Ned Donovan - Ithaca ‘12

Hey everyone, below is a link to an article on Forbes.com.  Portland Maine has been called America’s number 1 most liveable city!  I knew someday other people would realize how awesome our city is.

All the best
~Ned 

America’s Most Livable Cities - Forbes.com.

Hey everyone,

It’s been a busy few days and it’s about to get a whole lot worse, and I will absolutely not be posting for the next week, just not enough hours in the day.  So I thought I’d let you know what’s been going on in my life:

First off it’s review time.  This friday (the 17th) is my vocal review for the department of theatre arts.  Myself and the other Musical Theatre freshmen will be going in alphabetical order and perform two 90 second songs for the performance faculty, and any of the students who wish to watch.  We watched the sophomore last week and it was phenomenal, so hopefully we can match up to them.  I myself am performing “My Romance” from Jumbo (an early Rogers and Hart musical), and “Goodbye” from I Love You Because (a modern show loosely based off Pride and Prejudice).  I am third on friday, and hopefully everything goes well!
My next review is on monday the 20th, and I have my acting review.  I am performing a scene from Picnic with Amberlee Weber; I am playing Hal, and she is playing Madge.  We’ve had great success in our rehearsals so I’m kind of itching to get review past us.  Hopefully that goes well also.

Secondly we have Freshman Cabaret coming up.

Hey everyone,

Last April I took a bartending course through a Portland Maine based company called the University Bartending program.  They are a subcompany of the dogfish company (http://www.thedogfishcompany.com/) and they send a team around to different states every year to give classes to various cities.  They are coming to Ithaca at the end of april!  So if anyone is interested in taking their course, I will give you the information here.

The University Bartending program will be giving a class at the Holiday Inn in Ithaca’s downtown.  The will be there April 24-26.  The class lasts the whole weekend, at the end of which you will be well trained in the skill of bartending, as well as given a letter of recommendation.  The class being offered is what’s known as a “weekend Professional” class.  The class description from their website is as follows:

Description: The Professional Course is designed for the student who is interested in working as a bartender after completing the course. In theProfessional Course, students are trained in all aspects of professional bartending. Students in the Professional Course learn “hands on” during extensive pouring lab sessions.

Hey everyone,

I wanted you all to know about a phenomenal thing that came out of a bad thing yesterday.  Yesterday my friend Ben (playing the lead in New Brain) deemed himself too sick to perform, and his understudy was asked to step up.  Andrew Karl (Ithaca College Musical Theatre freshman) is the understudy and he began working mid-afternoon to be prepared for last night.  We got to sit in the audience and watch his performance, and I want everyone to realize just how phenomenal it was.  Cat Stephani (playing Lisa the homeless woman) was also sick, and she performed the show, but asked to not be in the big dance number.  Her understudy Deanalis Resto (Ithaca College Musical Theatre sophomore) stepped up for that number and was also phenomenal.  I would just like to give my congratulations to the two understudies for their performances.

For me this is testament that this program is truly great.  The understudies’ performance could easily have gone without noting they were an understudy, and no one would have cared.  They were professional, poised, and dead on for all their lines and blocking.  Congratulations to them!

~Ned Donovan