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Hello to the PoA community. :)

It's my turn to take the helm of our PoA blog and I didn't have a clue what to talk about so I came up with this. Passions and Interests... and how they begin... discuss.

I'm hoping you guys can get involved as well but I'm gonna cover a few of the things I'm into and how they started. As I'm writing this, I think I might spread this over a few of my blog posts...

So first off... music.

Now, most of you were probably expecting me to say Theatre. Well, yes theatre is a massive interest of mine but I don't think I would be interested in it without the base of music.

So, when I was 7 I joined the school recorder club along with about 18 other kids, blasting their lungs down their poor recorders. After 2 months 18 became 2... and I was one of them. We kept going all through primary school, then in secondary school I joined their recorder group and started having private lessons. By doing this I passed multiple exams and achieved my Grade 8 with a Distinction and then my performance diploma with a Distinction. (I know, I'm blowing my own... recorder.... but I'm really proud of my achievement).

Fun fact. As I achieved my performance diploma, technically I can call myself Robin Dibben ATCL. But I don't.

I didn't stray from the recorder onto other instruments, I kept going and still play now in a group. This basis in music lead me on to explore other types of music which lead me to start having singing lessons at about 18 and when I needed a stage, I discovered ammeter dramatics. (By the way, ATCL stands for Associate of the Trinity College of Music, just incase you were wandering :p). So lets lead this onto theatre.

I can remember as a kid, my mum would show us all the Disney movies (which are technically musicals) and I was a major Disney fanboy... I still am a major Disney fanboy. So these films like Beauty and the beast, Lion King, Aladdin eat were my first musicals I was experiencing.  

I can also remember her having Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat on VHS and also Cats on VHS. I still know all the words to Joseph, just from having the VHS as a child. 

Interestingly, the first professional musical I saw was Cats. In 2006 (November I think) Myself and my parents headed off to Bristol and saw Cats. I really liked it. I didn't know what to expect and it was awesome. Then I remember seeing a news report saying this new musical called Wicked was opening in London. I saw Wicked in 2007 (April I think) at the Apollo Victoria Theatre and that was it. That was the catalyst for my major interest, probably call it obsession with Musicals.

But... people wander why I see so many, and how I can sit through them. 1. I love them. 2. I find seeing a show kinda like therapy. I will probably cry at some point during a musical due to either the singers, the emotion of the show or just the beauty of what they are doing on stage (I've cried when it started snowing on stage in a show... yea). And I feel so much better when I come out of a show.

So yea, my first passion I have covered is music. I probably have a few more I can cover but please let me know about your passions and how you think they started.

Till next time

Robin



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