you rock my drama world

i got up at 11am, after coming home at 12:27am last night, three minutes before my curfew. man, was this an experience.

so all this week we've been freaking out about the play. jess didn't have a costume. we feared chris would be doing all the sound cues. the scene changes were really bad. that, and we didn't know if we'd remember our lines.

wednesday came rolling around and we were all at least a little nervous, thinking about all the slight problems we had at rehearsals, and the fact that we weren't just playing characters in a play, we were playing real people, real people who lived and died and whose spirits we had to pay tribute to... we had to be great for them. and we were. opening night was a huge success for us, the actors. even though we had our little problems with scene changes and such, it was a really great performance.

everyone said that we were really great, even on thursday. i figured the curse of thursdays had us (i couldn't really feel any energy onstage, at all), but apparently no one noticed... so maybe for once we conquered the curse of thursdays.

last night, friday, was packed. we knew that everyone was going to come on friday, mainly because that's when we told everyone to come. we had family and friends in the audience, and i think that really helped us. we did our customary thespian huddle, focused on our characters, and for the last night we went onstage. the performance was wonderful, the best out of the three days. the audience was great, and it always helps to have a great, smart audience. i could really feel the energy out there.

and then it was over. over and done with. actors got flowers, hugs, and compliments from the friends and families, and even some of the other teenagers that were only there to get extra credit. after 2 months of rehearsal, we were finally done.
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last night was really great, but it was also pretty sad. i mean, after being with the same 9 people pretty much every day for 2 months, we were sad to see it end. i know i felt a little sad about it because i got to spend time every day with my 3 best friends and all my drama friends, and now i won't. i mean sure, i'm gonna see them at school and in class, but it's not the same. we all got to know each other at least a little better from this play, and these are some of the memories we're gonna have for the rest of our lives. and then you start thinking about next year, how it will be the last year that we're all together. that really makes an impact.

i remember, last night alex was telling us how each of the people died, trying to get us to remember that we were playing real people, that this really happened, and that really scared the shit out of me. not so much that these real people were dead, but the thought of my friends dying really scared me. alex dying. david dying. kyle dying. i can see how anne died of a broken heart, because i don't know what i'd do without them.

bah. now it's getting me sad. so onto something else... oh yeah sara came to the play yesterday. it was really great seeing her again, and it made me fantasize again of having all of our ex-drama members come back and see us (they graduated last year). she came back from college in texas and brought her friend lois with her. so after the little cast party at school, we went over to mark and sara's house to have another little cast party there, for the older members (which was pretty much all the actors plus sam and david silver. well and maggie but i count kyle and maggie as one person). that was fun, getting to just hang out with friends and talk about "the old days". that and having all the girls take a picture with sam holding jose cuervo margarita mix and then sign "i had a great time last night" on the picture. that was fun. we told sam that he has to show the picture to all of his friends.

so yeah. now i have to do homework and such for this week. next week is spring break, so naturally all of the teachers are trying to cram in tons of things before we leave to break. they'll probably even give us a lot of homework over break too. oh well, at least i get a week of being able to sleep in. that and we might go to cruces. which reminds me i have to email my cousin and see what's up with him.

alright children, i think i've written enough for today. i'll be back later this week posting, since i don't have rehearsal everyday after school anymore.

act for the day: call up or write all your friends and tell them how much you care about them.