We Were Great!

I feel terrible, I haven't posted on this blog in quite a while. Especially now that our final performance is 10 days dead in the ground.

The final show went great though! We ended up having an audience of around sixty people (which is nothing to scoff at!, we were all very happy). And the audience really seemed to love it! They were laughing, they were paying attention; no one was sleeping or picking their nose aimlessly, which is was I was trying to prevent.

First, I have to thank my Stage Manager and my Props/Costume Lady: Gwen Weil and Rachel Simmons (repectively) for all their work, for without them there's no way our show would have happened. They got there super early and helped me to set up and made all our props and made signs for the hall way and everything. They were absolutely essential!!

Our cast was: Jack Sterling, Jessica Batey, Lucy Mason, Madison Hannahs, Kelly White, Alicia Buxton, Jason Hanson, Stacey Cotham, and Lee Bryant. Each one of them brought something special and important to both our production and our creative process!

It was just a really special night! My mom and sister were able to come down from St. Louis and comprised part of the audience in addition to students from Rhodes and U of M, and faculty from Rhodes. It was quite a turnout.

We kept up with our tradition of destroying a pinata before the show so we were all on a sugar high, and as Gwen was sweeping the stage, the actors put on masks and as masked characters invited the audience into the space and sat them down. Batey was awesome, she was playing her mask who only cares about money (that's the only thing she says too..) and somehow ended up getting a dollar bill as well as someone's linx card. It was awesome, spontaneous theatre.

The show went great. We did about half and half improv to rehearsed scenes and the audience seemed to love everything. Alicia did an improv that was especially great. She (somehow) managed to keep it G rated and played a leader of a gang who gave other people spinters (which she used Kevin Collier to demonstrate). HOW FUNNY!

The whole thing was a success and as happy as I am that it's finished I'm especially sad to end working those wonderful individuals. Pictures and a video soon to come!