#2018wrapup

I know 2018 isn’t over yet but it’s close enough to do a wrap up.

This year started off much  better at work, i’m so  glad that I didn’t quit. I did pick up a second job at the YMCA and it has been quite tough. My free time is more limited than it used to be and working around 9.5 hour days 3 days a week is exhausting. I love working with children and with my co-workers so it makes it worth it in the long run. I’m still living at home but i’m really hoping to move out in 2019. *cross fingers*. I did find a therapist in June who I really connect with and who really understands me. I’m very lucky to have found her she has been helping  me a lot. Money still has been a struggle this year. I am noticing how impulsive I am with spending but I am getting a bit better at saving ironically though. I got to teach my first music class for my preschoolers which has been a bucket goal forever. It was totally last minute planning but I loved it, they loved it and it went very well. I got to be back on the stage in a full length musical, Cabaret. I was actually in the first every female production of Cabaret ever. We sold out every single show(even adding a 9th show which sold out) It was an incredible experience that I’m so glad that I got to do. I also got to play a man and a woman which was super cool. 

The breakdowns:

I traveled to:

1.)Mystic, CT

2.)Ohio

3.)Boston

4.)New Jersey

5.)Pennsylvania

6.)New York City

7.)Shelton, CT

8.)Iceland

Broadway/Professional Shows I Saw:

1.)Avenue Q

2.)Come From Away

3.)The Lion King

4.)Frozen

5.)Jagged Little Pill(not broadway but at ART in Cambridge, MA)

6.)Children of a Lesser God

7.)Turn off the Morning News(a new Christopher Durang play that played in Princeton, NJ)

8.)Spongebob Square Pants the Musical

9.)Cyrano (at Goodspeed Opera House in Chester, CT)

10.)Head Over Heels

11.)Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts one and Two

12.)American Son

13.) Shakespeare on the Sound’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shows I worked on:

1.) Cabaret- Actress in the ensemble

2.) Darien’s Got Talent- Assistant Stage Manager. (Learned how to roll up a giant carpet in a short period of time and how to page a curtain.)

3.) Lawn Chair Theatre’s The Tempest- Child Guardian- (First time being a child guardian and I got PAID to do theatre!)

4.) A Charlie Brown Christmas- Spot Operator (First time running a spotlight)

5.) Improv Night at DAC- House Manager

Concerts I Saw:

1.) Louden Swain/Jason Manns NYC

2.) Enter Shikari- Brooklyn, NY

3.) Nightwish- NYC

4.) Baby the Musical at 54 Below NYC

5.) Walk off the Earth at Foxwoods, CT (1st time)

6.) Jonathan Davis- Boston, MA 

7.) Broadway Loves Gwen Stefani at 54 Below NYC

8.) Darren Criss/Lea Michele- Newark, NJ

9.) Vocal Few in Allendale, NJ

10.) Jeremy Jordan/Ashley Spencer in NYC

11.) Halestorm/In This Moment at Mohegan Sun

12.) Randy Rainbow- Tarrytown, NY

13.) Evanescence/Lindsay Stirling  at Jones Beach, NY

14.) Pentatonix at Jones Beach

15.) Jason Manns/Blake Lewis in NYC

16.) Deep Banana Blackout at Oyster Festival

17.) Cellar Darling in NYC

18.) Elsie Fest in NYC

19.) Vocal Few in Teaneck, NJ

Conventions I went to:

1. Broadway Con

2.) Supernatural Con

3.) Squee Con

4.) Anime NYC