So kiss me Kate!

AAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I posted how I was planning on auditioning for The Taming of the Shrew. I got the flier yesterday just prior to heading to Borders for Educator's Weekend (more details about this soon), and my 25% discounts. The audition is tomorrow--TOMORROW!!!!!! EEK! I wanted to spend some time going through the script several times. Reread the whole play, reread the scenes Katherine is in, copy down exchanges, etc. But now I cannot do this. Drat! I audition earlier than the 2 pm audition time with Chris at 1. There's a piano concert at the BAC, and I'm volunteering. We have to be there not long after 2. Oh, and I don't know if it's going to be performed at the Piper's Opera House, I think Ann may have gotten that wrong. The flier said nothing of this. I'm incredibly nervous about this, since it seems like eons since I've done any Shakespeare. I have done three shows, and always played a woman in authority (Titania, Escalus (Prince in R&J), and Duchess (actually Duke in Othello)). I just want to have a good audition, and if I could play Katherine it would be a dream come true. So, we'll see what happens, even if I can't prepare to my satisfaction.

Borders is wonderful. I've bought the 2nd and 3rd books of the Thursday Next series, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. I'm starting Midsummer soon with 7th grade, and I thought I owned Shrew since I taught it last year, but I guess I just used my Complete Works Anthology. I also purchased Bridget Jones's Diary and Into the Woods. I love my discount! I entered the drawing both yesterday and today, and . . . I won! Considering the fact that I NEVER win anything that is solely based on chance, I don't even know why I bother. I've always said that if there are those soda "under the cap" contests where 1 out of every 5 wins, I'm bound to find the 4 that don't. It's pretty pathetic. Anyway, I won one of the bags filled with books and such. There were a couple that seemed okay, but the rest were ridiculous. My personal favorite was one called "Dangerous Curves." A Harlequin type romance with a Special Agent and a NASCAR driver. The quote on the front reads "Agent Blackwell was all woman--and pure steel". It sounds hysterical. I'll have to find an occasion to give this to some deserving person as a joke! :)

The title from this post comes from the song and show Kiss Me Kate. A very funny Cole Porter musical about a theatre company putting on The Taming of the Shrew, where the leads are actually a divorced couple. Funny stuff.