Overwhelmed in Texas

snapdragonfly
Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:25:35 +0000

2DsnMT - She is not a musician, so, no on the BM. She did take piano lessons from the age of 7 or so until around 14, but, does not sight read well and it’s just not her love. ~ironically though I think it led to this whole THEATER business as she auditioned for The Music Man on a whim, and they had the girls play “goodnight my someone” on the piano for the audition - which she did figure out all on her own despite her sketchy sight reading. Well, she got Amaryllis, and it’s been all downhill from there. lol.

We have not looked at Sam Houston yet - not fond of the town, but, that’s in the “I would prefer” category. The two non negotiable qualities are, is it the right program, and, can we afford it. We need to look at SHSU, because you never know till you go. We have been to UNT twice and we just…don’t like it. I don’t know why. But she is just not excited about it and I have to say I agree…it doesn’t “feel” right to either of us. Though I know it’s a great school for a lot of kids. You have to visit, there’s no other way to know!

Her big love is MT but she doesn’t have to go to a school with an MT degree, necessarily. She does need to go someplace that will also support her getting Tech (costuming) experience as I consider Costuming to be her fallback profession. It’s still the arts, and competitive, -though the line for those jobs is waaaay shorter than for roles on stage and looks, age, weight, etc, matter not - but the fact is that this girl is not going to be happy teaching, or adding up numbers, or going into “communications” or “business” (which I think a general theater major prepares a person for those types of things possibly just as well as we all know how amazing are the skills you learn in theater) and if she can’t get that big break to be in the spotlights, she would have a lot more fun still being in theater. She loves the whole collaborative creative thing and has enjoyed her gigs as stage manager and being in the chorus as much as she did her bigger roles.

But she really has a flair, I’m tellin ya, for this costume thing and she needs to not abandon it, even while she works on performance.

Why did your daughter transfer?