We iz done!
Well, tonight was... interesting. While we didn't perform the play as well as we did last night, we still did a pretty good job. And we had some creative improv. See, Saturday night's our second and last performance, and a tradition (ha!) is to improv parts and play pranks and try to make other people get off track. Now, usually we don't do much of that because there's not much to DO, or we're just trying to concentrate on actually doing the play. But tonight...
How's about another list?
~During "Matchmaker," Andie didn't get onstage by the time they pulled the curtain and I had to cover one of her lines until she actually got on. This wasn't improv, but it was a scary moment. Speaking of scary moments, I took the laundry basket and brought it out to the center during part of the song. Julia and I took the sheet in the laundry basket to fold it and underneath it was a fake skull. Julia and I kinda looked at each other like, "WTF?" Tara told me afterwards that she and Kyle had put it in there, hoping that we'd take out the sheet and the skull would fall out. I am SO GLAD they didn't because I would've LOST IT.
~During "To Life," the Russians did a different dance. Or something. I don't know. And Justin was dancing around being EXTREMELY girly. It was funny. Also during "To Life," Justin improved the line "A milkcow so I won't be lonely? Tevye, I'm not a pervert!" completely by accident.
~During "The Dream," Sarah asked, "Grandma Tzeitel? How did she look?" and Jordan answered, "For a women who's been dead thirty years, she looked... kind of like you." We all gave him high-fives.
~During the "Now I Have Everything" scene, Clay added in the name of his hometown for where his "rich uncle," lived. It rocked.
~When Mike, as the constable, and his "army" came out, Landen, Colin and Jarrett kept giving each other the evil eye and making threatening motions. Before that, Landen was playing a little boy or something, and he came out picking his nose and kept pretending he had to go to the bathroom.
~Jarrett hugged Jordan especially tight tonight when he "left" Anatevka. Also, the fake skull made a reappearance in Jordan's cart.
~Curtain call was interesting. The Russians came out doing their little kicky dance, then Jarrett and Matt came out together, and then Clay ran and jumped into Jarett's arm's. Lee came out and did a dance with his cane. Julia, Andie and I came out and flashed our pantaloons at everyone. Then Sarah introduced our "set mamas" Tara and Kyle. Hahaha. Poor Kyle. His sister, Cassi, was set mama before him, and she willed him her position as set mama (exact words) in the senior edition of the newspaper.
Okay, now, I left out a major scene here: the wedding scene. This deserves a list on it's own.
~There was nothing in the wine glass. Someone forgot to put something in it.
~They forgot the ring, too, so Jarett "put" a bottle cap on Andie's finger instead.
~After the bottle dance, Jimmy stood up and said, "Now, we are gathered here today to celebrate the mistake of our dear friend Motel..." and went on with that for a while.
~When everyone started yelling, Lee, as the Rabbi, stood up and said, "I say... I say... drop it like it's hot!" Then he did a little dance.
~Instead of saying, "C'mon, dance! It's a frickin' wedding!" tonight, Jimmy said, "C'mon, dance! It's a wedding! Get down and dirty!"
~Jimmy, of course, has his flask. Well, Mike and Lee put a mixture of water, lemon juice and soap into it when he wasn't looking. Then he took a drink and muttered "bastards!" under his breath.
~When Jordan asked Lee if dancing was forbidden according to the Good Book, Lee (remember, he's the Rabbi) stood up and said, "Well, I read that book once, and..."
~When Eric and Clay fought, Eric punched Clay and Clay fell into a table and broke it. No kidding. Except the table was made of foam. Kyle made it on Tuesday and had to hide it until tonight. It was COOL, though. The table like, EXPLODED.
By the end of Act I we were all, "OMFG MRS. V IS GOING TO KILL US!" but she only got mad at Lee and Jimmy. XDD; Ahh, good times.
Travis/Gregg was there tonight, and he gave us all a big compliment: "That was the best musical I've since since Halvorson did them." Halvorson was the lead director before Mrs. V took over my 8th grade year. And her musicals were GOOD. So yes, that was a big compliment.
Also, afterwards we got to take props. I swapped my kerchief and a bottle full of "100 Proof Vodka," i.e., water. Andie took the ginormous Anatevka sign, Jarett took the "Motel's Tailor Shop" sign, and Dan swiped the bar from the inn scene.
The cast part ended up being at my house, which was interesting. Since we live out in the boonies, I had to give almost everyone directions. Still, most people made it. It was weird seeing so many cars pull up to my house in a line, though, jebus. They all went straight for the DDR machine. Landen was all, "WTF do I do?" and finally I just got on and showed him. I picked my favorite song and started doing it. It starts out all slow so they were, "Geez, Sara, don't strain yourself," and then the jumps started and they became extremly dumb and kept going "OMFG" and things of the sort.
Afterwards, they attacked the karaoke machine. That was interesting. I played Uno instead.
Oh, and Justin proposed to me because he wanted to live in my house. Go figure.
I dragged Katie and Tabatha and a whole bunch of other people to the computer room to watch a bunch of flash movies, including Home English Home. Then Mike walked in and he was all, "OMFG HOME ENGLISH HOME," and I was all, "OMFG YOU KNOW OF HOME ENGLISH HOME?" and he was like, "OMFG YEAH," and I was all, "OMFG YOU ROCK."
Amy brought this giant pan of puppy chow and it was soooo soo good. She brought a LOT of it though. There were at least 30 to 40 people here and she still had a good amount left when she went home.
All in all, yeah, very fun night. Which is why I'm writing this at 1:50 2:50 (damn daylight savings time!) AM. Eh, whaddya going to do? I still have my speech to get down, too. Gragh. I might just end up using notecards because I'm begginning to get nervous on whether or not I'll actually get it down enough not to use them. I have... um, tomorrow. And I REALLY want to go see Sin City bad. But we'll see.
How's about another list?
~During "Matchmaker," Andie didn't get onstage by the time they pulled the curtain and I had to cover one of her lines until she actually got on. This wasn't improv, but it was a scary moment. Speaking of scary moments, I took the laundry basket and brought it out to the center during part of the song. Julia and I took the sheet in the laundry basket to fold it and underneath it was a fake skull. Julia and I kinda looked at each other like, "WTF?" Tara told me afterwards that she and Kyle had put it in there, hoping that we'd take out the sheet and the skull would fall out. I am SO GLAD they didn't because I would've LOST IT.
~During "To Life," the Russians did a different dance. Or something. I don't know. And Justin was dancing around being EXTREMELY girly. It was funny. Also during "To Life," Justin improved the line "A milkcow so I won't be lonely? Tevye, I'm not a pervert!" completely by accident.
~During "The Dream," Sarah asked, "Grandma Tzeitel? How did she look?" and Jordan answered, "For a women who's been dead thirty years, she looked... kind of like you." We all gave him high-fives.
~During the "Now I Have Everything" scene, Clay added in the name of his hometown for where his "rich uncle," lived. It rocked.
~When Mike, as the constable, and his "army" came out, Landen, Colin and Jarrett kept giving each other the evil eye and making threatening motions. Before that, Landen was playing a little boy or something, and he came out picking his nose and kept pretending he had to go to the bathroom.
~Jarrett hugged Jordan especially tight tonight when he "left" Anatevka. Also, the fake skull made a reappearance in Jordan's cart.
~Curtain call was interesting. The Russians came out doing their little kicky dance, then Jarrett and Matt came out together, and then Clay ran and jumped into Jarett's arm's. Lee came out and did a dance with his cane. Julia, Andie and I came out and flashed our pantaloons at everyone. Then Sarah introduced our "set mamas" Tara and Kyle. Hahaha. Poor Kyle. His sister, Cassi, was set mama before him, and she willed him her position as set mama (exact words) in the senior edition of the newspaper.
Okay, now, I left out a major scene here: the wedding scene. This deserves a list on it's own.
~There was nothing in the wine glass. Someone forgot to put something in it.
~They forgot the ring, too, so Jarett "put" a bottle cap on Andie's finger instead.
~After the bottle dance, Jimmy stood up and said, "Now, we are gathered here today to celebrate the mistake of our dear friend Motel..." and went on with that for a while.
~When everyone started yelling, Lee, as the Rabbi, stood up and said, "I say... I say... drop it like it's hot!" Then he did a little dance.
~Instead of saying, "C'mon, dance! It's a frickin' wedding!" tonight, Jimmy said, "C'mon, dance! It's a wedding! Get down and dirty!"
~Jimmy, of course, has his flask. Well, Mike and Lee put a mixture of water, lemon juice and soap into it when he wasn't looking. Then he took a drink and muttered "bastards!" under his breath.
~When Jordan asked Lee if dancing was forbidden according to the Good Book, Lee (remember, he's the Rabbi) stood up and said, "Well, I read that book once, and..."
~When Eric and Clay fought, Eric punched Clay and Clay fell into a table and broke it. No kidding. Except the table was made of foam. Kyle made it on Tuesday and had to hide it until tonight. It was COOL, though. The table like, EXPLODED.
By the end of Act I we were all, "OMFG MRS. V IS GOING TO KILL US!" but she only got mad at Lee and Jimmy. XDD; Ahh, good times.
Travis/Gregg was there tonight, and he gave us all a big compliment: "That was the best musical I've since since Halvorson did them." Halvorson was the lead director before Mrs. V took over my 8th grade year. And her musicals were GOOD. So yes, that was a big compliment.
Also, afterwards we got to take props. I swapped my kerchief and a bottle full of "100 Proof Vodka," i.e., water. Andie took the ginormous Anatevka sign, Jarett took the "Motel's Tailor Shop" sign, and Dan swiped the bar from the inn scene.
The cast part ended up being at my house, which was interesting. Since we live out in the boonies, I had to give almost everyone directions. Still, most people made it. It was weird seeing so many cars pull up to my house in a line, though, jebus. They all went straight for the DDR machine. Landen was all, "WTF do I do?" and finally I just got on and showed him. I picked my favorite song and started doing it. It starts out all slow so they were, "Geez, Sara, don't strain yourself," and then the jumps started and they became extremly dumb and kept going "OMFG" and things of the sort.
Afterwards, they attacked the karaoke machine. That was interesting. I played Uno instead.
Oh, and Justin proposed to me because he wanted to live in my house. Go figure.
I dragged Katie and Tabatha and a whole bunch of other people to the computer room to watch a bunch of flash movies, including Home English Home. Then Mike walked in and he was all, "OMFG HOME ENGLISH HOME," and I was all, "OMFG YOU KNOW OF HOME ENGLISH HOME?" and he was like, "OMFG YEAH," and I was all, "OMFG YOU ROCK."
Amy brought this giant pan of puppy chow and it was soooo soo good. She brought a LOT of it though. There were at least 30 to 40 people here and she still had a good amount left when she went home.
All in all, yeah, very fun night. Which is why I'm writing this at 1:50 2:50 (damn daylight savings time!) AM. Eh, whaddya going to do? I still have my speech to get down, too. Gragh. I might just end up using notecards because I'm begginning to get nervous on whether or not I'll actually get it down enough not to use them. I have... um, tomorrow. And I REALLY want to go see Sin City bad. But we'll see.