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Paris and Japan 2010!
So excited for the fall!!! My heart thumps as I imagine the adventures that await! And okay, I'm bouncing up and down in my seat and clapping my hands.
Come August, I am heading to Paris to rehearse a Broadway revue with The Broadway Musical Company. Then it’s off to Japan for three months touring the show! I can’t wait to travel again. Hell, I can’t wait to perform again! Since my back injury, I’ve had to sit and chill, which I don’t do well. What I end up doing is redecorating my apartment as a substitute creative outlet. My poor apartment whimpers in pain.
Oh. Ok. Yeah. The Story:
Back in late September 2009 while at an invited dance call (which shall remain nameless) I, for lack of a better word, jacked my back. The diagnosis; I tore muscles in my thorasic spine. What does that mean? I have no idea. I’m not a doctor, I only play one on TV (no, not really, but I’m available!) I can tell you that it was a great deal of pain and I was out of dancing commission for 6 months. And walking commission for 1 week. Not fun. But with that door slamming came another swinging open. I got to flex my muscles with readings of new plays and The Barrow Group One Act Festival. In spite of the disappointment of the injury, it was really fantastic to focus on a character and not worry about the 5, 6 7, 8 of it all.
After my 6 month sentence had passed, I turned to the universe and asked for something great to please come my way. Okay. I admit, I begged. It was really hard on the spirit to have to turn down auditions because of that whole walking, bending over and breathing without pain thing! I mean really! Expectations are so high nowadays!! Well anyway, that same day I got the phone call for Japan. Talk about response time! WOW! Thank You Universe!!
Sigh.
So with that, I bid you a fabulous summer and an even better fall! I will definitely be adding production photos and stories from Japan when the time comes. I’m still working on the audio/video side of it all; but please keep checking back for more updates! And hey you never know, maybe I’ll post pictures of what I did to my apartment!
Then again, maybe not.
Frantically learning French and Japanese,
Jennifer