Hannah drum!

The Bald Soprano

When I was 16 we moved and I started a new High School. I auditioned for a play at the beginning of the school year...The Bald Soprano and was cast as Mary the maid. I had a monologue in the first Act in which I went on and on about blue eyes and brown eyes and made very little sense but it was a play in the theater of the absurd so it wasn't supposed to make much sense. My costume was a French maid costume complete with fish net stockings. I was thrilled to have gotten the role and be part of the theater group at Maine East. However I was chosen over a senior who had already established herself as part of the theater group. Therefore right off the bat I was the outsider who stole the role from Christina...not the best way to enter into a new high school. However it worked out pretty well in the long run I also directed Greater Tuna that year, was head of costumes for The Foreigner and a member of the chorus for Guys and Dolls. I ended up making friends with kids who I am still friends with to this day.

Future opera singer

Hannah singing her little heart out.

Little Drummer Girl

My husband is a would be drummer and I think that gene must run in the family!

What's in a name??

Before I was married my full name was Jeanne McGuire Carey. Can you already tell where this story is going? Now when I was younger and we had those crazy hearing tests at school where you line up and have to give the examiner your last name first..yeah this is how it went:
Your last name please?
Carey.
No honey your last name.
Carey.
Your last name is Carey?
Yes.
What's your first name?
Jeanne.
J-e-a-n?
No Jeanne with two n's and an e.
JeAnne?
Just Jeanne.
Oh.
What's your middle name?
McGuire
HUH?!?!??!
Yup that was my life for a loooooong time. So I started just using my middle initial to avoid some of the confusion. But still having two first names never did me any good. One time I was at a theater production and had entered a raffle. The name that was called repeatedly was something like Joanne Casey and no one was claiming to be the winner...but they kept calling this name over and over and over...finally my friends looked and me and were all...that MUST be Jeanne Carey! Sure enough it was my ticket!
As I got older and email started to be more predominant especially at work my name would appear as such: Carey, Jeanne. Needless to say most people just called me Carey. Emails would arrive to my inbox Hi Carey can you do such and such. And even though I always responded to the emails and signed off as Jeanne Carey the emails would return Thanks Carey!
And the spelling of my first name...nightmare! At Starbucks where they ask you your name then misspells are constantly on your cup here are a few of the names I've seen:
Gene (this is the most common)
Jean
Jeannie
Gean
Jeane
And so on....
I thought life would improve with the last name Tari...but often I get emails as such:
Dear Tari can you please schedule me for the next training class?
Really?? Tari…that’s my first name??? Come on now folks!
A note to parents naming their kids…please give them a break, no two first names!!!

Pony tail

Are there even words to describe how cute she is???

Madwoman

My sophomore year of high school began my theater career. I auditioned for "A Connecticut Yankee in King's Arthur Court" and received the part of ..."walk-on". I had one job to walk on stage during one scene and place an envelope on a table and walk off stage. But after that I was HOOKED! I loved being on stage and the lights and the rehearsals everything about theater I fell in love with. The next play was "The Madwomen of Chaillot". I received the part of Madam Gabrielle...a crazy old lady who talked to imaginary people. I spent an entire Act on stage talking to imaginary people, wearing a hat with a bird on a spring that flew around my head as I was making conversation with imaginary people. Some say it was type casting....but I was a HIT! Kids in school, teachers, all came up to me throughout the year telling me they loved the part I played in that production.
And I was sold I wanted to be an actress, I knew I had found my calling life.