Ok, ladies and gents, here goes! =)
[mood | 
melancholy, but happy for memories of Dixie =) ]
So my friend Karol and I definitely got to the theatre (which is right here on campus-pretty near her room) at about 6:30; this guy, who is a student in the theatre program damn him!, opens the outer door for us and asks if we're here for the Dixie Carter thing lol-we say yes and he says the doors won't open until about 7:30 but we can hang out. So we sit there and he starts chatting us up-he says he had lunch w/Dixie the day before (PS I HATE HIM! lol). Eventually Karol says she can't wait to tell her Spencer (bf) about this, and the guy asks me if I have a bf too-I say no, which Karol says was my first mistake lol. He was definitely flirting-pretty harmless but still kinda freaky. Anyway ya'll wanna hear about Dixie, not me getting hit on, so here goes! lol we didn't get to go in until about 7:45 or 7:50, but we were like the 2nd ones in-this older couple (who got here later than we did but went to stand by the door first) got to the front row, but not the seats me and Karol had scoped out days before lol ^_^ we were next to them, though.
So anyways, there's a few minutes of light and mic testing, then the director of our theatre program comes out, and a very pretty pic of the Dixie comes up on screen behind him with her name underneath-he talks for a bit about the program she's here for-it's the 3rd year, and guess who was the first one invited to do it? HAL HOLBROOK 2 years ago ^_^ Anyways, he talks about what Dixie's been up to lately too, what she's been doing career-wise since about Spring. Eventually he brings her out, we all start applauding wildly, and end up standing for her :D She was flattered by that, I'm sure, because she said "What a sweet welcome" =) Anyway she starts out on a funny note, explaining that she's terrified of catching a cold before "The Dixie" performing arts center opens this weekend, so she elected to wear rain boots (you can see 'em in the pic I posted), and for us to picture her in her "really high black heels" that she was going to wear-because it was not nice weather here yesterday lol.
One of the first things the guy asks her is when she knew she wanted to perform. She tells about when she was like 3 and 4 her aunt Virginia (who was only like 19) would play the piano and teach her songs-THEN SHE SANG FOR US ^_^ I remember around this time she talked about how someone would say to her "Dixie Virginia," when she was little, only I don't remember what all else they said to her! lol they made some kinda deal with her that if she sang she would get something, or if she'd do something she could sing-something like that, I just remember how cute it was hearing her say her own first and middle name lol ^_^ She also talked a bit at some point about how she plays the trumpet. Eventually he got to Designing Women-he was talking about how people stay up late and get up early to watch reruns on Lifetime-my friend and I start nodding our heads along w/many others, it must have been really vigorous nodding, though, or maybe just because we were pretty much right in front of her, but she definitely pointed at us!!!! I thought at first that it was at Karol, but she told me later it looked like it was me-our other friend Karlin said "maybe it was both of you!" lol and I think it may have been.
She was talking about the DW work schedule at one point, during audience questions I believe, and said they were never more than 2 weeks ahead when it came to filming lol-and that she had a little deal with the writer Linda Bloodworth. She's conservative and apparently Linda is liberal, and they agreed that if Dixie would go along and say all this political stuff in Julia's rants that maybe she didn't always agree with, she'd get to sing on the show once a season-I though that was neat ^_^
She talked at one point about how she took Delta Burke to the hospital, and how later Delta pretty much got her a job as a replacement in a play-I must say, the Dixie does a mean Delta impression! lol we were all laughing. After about 2 hours (Dixie says something like "My my, 2 hours I've been talking" hehe) the audience got to ask questions. I wished I had one but I couldn't think of anything lol :| One of the last things came from the far right end of the front row-someone had a pic of she and Delta i believe, after a play, and showed it to her, saying "could you maybe identify this person?" lol he wanted to surprise her and he did-she got up and walked across the stage to take it from him and was like "Delta!!" lol it was so cute ^_^ I believe he asked if she'd autograph it for him and that she obliged-but not until later if she did because I didn't see it lol.
Anyway, then it all ends and Mr. Director tells us that there's a reception in the next building over, and he couldn't promise anything, but depending on the time and such, we may get the opportunity to approach Ms. Carter-they'd discuss it. Well we went to the reception, after giving THE D another standing O when she left the stage, and waited. Karol and I were talking, and I must have been saying something to her, plus my back was to the door (which also was around a corner) so I didn't SEE her walk in, but Karol saw her come around the corner and just started tugging my poncho to get me to turn around (later she said "There were no words" lol) and OMG there she was, not 2 or 3 feet away from me/us but talking to someone else. Eventually she got to us-we were standing side by side, I was the one closest when D came over but she was pretty much in front of us both. Anyway she said "You two were in the front row, weren't you?" sweetly-OMG!!! lol she remembered us! ^_^ Then she shakes Karol's hand and says "Cutie pies" right after that. <333333
She shook my hand next (she had gloves on but oh well), and I just said "Hello" with a big grin on my face I'm sure-I just hope I didn't look like an idiot! lol She says "Hello" back to me very kindly, and dumbass me didn't say another word! lol not even my name, which I'm sure she would have found fascinating if I do say so myself lol =) Anyway then Karol asks if she can take her picture; she says sure, and Karol goes to take it-I thought it would just be Dixie, but she put her arm around me and kinda pulled me into the picture with her (I was standing next to Karol facing D, b/c I didn't think I'd be in the pic, so she had to lol) Then she did the cutest thing because I'm so short lol-she leaned her head down on mine for the picture!!!!! *G* Anyway, I'm sure I thanked her, then that was the end of the Dixieness-she mingled a bit (she saw the director's cute daughters, asked them if they were getting tired, and bent down and kissed them on the forehead! *cuteness* ^_^) and walked out not too much later, almost leaving her purse behind. The theatre director (who was accompanying her, and was pretty much her personal escort while she was here-DAMN HIM! lol) grabbed it. We walked out behind her/them, and were later on talking about how it would have been kinda neat if she left her purse cuz we could have given it back (we saw it sitting there all alone a bit earlier-she sat it down for pictures I guess) lol ^_^ Then later I realized I smelled like her from when we took the picture *squee* =)
So yeah I woke up this morning depressed-because it was all over and I knew Dixie was leaving today, and that I probably didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of seeing her again, AND because my poncho still smelled like her (it STILL DOES almost 24 hours later!)-and I turned on, what else?, Designing Women, because it was like 8:15 in the morning and I thought seeing D on the show would kinda soothe me lol. Then when the theme music came on for the 8:30 epi, I kid you not, I started bawling like a baby-more than I already was! lol Then I went to my 9:00 english class and remembered this nice girl I sit next to was there last night, and we kinda started talking about it. She's in the theatre program, apparently, because she said she had to miss a 10 oclock class with D the day before, I believe. She LEFT EARLY for her class today though, dangitt. I was thinking "TAKE ME WITH YOU!" lol It made me so sad thinking of all those theatre people getting to spend time with Dixie in their classes, when of course I couldn't. I went earlier, at like 6:30, to see if maybe she was still here, but nobody was really in the building so I assume she was already gone. I hope she was anyway-I don't want to have missed her! I did e-mail the director of the program at like 11 this morning-I never heard back but maybe I will eventually-he can tell me where to write her or something. I asked him if maybe somehow I could see her again, because there was so much I didn't say last night, and if I couldn't would he please thank her for me and give her my best wishes-I said she may remember me (although I dunno if she really would). Maybe he got it and said something to her for me-guess I'll never know until I hear back from him, if I ever do lol.
THE END!!! lol sorry this is so long, but I wanted to recall as much as I could, even if it was stupid little crap! =)
And now, if you read all that, I reward you with yet another picture, though not the one with me b/c my Karol still has to send me that one lol ^_^
It could be better, but it was hard for Karol to get the pics because D moved around a lot lol-I just love this pose of hers though (minus the huge-looking thumb due to movement lol) so I'm posting it. =) The pic w/me, and maybe some more good onstage ones, to come! ^_^
melancholy, but happy for memories of Dixie =) ]
So my friend Karol and I definitely got to the theatre (which is right here on campus-pretty near her room) at about 6:30; this guy, who is a student in the theatre program damn him!, opens the outer door for us and asks if we're here for the Dixie Carter thing lol-we say yes and he says the doors won't open until about 7:30 but we can hang out. So we sit there and he starts chatting us up-he says he had lunch w/Dixie the day before (PS I HATE HIM! lol). Eventually Karol says she can't wait to tell her Spencer (bf) about this, and the guy asks me if I have a bf too-I say no, which Karol says was my first mistake lol. He was definitely flirting-pretty harmless but still kinda freaky. Anyway ya'll wanna hear about Dixie, not me getting hit on, so here goes! lol we didn't get to go in until about 7:45 or 7:50, but we were like the 2nd ones in-this older couple (who got here later than we did but went to stand by the door first) got to the front row, but not the seats me and Karol had scoped out days before lol ^_^ we were next to them, though.
So anyways, there's a few minutes of light and mic testing, then the director of our theatre program comes out, and a very pretty pic of the Dixie comes up on screen behind him with her name underneath-he talks for a bit about the program she's here for-it's the 3rd year, and guess who was the first one invited to do it? HAL HOLBROOK 2 years ago ^_^ Anyways, he talks about what Dixie's been up to lately too, what she's been doing career-wise since about Spring. Eventually he brings her out, we all start applauding wildly, and end up standing for her :D She was flattered by that, I'm sure, because she said "What a sweet welcome" =) Anyway she starts out on a funny note, explaining that she's terrified of catching a cold before "The Dixie" performing arts center opens this weekend, so she elected to wear rain boots (you can see 'em in the pic I posted), and for us to picture her in her "really high black heels" that she was going to wear-because it was not nice weather here yesterday lol.
One of the first things the guy asks her is when she knew she wanted to perform. She tells about when she was like 3 and 4 her aunt Virginia (who was only like 19) would play the piano and teach her songs-THEN SHE SANG FOR US ^_^ I remember around this time she talked about how someone would say to her "Dixie Virginia," when she was little, only I don't remember what all else they said to her! lol they made some kinda deal with her that if she sang she would get something, or if she'd do something she could sing-something like that, I just remember how cute it was hearing her say her own first and middle name lol ^_^ She also talked a bit at some point about how she plays the trumpet. Eventually he got to Designing Women-he was talking about how people stay up late and get up early to watch reruns on Lifetime-my friend and I start nodding our heads along w/many others, it must have been really vigorous nodding, though, or maybe just because we were pretty much right in front of her, but she definitely pointed at us!!!! I thought at first that it was at Karol, but she told me later it looked like it was me-our other friend Karlin said "maybe it was both of you!" lol and I think it may have been.
She was talking about the DW work schedule at one point, during audience questions I believe, and said they were never more than 2 weeks ahead when it came to filming lol-and that she had a little deal with the writer Linda Bloodworth. She's conservative and apparently Linda is liberal, and they agreed that if Dixie would go along and say all this political stuff in Julia's rants that maybe she didn't always agree with, she'd get to sing on the show once a season-I though that was neat ^_^
She talked at one point about how she took Delta Burke to the hospital, and how later Delta pretty much got her a job as a replacement in a play-I must say, the Dixie does a mean Delta impression! lol we were all laughing. After about 2 hours (Dixie says something like "My my, 2 hours I've been talking" hehe) the audience got to ask questions. I wished I had one but I couldn't think of anything lol :| One of the last things came from the far right end of the front row-someone had a pic of she and Delta i believe, after a play, and showed it to her, saying "could you maybe identify this person?" lol he wanted to surprise her and he did-she got up and walked across the stage to take it from him and was like "Delta!!" lol it was so cute ^_^ I believe he asked if she'd autograph it for him and that she obliged-but not until later if she did because I didn't see it lol.
Anyway, then it all ends and Mr. Director tells us that there's a reception in the next building over, and he couldn't promise anything, but depending on the time and such, we may get the opportunity to approach Ms. Carter-they'd discuss it. Well we went to the reception, after giving THE D another standing O when she left the stage, and waited. Karol and I were talking, and I must have been saying something to her, plus my back was to the door (which also was around a corner) so I didn't SEE her walk in, but Karol saw her come around the corner and just started tugging my poncho to get me to turn around (later she said "There were no words" lol) and OMG there she was, not 2 or 3 feet away from me/us but talking to someone else. Eventually she got to us-we were standing side by side, I was the one closest when D came over but she was pretty much in front of us both. Anyway she said "You two were in the front row, weren't you?" sweetly-OMG!!! lol she remembered us! ^_^ Then she shakes Karol's hand and says "Cutie pies" right after that. <333333
She shook my hand next (she had gloves on but oh well), and I just said "Hello" with a big grin on my face I'm sure-I just hope I didn't look like an idiot! lol She says "Hello" back to me very kindly, and dumbass me didn't say another word! lol not even my name, which I'm sure she would have found fascinating if I do say so myself lol =) Anyway then Karol asks if she can take her picture; she says sure, and Karol goes to take it-I thought it would just be Dixie, but she put her arm around me and kinda pulled me into the picture with her (I was standing next to Karol facing D, b/c I didn't think I'd be in the pic, so she had to lol) Then she did the cutest thing because I'm so short lol-she leaned her head down on mine for the picture!!!!! *G* Anyway, I'm sure I thanked her, then that was the end of the Dixieness-she mingled a bit (she saw the director's cute daughters, asked them if they were getting tired, and bent down and kissed them on the forehead! *cuteness* ^_^) and walked out not too much later, almost leaving her purse behind. The theatre director (who was accompanying her, and was pretty much her personal escort while she was here-DAMN HIM! lol) grabbed it. We walked out behind her/them, and were later on talking about how it would have been kinda neat if she left her purse cuz we could have given it back (we saw it sitting there all alone a bit earlier-she sat it down for pictures I guess) lol ^_^ Then later I realized I smelled like her from when we took the picture *squee* =)
So yeah I woke up this morning depressed-because it was all over and I knew Dixie was leaving today, and that I probably didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of seeing her again, AND because my poncho still smelled like her (it STILL DOES almost 24 hours later!)-and I turned on, what else?, Designing Women, because it was like 8:15 in the morning and I thought seeing D on the show would kinda soothe me lol. Then when the theme music came on for the 8:30 epi, I kid you not, I started bawling like a baby-more than I already was! lol Then I went to my 9:00 english class and remembered this nice girl I sit next to was there last night, and we kinda started talking about it. She's in the theatre program, apparently, because she said she had to miss a 10 oclock class with D the day before, I believe. She LEFT EARLY for her class today though, dangitt. I was thinking "TAKE ME WITH YOU!" lol It made me so sad thinking of all those theatre people getting to spend time with Dixie in their classes, when of course I couldn't. I went earlier, at like 6:30, to see if maybe she was still here, but nobody was really in the building so I assume she was already gone. I hope she was anyway-I don't want to have missed her! I did e-mail the director of the program at like 11 this morning-I never heard back but maybe I will eventually-he can tell me where to write her or something. I asked him if maybe somehow I could see her again, because there was so much I didn't say last night, and if I couldn't would he please thank her for me and give her my best wishes-I said she may remember me (although I dunno if she really would). Maybe he got it and said something to her for me-guess I'll never know until I hear back from him, if I ever do lol.
THE END!!! lol sorry this is so long, but I wanted to recall as much as I could, even if it was stupid little crap! =)
And now, if you read all that, I reward you with yet another picture, though not the one with me b/c my Karol still has to send me that one lol ^_^
It could be better, but it was hard for Karol to get the pics because D moved around a lot lol-I just love this pose of hers though (minus the huge-looking thumb due to movement lol) so I'm posting it. =) The pic w/me, and maybe some more good onstage ones, to come! ^_^