Just registered for MOST of my second semester classes. Feelin good about next semester. My 18 credit hour schedule plus being cast in a show and HOPEFULLY crewing the other show.......I am gonna have my plate FULL! But I feel good about it. I am feeling like I have things figured out and like I know what steps I need to take. My Fair Lady has been a great experience, but it will be "LOVERLY" to not have to drive to West Valley. It will be good for me to just be here. Next semester I will practically LIVE at school. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I will start school at 8:30 after that class I will study until 12:00 when I have my second class...I will run home and grab some lunch and start my final class at 2:30....after that at 4:30....I WILL GO TO THE GYM!!! That's right, I am gonna go to the gym. I just decided that just now as I was writing that. Afer the gym I will have rehearsal at 7 and finally get home at 10:00ish to shower, have dinner......?? and sleep. Yes you read that right...I will be AT SCHOOL from 8:30 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. ONLY a theatre major could have that schedule. As crazy and as stressfull as that sounds. I feel GREAT about it.
If only I could get RIGHT NOW figured out, that would be SWELL! I am just so excited for this show and this semester to be over. I don't even care what happens. I just need it to be done. I need to clean my room and KEEP it clean. I just don't get why: If I like a clean room....why do I let it get messy? I know why. Because I also like to be lazy. And lazy always wins. No matter who you are or what you are doing. I also need to get ALL of my laundry done. I am sick of being told what to wear....(meaning....the one and only thing that is in my closet.....) I am ready to have choices again. So this weekend, I am doin ALL my laundry. Also what is happening this weekend is SHIRTS ARE GETTING DONE. Yes that is right. Batman shirts...will be DONE this weekend. LONG WAY PAST OVER DUE Seven Brides shirts.........will be............Sufficiently dented in......this weekend. I just NEED TO GET SHIT DONE!
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It wouldn't really be a "Tanner Rampton Blog Post" if I didn't talk about theatre somewhere......(somewhere besides my crazy schedule.) Today I really realized what this is going to take and I think that may be why I am so excited to get next semester going. Dedication and Discipline. That is what needs to happen. Now I often say I am a very passionate person, and I am very passionate about what I do, but I am not sure that up until now I have been "dedicated." Now right now my mother is saying "Of course you are dedicated. You devote your WHOLE LIFE to what you do." And yes, that's true. But that's not what I mean. What I mean is that...I have to be NOT lazy and I have to be willing to work harder than everyone else. And I DON'T do that. But I will now. Today in my Voice and Movement class, Tracy Callahan lectured us. To start the lecture, she made us get out a sheet of paper and write various things like: Excuses we give ourselves, weaknesses, strengths, things we are afraid of. This opened my eyes SO much. I don't need to just take the assignment and do it. I need to take it and do it the best. I need to be the one that blows her away.
To quote a good song about theatre from [title of show]
"And when you least expect, opportunity walks through the door. You suddenly connect with a thing that you forgot, that you've been looking for. And there you are, right in the middle of what you love. With the craziest of company, you're having a KICK ASS time. You're being who you want to be in this world."
Just something I have been thinking about. It's time for my beauty sleep.
Peace.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Stumbleupon
Well for those of you who don't know, I am OBSESSED with Stumbleupon. I have found so many fantastic things that I need to share.....and I normally do.
For those of you who dont stumble...DO IT! NOW! go to www.stumbleupon.com and sign up. You wont regret it.
From now on, every once in a while I will post things I stumble upon.....lets call it...a Second-Hand Stumble Whether it be cool, funny, inspiring, sad, or just awesome......you will get the chance to experience what I stumble.
ALSO I am going to try to post everyday.....like that'll happen......
SO FOR YOU FIRST SECOND-HAND STUMBLE....an incredible photo.
Isn't it INCREDIBLE!? I thought so.
That's all for today.
Peace.
For those of you who dont stumble...DO IT! NOW! go to www.stumbleupon.com and sign up. You wont regret it.
From now on, every once in a while I will post things I stumble upon.....lets call it...a Second-Hand Stumble Whether it be cool, funny, inspiring, sad, or just awesome......you will get the chance to experience what I stumble.
ALSO I am going to try to post everyday.....like that'll happen......
SO FOR YOU FIRST SECOND-HAND STUMBLE....an incredible photo.
That's all for today.
Peace.
Monday, November 14, 2011
A Very Long, Very Scatterbrained, Unorganized Vignette of my Crazy Life.
A lot has happened since I last blogged. Time to catch it all up.
1) If you haven't seen My Fair Lady at Hale Centre Theatre you still have until 11/26/11. There is a link to buy tickets in my last post....BUT they may be no tickets left. Why? Becuase I rock, and you are a slacker.
2) I just never quit. I have just been cast as the lovely "Gent/Dr. Specialist" in Weber State's production of The Cradle Will Rock. I Honestly couldn't be more excited. I am honored to be cast in a mainstage show as a freshman and I am honored to be working with SUCH a BRILLIANT cast and production team.
3) I have discovered alot about myself in just the last few days. I wont really get into too much detail because I am really not the type of person to gush about feelings and such, but I now am a firm believer in "Just going for it." If you don't go for it you will NEVER know and you will constantly wonder what would have been. For me, this applies for relationships, school, and my "career." I need to just follow my heart all of the time, always. I also am a firm beliver in "everything happens for a reason." While these statements sound cliche, they are 100% true and totally applicable to my life right now. We could venture ALL the way back to November of 2010. In November of 2010 VHS had auditions for The Scarlet Pimpernel. I was so excited for this show. I worked my ASS off on my audition and NAILED it. I got a callback for the part I wanted (Chauvelin) and I nailed that as well. List comes and I didn't get the part. I didn't even get A part. I got a role she made up that didn't have a line, a solo, nothing. Being in this show would have done absolutely NOTHING for my career. SO what do I do? I do something I never thought I would do. I consider dropping out. I go to callbacks for Hairspray at CPT. I called Krista Davies, who in turn called Jim Christian and they said I could come. I go and I nail my callback. By this point I was completely relying on signs and completely trusting in everything that happened. If I made Hairspray then it was a sign for me to drop out of Pimpernel and if I didn't make Hairspray, then I was meant to stick with The Scarlet Pimpernel. Well I got cast in Hairspray as "Fender" and I accepted the role. Quitting the other show was a mess and a completely different story that maybe I will try to tell another time. Hairspray was a great experience and I got to bond with old friends like Taryn Tolman, Nick Morris, Taylor Knuth, Austin Hull, and Jenna Cole. And I got to meet new people like Cameron Garner, Nicole Burton, Camille Crawley, Gray Aydelott, amongst many others.... When it was almost time for the show to open(around early February) Taryn and Gray were getting ready to auditon for the summer Lagoon shows. I decided to go with them and audition. At the audition I sang, they kept me to dance, I danced, they kept me to dance more, I danced more, they kept me to sing again. Then when calls went to Taryn and Gray. I never got one. To this day I hope the reason I was cut was due to my novel of conflicts and not to lack of talent. When I didn't make Lagoon, I hopped right up and moved on to the next thing. Taryn suggested that I auditon for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Hale Centre Theatre. I didn't really think that I would get cast, I am young, they were looking for a small cast, and did I mention that I am young. Well I made that. Also at about this time I auditoned for the Musical Theatre program at Weber State and got awarded a full tuition waiver for the program. (I belive working with Jim on Hairspray helped with this.) In Dirty Rotten Scoundrels I also made some great friends. Debra Weed, Jennifer Barlow, Reba Johnson, Dave Tinney, DeLaney Westfall, Angela Jeffries, Kalyn West and my summer show buddy Ashley Carlson. During rehearsals Ashley conviced me to audition for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at CPT. I in turn made that and spent almost EVERY waking day of the summer of 2011 with Ashley. It was a BLAST. During Dirty Rotten I auditioned for My Fair Lady at HCT. On my auditon form I wrote that I wouldn't accept any role but "Freddy Eynsford-Hill." I KNEW FULL WELL that I was COMPLETELY wrong for the part, and entirely too young, but I wanted to keep auditoning for the folks at Hale and I knew that I had to be available for the shows at Weber. After my group went I waited in the hall to see if I got called back. I didn't. But I did. Tammy Morgan just told me that Jenny would call me. Later that day I saw Jenny at the show and she manipulated me into coming to the Ensemble callback. I am SOO glad that I did. I have had a BLAST in My Fair Lady and it has really changed my life. Jenny has now convinced me to audition for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. And I also met some great people. One of them being Jessica Kennedy. Too basically sum up to avoid boredum tears and to conclude. If Ms. M hadn't of shafted me, I would have never been Hairspray which got me a scholarship, and I would have never done a show with Taryn who urged me to audition for Diry Rotten and if I hadn't have been in Dirty Rotten I wouldn't have met awesome people in Seven Brides and I wouln't have audtioned for My Fair Lady in which I have made future plans and met great people. So in a nutshell, thanks Ms. M for helping me expound on my career! Well I highly doubt that anyone expect my mom.....maybe Lauren.....and maybe a select other few....have read until now. But thank you. Thank you to everyone. Follow your heart, go for it, and know that EVERYTHING happens for a reason.
Peace.
1) If you haven't seen My Fair Lady at Hale Centre Theatre you still have until 11/26/11. There is a link to buy tickets in my last post....BUT they may be no tickets left. Why? Becuase I rock, and you are a slacker.
2) I just never quit. I have just been cast as the lovely "Gent/Dr. Specialist" in Weber State's production of The Cradle Will Rock. I Honestly couldn't be more excited. I am honored to be cast in a mainstage show as a freshman and I am honored to be working with SUCH a BRILLIANT cast and production team.
3) I have discovered alot about myself in just the last few days. I wont really get into too much detail because I am really not the type of person to gush about feelings and such, but I now am a firm believer in "Just going for it." If you don't go for it you will NEVER know and you will constantly wonder what would have been. For me, this applies for relationships, school, and my "career." I need to just follow my heart all of the time, always. I also am a firm beliver in "everything happens for a reason." While these statements sound cliche, they are 100% true and totally applicable to my life right now. We could venture ALL the way back to November of 2010. In November of 2010 VHS had auditions for The Scarlet Pimpernel. I was so excited for this show. I worked my ASS off on my audition and NAILED it. I got a callback for the part I wanted (Chauvelin) and I nailed that as well. List comes and I didn't get the part. I didn't even get A part. I got a role she made up that didn't have a line, a solo, nothing. Being in this show would have done absolutely NOTHING for my career. SO what do I do? I do something I never thought I would do. I consider dropping out. I go to callbacks for Hairspray at CPT. I called Krista Davies, who in turn called Jim Christian and they said I could come. I go and I nail my callback. By this point I was completely relying on signs and completely trusting in everything that happened. If I made Hairspray then it was a sign for me to drop out of Pimpernel and if I didn't make Hairspray, then I was meant to stick with The Scarlet Pimpernel. Well I got cast in Hairspray as "Fender" and I accepted the role. Quitting the other show was a mess and a completely different story that maybe I will try to tell another time. Hairspray was a great experience and I got to bond with old friends like Taryn Tolman, Nick Morris, Taylor Knuth, Austin Hull, and Jenna Cole. And I got to meet new people like Cameron Garner, Nicole Burton, Camille Crawley, Gray Aydelott, amongst many others.... When it was almost time for the show to open(around early February) Taryn and Gray were getting ready to auditon for the summer Lagoon shows. I decided to go with them and audition. At the audition I sang, they kept me to dance, I danced, they kept me to dance more, I danced more, they kept me to sing again. Then when calls went to Taryn and Gray. I never got one. To this day I hope the reason I was cut was due to my novel of conflicts and not to lack of talent. When I didn't make Lagoon, I hopped right up and moved on to the next thing. Taryn suggested that I auditon for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Hale Centre Theatre. I didn't really think that I would get cast, I am young, they were looking for a small cast, and did I mention that I am young. Well I made that. Also at about this time I auditoned for the Musical Theatre program at Weber State and got awarded a full tuition waiver for the program. (I belive working with Jim on Hairspray helped with this.) In Dirty Rotten Scoundrels I also made some great friends. Debra Weed, Jennifer Barlow, Reba Johnson, Dave Tinney, DeLaney Westfall, Angela Jeffries, Kalyn West and my summer show buddy Ashley Carlson. During rehearsals Ashley conviced me to audition for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at CPT. I in turn made that and spent almost EVERY waking day of the summer of 2011 with Ashley. It was a BLAST. During Dirty Rotten I auditioned for My Fair Lady at HCT. On my auditon form I wrote that I wouldn't accept any role but "Freddy Eynsford-Hill." I KNEW FULL WELL that I was COMPLETELY wrong for the part, and entirely too young, but I wanted to keep auditoning for the folks at Hale and I knew that I had to be available for the shows at Weber. After my group went I waited in the hall to see if I got called back. I didn't. But I did. Tammy Morgan just told me that Jenny would call me. Later that day I saw Jenny at the show and she manipulated me into coming to the Ensemble callback. I am SOO glad that I did. I have had a BLAST in My Fair Lady and it has really changed my life. Jenny has now convinced me to audition for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. And I also met some great people. One of them being Jessica Kennedy. Too basically sum up to avoid boredum tears and to conclude. If Ms. M hadn't of shafted me, I would have never been Hairspray which got me a scholarship, and I would have never done a show with Taryn who urged me to audition for Diry Rotten and if I hadn't have been in Dirty Rotten I wouldn't have met awesome people in Seven Brides and I wouln't have audtioned for My Fair Lady in which I have made future plans and met great people. So in a nutshell, thanks Ms. M for helping me expound on my career! Well I highly doubt that anyone expect my mom.....maybe Lauren.....and maybe a select other few....have read until now. But thank you. Thank you to everyone. Follow your heart, go for it, and know that EVERYTHING happens for a reason.
Peace.
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