Eva on WCAX Wednesday

Wednesday on Channel 3 at 6pm,
watch me blab about YouTube and my internet "life."

Kate Duffy, a WCAX reporter, is doing a series on Vermonters who use YouTube. Her goal is to open YouTube up to viewers who may be intimidated by this new media.

I got to see a little preview of the segment tonight (there is another preview airing tomorrow on the morning news). It consists of a clip of me filming Seth and David at our last SpielPalast Dress Rehearsal at Contois and a sound bite of me saying enthusiatically, and with much gesticulating (surprise, surprise), "A friend told me about YouTube and then my world OPENED UP!"

Then they did that funky news editing thing where I was still talking BUT they cut the sound and I continued blabbing silently. I find that disturbing.

Also disturbing, I think my title was "Local Celebrity" but it was so fast, I could be wrong. I don't recall being asked what my "title" should be. I would have opted for, "Scary Monster and Super Freak" or "Professional Deadbeat."

The interview experience was interesting. I am so used to being the one sticking a camera in people's face and peppering them with questions. It felt nice to be the one answering the questions for once. And, as you may have guessed, one I got started, they could not get me to shut up.

Kate Duffy and her camera guy Andy were super nice and set up really efficiently. It is always nice to see how professionals work. They were also generous enough to run a blurb on the nightly news 2 weeks ago about the cabaret.

After the sit down interview, they told me to go about my "vlogging business" as if they weren't there. I proceeded to film Phinn and Roxanne as they lugged props up the steps into City Hall. I cornered David and Seth and started asking them questions.

They got the added fun of talking to me on camera as Andy was filming all three of us. It was pretty meta. That was one of the clips that aired in the preview.

They also filmed me interviewing the most amazing Esse, AKA the formerly-mute Bitsy. I hope they use that clip. That kid is a star.

All in all, it was fun but stressful. I was split between vlogging the cabaret, trying not to look totally foolish on camera and getting into full make-up, hair and costume (no easy task, I assure you) on time for our dress rehearsal.

In the end, it all worked out ok. And I can't wait to see the segment! How nice to be edited by someone else for a change! The best part is the cute way the WCAX anchor person announces the clip and pronouces "YouTube" like it is some nifty new rocket powered device the kids are using. I am not making fun, I really do find it charming.

And in other news, you might be seeing more of me on Channel 3 in the future. Say no more!

SpielPalast Storms City Hall

Renée Néré was musing. She had applied makeup to her face in the French music-hall dressing room and looked into the mirror at her own reflection as it began to speak to her. Her image asked her why she was seated there, all alone.

Renée, seated in her dressing room, waited to go onstage for her act and listened to the voice of her double in the mirror, all the while wondering who or what would appear at her dressing room door to change her state of solitude.
- Colette's The Vagabond

Pretty glamorous, eh? Changing in a stairwell, lugging your crap in and out day after day, applying layer after layer of thick make-up, thighs covered in bruises from another girl's shoe and night after night of late evenings getting sweaty and dancing about in your skivvies. And did I mention that I love every minute?

Like Colette, I started performing late in life. No kiddie ballet classes for this bruise-covered, crazy-haired girl. But the vaudeville life is one I have always dreamt about: travelling from town to town with a rag tag gaggle of bohemians, ne'er do wells and artistic dreamer types; eking out enough spare change to eat a meal here, bargain a bottle of booze there and bed down in a haystack; tapping my feet out, smiling big and singing as loud as my lungs can carry.

And it is those moments in between run throughs and shows, the quiet moments when people are crammed into a stairwell and stripping down, applying ridiculous rouge circled cheeks and discussing mortgages while jamming a hairpin into their spit curl - those are the moments I like best.

****************Welcome....To SpielPalast!****************

Tickets on Sale Now!

6 Shows at Contois Auditorium in Burlington City Hall
May 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, & 19
$18 Advance / $20 Day of Show
Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm
(cabaret seating available on a first come, first serve basis)

How Can You Get Tickets?????

Tickets Available at:
Flynn Box Office (M-F, 10am-4pm & Sat, 11am-4pm)
1-802-863-5966
ONLINE

***Tickets Will Also Be Available At Contois Each Night of Show***

For more info.visit:
SpielPalast Home
SpielPalast on MySpace
SpielPalast on YouTube

Chance, my master and my friend will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him - and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

- Colette's The Vagabond