Sunday, 18 November 2007

• Whew. A busy weekend, to be sure. We performed our play twice over the weekend, plus a dress rehearsal... but I'll tell you about that when I get to it, lol.
  
  Monday from 4:00 to 7:30, we had a play rehearsal. It did not go well. I was pretty nervous about the play after that. There were some people that still didn't even know all their lines, and it was 4 days before the performance!
  
  On Thursday, however, it went better. That was our dress rehearsal. We got to the church at 5:30, and our play rehearsal started around 7:15.  So we had nearly two hours to chat, lol. We came all in our costume and makeup. Yes, friends, I did, in fact, wear makeup. And, yes yes, I got gray hair. The spray stuff stunk though, lol.
  
  And then, man, there's this one part in the play that always makes me laugh. It's my one scene with this Nathan dude and he cracks me up. We had to sit backstage and practice one line over and over again trying not to laugh. But it didn't help when he started changing the line to make me laugh, lol! See, I'm supposed to be old in this play, so I've got some wrinkles drawn on me. Apparently from the audience, they look like wrinkles, but when you're up close, they're way too clear and I end up looking like a cat with whiskers and stuff, lol. So this line that I crack up at is something like "Don't you trust your own child?", because he gets really really close to my face like it's a showdown or something. And this time, he started saying "Don't you trust your own kitten?" Lol, it was hilarious. I've got a new superhero nickname... "Catman". Lol. ;)
  
  We had a bit of a panic, though, lol. The lead actor (besides me, of course, lol) started losing her voice. She wasn't able to rehearse with us that night, so we were talking to an invisible girl. o_O Everyone was getting nervous, because we thought that we were going to have to get someone else to memorize all her lines before the performance the next night!!
  
  Friday morning, we went to Emerald EP for a potluck/party/class demonstrations. :) It was fun. Volleyball is quickly climbing to the top in my favorite sports. :D We bumped the volleyball around for quite a while, although people kept getting cold and going inside. By the end, it was just me and one other girl, Lill. (Well her real name is Lillian... hey wait, why am I telling you this; you don't even care, lol.)
  
  We were supposed to go practice the play at 1:30 again, but thankfully that was canceled.
  
  So that evening was the performance! We arrived at the church at 5:00, in make-up and costume. I'm not quite sure why we had to be there so early, but we did. The girl who lost her voice had it back again, which was very good. So we all talked for a while, I got my hair sprayed gray again, and at 6:00 they made us go sit in the back hallway for an HOUR. O_O It was really boring, and just got everyone more nervous. Nathan (not my bro again) and I practiced our scene over and over and over again. And guess what? During the performance, I DIDN'T LAUGH AT IT! I DIDN'T EVEN CRACK A SMILE!!! YES!!!!! I DID IT! Lol!
  
  I think the performance went pretty well. I nearly dropped my pocket-watch during my entrance, though, lol! There were several skipped lines during the play, but we just worked around them. There was one part where a sound effect that was supposed to play DIDN'T play, so I had to make up some new lines on the spot to work around the fact that there weren't any records playing upstairs, when in fact, I was yelling at them for playing the records. So I had to just continue on like I knew what I was doing anyways, lol, and I made up some new lines and stuff to work around it. Whew.
  
  I had the last curtain call, and I was very pleased and excited when I came on stage for my curtain call and the applause from the audience doubled and there were lots of whistles and shouts... very encouraging.
  
  I was really surprised at the number of people I knew that came to the play. :) There were 22, If I counted correctly, and that's not counting the siblings/parents of anyone else in the play I knew. These were all just friends or family of mine. It was really cool. I got a lot of people shaking my hand that I'd never met before, and a couple guys told me that I should go into acting for my profession. Apparently, everybody really liked how I played my character. :)
  
  It was funny, I was, of course, in all my old guy makeup, and after the play, Nathan (the other Nathan... I'll tell you if I mean my brother) came up to me while I was talking to a couple friends and said "Some old lady wants to see you", and one of my friends was like "Ohhhh the makeup must have worked!" Haha! It was weird to be there with my friends but have all kinds of odd looking makeup on, lol.
  
  Then on Saturday we had another play performance at 2:00. It went pretty much like the last one, except not quite as well... I flubbed a couple lines, and the play just didn't seem to have as much energy. Too bad we had to miss the Ohio State vs Michigan game!! O_O
  
  Well that was my week. This coming week we have, like, nothing going on, except for Thanksgiving. I'm a little sad, I guess, that EP is over. *sigh* Oh well. Thanks for reading! I'm posting a few pictures for your viewing pleasure. Click on them to view them in large format.
  
  
  Just look at all that makeup, lol.
  
  
  
  Nathan Endres and I. ;)
  
  
  
  Jonathan Moore and I.
  
  
  
  Me getting my gray hair, lol... you can see how much it stinks by the expressions on all our faces. ;)
  
  
  
  There I am during the dress rehearsal. I'm obviously the one on the far right, lol.
  
  
  
  That's me again... it looks like I'm doing a Jack Sparrow walk or something, lol. ;)
  
  
  
  I'm not in this one, but I just thought I'd share a photo that shows all my lovely children in the play. ;)
  
  - Andrew
  
  

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