The day of Singing

It finally came. The day of singing. It was a long day but an experience, that is for sure. Allstate auditions were very different from what I imagined. I always thought that they would be in this like high class area, with high class people; like it would feel really pressured to be there, if you know what I mean. It wasn't like that at all. It was at Manchester high school, the judges were either vocal teachers or choir teachers, and it didn't feel like i was pressured at all.

The day started out with me having to get up at 5 in the morning, such a fun thing to do on a saturday. Then we were all suppose to meet at kennedy by 615, so I got ready, all dressed up, and met at Kennedy with everyone else. We were on the road to Manchester soon after, and I was beginning to wake up. When we got there, there were so many people! A lot of different schools grouped together in the gym, while we were put in this little cafeteria with other schools. That marked the beginning of sitting around ALL day basically waiting to audition, then waiting again for the results.

Megan, my Allstate partner who is a soprano, and I were the last to audition. We went around 12 or so, and boy was THAT a long wait! We were practicing on and off until we were going to go, and when it came, I finally began to feel the jitters. We walked with our choral directors down some hallways before we ended up at our audition center. After all these weeks of practicing, singing almost everyday, and anticipating this very moment, it was here. If we didn't make it, I thought, the weeks of practicing were a waste. We went in, and did so good! I remember walking out and feeling like it was our best, like truly our best. We then waited the 3 hours for the results to come back.

How it went was, they gave the directors a list of people that they wanted to hear individually again because they weren't sure on whether or not they wanted those people in the choir. If you didn't make the list, you were either automatically in the choir, or you didn't make it at all. Our school had only four girls out of all our girls get a callback, and I was lucky enough to be one of them. I was in a little hurry because I didn't really know my part for the callback, so I rushed to my music and learned it fast. I then had to put my hurtful heels back on, and walk up those hallways to the same center where I was before. This time, when I auditioned, there were two judges instead of one, and they were different. I was more nervous than before, but I tried to keep my shakiness down and I sang the best I could.

The callbacks ended, all the auditioning was complete, and we had to wait another couple hours for the list to come up. It was a long wait, with everyone a little nervous in their own way, even though they didn't seem to show it too much. Finally, everyone ran to the gym as the first list was put up; it was altos from round one. The first lists that were put up consisted of the people who made it without a callback. We had two tenors and two basses make it on these lists, which was quite an accomplishment! Then came the lists that consisted of the callback people; I was getting excited! They put them up, and I went to see; I wasn't on it. I was actually not that sad about it. Of course I wanted to make it but it wasn't the end of the world for me. We ended up having three more people that made it, one a tenor, a bass, and an alto. I thought overall it was just an amazing experience. I realized that my hard work wasn't really thrown away because I got closer to a lot of the people, and I learned a few things along the way.

Next year, I am just going to try again and hope for the best. I am definitely bringing some more things to do; waiting around forever is not my specialty!

Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity. Yeah. Scariest movie of my life. You should probably NOT go see it if you thought Blair Witch Project or Texas Chainsaw Massacre were the scariest because guess what? Their NOT! I had been planning to see the movie since last weekend, after my friend went to see it. He and his other friends don't usually get scared, but after seeing it I guess they couldn't sleep all night. They were freaked out. He promised me, though, that he would take me again because it was just that good, so us and a bunch of people went and saw it last night. I was actually in a huge hurry before seeing it, which really stressed me out.

I had been at Allstate all day, and we had to stay extra late just to see the results. We were all suppose to go to the 745 showing but I didn't get home till 815 or so from the place where Allstate was held all day. Luckily, they moved the time to 850 but I was still running late AND I had to pick up my friend on the way. I ended up getting lost (just my luck, right?) and I was an extra ten minutes late to her house. We then had to drive to all the way to the movie theater, run in to get the tickets, and run to the movie just so we wouldn't miss anymore of it than we already had. I was so mad this whole time because I had wanted to see this movie for so long! Anyways, when we were buying the tickets I found out that I didn't have my debit card. Real cute, right? She ended up buying the ticket for me which was very nice! I thanked her and with that we ran into the packed theater, tip toeing to our saved spots.

I hadn't missed much, at least not the scary parts, so I was pretty happy. Then I started to become less happy, as I realized how scary it was getting. I WAS happy but I mean I began to get scared and nervous and everything! From everything that was going wrong before I had gotten to the movie, I thought that maybe it was a sign for me to NOT go to the movie; that I was going to get super freaked out. I shook it off; I had to pay attention the this movie!

The whole movie was about this couple who was living together and the woman was being possessed by a demon. She had been possessed ever since she was eight, but now they decided to film their lives to show all of it happening. When I started watching, there was a guy at their house who was telling them they should get a demonoligist to help. The woman was all for it, wanting to get rid of what was following her. The guy, on the other hand, thought that he could take care of it by himself. As the movie went on, the the haunting got more and more worse because they were pissing it off (well mostly the guy was). The woman was getting fed up with the camera being around and she just wanted to call the specialized guy to get rid of it but her boyfriend thought it was all fun and games and he kept filming. When they finally called the demonoligist after the hauntings were traumatizing their lives, it was too late.

I won't tell you all that happened and how it ends because that will just ruin it for you, but the ending is not pretty. The whole time I was so scared that words could not describe it. I remember making fun of all of them who had seen it the week before because they were so scared, but now I know why. It just freaks you out so much because it is supposedly TRUE FOOTAGE. The whole movie is them getting haunted and harrassed mostly while they are sleeping. How can I sleep with those images in my head?

Although I am going to be traumatized for about a week, I still think I am in love with this movie. I will probably go again; maybe I will try and keep my eyes open?

POOP

Yeah.. I am not going to talk about actual "poop", but the meaning of it. What is that, you may ask? Well...

People

Order

Our

Patties

It is from the famous Spongebob Squarepants show. That show is probably THE best show ever. I started watching it when I was little but before that I never even liked it. I thought it was weird and pointless and just not very appeasing. One day, my dad was watching it (he likes cartoons) and I was like, "Dad... why are you watching that.." Then he started laughing. When people laugh at something, even if I don't think it is very funny, I tend to laugh along with them. I don't know why I do it, but I its like a thing that I can't help but do. Anyways, he was laughing so I started too; Then I started to think the show WAS actually funny. From then on, I watch it whenever I get the chance.

Patrick and Spongebob are probably my favorite characters, just because they are just so goofy. They remind me of my friends, who are so obnoxious and loud and act stupid that I can't help but laugh at them everyday. There are the other characters, like gary the snail, squidward who is lame, Mr. Krabs who is cheap, and so on. In elementary, my friends and I use to pretend that we were the characters. I would be spongebob, someone else would be Sandy, and it extended on and on to whoever would want to play. Of course we stopped, clearly cause we were maturing but I still love watching the show. Whenever I am down, or am super bored, it makes my day!

My friends and I even quote this little show. A couple of our favorites are:

"Your a lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, boy"

"The lid, the lid, the li li li li li li li li LID!"

"I wanna go hooo oo oome hoooome I wanna go home!"

"six o'clock!... twelve o'clock meednight"

"our car! AWH?!"

"SOILED IT! SOILED IT! SOILED IT!"

"EXTRA CREDIT"

"Are you squidward?... Are you squidward now?... That's okay, take your time"

So much more! I'd put up all of them but I am pretty sure you don't want to spend your day reading Spongebob quotes. Although you probably should, they are the best!

Camps galore!

All this talk about camps, show choir, Allstate, and music in general has really gotten me to think about all that I have been through in this category, per say. This weekend I was looking through my junk drawer to clean everything out, when I found this mask. It wasn't a scary one but it was a dog face, white with rainbow spots, and made out of paper machete; it was molded to fit my face perfectly. I looked at it, and instantly remembered my week at the famous Dorian camp.

When I was younger, I only went to one particular camp every summer, which was camp Iodiseca. It is a church camp, that you get to stay at for five week days OR a whole week where you get to stay the night in the lodges/cabins. It was so much fun! Whenever I think about it, I remember all the new people I met, the activities we did, and those fun fires we had each night where we sang songs and enjoyed each other. Now that I am older, I have stopped going, but I still miss those old days. The summer that I stopped going was the summer that I went to Dorian, and it was quite an experience.

It was a musical camp where you got to play an instrument in the band, sing in the choir, take dance classes, or do art classes. At the time, I was in band and I played the flute, so I played in the band there. Also, I joined the choir because I love to sing! For the extra classes, I took art and this dance class that was sort of different from those such as jazz and ballet.
The band was really unique. We were split into two bands because of the tremendous size, but the one I was in was the best (in my opinion). We played pretty cool songs from movies and what not, and I actually enjoyed it. I didn't really wanna play the flute there, but I ended up doing it and I loved it. The art class and dance class were really interesting, too, and I think I had twice as much fun there. I made the mask, along with drawings and other things that I still have today, in the one specific art class that I took. It was really interesting to do something that you usually wouldn't be able to do at your own home, so that was an experience in itself; along with the dance class. It was really, really.. weird. We did these exercises where you "moved the mood" of the song. If it was scary, you moved scary. If it was sad, you moved sad. It taught me a lot, though, like how to feel the music and to interpret the song. I still use that today when I am performing for shows; you don't want a sad face and body language on a song that is suppose to lift your spirits! Lastly, choir, which was my all time favorite. Singing in a choir as big as I did was a big thing that taught me a lot. We learned really cool songs, which I have on my i pod and still listen to today and I met basically all my friends from camp in it. Some I still talk to today!

From all the people I met through this camp, and the memories I have will most likely never fade. Maybe next summer I could go there again, if I am not too busy. I bet it would be five times more fun than before! Well, we'd have to see.

A 1, a 2, a 1,2... oh, I just remembered this one time...

I haven't really been blogging at all about show choir. I know that as the season picks up and more things become interesting, then there will be some stories to talk about. For now, whats been going on is cleaning, practicing, and practicing.

Last week, we had our second rehearsal with our choreographer. He is probably one of THE best in the nation, and he is such a goofy guy! When I was in Protege last year, he only choreographed our novelty so I didn't really get to spend much time with him, therefore I didn't get to know him. This year in Happiness, however, he has will be choreographing EVERYTHING and boy, has it been an experience.

To start off, in the summer we had our camp to learn everything (well, our opener and second song) and it was... undescribable. He was teaching like he usually did, all goofy and stuff so we could have fun but also learn, but then things started changing. As we had more practices with him after the camp, we started "changing" as he put it. We weren't giving it our all, and we were being disrespectful; aka talking too much. At one of the days we were learning our novelty, he flipped out. Basically, he told us that if we kept this up, we were going to suck majorly and fall. By basically I mean BASICALLY, cause if you do know him, you would know that he makes his talks 10 times the amount they should be. Anyways, I was definitely hurt by this. I really believed him and I sort of fell into this sadness that I never knew I would get out of someone giving me a talk, cause he can give one heck of a talk. Later, our director reassured us that that was just him talking and that we were still doing fine, but we did need to take our behavior into consideration.

At the next rehearsal with him, which was last week, things went really well. We learned almost half our closure without practically any interruptions, and it was really good. Now I am so excited for the year! We still need to work A LOT more, but I know that we can do it.

Hey, do I know you?

It has been a long time since I've seen my old friend. We were so close in high school; hanging out all the time and just being goofy with each other. Then when he left for college, it was like one of my best friends left me. It sucked majorly. I never really realized how close we were until he left, and it really hit me. I have a tendency to take A LOT of things for granted. For me, I always think that everything will never really change. Shes only in the hospital for a little while, I'll see her soon; he's only gone for a week or two, he'll come back before I know. No, things don't work out like that at all. It is not a fairy tale book life here in the real world. So with that said, him gone has made me realize I need to live and love before I lose. The good part out of all of this; I am finally going to see him this weekend!

When I see him, I hope it is not weird. I have only seen him a couple of times before, in the past couple months, but never got to actually spend time with him. What if I see him and am like, who are you? Oh my goodness, that would not be good! I know I am getting a little crazy here, but it really is a possibility! I can just picture it, like a movie scene. We spot each other from opposite ends of the room, he comes up and says hi and I have no clue who he is; then when I realize it, the worse happens and I miss my chance and never realize I just saw my best friend. So dramatic! I had to tie in entertainment, since this is so off topic.

Anyways! I'm sure things will be the same. We'll laugh over everything stupid (or he'll just laugh at me, the usual) and just be silly. I got to know him through show choir and stuff, and that is how we became close. Just last night is when I hung out with him and it was perfectly normal; we decided that we needed to keep in touch better so we never lose touch! And that I need to stop taking everything for granted.

I was thinking more about it today, I take my family, my school, my friends for granted. I am so thankful for them all, but at times I forget. A couple of my close friends have been sick with the icky swine flu, and when I wasn't able to see them at school I was like... this sucks! I never realized how dead my life was without them. Along with that, my sister came home this weekend and we had our little catch up chat on boys and our lives, I missed her so much! My dad was jokingly saying how I never call her, only when I need something. I was mad at him because I thought that wasn't true at all, but then I thought about it and it made sense. I am losing touch with her AND my brother, and I have been taking them for granted.

Everyone does this without even knowing, but I am definitely going to try and stop; I am going to lose something forever, and if I take that something for granted, it will equalize to HUGE regret.

La la la la la la laaaaaa

Our concert choir at our school is pretty big. Actually it is huge! This is my first year in it, and I don't think I have ever been in a choir where half the people in it take up one section! Well, its huge, so our sound is HUGE. The sopranos over power our little alto section, which is not their fault, but there are just so many. Anyways (me getting off topic as usual I have to get back on) because I was in this enormous concert choir, I was eligible to audition for Allstate, which is this statewide choir that you get to sing with and is quite a big honor. Usually, at the most, three to five people make it. I don't really know how many made it in past years, but I do know that only three or four made it last year. Going on, I decided to try it out, and I made it into the auditioning process! At first, I didn't really know if I wanted to even try out and put the effort into it, but I thought what the heck, I will do it. So when I made it I was pumped! The problem was, I didn't have a quartet to try out with, which you need one to audition with. I was assigned to this girl who is younger than me, and I was a little iffy. That did a flip when I heard her sing for the first time.. I was like dang girl! We ended up sounding pretty good together, so I was getting even more excited. Then two other boys were added to the group, and it made it sound so much more amazing.
We have been practicing since we were paired together, and it has been going pretty well! There are those shaky songs and those parts where you just want to shoot yourself, but ya know, it happens. Today was this mock trial thing that we got to meet up with the other schools in the community to sing together and see what it will be like to audition for the real thing; problem was, half my group didn't come. I arrived around nine in the morning, being so happy to be alive, and it just made my day to see only our soprano... such joy. Our bass has been sick, so I knew he wasn't going to make it, but where was our tenor? No where, that is where. It wasn't a huge deal since it was only practice, but we were the only quartet that ended up as a duet; that isn't really good. Although it didn't start out good, we ended up doing really well. We got a lot of good feedback, and it helped us learn what to do better and what to fix. I know this week we are going to work a lot harder on getting better at everything, but hopefully things won't get too hectic.
After all we have time, I mean the actual audition is like only a couple weeks away. That's okay to not get to crazy about everything, right?

STAYING ALIVE

Yeah, it is that time of year again. Summer is fading away and I am starting to see the scary sights of leaves falling from there short lived lives on the trees... everything is dying. It is so sad to see all this happen, the warmth is gone and now all I have to look forward to is scrapping ice off my windows while still trying to get to school on time. Isn't that so crazy how it just randomly snowed? what the heck! Well anyways you get where I am going; everything is moving so fast and I feel like fall is basically being skipped, but the one thing that makes me still want to believe in beautiful colored trees and somewhat nice weather is Halloween.
Halloween is just so great, just so great! I have already told you about my love for scariness, and Halloween just fills the world with up scary things. The haunted houses opening up to make you "pee your pants", those little scary costumes that you get to spend fifty dollars on to only wear for a little party, but most of all, the scary things you get to watch! This weekend, I watched Stay Alive; so very much scary!
I had seen it a couple of years ago with my friends in the movie theater and it was one of the few that actually made me want to scream and hide. I remember it finally being over and we all left the theater oh so quickly, getting away from the all too scary music. All of a sudden, one of them remembers that they left their purse in there so we had to run back in and get it! Everyone else had left, it was pitch black, and all I could hear was that god damn music that made me want to cry! We ran to her dads car (since we were still wittle kids who couldn't drive) and her dad ranted on about how stupid the name was.
"Who calls a movie Stay Alive? I mean they were probably getting drunk at a bar and thought, since people are trying to Stay Alive, lets name the movie Staying Alive..." Haha it was so funny! You had to be there.
Any who, the movie was really scary, and this weekend me and a group of people watched it. It is about these kids who play this weird video game that they found and once you started playing, you couldn't stop until you beat it. You had to go to this scary house and kill this evil witch and if you died in the game, you died in real life. For instance, this guy was playing the game at his house and he died in the game by being hung by the witch. When he quit, she came in real life like she did in the game, and he was hung the exact same way. It was super freaky, and even right now I am getting chills telling you this while I'm typing in my basement. The movie was still really good, and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a scare for Halloween.
I am probably planning a scary movie night very soon, it shall be fun.

It's a cat (MEOW) flushing a toilet!

So many people go on you tube to watch all the crazy videos that people post on there. I have definitely been one of those people; who doesn't love you tube videos?! There are so many! If you want to listen to your favorite song, but don't have it on your iTunes and you certainly don't want to illegally download it then you go on you tube and listen to it! Then, when you are bored or whatever, you can go onto you tube and watch pointless videos; the best thing ever!

You are probably wondering what my title is? Yeah it sounds really stupid, but that is probably one of the funniest videos I have seen on you tube! I was hanging with my friends and one of them told me to go to it. My first reaction was... um are you serious? That sounds so dumb! But the minute it started I just couldn't stop laughing, like I really couldn't. I went to the guy who makes these stupid videos, after watching this one, and there were so many! One about a chimpanzee riding a segway and all this junk, I loved it! I am now officially addicted to these videos, of course until they get old, but still. Before I had even heard of these videos, I was watching the famous Miranda sings.

Miranda sings is a famous lady on you tube that makes all these videos of her singing songs really, really, really badly. My old voice teacher actually told me about her and how silly she was, so I went on you tube and decided to check it out for myself. She was so obnoxious and crazy, it was hilarious! She’s made so many more videos since then, and one of my favorites now is her doing poker face.
Not everyone thinks these kinds of things are funny, but I just think they are too mature. I believe that I am mature, but I can let go and think stupid things are funny and still consider myself mature... it works.


P.S. links aren't working on here so just go on you tube and type in either:
mranda sings poker face OR if you want to watch chimpanzee and cat videos, type in Parry Gripp!

I Heart Remodeling... NOT!

This summer was probably THE craziest summer I have ever had. Usually I get out of my school year, and for the whole summer I either hang with friends, relax, or go on vacation; what you usually should do. This summer, however, I had two jobs, all of that, PLUS practically our whole house was being remodeled!
If you have ever had remodeling done inside your house at any point in your life, you know what I am talking about. The torn up floors or walls and all the plastic stuff that you have to climb over just to get to where you usually take a shower, along with all the workers who sometimes stay late into the days so they can annoy you while your trying to relax at your own home. Sounds fun, right? Well try having this all happen ten times worse, in the SUMMER. The time that I am suppose to be relaxing and having fun in, I have to deal with these workers 8 hours of the day instead of just those couple hours, if needed, after getting home from school.
It wasn't as bad as I am making it seem, I mean I wasn't spending all my time in doors the whole summer so I didn't see them that much, but it was the times where I was home and I DID see them. Some of the days I had to stay locked in my basement so I would be "out of the way" as my mom would put it. Try doing that mom! See how you like it! Ugh, it was so annoying. Not only that, but the days that they weren't scheduled to come in and, surprise, surprise, they come in for "a little extra work to get it finished early" REALLY made me mad.
I remember this one particular day, it was a perfect summer day. The weather was sunny and a perfect eighty degrees and the workers weren't going to come in because they didn't have the right carpet yet. I didn't have to go into work and I wasn't suppose to babysit till the following day, so I decided to take this perfect day as an opportunity for myself to relax. I woke up around eleven, got into my bathing suit, and went out to my porch, getting ready to do nothing but lay all day. Can you guess what happened to my perfect day? Yep, I hear a car pull into my drive way, and I look up to see five men in working gear walk through my garage like it was theirs. I just sat there, shocked. No warnings from my parents, and DEFINITELY no warnings from the workers. It was so embarrassing, especially since I was like half naked! That day was, from then on, ruined.
Even though the workers made the summer just a little hard to deal with, I got through it okay. My house looks brand new from the inside, and I love it! From really thinking about it, I understand why my parents had all this done in the summer. Even though I am home more then, in the school year it would have been more hectic to deal with. Especially when my extracurricular things pick up, it all would have really been a hassle. No matter what, remodeling is a pain. I am so glad it is over!

Don't factual movies just make you smile?

It is one of those movies that moves you, that makes you want to cry or smile with joy. It is full of information and factual information, yet if you didn't know that, you would just think it was one of the most memorable movies you had ever seen. For AP US History, we were allowed to watch any movies that our teacher picked for us for extra credit. He listed off movies that sounded boring, movies that sounded even MORE boring, and then he listed one particular movie that made me smile; it was "The Patriot".
When I was about eight or so, I remember my parents renting this war movie that I was definitely not interested in at the time. What eight year old girl who fantasized in princesses and barbies would be, anyways? When I was a little older, though, when the movie became old news and was on the television, I watched it. I was never, and am still not, too interested in the fighting and war movies so I wasn't too thrilled to watch it. But since there was nothing else on I started it watching it; I was hooked the whole time. From beginning to end, the movie had a great story line. Of course there was a lot of killing and blood, but that made the story so much more stronger. It had love, sadness, happiness, everything all stuffed into it; it was just an all time good movie. One of the main reasons I love these kind of movies, the informational ones that is, is how much you really learn in them without them being boring. You could sit in class for a whole day, listening to a lecture from one of your boring teachers and then go watch the movie about that lecture and learn more from the movie than the lecture itself! It truly makes everything so much easier, but of course life isn't that easy. Also, this movie has Heath Ledger in it... makes it ten times better. :)
So back to my AP class, we were allowed to watch it for extra credit, so of course I watched it! Even though I had seen this movie oodles of times, I wanted to watch it again because it was and is just that good. We went to my friends house with other people today to watch it together, and I am pretty sure that the whole time they were all talking, but not me! I was actually WATCHING it because it is such an outstanding movie, ya just gotta love it!

Musicals galore!

Singing and dancing and acting, OH MY! Musicals are probably one THE most amazing things out there, I mean seriously! I guess if you don't really like dancing or singing, then they shouldn't be your first choice, but a lot of the people who love them now used to feel like that. I know some of my good friends absolutely HATED musicals and all that jazz, but after they went to one, it was like love at first sight.
The reason I'm bringing up musicals and how much I love them is because lately I have been watching a lot, and I mean A LOT. Last week, almost every time I would watch a show on television, I would surf the channels and end up at a movie with musical numbers or even some live musicals that were broadcasting. Of course, I had to stay and watch them because they are just that awesome! One in particular was Sweeney Todd. I've seen the movie like a million times, yet I never seem to get tired of it. For me, the movie compares to a song that you can never get tired of; no matter how much you listen to it, it still is one of your favorites. That goes for all musicals; they all never seem to get tiring, which is a definite plus!
Not only have I been watching a lot of musicals on TV, but last Thursday I went to see our schools fall musical, "I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change". I had auditioned to be in the musical, only knowing that it was about the troubles that people go through while in relationships and such, so I didn't have a clarity of what it all was portraying. I didn't make it, obviously, but I still was curious to see what it all was about and since I have clearly established my love for musicals, I decided to go.
It... what... so good! The musical was just so funny! Me and my friend couldn't stop laughing the whole time! It was full of all these little skits about the quirks and joys of love, but also with other skits that showed the down sides of the love life. While all those were hysterical in there own way, it was really cool how they showed the progression of it all. By that, I mean the musical started out with all these young people on their first awkward dates, the travels through their love to their marriage, changes, and troubles, then ending with them growing old and wrinkly together. It was such a cute little show, showing how musicals can be very entertaining while making a point.
So after that little number, I ended up going to see yet ANOTHER musical, but this one was in theaters. Anyone seen FAME? Yep! That is the one I went to see, Friday night, and let me tell you something; it wasn't my favorite. I was so excited to see it! I mean it had the basic theme; young people trying to make it big in the world, their struggles to achieve their dream. It sounded like such a fabulous musical to me, but I honestly it kind of seemed like a train wreck, to me. First off, the movie had so many different peoples stories to follow that through out it, the stories were lost. Some characters were focused on more than others, so the other characters stories were basically like cut off. Not only that, but the actors/actresses didn't really represent their characters all too well. There were numerous times where I didn't feel like I believed them. To me, they were actresses and actors who were playing the roles in the movie, not actually BEING the roles, if you get what I mean. There were so many other little things that bugged me, but I'm not going to drone on about it all. I went to see the movie late at night, so being partially tired wouldn't help the movie situation, so I guess I could see it again. But even so, loving musicals as much as I do shouldn't put me to sleep when I actually watch one. Fair warning to all you musical lovers, don't pick FAME as your next late night movie.