Ned Donovan - Ithaca ‘12

Hey everyone,

So on April 22, we put on the freshman cabaret here at Ithaca College. Despite a few complications and scheduling issues we got it off the ground and running. We did songs from shows such as: Spring Awakening, All Shook up, The Drowsy Chaperone, as well as standards such as “I’m a Woman” by Lieber and Stoller. All in all I think it went pretty well, there were some minor problems but such things happen in a cabaret.

Thanks to everyone who got involved, and all the people who stuck it out despite scheduling conflicts, and to all of you who couldn’t be a part in this but wanted to, I’m sorry that we couldn’t make it. Thanks to Mitchell Murdock for filming the affair and editing it together. Thanks to Jen Shaw and Lucy Gram for Stage Managing and helping me get everything together. Thanks to the School of Music for the use of Presser Hall. Thanks to Laura Intravia and Omar Najimi for playing for us and being flexible about what songs were in it (many of them got added the day before). Thanks to my lovely girlfriend Nicole who put up with me through random rehearsal times and barely got to see me.

Hey everyone,

This is a post specifically designed for my musically inclined friends who play instruments.  I just stumbled across this on youtube, and I think it’s worth posting.  I do not play any instrument well enough to be considered for this, but this is an amazing opportunity I don’t think you all should pass up.  To my friends from home who play instruments, to my buddies here in the Ithaca College School of Music.  Whatever it is you play, you should try this out.  I would love to be able to tell everyone that I know someone who did this.  Anyways watch this video, and you can read more about it http://www.youtube.com/symphony.

~Ned Donovan

Hey everybody,
So this is going to be my first post which we may call “useless”.  However I have in the last few weeks here at Ithaca, encountered some of the funniest theatre-or-music oriented videos I’ve ever seen, and I really feel like I need to share them with you all.  So instead of doing multiple posts about these things, I am just going to post them all.  Please enjoy or not, but they are truly hilarious and will certainly brighten up your day. 

Seth Rudetsky deconstructs and roasts Barbara Streisand:

Seth Rudetsky talks about Barbara Walters:

Rob Paravonian analyzes the Friends themesong and “Every Morning” by Sugar Ray:

Leslie Uggams BUTCHERS “June is Busting Out All Over” (you can stop watching this after the first two times):
 

That’s enough for now, but I will surely post more as the weeks go by.
ENJOY!
~Ned Donovan