After an entire semester of reading character backgrounds, learning music, listening to lectures, stage combat, memorizing lines, re-learning music, rehearsing, dancing, eating free food, and performing, Ragtime at Duke is finally over. People ask me, “Do you miss it?” “Not at all,” I tell them. (Aw, don’t look at me like that). We gave it […]

My journey as Harry Houdini began with a clean slate. All I knew about the great illusionist was that he performed epic feats of escape and magic, and that his name was synonymous with illusion. I guess I considered him a 1900’s David Blaine. Throughout the semester, I became more familiar with the historical Houdini […]

I like to get hot so that I can cool down. That’s why at this moment, as I write this blog entry, I have both a space heater and a desk fan aimed directly at my face. I also like to run up energy bills. I used to always get in trouble for that.  The […]

  Musical theater is still a novel concept to me. Somewhere in the middle of rehearsing for my first musical performance last spring (Hoof n Horn’s Aida), I thought to myself, “Isn’t it strange that the townspeople, police officers, villains, etc. all just frequently and randomly break out into dramatic song? Does nobody in the […]