Sarah Talbot
Soprano, Musician, Composer, Teacher, listener
Category: Theatrics
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“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.” I’ve just ‘signed off’ from “Legally Blonde”. Attended the official debrief functional night, meeting and catching up with members of the cast and crew. It’s never really goodbye…
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I am writing this post from the backstage singers booth. The last few weeks have been a hectic frenzy from one place to another, hence why no posts for a while. I’m currently singing backstage lyrics for “Legally Blonde” at Toowoomba Empire a theatre. As I speak, there are people laughing and looking doe-eyed at…
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent” – Victor Hugo I’ve always got a song in my head and my heart. People would talk to me and I can imagine a music clip to fit the conversation or scene. I know…weirdo! A few years back, when…
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The theatre season in Toowoomba is beginning to accelerate, with concerts, plays and musicals fast coming to the many local stages. A production of “Legally Blonde” is well into rehearsals. Vocal rehearsals are resonating throughout the theatres and studios, with soloists and onstage cast racing to get lyrics and script ‘off the book’ (memorised) and in…
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“Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramatic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurrences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, political intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly. In…
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Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.- The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1. I tend to go through fad phases of liking certain movies, music literature. Some of them are fleeting and last a short duration such as playing angry music in the car after a tough day…
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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ― Oscar Wilde Like so many places that we walk through, theatre has its own set of rules, it’s own etiquette.…
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This week has been a little frustrating with me coming down with a flu. It has rendered me without a voice and with a lot of discomfort. Also has resulted in missing rehearsals and canceling music lessons for the week. Usually when I feel unwell, I can usually ‘knock it on head’, with 3 levels…
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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII). I thought I might share some experiences about some of the…
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“To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.” – SIMON CALLOW, (Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World). It’s always exciting when beginning a new show. It’s exhilarating when you walk into the “Meet and Greet”…
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