It's Wednesday morning and I am buzzing with excitement. The weather doesn't seem to be on my side as it pours down with rain outside, but nothing can stop the spring in my step today. Nothing can get me down - even if I don't have an umbrella. It's the official start day of my Musical Theatre program at NYFA.
It started with the regular formalities of registration, collection of my file and orientation program, an international student debriefing session followed by a general debriefing session, and then... nothing. Yes, nothing. I psyched myself up so much and all I got was mere formalities and then we went home. Did someone say anti-climax? It was at least a thrill to see the buzz on campus when the entire starting class arrived but because everyone was in a different program it made it so difficult to connect with anybody. Now I was looking forward to the following two days as printed out on our orientation programs.
How do you know that you're part of a cool industry? When your Thursday starts out with a photo shoot. Wooohoooo! No, but seriously this is how my Thursday began. With head-shots, which was so cool. The photographs get used by those studying in other programs, like Film Making or Producing, when they need to cast people for their projects. Right after head-shots we headed into auditions with the Chair of the MT program. I thought I had already gone through this process in order to get into this school, but clearly they don't play at NYFA. I chose to do 'Seasons of Love' in F (from Rent) and 'The Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine' In in Am (from Hair). Got good feedback and well, I'm just glad to still be in the program after that.
Now Friday was just off the charts! Granted I knew that going on a guided student tour of the city would spell pure awesomness, but never could I have guessed to what degree. Our tour guide, Kevin - what a cool name, is a faculty member at NYFA. However, what he neglected to tell us was that he is a lead in the hot Broadway production 'Book of Mormon' which has recently won 9 Tony's including Best Musical. He took us on a tour of New York City the way a NYFA-MT student needs to know it through Soho, Times Square, Broadway and the Lincoln Centre. The most amazing part though was when he organised for us to have backstage access to 'Book of Mormon'. As I went through the doors and eventually ended up centre stage in the Eugene O'Neill Theatre I had so much vision stirred up inside me. It was a moment of perfect alliance. The future, the big dream waiting on the present menial dedications. The law of seed and harvest. Kevin Singleton - another awesome name - says this: "...the harvest is always later, but it's always greater!"
This week I start with my classes, finally. I got my schedule on Friday and all I can say is if you're looking for me just make sure it's never between 09:00 and 18:00. Oh, and that is Monday to Friday. I have two kinds of dance this semester, ballet and jazz, and I have both those classes on my first day. Haven't danced a day in my life, but that's one of the things I'm most excited for. It's a brand new challenge so it is a little scary, but so exciting though.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others."
—Marianne Williamson
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