Quick update.

I officially found out this past week I start traveling for work, again, towards the end of March.  The news sprung up on me pretty fast but I knew it was a possibility.  I will be traveling full-time (Sunday-Thursday) for three months.  Unfortunately, it has forced me to make the inevitable decision to step away from my new cast role as Babe in the upcoming production of Crimes of the Heart.  I'm very disappointed because I was looking forward to working with Michael and Kelli along with the members of the cast.

The good news about telling the cast and director yesterday, is they already found my replacement as Babe, my friend Kristin K.  She is going to do a fantastic job and I can't wait to see the production at the end or April.  This is my shout out to you KK!

Did I mention my traveling will be taking me to Portland, OR again?  See you soon, Portland.

"Do it for the Fat Lady"

On Saturday, the cast of The Farnsworth Invention (me included) finished our final show of the season together.

From left to right: Kristin Kellar (as Lizette Sarnoff), Tom Valentine (as David Sarnoff), Kayla Saxe (as Pem Farnsworth), and Sam Smith (as Philo T. Farnsworth)

It was bittersweet but the show was brilliant and I was fortunate to work with such a great group of people.  As most may know, this was my first onstage performance for the Pierre Players Community Theater and it most definitely will not be my last.  As a matter of fact while The Farnsworth Invention was still in production, I auditioned for another show called Crimes of the Heart (a comedy that was made into a feature film in 1986).  The plot summary is as follows:

Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband.  The oldest, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it in Hollywood as a singer/actress, has had a wild life filled with many men.  Their reunion causes much joy, but also many tensions.

I auditioned for the character known as Babe and believe it or not, I was cast to play Babe!  I am extremely excited to start rehearsing (on Tuesday, March 11!!!) for this play and I'm also thrilled to be working with Michael (Director) and Kelli (Asst. Director).  These two were also a part of the cast in The Farnsworth Invention.

As for my career, I rolled off of the project I was fortunate enough to travel on.  I'm currently waiting for the next adventure I will be assigned too.  I haven't heard the official word yet but it seems I could get pulled into multiple directions (I must be a hot commodity!).  I should know by the end of this week and I'm happy to announce I revamped my personal website ( http://kaylasaxe.weebly.com/ ) to make it more of a professional website that displays my technical resume, recommendations from clients, and volunteer experience.  I'm pretty happy with the outcome of it and can't wait to add more information to all pages as time goes on.

And in closing:

"I'll tell you a terrible secret - Are you listening to me?  There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.  That includes your Professor Tupper, buddy [...] Don't you know that goddam secret yet?  And don't you know - listen to me, now - don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah buddy.  Ah, buddy.  It's Christ Himself.  Christ Himself, buddy."

- J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zoey