Ben's Bouncing Brain

SO!! It is 1:36am and I am NO LONGER TIRED! I fell asleep while watching Batman with Tristan and my housemate (in a stupidly uncomfortable position that I think has left me permanently disfigured) and now I am wide awake. So I figured I would Blog as once again I have lied to you all in the regular-ness of my blogging. So I have been quite busy over the last month since I spoke to you. As you know I've had Cinderella and Hairspray rehearsals as well as work. So much public transport time it's ridiculous. I wish my iPad were not smashed as it would REALLY come in handy on my many hours a week spent on trains and trams Anyways! Some more exciting theatre news for me recently. I applied a while ago for the "Assistant Musical Director" gig for Bare with PEP theatre company. AND I GOT IT!!! Even more exciting is I am working with 3 very good friends and amazingly talented women! I am also working with a fellow I don't really know well at all so I am sure he is just

Okay, so I think it's about time I stopped promising a time frame on my blogging... I will blog as often as I have something to talk about and when I have time =D WELL! The last few weeks have been absolutely chocker block!!! As I mentioned in my previous blog I am the Musical Director for LTC's production of "Hairspray: The Musical" VERY Exciting stuff! So Three weeks ago was the Information Session for the Auditions, then the following weekend we held the Auditions. We saw approx 90 people for a cast of 30ish! So we had a lot more work cut out for us than anticipated. We have ended up with a great cast so I couldn't be happier. SO You would think now that my timetable would settle down a little bit? How wrong you are!!! SO Rehearsals started yesterday for Hairspray, another one on Wednesday THEN Friday, Saturday and Sunday I have auditions for another show I am Musically Directing. "Cinderella" with Panorama theatre Company in Mornington. Bot

WOW okay so that whole "Blog a day" thing kinda failed... AWKWARD... SO new mission statement. ONE BLOG A WEEK... I feel this is a little bit more plausible and hopefully will provide with more interesting reading material. In the time since we last spoke... read... blogged? SO much has happened. Firstly the show I am performing in "42nd Street" is in it's second week of the three week season. So far the show is going really well and the audiences are loving it. The show is bloody exhausting and such a fast paced show but it is worth it. Having a ball. Only down side is after a massive production week into opening weekend I have become quite run down and my cold turned into a chest infection which I am still trying to shake. My family have had an event filled few weeks. My nephew decided to swallow a 10c coin which got stuck in his throat. Thankfully it was lodged in his food pipe and not his breathing/wind pipe (Clearly I am not a doctor) and it was als

Hello all.... Okay so by now I think that you have all noticed that I haven't really been posting every day like I originally planed to... My bad... HOWEVER I think I will just blog a couple of times a week as I am quite often home late or busy and just don't have time to blog... and when I do I can't think of anything to tell you guys about. SO if I just blog when I have something to blog about it should make for slightly more interesting reading. MUSICALS!!!! WOOO!!!! (I didn't know how else to start the topic =S) As you know I am in a production of "42nd Street" with NOVA. The show is going really well. We had a weekend rehearsal over the weekend just passed which was AMAZINGLY productive. Unfortunately on the Sunday towards the end of the day while going through the opening "Audition Dance" I dislocated my knee and in the process of falling to the floor I twisted my ankle and somehow bruised my Achilles tendon which was more painful than the

HELLO ALL!!! Welcome to the next in my series of blog-ness!!! So today was a massive day at rehearsals. We are powering through the choreography really fast (good for me) to get through it all in time. The choreographer is amazing!! Always makes me laugh, is a phenomenal dancer and I love his chore! It's kinda simple but fast and he has some really random syncopation through out his chore. I haven't tapped this much and this hard in such a long time. So my musical theatre life for next year promises to be AMAZING and I am so bloody excited you have no idea!!! unfortunately I can't really say to much at the moment as there is some stuff that is yet to be confirmed and other stuff that is yet to be publicized until the companies have announced. SO you guys will have to wait for the details. Been trying to work out what shows I love and really want to MD (Musically Direct) and it's really hard to narrow it down... It's hard because I have to think about cast nu

Okay so I am going to be brief as I am tired as all buggery!! I'm writing this blog so I don't fall behind on my "daily" aspect of my blogging. I have done nothing since my late blog this morning. I watched "Animal Kingdom" with my housemate. Then had a bit of a sing along on the piano followed by watching "Community" gotta love lazy Saturdays. Tomorrow is gonna be a big day. Have rehearsals for 42nd street but I plan to get up early and do some research for a show proposal I'm putting together :-) Have a good one and I shall blog you all again soon

Wow! so this blog is rather late!!! I went out with some of my theatre friends last night. First we went to Universe Cafe for some dinner, then we all (except a couple who were tired) went onto "The Night Cat" for a few drinks. After that some more friends came along including my friend Leighton and his partner Andrew. It was Leighton's birthday so we all drank and celebrated which was a lot of fun. Some of us headed off to "Peel" which was interesting as I hadn't been in a long time and at that point hadn't had a lot to drink so was interesting to watch all the guys "in action" When heading home my friend Jev offered to drive me as he lives very close to my place... We caught a taxi from Peel to the rough location of his car (a group of 5 went to the peel in one car and Jev and I left early hence the taxi) We walked around looking for the car and couldn't find it... Getting a bit lost we decided to go back to the night cat and

So I am starting this at 11:58pm so this blog still counts as Thursday's Blog!! So today i caught up with my mate Ryan, hung out and just caught up on stuff before having dinner and heading to rehearsals. As I mentioned in my last blog I am in a production of "42nd Street" with NOVA. Tonight we blocked all of the ensemble scenes for act one. Was fun but I need to start running through the tap numbers more as when we came to do "We're in the Money" the steps completely slipped my mind. It is shaping up to be a great show though and only four weeks now till we open. I'm a bit excited about various theatrical endeavors I have coming up. Not all of them I can talk about publicly just yet as I have to wait till they are announced first. I'm going to my "Wife's" place tomorrow (A friend of mine Sarah who I met in my first show I did after moving to melbourne. In that show we were show "Bf and Gf" then the next we were engaged

WOO! Okay so Day two, BLOG TWO!! Today was really an uneventful day. I went to the supermarket to get groceries for dinner, watched a movie and then cooked dinner... So really unproductive day as well. I cooked an AMAZING dinner (even if I do say so myself) It was these pastry roll things (With Chicken, Spinach, Mushroom and Fetta Cheese) with Avocado Chips. I was skeptical about the avocado chips at first BUT they are really nice. I'm a bit stumped what to write about tonight... I had a few ideas through out the day but as always I can't remember what they are now. SO Exciting news... Tristan and I are going to take my niece Miss E to the Melbourne show for her birthday! It will be her first time going to the show and she is very excited. I am too, the show has become a little bit boring and repetitive so having a young mind with us will make it all the more "magical" again (Lame I know BUT you get the point) I've decided to go on a bit of a health

OKAY! So I've decided to start a blog! I've got to be honest I really don't know where to start.... I guess my blogging is going to start rather dull and eventually start filling out as we go. SO I am 23 years old, live in Melbourne, obsessed with Musical Theatre (and any performing arts I guess) ... hmmm ANYWAY like I said I am going to reveal more about myself and my life as we go through the blog... Tonight I got home from a "Weekend" away in Gippsland visiting my family. It was a really good break from everything. I stayed at one of my younger sister's place (She has recently moved out into her own place) where she, my brother, my partner and myself polished off Two bottles of wine, One bottle of "Wild Turkey American Honey" and "Canadian Club Lime" so needless to say we were a bit seedy the next morning. (Quick side note... I am terrible at spelling, grammar and punctuation SO feel free to just ignore that) SO the weekend aw