Step Right Up... Elliv 2011 is COMING!!

It's that time again.
A time that marks the end of a year at Cedarville.
A time that correlates with the anniversary of the start of my blog.

A time to STEP RIGHT UP!

Check out the PROMO!


Elliv is by far one of my favorite Cedar-isms, and I can honestly say the event was the origin of some of my favorite memories, and closest friends over my 4 years at the 'Ville.

For those of you who are not aware, ELLIV (Ville backwards) is the end-of-the-year award show bash that shines light on student accomplishments of the year past, relieves the best and funniest campus memories, and gives a stage (literally) to student musical, acting, and dance talent.

During my 4 years as a student at the Ville, I had the great opportunity to be involved with the show in several avenues... performer, choreographer, casting, talent coordinator etc. It would have been sad in graduating last year knowing that my ELLIV experience was over, but I knew last spring that I would be around to choreograph the show this year, so that eased the pain of walking across that graduation stage.


This year's show has a lot of potential and will certainly be a night of entertainment. And all of that begins with the night's theme "Step Right Up," a request given to accompany a flash back in time to those days of vintage circus fun and fabulous muted colors.

I can't give too many details just yet as the nature of the event includes secrets and surprises at every turn, but I can tell you make sure you get to the pre-show. We'll see how it goes, but in my 5 years involved in the show I think this is the most unique, exciting pre-show and I very much anticipate the time before the lights hit the stage.

As for the show itself, there are some great song choices, and although I haven't seen every musical act go through checks at this point, what I've seen is good. What I can speak on though is the dance/choreography since I've been working with dancers virtually every night since the first week in February. At this point, I can say this group and these dance numbers have the potential to be the strongest showing of dance at ELLIV ever. I got some great talent with great attitudes and I really pushed them this year choreography wise. I didn't just give moves to suffice some movement on stage, these kids are gettin' worked.

From hip hop, lyrical hop hop, jive/swing, ballet, lyrical, African and more there is no lack of variety and impressive moments coming from these kids.

If you are at Cedarville and haven't gotten your tickets yet... DO IT!
If you are an alum, will be in the area and/or just enjoy some sweet moves... GET A TICKET!
They are $16/$13 for lower front and lower back/balcony respectively.
Still don't believe ELLIV is awesome? Check out some vids from years past HERE!

And we'll see ya in the center ring April 30th!




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Entirely entertaining celeb news for April!

Most of what I had planned to blog this month, I haven't had the time to write yet. So for now, enjoy some entirely entertaining celeb news!

• Tina Fey, Kate Hudson, Kid Rock... Oh my! It's the Top 10 Celeb Quotes of the Week!

• From Zoe Saldana to Helen Mirren. Get your judgmental eye on and weigh in on whether these looks are Hits or Misses!
• I've been missin me some Weird Al Yankovic! So glad he's got a new album.
  

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• Queen Elizabeth gives consent to the wedding.... because you don't wanna tick this chicklette off...

• Because James Franco's looks and FIRST PhD just aren't enough... apparently he needs a second.
  

What news has surprised or entertained you this month??

Kickin' it in Zanesville- OCW Styleeee

It's been a few months since I posted about the crazy world that is OCW wrestling, so it's def time to fill ya in on new developments. I really didn't think it would be, but it's kinda become somewhat of an addiction. I mean, don't get me wrong... I grew up OBSESSED with WWF. Shawn Michaels, Tatanka, Bret Hart, Undertaker.... those are my BOYS! haha But this pulls ya in just as much! I've traveled to Coshocton, Rittman, Lebanon, and Zanesville now to watch these crazy, sweaty characters, and I've been trying to drag along my friends to try and get them to appreciate it as well!

First, I dragged Charmaine there...



Then Chelsea....


You see, over the last few months a handful of the boys have become personal favorites, the ones I always root for and have had the chance to get to know a little bit outside the ring. Let me introduce you to my favorite boys :-)

First, one half of Team VD... MIKEY D!


What a character, eh? And he always gives a shout out to us, "the JUICES" in the audience at shows.


Then we have a another big favorite of my mom and sister as well... the Hi-Def Super Novas, Matt Mason and Robby Starr! Pretty much the best tag team ever.


Then a "Starr" from anotha motha... APOLLO STARR! He has crazy awesome hair. Chels and I thought he should use "Whip My Hair" for his entrance music. It would be stellar.


Then we have Tank. Sherman Tank... Funniest, best smelling guy ever... legit.

Then on to bad guys...
If you know me, you know I have a thing for Italians. Let me introduce you to the Scarboni Brothers :-)


But my fave bad guy has to be Kaden Assad...


Here's me, Kaden, and another fave, Jeremy Madrox. I have trouble classifying him good/bad though. I feel like he fluctuates. Or maybe it's just because I want him to be good :-)


But I obviously have to give props to my brother, Juice Jennings, the "Blue Ribbon Rocker."



Here he is taking on Kaden. It was hard to root for this one. Overall Kaden, being a bad guy and all, cheated and got the win. Psshhh. What a punk. (I still like him though!)




Now you KNOW you wanna come check this out with me sometime, RIGHT?!

It's kind of an odd thing to bring people together, but really, it's my mom, sister, and I's new bonding thing. Nothing like driving to the middle of nowhere to go cheer on spandex-wearing, sweaty men for 2-3 hours.

Hey- don't knock it til ya try it :-)

My newest celeb friends...

This week I got a call for my first promo job from my new talent agency connection, PC Goenner. As I confirmed the job, I also was told they needed another person. Knowing my newly open-schedule-toting friend Paul would be available, I gave him a call and signed him on as well.

As we traveled to Milford (right outside of Cinci) Thursday afternoon we didn't really know many details about the promo. All we knew is that it had something to do with State Farm, and we had received a text from the promoted mentioning something about CARS 2.

When Paul and I arrived, we saw a huge blow-up obstacle course, some game stations, giveaways etc. It seemed pretty cool... until.... from the huge semi.....we saw.... LIGHTNING MCQUEEN! A life-sized, fully accurate remote control LIGHTNING!!! Turns out the cars were in the opening day parade for the Cincinnati Reds and were now setting up at our event.



From there, another gorgeous blue car pulled out. I would later learn this new friend was Finn McMissile, a British secret agent from the new movie. Score.


As the eleven of us from the agency were standing awaiting instruction, all I could think was "Mater. Mater. Mater. PLEASE let there be Mater." Well, as I was learning from one of the girls what the life of a "professional princess" looks like, my wish came true in the form of a rusty clunk of junk rolling out of the truck. MATERRRRR!!!!


We were just a little exciteddddd...


For 4.5 hours we welcomed in hundreds of fans to check out the cars, play some games, and get some free stuff. Paul spent time in the obstacle course ensuring the small kiddies could make it up the immense mountain ( the challenge's pinnacle if you will...), and I spent the time working the cameras taking pics of people young and old, all filled with excitement to see their friends of the screen come to life.

Greatest thing? Well, other than talking to the man who constructed the cars and hearing all it entailed (awesome...), it was so funny to watch people stand in front of the cars to pose, the cars "randomly" revving up, and intensely scaring them. We saw many a bawling child. What's funny is that I later learned a few crew members had hand-held controls to make the vehicles rev. Haha... now THATS a fun job!