Fiddler on the Roof
I must write about this before I forget!
Friday night, my brother and I went to see the performance of Fiddler on the Roof put on by my high school's drama club, Quirk's Players.
And god, they did an AWESOME job! I was very impressed; I think it was the best performance I've ever seen by a high school drama club. (Not that I've seen tons of them, but.) The scenery was great, the costumes were great, the choreography was excellent... it all looked rather professional and very well put-together. I loved the performance given by the guy playing Tevye, the main character: he seemed really comfortable and confident onstage, and he was a good singer. Everyone was decent at singing, actually... there were only a few times when the vocals got into that "breathy" sort of sound where girls try to sing in a higher pitch than is really natural for them and you can't make out what the hell they're singing. And only one or two people seemed self-conscious and reluctant to be performing. I really liked the story, too, and I went into it not knowing anything at all about it.
I'm proud of my high school's drama club! :)
Afterwards when everyone converged in the lobby outside the auditorium, I met up with some people from my high school days and fielded questions from them about "what I'm doing now" (ugh). Mr. Nami came over and gave me a big hug and asked if I was interested in having my picture taken with Mr. Briggs (the director) and all the other drama club alumni and promised to come back and let me know where said picture was going to take place, but I guess I missed him while I was wandering around looking for Thomas. He's so flitty and hard to keep track of anyways. Haha.
It made me a little nostalgic and "bluh," as ii put it. :P While I was in high school, I was pretty miserable and hated most of the people in the place. I stopped participating in the drama club after the fall play in my sophomore year; partly due to being very sick during rehearsals for the spring musical and missing lots of them, and partly due to just being sick of dealing with the clique bullshit that went on among a lot of the people. (Among most parts of high school, really.) And I truly miss it. I saw a few people who I'd acted with and wanted to connect with them somehow, but then didn't because we weren't really friends back then and it would've felt weird to me to just run up to them and be like "OMG HI I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!" even though I was, because I figure the feeling probably isn't mutual. Haha. I don't know. It's hard to put into words. High school was a bunch of crap for me and I'm glad I don't have to deal with all the social and personal stuff anymore, but sometimes I wish I could go back and do it all over again, knowing what I know now. Or something.
But, yeah. The show was awesome. And I sorta miss drama club. :)
Friday night, my brother and I went to see the performance of Fiddler on the Roof put on by my high school's drama club, Quirk's Players.
And god, they did an AWESOME job! I was very impressed; I think it was the best performance I've ever seen by a high school drama club. (Not that I've seen tons of them, but.) The scenery was great, the costumes were great, the choreography was excellent... it all looked rather professional and very well put-together. I loved the performance given by the guy playing Tevye, the main character: he seemed really comfortable and confident onstage, and he was a good singer. Everyone was decent at singing, actually... there were only a few times when the vocals got into that "breathy" sort of sound where girls try to sing in a higher pitch than is really natural for them and you can't make out what the hell they're singing. And only one or two people seemed self-conscious and reluctant to be performing. I really liked the story, too, and I went into it not knowing anything at all about it.
I'm proud of my high school's drama club! :)
Afterwards when everyone converged in the lobby outside the auditorium, I met up with some people from my high school days and fielded questions from them about "what I'm doing now" (ugh). Mr. Nami came over and gave me a big hug and asked if I was interested in having my picture taken with Mr. Briggs (the director) and all the other drama club alumni and promised to come back and let me know where said picture was going to take place, but I guess I missed him while I was wandering around looking for Thomas. He's so flitty and hard to keep track of anyways. Haha.
It made me a little nostalgic and "bluh," as ii put it. :P While I was in high school, I was pretty miserable and hated most of the people in the place. I stopped participating in the drama club after the fall play in my sophomore year; partly due to being very sick during rehearsals for the spring musical and missing lots of them, and partly due to just being sick of dealing with the clique bullshit that went on among a lot of the people. (Among most parts of high school, really.) And I truly miss it. I saw a few people who I'd acted with and wanted to connect with them somehow, but then didn't because we weren't really friends back then and it would've felt weird to me to just run up to them and be like "OMG HI I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!" even though I was, because I figure the feeling probably isn't mutual. Haha. I don't know. It's hard to put into words. High school was a bunch of crap for me and I'm glad I don't have to deal with all the social and personal stuff anymore, but sometimes I wish I could go back and do it all over again, knowing what I know now. Or something.
But, yeah. The show was awesome. And I sorta miss drama club. :)