I hope you have the time of your life
So, theatre banquet is tonight, and I didn't really plan on doing this...but I have an hour to kill so...here goes...
This year was amazing. Most people thought it was just ok, but for me it was great. This was my first year to do theatre 24-7, and it's the happiest I probably I have ever been. When we started school I promised that I would make this troupe my life, I would do everything I could for the troupe. At the beginning of the year we had the same group plus 2 sophomores. I wasn't very close at the beginning, but eventually not long after they were like family.
We started with Night of One Acts to begin the year. I got put with Matt to direct, which I was excited because we are like the perfect team. He has these crazy ideas and is very random but genius and I'm more of the technical know how to do stuff oraganized one. We were yin and yang. And this, my friends, is where I met my other theatre half. We did Greater Tuna as our play, so one of the guys was Scott and the other was a sophomore named Matt. I started calling him Taco (because his last name is Villa) so I wouldn't get him confused with the other one. From that day on we became the best of friends. I was a little sad that I coudn't start off the year acting, but it was my first time really directing, and I enjoyed it very much. And our show won!!! Against 3 others, we beat them, and had the chance to take it to the competition in Corpus...but they would let us. But it was still cool to win!!
Next up was The Good Doctor by Neil Simon. I was really excitd because I'd finally get to act and do a main role. The role I originally got was The Woman in the scene "The Woman", lol. Pretty much the whole play was differnt scenes with different people. I LOVED MY SCENE!This is probably my favorite character I've ever played, maybe tied with the mom in You Can't Take it With You. I got to be crazy and jump on chairs and wear crazy hair and eat M&M's and talk to a sock...it was great! About 2 days before we open, Timms comes up to me and says someone dropped out of one of their scenes, and he wanted me to do the part. I was like WTF?!?!?! So, in 2 days I memrozied another major role, and got to play a bitch in "The Mistress". It wasn't as funny as my other one, but it was fun in the since I got to be a bitch and I learned the part in 2 days. I loved this show, and I think it turned out great
Next was ITS. Since I was still doing bball last year, I didn't get to go. So this year was my first year, and the only crappy thing was we weren't doing a play. I competed in Monologues, and let me tell you...I worked my freaking ass off!! I worked with Timms forever and I researched...it was the most work I ever did for a theatre part. When I performed, I didn't mess up and I thought I did great. A girl in there even told me afterwards that she loved it and thought I was amazing. I was happy just because it was my first time. Then we get the results and I didn't make it to nationals. I was disappointed, but it was just my first so I was ok with it. Afterwards Timms talked to me and told me that I pretty much got robbed. That I should have made it compared to the other ones he saw and that the judges wrote barely anything on my critique sheet...but ah well, I know I did good so it's all grand. We got to watch a bunch of shows that we would never see in Midland. Curse words flying everywhere...it was great. I had an awesome time just going to a thing that's all about theatre.
Finally we come to UIL, the biggest show of the year. Everyone looks forward to this show because it's the one we work on the longest, hardest, and it counts for how much money we get next year. We had auditions for 2 weeks for this show...it was intense. Even more intense was the audition for the main girl character between me and a senior girl. On the last day he asked us to stay after school, and from then until around 7 we had auditions. We did pretty much evrything because Timms couldn't decide who would get it. Eventually he decided she would, so I got the other semi-main girl character. I was a little bit sad, but I realize she did I much better job than I could, and she deserved it becaue she's a senior and has done so much more than I have. So, In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I got to play the floosie!!! I think that was the funnest thing about it, little old innocent Christina got to play a slut in front of the entire school. I loved the day after we did school performances, because everyone I knew and didn't came up to me and said I was the best slut ever...haha. Then at the real competition...I don't know how to say it. Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong...but we still had an amazing performance! We ran 2 seconds under out time limit, which was insane. Then we watch the other plays and think we have it in the bag, because Odessa sucked, MHS was pretty bad, Permian had no energy, and Cooper was ok, but it was just a play with scottish accents...so we thought crap...we have to get this. Awards ceremony and...we don't win...again...and we get robbed...again. It sucked ass, and I cried. I didn't cry for me, i cried for the seniors, because it's always the dream to make it, and we shoud have, but didn't again...so I cried for them
Out of all the bad crap, a pretty hilarious thing happened...our judge pretty much hit on me. He's this really old guy, who is bald and has a moustache, and looks like the Monopoly man. He told me that I was luciously loose and asked me if my pants were spray painted on because they looked amazing...ewww!! We joke now in class that I could get a free ride to his school if I just do it with him...hehe
So...that was my theatre year. I love it so much. And now banquet is tonight, and that's pretty much the last thing we'll ever do with this group. I will miss a lot of seniors that are graduated, some more than others, but next year will be completely differnt. It's going to be weird coming to production class next year and not seeing the same people I've been with for 2 years of my life. But I'm estatic about next year. I'm going to be a leader. Timms and I talked about this before I knew he wasn't leaving, and he told me that I have to lead our troupe because he knows I'n the most dedicated. Which that's one thing about me...whatever I do...I dedicate myself to that 110%. So next year I'll be top theatre girl, and that excites me and scares me at the same time.
Here's to a new future and a bold beginning!