One Musical Theatre Mom in an Endless Sea of Many
What possesses someone to write a blog? About being a musical theater mom, no less? Is there an inherent need to speak and be heard? Perhaps. But I generally don’t give a flying fart what anyone thinks of me. Do I need to be understood? […]
At the moment my family is prepping for the granddaddy of “lean times.” Yes, I’m talking about the college years. For any MT mom who has gone through the college applications process, you know. Send wine and all your leftover Xanax. Because at the moment […]
If you’ve never gone through a college audition season with a musical theater kid, there is no way you can fully understand what kind of insanity it really is. I’m told it just seems to get a little more nuts each year, with the surging […]
Revised with great news below. I know, it’s been forever since I’ve posted. My baby is happily a Millikin University MT BFA in her second year. She came home for spring break and wasn’t able to return due to the COVID-19 outbreak. But that is […]
I have to keep telling myself this is just the beginning. I keep pushing the melancholy back, pushing out the sad thoughts of my own loss—the loss of my favorite musical theater songbird’s daily practice ringing through my home, with thoughts of her blissful happiness […]
My kid has some big dreams. I’ve know this for quite some time. Had she been the kind of girl who just sat back and expected things to happen for her, I’m not sure I would have been as supportive. But this kid is a […]
Initially I didn’t intend to write anything negative about any of the schools’ auditions. But I started thinking that it would be unfair to leave you with the idea that all schools’ audition/application processes are sunshine and roses. They are not. I’m not going to […]
OMG we. are. done. It’s been three months of my brain exploding with details, trying to be sure we’ve got all our ducks in a row for every audition… how many headshots/resumes do we need, do they want a 16- or 32- cut of the ballad […]
If you’ve never gone through a college audition season with a musical theater kid, there is no way you can fully understand what kind of insanity it really is. I’m told it just seems to get a little more nuts each year, with the surging […]
Originally my thought was that I’ve run a successful business, so surely I can manage a few college applications. I had been reading for a couple of years about the process and how involved it is. But knowing that I had time to dedicate to […]
And like that, we’re off. It seems like for the last year we’ve been preparing/sweating/dreading/looking forward to this very moment. Audition season. Shit. Is it by accident that audition season falls smack in the middle of flu season? My wry, sarcastic side says no way. […]
For a musical theater kid, the summer before their senior year is not a fun one. There were many clashes with my daughter. I’ve been talking to parents and reading everyone’s woes for a while. So I had an idea of what needed to happen. […]
Disclaimer: I am not the authority on tutoring. I swear every page of this blog should have this disclaimer. This is my opinion based on our experience this year. For 2017 we were told the ACT was the better option since the SAT was a […]
