Let the sunshine in...

I have a new found respect for Gavin Creel...
Recently I've found out that a musical company close to me is doing a production of Hair next spring. HAIR! One of the most iconic pieces in musical theatre history. It defined the meaning of "rock musical" today!

For those of you who haven't heard it of, it's a show based in the hippie-Vietnam era in America. It tells the story of a "tribe" and their search for love and peace. And most importantly...There's a nude scene. Nom nom!

Anyhoo, I thought I better wait to get my college timetable before I apply to audition and release my inner hippie in October. But while I wait I might as well practice some of the songs from the show right?...Well sweet baby Jesus, I don't think I'll be able to talk for weeks to come. How the actors of the Broadway company perform this 8 times a week, I'll never know. Gavin Creel, and all of the other people who have played the role of Claude, I take my hat off to you!

So anyway, I urge you all to join me in completely wearing out our voices until our neighbours call the police. Keep on dreamin' people!

Also, did I mention that it's a mere three short days until I start college? No? Well there ya go, and I won't be able to speak...So worth it!

Guilty Dreamer..:)

How do you measure a year??

Five hundred, twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes....
Yes I am mildly obsessed with Rent, aren't we all?

Hello again my little dreamers! Long time no chat. I was inspired to write this blog when a thought occurred to me earlier today. Its officially 5 short days until I start my dream course in college and I'm so excited, and I was thinking about where I was last year and how crazy this year has been.
This time last year I was starting in art college, I always wanted to perform but I never had the guts to actually make an attempt at it, so I settled for art. Two months in, I got to the stage that if I saw a pencil or a paint brush I would retreat to a quiet corner and bath in my own tears. I knew art wasn't for me and I felt so aimless and as if I had no general direction in life.

It was also around this time last year when my friend persuaded me to join a local drama group. Now, theatre was always something I wanted to be involved in but I was afraid of what people would think. Long story short, joining this drama group was the best thing I could have ever done. It gave me confidence as a performer and as a person. Over the year I have taken part in a successful play with this group, created and staged a musical, written and starred in a play which was featured in the Dublin Shakespeare Festival, and gone on several auditions and got accepted into acting college. I'm a completely different person now, and I never saw any of this coming.
This leads me to wonder where I'll be next year and what I'll be doing. It also goes to show that nothings impossible and don't let other people, or yourself keep you down.

So now it's over to you! I'd love to here where you were this time last year, where you are now, and where you hope to be this time next year. I'm challenging you all to make a list of goals and set out to accomplish them, and lemme know! So until I hear from you all with your lists, ciao for now and keep on dreamin'.

Guilty Dreamer..:)

P.S. Sorry, I couldn't resist throwing this in... Measure in love people! ;)

Mystic Momma..

Apologies for once again going AWOL my lovely fellow dreamers. I'm going to have to find some sort of device that will give me an electric shock everytime I forget to post....Or maybe one that will give me ice cream when I do post...Mmm yes, I'll have the latter please!

Anywho, today was quite a surreal day. Now, my mother, god bless her, is quite superstitious and earthy. So she came home from work today with a shiny box carefully tucked away in her handbag. In the box was her new favorite toys, Angel Cards. I suppose they're somewhat like tarot cards. Anyway, after about an hour of having her head buried in the introductory-guide book, she eventually tried out her new-found "spiritual gift" on me. She shuffled the cards, held them to her chest, did some mystic, (and slightly frightening), mumbling and asked me to ask a question in my head...Naturally my question was;

"Will I ever be on Broadway baaaabbyy?!"

So my mother drew three cards and "interpreted" them. So long story short, "I have to trust in destiny" and "Have faith in what will happen". Now, that could mean ANYTHING, but I was liking what I was hearing, so my mother told me to go on the website for the cards...Yes angels apparently have websites now. Anyway my prediction on the website was "Be prepared for a surprise!"

So yeah, I'm not one who would take this kind of this to heart and dedicate my life to it, but hey, it's fun! :D So I thought I would put up a link to the site for anyone who's interested, just for giggles:
http://www.myangelcardreadings.com/angelmessages    
Go on and get your daily prediction, and I'd love to here what some of you got. Let me know and keep on dreamin'!

Guilty Dreamer..:)

Getting A Bit Green...

Hello fellow dreamers!

Today I was walking home listening to my iPod, and I was having "one of those days". You know, those days when you feel like pulling a Britney, i.e shaving your head, and smashing in a car window with a golf club. We've all been there! I blame the fact that my day started off rough, with me not being able to get any life into my flat mess that is my hair whatsoever. Anyway, I was feeling a bit hopeless, (of course I had more worries than just my mop of hair), and had my music blaring and on shuffle. Suddenly, just as I find a car with a window that looks suitable for smashing, THE inspirational song came on, and my mood changed completely. This song has actually helped me a lot whenever I feel down or feel like I need motivation sssoooooo I thought I'd share it with you all....

It is of course (drum roll please)...The AMAZING Defying Gravity from the musical Wicked...TAADA!!

Hopefully if any of you out there are having a day like I was having today this will lift you right back up.

Gooooo Elphie! Have a great day dreamers and keep on dreamin'!

Guilty Dreamer..:)



Stalker Much?

Hello fellow dreamers!
Okay I know I'm a little late catching on, but I have finally caught the Twitter bug! Although I have all of three people following me, (Twitter isn't really that big in the Land of Leprechauns), I have succeed in tracking down most Broadway stars in existence and following them. If only they knew that I shall be spending all day, every day ogling over their pages. I smell a restraining order! I'm just going to say now that if I get one from Idina Menzel then I'm framing it and hanging it over my fireplace...Just sayin'.

On another less-creepy note, it is officially only a mere 21 short days until I start college...again. Musical Theatre here I come. I have been fore-warned by some of my friends who are studying acting at the moment that I will be pushed to tears most days and my feet will be reduced to swollen, red bricks that hang off of my legs. Sounds fun, bring it on! Although at the audition, nearly everybody was a complete triple threat.....And I hate them all....Burning, passionate hatred. Well its more-so jealousy, but potato pa-tah-to.

Soooooo to sum up, I <3 Twitter, whereas most Leprechauns don't, Idina Menzel has a new stalker, and I'm looking forward to being put to shame by the triple threats of Ireland. Everyone following?
Also, I don't know if any of you have seen the new series of The X Factor, but let me just say........

My social life on Saturday nights is once again going to have to take a back seat for the next few months. I'm in love with the new judging panel!

Now I must go and tweet some more, and hopefully catch the attention of one of my stalkees. S'up Kristin Chenoweth?! Until next time, keep on dreamin' babbbyyy!

Guilty Dreamer..:)



Drama Is My Middle Name..

Okay, I think we've all established that I have commitment issues. But I have an excuse this time! You see I've been concentrating on writing a musical. Hello excitement!! One of my close friends, who happens to be an auh-mazing song writer is writing the music for it, and me and my other friend are writing the script. I l-l-looveee script writing and I've wrote a good few before, but the reason this script has been more mentally draining and time consuming is because, well.....how can I explain this. DRAMA!!
      Remember when I said that drama follows me everywhere, well I wasn't lying. You see me and my friend, lets call him "C" have wrote a lot of plays together, we're like a dynamic duo. My other friend, lets call her "A" helped me come up with the initial idea for the plot of this play and I also said I'd write her in a role since she's incredibly talent. Following so far? Good.
      Now, C and A are each other's ex's, and their relationship did NOT end pretty. Hello conflict! Right time for a little bit of a back story. Me and C have been friends since we were growing up, while me and A have only been friends for about a year or so, but we've become really close. Then they hooked up, and things were going great, until they both went completely psycho on each other. Now every time the two of them are out together it ends in tears. C treats A like trash, and A tends to go all crazy-psycho-stalker! So if I have the two of them working on the script with me then I may end up in a mental hospital, that's if the two of them don't kill me while trying to get to eachother first.
      
So there you go, A has had an input in the script from the start and would be ideal for one of the characters, whereas C is like the other half of me when we're writing and we've been friends forever. I doubt I'll have any hair left on  my head by the time this script is finished.
DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA!!!

So I better go and continue playing referee. I promise I'll post more often starting.....NOW!
Ciao for now, keep on dreamin' people!!

Guilty Dreamer...:)

Dreams About Apples??

Oh deary me, it's been three days since my first post. I've gone AWOL already! That's hardly acceptable, ssooooooo it's update time!
I suppose I should fill you in a bit more about me before I get into the juicy stuff...
Well to start off, I'm from Ireland. Yes I am in fact a leprechaun. Jealous much? Thought so. Anyway, you may be wondering what that has to do with things. Well it's the bane of my existence! Don't get me wrong, Ireland is a fantastic country, full of amazing people, amazing cities, and amazing alcohol...Plenty and plenty of alcohol. But it's also one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of me accomplishing my...you guessed it...DREAMS!
A light bulb just went off over my head and I realised I never actually said what my dreams are. Well without further adieu.....

That's right, Broadway babbbbyyyyyyy! How cliche. SUE ME!
So there you go, I want to take a bite out of the Big Apple.
And where does being a leprechaun come into all this? Well it isn't exactly easy for an Irish actor to get a visa. Heartbreaking, I know. But am I wrong in saying that there's just something magical about New York?
Anywhoo, that's enough for now, I'm sure I'm putting you all to sleep. We'll delve more into my problems when I'm a bit less twitchy..
I'd love to hear some of your dreams and goals, hopefully they'll be a little less over-done than mine....Keep on dreamin'!

Ciao for now,

Guilty Dreamer... :)

My First Confession...

Hello world!
Allow me to introduce myself, your new best friend, Guilty Dreamer. I have been hovering over my keyboard for the past 20 minutes deciding what to say in my first post, (first impressions are everything, right?) so I've decided that I'm just going to dive in head first and hope for the best.

In a nutshell, I'm GD and I'm guilty of being a class A dreamer. And no I don't mean night time dreams, I mean those dreams that you visualise for yourself. Dreams of your future. The kind of dreams that send a shiver down your spine and leave you feeling all mushy inside. We all have them, don't lie! My head is packed full of them. Some are realistic, some not-so realistic, and some are pure outrageous! But nevertheless I'm here to try and document the story of me trying to achieve my dreams. 
    
It only occurred to me last week that my life, like most other peoples, is full-on madness, and I want to fill the world in on it. Well I figured that until E! gives me my own reality show, blogging may be the best way to get my story out there. Annnddd here I am!!!
This blog will follow me on my journey of following my dreams, and hopefully it might inspire more people to fearlessly chase after what they want and never give up, and maybe some of you will want to reach out and chat about things and we can be like a little miniature support group! Personally I am only starting on the road to pursuing my crazy dreams and I can tell that it's going to be one heck of a ride! So hopefully you will all go on this journey with me, which will most likely be full of discoveries, drama (as I said, E! would love it) and bant!

Well that's basically as good of an introduction that I can think of at 2.30 am (yes, I am in fact an insomniac) so until next time, keep on dreamin'!

Guilty Dreamer... :)