Urinetown Response

Augh Urinetown was so good!

 I was involved in the production of Urinetown here at the school, and for this post I’m going to be including some excerpts from my Urinetown response paper inter cut with some more in depth thoughts that I’ve had since the show ended about the effect it has had on me and my performing future.

The first big thing I learned in this process was how to connect with people, something that Voice and Diction has also been extremely helpful with. I am a naturally introverted person, and I usually do not enjoy hanging out with people too much. I try to make up for this with over the top energy for the most part, but it doesn’t change my natural hesitations and difficulties in making friends and connecting with people. But Urinetown changed something to some extent. I started to discover how to truly connect with people, and I think that was greatly due to the stuff we’ve been doing in Voice and Diction. The exercises we’ve done in connecting with the second circle energy of other people have really made it so much easier to understand and relate to people in ways that I really couldn’t before. This was especially noticeable with several other students from voice and diction who were also in Urinetown. For the first part of the semester we were not at all what could be considered friends, and we outwardly disagreed on multiple things. But through the connection work we did in Voice and Diction and the close proximity we were in while working on Urinetown we were able to connect, understand, and get to know each other in healthy, enjoyable ways that I never would have thought possible before. I’ve talked about this on the blog before, but human connection is one of my struggles in life, and the friendships that I’ve gained from this performance are wonderful and very encouraging for me going forward.

 The final effect that the process of working on Urinetown had on me was an increase in confidence in myself, my abilities, my choices, and my love for theater. I discovered in the process that despite the immensity of my failings in theater, if I keep working my butt off and committing myself to my art I have what it takes to do this for the rest of my life. I have been so encouraged by the work I have scene from my friends and peers, and their confidence in putting their talents on display help me have confidence to do the same in the future. More than that, simply being cast in a school show is so encouraging and validating for me, because it tells me that I have the potential to succeed here at SUU and in my future profession and professional life.

I am so privileged to have been a part of this amazing show, and I am proud of the work that my cast members and I did. The lessons I learned about myself, my voice, and the industry are worth so much to me, and I am so grateful for them.

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