I'm Quitting

Okay.

STC hasn't released their season yet...but I know what it is...and it sucks.

Sooo...I've been thinking. Originally my idea for moving back to Illinois was to go to MU & major in Musical Theatre.

But it's sooo politicky as of late. So I'm getting out. That's right: I said it.

"So what now, Ms. Diva?", one might ask. Since I have been doing theater for 21 years.

Opera. Yes, I said it. Opera.

I start voice lessons in the fall to whip my upper range back into shape, and I am auditioning for the chorus of the Lyric Opera of Chicago next December.

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"It's Better to Give" from Nuncrackers

It's Diva Time!

Yo!

Ok...so I am formerly "Ms. Hep's Rantings & Ravings". But my url address I believe was about 5 million letters too long (kimitasrantingsandravings.blogspot.com) - so basically, if you didn't have me saved...well then, f*ck it.

So, welcome to my Diva's World.

This is the only place where I believe that I am truly able to be me...a complete diva, and screw what everyone thinks, basically...because it is all about me.

In my own little private fantasy world, anyway.

In real life, I have a fiance who is even MORE of a diva than I. My new coined word for male divas are "Divos". I SWEAR this was before this opera group, "Il Divo" (I'm suing Simon Cowell, BTW). As a stand-up comic, I think that it is all well and good to divo-out, but c'mon...it's my time now, buck-o!!!

Currently I'm starring as Sister Mary Hubert in "Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Musical". So it should be all about ME, right?

Nope.

Five minutes before I was going to walk out the door to film the TV commercial for the show, what do I get? "Hey, what do you think about this bit?"

Damn Divos. It's my month. Let me be fabulous!

Hepworth...out!

Bill O'Reilly is My Gay Lover

Sigh. I shouldn't have done it.

There was nothing on television when I got home from rehearsal.

I shouldn't have done it. But I did.

I turned on "The O'Reilly Factor" last night after rehearsal....since "The Daily Show" & "The Colbert Report" are in reruns until next week.

I stayed on there, because there was the story about Obama running for president, and the fact that he has tried marijuana & cocaine. Not a big deal. Look at Junior...who is currently president. I believe he did more than try.

But O'Reilly was saying that he understood that about everyone in the US (except for himself, of course...he is perfection!) had tried MJ, so he understood that...sort of.

THEN...here's the shocker..."But cocaine is a felony".

Fuckin' Hell.