Category Archives: auditions

Making bold choices

Posted on June 4, 2013 by margaretfelice

If you go to enough auditions, or do enough performing, you will start to hear the phrase “make bold choices” over and over. The idea is that in an audition, or on stage, no one wants to see you play … Continue reading →

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Who your parents are

Posted on May 30, 2013 by margaretfelice

It just so happens that I met my love on a train leaving Grand Central Station. Because that train ride was so significant, I don’t think very often of the train ride into the city on that same morning. I … Continue reading →

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Seven pieces I’m working on right now

Posted on March 8, 2013 by margaretfelice

— 1 — I have been out every night this week at rehearsals for the New England premiere of Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking based on the memoir by Sister Helen Prejean. It is being produced by Boston Opera Collaborative … Continue reading →

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7 Quick Takes volume 28

Posted on February 1, 2013 by margaretfelice

— 1 — Like most of the rest of the country, we have been experiencing Mother Nature’s mood swings this week. It started off frigid, as it was for most of last week (that’s when I start my “why do … Continue reading →

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7 Quick Takes volume 27

Posted on January 25, 2013 by margaretfelice

— 1 — What an eventful week! I celebrated my anniversary with my honey, and my Diagnosiversary, marking a year since I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. I wrote about the day before the test, the day of the test, … Continue reading →

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7 Quick Takes volume 26

Posted on January 18, 2013 by margaretfelice

— 1 — I read this earlier this week and am in love. “Singers and Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than … Continue reading →

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7 Quick Takes volume 25

Posted on January 11, 2013 by margaretfelice

— 1 — I’m feeling the love! When I published my lament this week that I don’t have anything catastrophic to write about, I did not expect everyone to tell me how great I am in response, but I’ll take … Continue reading →

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7 Quick Takes, Volume 10

Posted on September 21, 2012 by margaretfelice

— 1 — Summer ends now, now, barbarous in beauty… It’s getting to be just about time for a depressed post about how the weather affects my mood, but I just can’t summon the energy to write it. Symptom # … Continue reading →

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Persistence

Posted on April 13, 2012 by margaretfelice

Then he told them a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that … Continue reading →

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Learning Hope from Sopranos

Posted on March 22, 2012 by margaretfelice

It’s that time of year again – the time when auditions for summer shows come fast and furious. I have lost count of how many auditions I have been on in the last few weeks, but one things for sure: … Continue reading →

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