Today is the final showing of the 2004 Playwriting Festival. I love everyone involved (ok...MOST everyone). It has been a truely amazing experience. Kicking down doors and bustin' up mikee never was so fun! ;D
But yeah, so far I've felt things went great. Still, we haven't had a perfect night yet...mostly cause of the techies. >_< Yeah, it hurts to say that, and yeah, its not fully accurate. Most of the mishaps were just plain technical errors, not a mistake. And none involved in murder have done anything stupid...normally its just miscommunication. Still, I'd like to have one night where all the sound cues, video cues, and light cues were right on. While I may be a terrible actor, my fellow castmembers really deserve to have a chance to shine, and improvising around missing sounds and videos can make the entire thing seem a little shakey. But the audiences love it! So really...I'm happy and have no complaints. Devon rocks! (Now if only that one ASM could stop loosing props...sure as hell glad they're not responcible for murder...that sounded wrong.)
As I discovered during Music Man, cast/crew parties rock. As I've now discovered, they're even better when you actually feel like a part of the cast/crew instead of some sorta intruder who just kinda shows up. Don't mean to detract from the music man experience in any way...a small part of me just always felt outta place. Wasn't even a real techie. Now, however, I'm apparently a full-fledged actor. Yay!
I'm pretty much booked for the weekend, so sorry if you tried to get together with me at some point. Tonight's the show, strike, and an afterparty; tomorrow is the drama banquet. I guess if you really wanna see me you can gimme a call and I might be able to get you invited to the afterparty, but I doubt you'd really enjoy that. No sense of comradre.
Please, if you have time, pray for Lauren. Shit like that SHOULDN'T be happening to a highschooler, especially not one who's this awesome. I disliked her in the past because I thought she was somewhat exclusive and egotistical, but I've lately realized the error of my ways...and now I learn about this. Damn. Anyway, please pray for her, especially monday. Hopefully...hopefully everything will get better...
If you really, really want a Playwriting DVD, talk to me. It'll cost you a DVD (you provide a blank dvd-r) and maybe a small service charge to cover the fact that it sucks up my time in insane amounts, but I might wave that last. I don't mean to profit off this, once costs are met all proceeds go to Jeff and Elaine for whatever they need it for. But as I say, talk to me...not even sure I'll charge anything (If I don't do anymore editing or anything, costs are already met).
I really need to thank some friends here. I'm not gonna go into details listing you, I'd prolly forget someone and the things I need to thank you for aren't the most public of topics. Suffice to say those who have consoled, helped, hung out with, hugged, fed, and otherwise provided for me lately have been most appreciated. Stress has little effect when its purely academic...I owe all of you for taking away all social, dramatic, and otherwise stress that might have made this last week insanely hard. THANKS! And a slight reminder...if I do something that really, really bugs you/annoys you, pull me aside and talk to me about it. Can't fix what you don't know is broke. ;D
Laters!
Posted by Viper37 at May 22, 2004 02:44 PM