Friday, March 7
One. A rainy day. Boo!
The morning started out beautifully. I got up and ran over to the studio of the photographer that took my headshots to get the file on CD. Then I met up with Jenn and Sommer for a sushi lunch. From there I went to Reproductions to get my headshots run off. This was quite a process. I put myself in queue by entering my name into a computer (kind of like the Apple Store) and then I waited. When I arrived there were only two people helping customers, but as the lunch hour wrapped up more and more people came and the line began to move finally. I began my consultation and decided I should get some retouching done, so I got put on a walk in list for a retouching appointment. I waited about 25 minutes and someone came and got me. He had a print of my headshot. We went back to his station where he began to analyze my face under the light and mark up the photo with all the things that should be touched up. I then sat with the actual retouch artist and whizzed right through my marks. It really made all the difference. It just made the photo look more alive. Then I was put back in line to make my order. After giving them $180.00, my headshots should be on my doorstep by next week. Exciting to finally have them ordered.
The headshot endeavor took much longer than I expected, but I just needed to get it done. It made me like an hour and a half late to the group interview of Natalie and her agent. I was really sad about that, but I know I will get to see her again sometime in the future. 
I caught the tail end of it and it was just so interesting. Natalie has a fabulous captivating personality. She just draws you in. I need to find that part of myself. Put it on the to do list.
Jon and I headed over to Vynl on 9th Avenue for a quick dinner. The bathrooms. AMAZING! Jon used the Dolly (yes, Parton) bathroom and I tried out Cher. We also peeked inside Nelly (the rapper). After a great dinner, Jon was dying to check out the Elvis bathroom, so he went. The bathroom each feature a mosaic of the person in a caricature style and plays that person’s music. Its quite beautiful.
From there we walked in the rain (ugh!) and caught the 1 train uptown to 66th Street to go to our vocal coaching sessions with Michael Lavine. His studio features a long wall of floor to ceiling bookshelves/filing cabinets. This is why he can have it all! They are all full of music. It is probably an uncompared collection. Michael begins his first coaching session with a few words of wisdom.
- When choosing music avoid songs that don’t use first person in the first line. Put aside. Find something else. People want to know about you. Not big lofty ideas.
- Try something gutsy. Finish an up tempo and give it the button of “You wanna hear a ballad?”
After his talk, he had me sing a little bit, and he just worked some things in the song. We worked the song in units and found the changes in thought. Then from there he worked with Jon. After he finished working with Jon he pulled some stuff from his library to give to us. All of it is new stuff by new composers. Really exciting material, or so I think. I can’t wait to work on it. After leaving his place Jon and I rushed to the subway to go back downtown to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to see November with the class.
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