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The Tony Awards.

What more can I say? Perfection. Madness. Genius. All words that describe those presenting and receiving awards. It is the most magical night one can witness. To be there, sitting in the audience, must be a pure adrenaline rush. It would take all I have to remain in my seat and not sprint down the aisle at Andrew Rannells. 

If you didn't already know, I am a huge musical theatre fanatic. If I'm not on Facebook, reading, or out with my friends, you can find me researching the latest and greatest musical. 

What better a way to show my excitement for the theatre than to blog about the Tony's. 

If you don't know what they are, the Tony Awards are pretty much just like the Emmy's, the Grammy's, the Golden Globe's, or any other major awards ceremony out there. The difference is, these celebrities aren't usually found on posters or being played over the radio. In fact, some would say they are hardly even celebrities, they are just on broadway. If you still are unaware of what the Tony Awards are, check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Award

Neil Patrick Harris is perfection. And, if you don't feel like reading my entire blog, watch this video of Neil Patrick Harris giving a rundown on what happened that night:

Other than that, here is a brief summary of the night's events:

“The Book of Mormon” - 9 including Best Musical

“War Horse” - 5 including Best Play

“Anything Goes” - 3 including Best Revival of a Musical

“The Normal Heart” - 3 including Best Revival of a Play

One each for “Catch Me If You Can,” “Good People,” “How to Succeed…,” “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “Jerusalem,” and “Priscilla Queen of the Desert”


The numbers, of course, are referring to the amount of Tony's each show  received.

I am a huge advocate of the newest broadway show The Book of Mormon. I am also a huge fan of the actor who plays the main character in the show. I'll take two helpings of Andrew Rannells to go, please!

Rannells performed "I Believe", a song from the show, that night as well. My heart melted.

It was a night of spectacular performances and broadway celebrities. If you have time to watch, go on Hulu, I'm sure it's on there. If you don't have the time then try and watch next year. After you watch the Tony's for the first time, Tony Awards night will be your favorite holiday too! 




"When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people."

Vivien Leigh 

Heart's Desire

A few minutes ago I found a poem that I wrote in english during my freshman year of high school. We each got to pick from a huge tub of paint sample colors and had to incorporate the names of the colors into our poems. The underlined words are the colors of my paint samples.

Heart's Desire
By: Erica Snook

The feeling you get as you view the Magical Moonlight;
Feelings of peace and serenity welling up inside you.
The chorus of Crashing Waves.
It is music to the ears.
The soft spray of mist feels like drops of Crocodile Tears,
salty and moist on your naked fingers.
The way the ocean breeze tastes Before The Storm,
as if every wave in the ocean is begging for more water to quench its thirst.
The coarse Oyster Shell in the palm of your hand sparks a yearning;
one to go play in the waves.
The smell of Buttermilk Biscuits fresh from the oven,
it brings you back to reality.
As you run up the stairs on the porch of your quaint little farmhouse,
miles from the ocean, into your mother's arms.

An Epiphany of the Heart

Today I had some time to think about my life. As I sat and pondered I realized how quickly the days were turning into weeks, the weeks into months, and months into years. That's when it hit me. I'm going to be leaving for college in a little over two years. I know two years doesn't sound like much, but it has been two years since I started high school, and even that seems like it just happened yesterday.

Thus, I began thinking about where I wanted to take my life.

Does anyone remember the game of "Mash" we used to play as kids? Long story short, you would pick your spouse, car, house, job, number of children, etc.. It occurred to me that our lives are just a big game of "Mash" and as you travel down the path of life you begin to fill in the spaces and figure those things out as you go.

Most of my friends know where they want to go to school, their intended major, if they want kids, where they are going to live, and so on. However, I haven't even really even begun to give any thought to those things. Sure, I tell people that I want to go to NYU and major in Musical Theatre, but who am I fooling, I have no idea what I want. Granted, I still have some time to think about these things but just as the end of my sophomore year of high school has snuck up on me, I'm sure the time will come when these decisions will sneak up on me too.

About halfway through the first semester of my sophomore year our school's career counselor put together a little event where someone ( with a career related to that of your first block subject ) would come in and tell you about what they did for a living. I had world history with Mr. Hopkins for my first block, and somehow we  managed to have the man who runs the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library come in and talk to us.  At first I thought it was going to be incredibly boring and stupid ( which, for the most part, it was ) but then he started telling us a little bit about his life's story. This man was from Honolulu, Hawaii, and when he graduated high school he didn't really have many options as to college, due to money restrictions. He told us that one day when he was walking down the street he passed the office for the Peace Corps and, having nothing better to do, walked in. Long story short, he wound up leaving there with his name on the volunteer list and was shortly shipped off to Africa to teach children English.

That story didn't really matter to me until today.

I have now decided that I will, before I pursue a career, enlist as a volunteer in the Peace Corps. Hopefully I will be able to travel to Africa and help spread awareness of HIV/AIDS, or have the opportunity to teach children English. Whatever it may be I am hoping to leave my mark.

Until then I will still tell people that I am planning on going to NYU and majoring in Musical Theatre. Along with that I will continue on, day by day, filling in spaces in my life's game of "Mash" until eventually I finish and have my life planned out ahead of me. Until that day, though, I will remain as free as a bird and I will go to wherever life takes me.

 

 If you want to be happy, be.  ~Leo Tolstoy