And suddenly...everything just, CLICKS!!!
You know when you have that one performance that you just feel so on at and you feel as if you nail your numbers? That was tonight for me. This show has been the most stressful, difficult and AMAZING of my life thus far. Having been my first lead, I have been able to really experiment with my voice and acting and just i dunno, figure things out. I can honostly say that i have improved more in this production than any other in my life..which is crazy. Today was absolutely amazing! So if u are really bored and want to hear about it......feel free.
We had to be at the PAC at 1:00 today because we were putting on a little mini show for the teachers because Mrs. Dragoo wanted to show them how much work we have done in this show. SO we showed them a few of the big numbers. ( we couldn't do the whole thing because some of the teachers were complaining about having to stay till 5:00) So after that "show" we were supposed to be provide dinner but it was taking a really long time. So we were all kind of bored and then Jennifer decided to hook up her ipod in her car and she turned up the music like really loud and oh my gosh it was so fun we all just started having this huge like dance party thing! SO FUN...she had all these songs like the mauchorina (or however u spell it) and we were just like insane dancing in the middle of the street/parking lot! We were gonna have a dance off between the guys and the girls but then we were called to go get into costume. (dinner still hadnt arrived)
It didn't take too long to get ready since my makeup was still on and stuff so i was sitting down and all of a sudden i blacked out and i thought it was just cause i sat up quickly but then i just kept getting really dizzy. I have never felt that wierd before. I thought i was going to like faint, so I went outside and then the food came about like 30 minutes before curtain and so the dragoo's let us eat in costume since so many of us hadnt eaten so i ate and then i felt much better.
SO in my first scene my mike was out AGAIN..i am used to it now since it hasn't worked in that first song yet but anyway so i was talking on the phone while turning my mike back off and on cause that gets it to work SOMETIMES. It finally came on and so i actually had a mike during How lovely to be a Woman...but then it went out again, it really pumped up my energy though since i had it during the beggining and i have never sang the song better!! so then in one boy i had a different mike on and everything went smoothly.
I don't know the energy was soo high tonight and i just felt so ON which made me really excited. During intermission B cubed was on again...(haha its our radio station we made up for those who don't know....we talk over the dressing rooms intercom and sing and its hilarious) Anyway after the show like my whole group of like family friends was there to see bolton (the guy who plays randolph) and i, bolton in particular cause they all have people his age but it was really cool of them all to come out to see it. My grandparents came which was sooo sweet of them because i don't get to see them very much and it meant alot that they would fly in for a school production!!
Then we went to bolton's house for kinda a neighborhood family after party thing...i dunno and we had a bunch of deserts, it was pretty fun!! I love my neighborhood, its like i have a zillion other families because all the kids have grown up together.!!
Anyway to sum everything up tonight everything just kinda clicked for me! I feel i am so much more confident performing and its like the light bulb went off saying...oh this is how i should be doing this..and that is what so and so was talking about! IT WAS incredible. I am soo thankful for this experience.
WOW i think that may have been the longest entry i have ever written....if u ready it, gosh u have patience, sorry to bore you, and thank you!!!
We had to be at the PAC at 1:00 today because we were putting on a little mini show for the teachers because Mrs. Dragoo wanted to show them how much work we have done in this show. SO we showed them a few of the big numbers. ( we couldn't do the whole thing because some of the teachers were complaining about having to stay till 5:00) So after that "show" we were supposed to be provide dinner but it was taking a really long time. So we were all kind of bored and then Jennifer decided to hook up her ipod in her car and she turned up the music like really loud and oh my gosh it was so fun we all just started having this huge like dance party thing! SO FUN...she had all these songs like the mauchorina (or however u spell it) and we were just like insane dancing in the middle of the street/parking lot! We were gonna have a dance off between the guys and the girls but then we were called to go get into costume. (dinner still hadnt arrived)
It didn't take too long to get ready since my makeup was still on and stuff so i was sitting down and all of a sudden i blacked out and i thought it was just cause i sat up quickly but then i just kept getting really dizzy. I have never felt that wierd before. I thought i was going to like faint, so I went outside and then the food came about like 30 minutes before curtain and so the dragoo's let us eat in costume since so many of us hadnt eaten so i ate and then i felt much better.
SO in my first scene my mike was out AGAIN..i am used to it now since it hasn't worked in that first song yet but anyway so i was talking on the phone while turning my mike back off and on cause that gets it to work SOMETIMES. It finally came on and so i actually had a mike during How lovely to be a Woman...but then it went out again, it really pumped up my energy though since i had it during the beggining and i have never sang the song better!! so then in one boy i had a different mike on and everything went smoothly.
I don't know the energy was soo high tonight and i just felt so ON which made me really excited. During intermission B cubed was on again...(haha its our radio station we made up for those who don't know....we talk over the dressing rooms intercom and sing and its hilarious) Anyway after the show like my whole group of like family friends was there to see bolton (the guy who plays randolph) and i, bolton in particular cause they all have people his age but it was really cool of them all to come out to see it. My grandparents came which was sooo sweet of them because i don't get to see them very much and it meant alot that they would fly in for a school production!!
Then we went to bolton's house for kinda a neighborhood family after party thing...i dunno and we had a bunch of deserts, it was pretty fun!! I love my neighborhood, its like i have a zillion other families because all the kids have grown up together.!!
Anyway to sum everything up tonight everything just kinda clicked for me! I feel i am so much more confident performing and its like the light bulb went off saying...oh this is how i should be doing this..and that is what so and so was talking about! IT WAS incredible. I am soo thankful for this experience.
WOW i think that may have been the longest entry i have ever written....if u ready it, gosh u have patience, sorry to bore you, and thank you!!!