone calls and 5-10 face-to-face interviews for one part time position. I hate the whole process!!!! The girl you sat next to in October quit on me in April, by the way. I've JUST finished hiring replacements.
I think it is gender-based. I rarely get them from men. It is a plus to me if they send one, but it is a small plus.
i sent an e-mail saying thanks, and how much surprisingly much fun it turned out to be, and that i'd be happy to work with any of them anywhere in the future...
Wow! That's a good one!
Excellent, Amy - hope you meant it, because you might get the job, and more, whether you want it or not! (grin)
It's always a good move to let a prospective employer know you are earnest and interested in the the job. Sounds like a good follow up to the interview.
BTW, all the babies are doing great. Thanks again.
L
^_^
Got my generic rejection e-mail 2 hours ago.
i think i am unemployable.
i'm definitely getting too old for this.
(Curtain down--cue the orchestra)
Old or young, we've all been wrung
By life's contrary spinning.
So join the club, for ev'ry flub
Just marks a new beginning.
(Curtain up--enter Prologue with hautbois)
No way are you too old Amy. Don's beautiful words are probing and prophetic. The life of those who chose art as a career is fraught with bumps (and/or compromises).
Laurel
Amy, you may feel too old for a rejection tonight, but tomorrow, it's up and at 'em, right? And it's the theater, nobody's too old or too young. Rejection is part of the process. You'll be ok. Plus, you have the Round Up to look forward too.
Amy, Hang in there. It'll happen. You are too talented!
sigh.
i know i shouldn't get so down, but it seemed like the best chance i had for getting back into the field. But, i've sent out 3 more resumes since then. We'll see.
The Tonys were fun last night! Lots of performances, which i think is great...
I can't believe that the only channel we get up here had the Tony's on last night. I watched up to the "Grease" performance and then went off to read. The performances were great and the South Pacific redux slayed me. I grew up with Sheila and Gordon Mccrae's son. Is there a Rogers and Hammerstein production that Gordon McRae did not do? Is there one that's been done better since? He was a gift to American theatre and I did not think the singer last night matched his voice.
Laurel
I knew it would be on way too late, and was trying to get DD#2 to bed for her last day of school. No Tonys for me, and it sounds like I really missed something! Too bad . ...
School? Our kids have been out for a month! And Georgia wonders why its at the bottom of the academic/educational heap? Pathetic.
I thought that the nominated new musicals as a group set an all time low in Tony history. The re-runs and Whoopi in her many (and One!) avatars were much better than most of the new excerpts. Would have liked to see longer excerpts from the nominated plays.
As a show, I think the Tony's is the best award show. Usually I've seen nothing up for an award but the show is a great .A celebration without being too self-congratulatory. I guess it is their medium.
Don, Do you mean you'd like to see more attention given to dramas (non-musicals)? If so, I agree! (Or make the Tony's the Broadway Musical Awards and give the rest their own awards
i'd like to see more play performances on the telecast too, though if you go to http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/interactive/video/index.html you can see clips of all of them, and even more. You only get to see the book, score, and design awards if you watch them live online. sigh. PBS used to show them.
i saw all 4 best musical nominees, and liked all of them a lot. Passing Strange is definitely the one i listen to the most, and i wish it had gotten more awards, but i think In the Heights was definitely deserving of its Best Musical win. It was truly the whole package.
Personally, i found the nominations in that category incredibly exciting - Cry Baby was probably the most traditional musical of the bunch. i do think it is too bad A Catered Affair missed out - haven't seen it, going next week. Apparently it was a tie on the 1st ballot, and on the 2nd Cry Baby got a couple more votes.
i was giddy with delight that the hugest corporate behemoths - The Little Mermaid and The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein(yes, that it really its title!) were left out, and Passing Strange, which started at the Public Theatre, and In the Heights which also started in a nonprofit were recognized.
i found the Grease performance depressing.
Q: How many "Best Revival of a Musical" nominations were there?
4
And how many revivals opened on B'way this season?
Yup. 4.
Sunday deserved better. i've seen it twice. i may go again in the 2 weeks it has left. Certainly, at minimum, it deserved Set Design for a Musical for the most innovative use of projections seen to date on a B'way stage.
amy
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Amy, I'm glad i have you to keep us bohunks in touch with civilization! I'll agree on all your votes, too.
signed,
a bohunk
hahaha. i hope i didn't sound like that was what i was thinking, it truly is not. i love theatre, and i want everyone to.
In the Heights and Passing Strange speak to a different audience than the stereotypical traditional Broadway patron, and that is one of the reasons i love them. But there really is something for everyone. i am extremely fortunate in the number of shows i get to see. Prices are outrageous, but there are deals to be had on (almost) anything. (Except Daniel Radcliffe in Equus on B'way this fall. AKA the show where Harry Potter gets naked.) The Playbill Club has discounts for most shows, all you do is sign up, the TKTS booth does day of show 1/2 price tickets, and tdf.org charges $27/year membership and has great deals ($35 B'way, $20 off b'way) on a variety of shows - usually either in previews, on weeknights, or near closing. To join tdf you must be: a. a performing arts professional, b. a union member, c. a teacher, or d. a student.
And that's not even mentioning all the other great theatre out there!
No, I meant what i said, too! I know a theater where it is 25$ each for wheelchair patron and escort; we saw Wicked there. We fly down and back the same day for free. But I was SO exhausted that i slept through the whole show! What a waste! I'd rather see Community Theater up here 5 years later. That's why I rely on your recommendations!!!
wow - where do you fly to? That sounds even worse than driving to NYC and back.
At least Thursday we'll go down early and do some other stuff - there is a really cool exhibit split between MoMA Manhattan and MoMA Queens by an artist who works with light. i saw the Manhattan part back in May, and it was incredibly neat so i want to see the part at PS1 - but Eric hasn't seen any of it yet, and it just goes through June 30. edited to add: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=3991
So that, plus dinner with a friend of Eric's (who doesn't really like me much, though Eric does not believe that), plus A Catered Affair will be a very long day.
But i'm totally psyched!
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Logan - Kennedy - subway - theater. We only did it once for DD#2's birthday - it was SO exhausting, we never did it again. The other time we stayed somewhere nearby in CT; the kids went to some Disney horror and DH and I saw Inherit the Wind with Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer. Not exactly cutting edge, but very well done. We stayed in an Econolodge or somewhere and PARKED in downtown Manhattan.
I've always wanted to go to the MOMA..... next time we go to NYC, it's MY turn!
gosh, I just found this thread! Great lighting on Medea, Amy! Impressive! Don't let that generic rejection get you down......you're really good and it'll happen if you don't give up!
Congrats, Harper, Dave and Carrie on your kids' performing. How exciting!
Don - you would make an awesome Richard III!
Thanks!
Just back from A Catered Affair. Nice show - a working class family story rather than the romantic wedding story the ads make it look like. Which was a relief to me - i liked it. i think it will definitely have a life after B'way - it is small and simple enough that it could be produced by small theatres with limited resources.
i'll download a couple of songs that i liked and see how they wear. It is also the only B'way musical i've ever seen (ithink) that uses NO follow spots. (There are probably like 5 people who read this who will know how unusual this is... but it is, trust me!) It gave the show a different look, very creative and subtle lighting to make it all work.
O, and the 1st casualty of Tony season - Cry Baby posted its closing notice for June 29. i'll avoid the obvious puns.
I used to be an aspiring thesbian... back in medieval time...lol
Fine & Performing Arts major, did a cheapy Godspell dinner theatre then had to find an entry level job with health insurance (back in the day when insurance was a given) and the rest is history...
apparently my daughter has inherited the same gene... not sure will it will take her...
was just Maria in county college production of West Side Story and studying voice at Kaplan Studio in NY.. its a tough field but to those who have been bitten, any job, any part is what keeps them going and makes them happy..if it happens to be one that pays, all the better...
amen to that.
Off to work backstage at this weekend's dance recitals - eek!
News of the day - Spike Lee is going to film Passing Strange next weekend, probably for cable broadcast. Yay! But it is also closing on B'way. Boo.
In other news, last week we went to see the National Theatre of Scotland's The Bacchae starring Alan Cumming as Dionysius (in a gold lame kilt with backup singer Maenads)...
sigh...
Yours truly with the god of excess post-show...
Lookin' smashing there, Amy!
Aw, thanks! (It helps that the picture is blurry...)
See, i'm not always in work/gardening clothes, hair tied back, and dirt under my nails - just most of the time! ^_^
I don't think you'll hear any of us casting aspersions on that trendy gardening look, Amy. I hear that non-gardeners are starting to copy us......especially with the dirty nails!!! LOL
Considering how my neighbors usually see me, i am always thrilled when i see one of them when i am dressed to go out! (As my garden is conveniently located next to a parking lot and between 2 dumpsters, they see me dirty a LOT.)
If my nails aren't dirty from gardening, they are dirty from working backstage!
BTW, i was surprised to see Alan Cumming hosting/introducing the new season of Mystery on PBS.
Gosh Amy, you DO look all spiffed up.