Giant Mousetrap post of DOOM
So last night was the closing night of The Mousetrap and I have to say that it was our best performance ever. I'm so happy to go out with such a bang. We had the largest audience, all our cues were perfect and everyone did an amazing job. I can truly say that this has been the best show I have ever worked on, with both the quality of the show and on how much fun it was. I had lots of great times with these people and lots of memories that I'll treasure, some of which I'll list under a cut so that you're not annoyed by how obnoxiously long this list is:
~That damn doorbell finally working during our three performances (if not the invited dress)
~Christine's fuzzy, pink, decidely un-Boyle-like slippers
~Aimee being a diva
~Ryan invading the girls' dressing room and dancing to You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
~Steph saying "How much more makeup do I need???"
~Sara Kallock being the cutest little spaz ever
~Fabulous writing the best prop letter for me ever
~Monika liking the iron a little too much . . .
~Singing Disney songs as I nearly poked my eye out with eye pencil
~TIES!
~Having the shit-easist costume ever and still looking great
~Our nightly meditations and being able to count all the way to forty on the last night
~Knipper's ad-libs to me onstage and antics offstage during rehearsals
~The read-through, Aimee: "THREE WEEKS?! Hang on, seriously? THREE WEEKS?!"
~The laugh I never expected I'd get when I stare at Giles during Act I scene i
~Christine being called a c*** and taking it as a compliment on her performance as bitchy Mrs. Boyle
~Aimee trying to figure out how to scream blue murder
~Recording the sound effects and Christine being TOO good at screaming blue murder
~Recording the sound effects to discover that Knipper's whistle problems stemmed from the fact that he was holding the whistle upside-down
~The rehearsal in which everything that could go wrong with my last scene did and thus I started laughing and could not stop, thus making Aimee and Mark laugh too, thus making the scene completely implode on itself.
~The audience adoring Christopher Wren's constant reminders of how attractive he finds Sergeant Trotter.
~The audience roaring at my best line: "Bloody old bitch!"
~Me and Aimee finally getting to do a scene together, and also a scene with Christine!
~Trying to figure out what to do during my 10-page break in Act II.
~Getting offstage after the Trotter-Casewell confrontation in Act II and hoping I could pull myself back together for the next scene.
~The audience adoring Paravicini's antics.
~Listening to Mollie and Trotter onstage psyching myself up while Knipper worried I may be a little too in character.
~Hanging on to Mark for dear life during the last scene, us going offstage and hyperventilating in seperate corners, and then making sure he was okay (especially last night as he almost fell down the escape stairs, but I just managed to catch him).
~The sound of the applause during curtain call.
Also, my mom and her friend and Kasia and her girlfriend came to see the show on Saturday, which was great. It was so great to hear their praise and also praise from my fellow students and professors. It's going to take me a while to fully recover though, probably not until Thanksgiving Break, as I still have to go to classes and do work until then. Bleh. And I was such a good student and didn't skip any classes during production week! Meh.
Oh, and also I had to include the great roast that Fabulous gave me (note that I had to fix her spelling a lot, silly Fabulous).
This "If she IS female" Mousetap Roast Award goes to Shannon O'Hearn.
Shannon, you did an amazing job as Casewell. However, you must have known that playing this character would lead to many jokes. Sara put you in basically a man's outfit and well, you pulled it off. And when Ryan said the line, "Terrible female . . . if she IS female," it seemed to be so easy for him to say that Dr. M didn't have to yell at him for once! You were so good at the character I had no problem writing your letter to "Dearest Jessie." (she then proceeded to read the actual prop letter used in Act II, the text of which follows) "Dearest Jessie, Hello my dear lesbian lover. Some people have you confused with my Majorca Harem. However, his name is Billy. Not to make you jealous,but before I met you I had actually slept with many men. Let's see, there was Judas, Simon, Peter, John, James, and of course, Chaz. But now I am with you. I just want to say that Oh someone is screaming blue murder!! I must go even though this is unfinished and . . ." (continues with roast) I'm pretty sure that's what Agatha Christie was implying, and I think the audience got that without a problem. Ummm, I mean, because you're an amazing actress and not because you're a . . . well, you and Christine are really close . . . maybe the Abbeys have been paying too much attention to Maureen and Ashley and we didn't see this love connection happening. I heard you asked Ethan, "Do I look butch enough?" I think it's safe to say, yes. I mean, Mark is taller than you, yet at the end of the show we all can believe that you would have no problem taking on your crazy homicidal brother and keeping him from doing harm. Basically Shannon . . . YOU'RE THE MAN!
You did such a great job!! Thanks for all your hard work!
<3 Katelyn Fabulous Tustin
So can you tell how much I loved this show?
~That damn doorbell finally working during our three performances (if not the invited dress)
~Christine's fuzzy, pink, decidely un-Boyle-like slippers
~Aimee being a diva
~Ryan invading the girls' dressing room and dancing to You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
~Steph saying "How much more makeup do I need???"
~Sara Kallock being the cutest little spaz ever
~Fabulous writing the best prop letter for me ever
~Monika liking the iron a little too much . . .
~Singing Disney songs as I nearly poked my eye out with eye pencil
~TIES!
~Having the shit-easist costume ever and still looking great
~Our nightly meditations and being able to count all the way to forty on the last night
~Knipper's ad-libs to me onstage and antics offstage during rehearsals
~The read-through, Aimee: "THREE WEEKS?! Hang on, seriously? THREE WEEKS?!"
~The laugh I never expected I'd get when I stare at Giles during Act I scene i
~Christine being called a c*** and taking it as a compliment on her performance as bitchy Mrs. Boyle
~Aimee trying to figure out how to scream blue murder
~Recording the sound effects and Christine being TOO good at screaming blue murder
~Recording the sound effects to discover that Knipper's whistle problems stemmed from the fact that he was holding the whistle upside-down
~The rehearsal in which everything that could go wrong with my last scene did and thus I started laughing and could not stop, thus making Aimee and Mark laugh too, thus making the scene completely implode on itself.
~The audience adoring Christopher Wren's constant reminders of how attractive he finds Sergeant Trotter.
~The audience roaring at my best line: "Bloody old bitch!"
~Me and Aimee finally getting to do a scene together, and also a scene with Christine!
~Trying to figure out what to do during my 10-page break in Act II.
~Getting offstage after the Trotter-Casewell confrontation in Act II and hoping I could pull myself back together for the next scene.
~The audience adoring Paravicini's antics.
~Listening to Mollie and Trotter onstage psyching myself up while Knipper worried I may be a little too in character.
~Hanging on to Mark for dear life during the last scene, us going offstage and hyperventilating in seperate corners, and then making sure he was okay (especially last night as he almost fell down the escape stairs, but I just managed to catch him).
~The sound of the applause during curtain call.
Also, my mom and her friend and Kasia and her girlfriend came to see the show on Saturday, which was great. It was so great to hear their praise and also praise from my fellow students and professors. It's going to take me a while to fully recover though, probably not until Thanksgiving Break, as I still have to go to classes and do work until then. Bleh. And I was such a good student and didn't skip any classes during production week! Meh.
Oh, and also I had to include the great roast that Fabulous gave me (note that I had to fix her spelling a lot, silly Fabulous).
This "If she IS female" Mousetap Roast Award goes to Shannon O'Hearn.
Shannon, you did an amazing job as Casewell. However, you must have known that playing this character would lead to many jokes. Sara put you in basically a man's outfit and well, you pulled it off. And when Ryan said the line, "Terrible female . . . if she IS female," it seemed to be so easy for him to say that Dr. M didn't have to yell at him for once! You were so good at the character I had no problem writing your letter to "Dearest Jessie." (she then proceeded to read the actual prop letter used in Act II, the text of which follows) "Dearest Jessie, Hello my dear lesbian lover. Some people have you confused with my Majorca Harem. However, his name is Billy. Not to make you jealous,but before I met you I had actually slept with many men. Let's see, there was Judas, Simon, Peter, John, James, and of course, Chaz. But now I am with you. I just want to say that Oh someone is screaming blue murder!! I must go even though this is unfinished and . . ." (continues with roast) I'm pretty sure that's what Agatha Christie was implying, and I think the audience got that without a problem. Ummm, I mean, because you're an amazing actress and not because you're a . . . well, you and Christine are really close . . . maybe the Abbeys have been paying too much attention to Maureen and Ashley and we didn't see this love connection happening. I heard you asked Ethan, "Do I look butch enough?" I think it's safe to say, yes. I mean, Mark is taller than you, yet at the end of the show we all can believe that you would have no problem taking on your crazy homicidal brother and keeping him from doing harm. Basically Shannon . . . YOU'RE THE MAN!
You did such a great job!! Thanks for all your hard work!
<3 Katelyn Fabulous Tustin
So can you tell how much I loved this show?