Thematic, no?

Considering the web address of this blog, it might be time to do an actual post concerning musicals... Mind you, I am four days into Reading Period at my college (13 to go), and am sitting in a library with a neglected spanish book next to me. This has no relevance, save I should be doing something OTHER than posting here. Hee. Ah well.

So, end of the month (3 days after my last final), I'm heading to NY to see Sweeney Todd (Patti LuPone, can I get a what what?). Also, as many $20 and under last minute tix I can find. For a university with no performance major (yes, i know, I'm an idiot... shut up), this place has definitely broadened my knowledge of musicals and non-musicals in the past few months. I'm in the midst of declaring a concentration (a major at any other college), and that kind of opens up the broader question of what I intend to do after college. After I get my (supposedly) pretentiously huge degree, what am I supposed to do? I would NOT have predicted it, after I chose my college and what I wanted to study... but I really can't see myself pursuing anything but singing. The classes I take here are seeming more and more incidental... as if my academics are for extra-curricular, and my other activities are for career training. But, is musical theater a fulfilling enough career for anyone? So much crap, so much industry, even other theater people mock it. But, its what I do. It's what I love to do. Hell, it's all I'm good at.

But I love it here. At this we-got-no-performance-major, liberal arts, hoity-toity Ivy. Love it. I've never had this much fun in my life. But, I am studying things that have no practical application towards singing, whatsoever. In fact, singing has taken a back-seat to EVERYTHING here.

So, I am left with the question which I have no doubt my parents are dealing with. Namely, if all I want to do is sing, what the hell am I doing here?

hmm. And to think I was going to use this musical blog to defend Sondheim's 'Assasins'... next tim, I suppose, when anxiety and exhaustion hasn't driven me to introspection.