More A Christmas Carol Happenings

Friday 16:
Today there were like 7 people sick.  So everyone had to move up to fill in the parts.  Stacey, who usually does the poulterer lines (I am a poulterer too but I'm just an assistant and don't have any lines) took the park of Ghost of Christmas Past.  (Which is a very large part.)  So I moved up to take the poulterer lines.  It was so super scary.  During my normal costume change, I had to get a mic on too.  And I've never worn or used a mic before.  I ended up running to the stage, but I got out there at about the right time.  I took my book out in my chicken basket.  When I walked off stage, Gavin was right there and I gave him this "I don't know" kind of look.  I don't know if he noticed though.
Saturday 17:
Matinee:
We got Sydney B. to come over and come to the matinee with Janessa.  I got to be the poulterer again so that was cool so they could see me in that role.  They told me that my mic was off but they could still hear me.  That's pretty sweet, but I'm sad that my mic was off.
At the beginning of the second act I was sitting backstage.  When I started to stand up, my shoe made this big squeek.  It was really awful.  And Sherilyn was sitting right next to me.
Evening show:
Gavin told me that I did a good job with the poulterer part.  That makes me so happy.  He wasn't there for the matinee when I did the poulterer part so he was referring to the first time I did it on Friday.  He couldn't see my acting because he was backstage, but I think he was just happy that I was loud enough.  He was worried that I would be my quiet self because he told me to be loud or the mic wouldn't even pick me up at the cast meeting before the first time I did the part.  I was so happy to know that he approved.  It was awful seeing him and not knowing what he thought.
Near the end of the show I was so scared of getting sick.  There were so many sick people around--pneumonia, colds, flus, and stuff that we don't even know it's name.  I was hand sanitizing every few minutes.
Mon. 19:
We had a full house.  Most people liked it but I didn't really.  It made it so hot.  I about died when I had to stand there forever onstage as a monk. 
Bryce (Scrooge) is way too nice.  He went around at cast meeting and gave everyone a gift.  I got a Ten Virgins lamp.  It is so cute.
Tuesday 20:
Today Gavin asked me to give the word.  It ended up being "I don't wanna say anything" becuase that's what I was thinking.  I knew that if I said "I don't know" they would use that so I sat there for a long time before I said "I don't wanna say anything".  Oh well.  What did he expect?
I did the poulterer part again and I screwed up my lines.  I said "Something else then?" twice.  I don't think the audience noticed because I repeated the lines when I was supposed to say "Coupla chicken legs?" and it was after Tiny Tim sung this little solo thingy.  Still, we were filming the show and that's going to bug me forever.
Wednesday 21:
I was the poulterer again and I got my lines correct and guess what? They re-filmed it! The cameraman re-filmed it because his microphones were picking up noises from backstage.  How awful.  But it bought me a second chance.  I heard that he is going to splice the recordings together so hopefully he notices that my lines were correct on the second night.
The monks who bring in the large coffin during the graveyard scene tried to put it next to me, not even close to the center of the stage.  It was really really annoying.
Thursday 22:
I was the poulterer again and I got my lines correct. Yay! Tomorrow is closing night... Buh.  I'm going to miss the show so so very much.

A Christmas Carol happenings

Friday, 9 December:
Backstage there is a very narrow passage to get to the left entrance.  Well, today I was trying to get through there in my poulterer skirt and get past another actor.  The back of my skirt velcrows and then there is a bit of a hole.  Well, that caught on the handle of a door prop and totally ripped my skirt all the way down about to my knees in the back.  I didn't make it on for the main poulterer part, but it wasn't totally essential that I was there.  I quickly changed into another poorish costume and made it on as a poulterer for the ensemble scene.  Besides that incident, a handle on the inside of my fur almost broke and one of my dress' zippers got stuck.
Saturday, 10 December:
Matinee:
My whole family came to see the show and I finally got a program because Janessa brought me one.  The program is so flippin' sweet.
Between the shows my whole family went out to eat at Los Hermanos.  A whole bunch of the teenagers/kids from the cast of A Christmas Carol came and ate there too.  It was really weird and really funny.
Evening show:
One time I walked out of the dressing room and didn't zip up the back of my dress.  Yeah, that was sorta embarrasing. I noticed right when I came out so only the actors there noticed.  (What if I went on stage like that?!?!)  At the end of the show we had a man propose.  It was very cute.

Opening Night (Thursday, 1 Dec.)

Yesterday (Wednesday) was the comp night dress rehersal. My grandparents and my mother and sister came. Yup, it was nervousing.

Anyway, on Thursday it was opening night. Our show was kind of screwed up. I finally got a poulterer basket and Beth got a pot and Mark got a rolling pin so when we are cooks people will at least know who we are. The first act was pretty good but the second act was a train wreck. It was really weird because Christmas together, which is usually really crappy, was very good. It was the best that it's ever been. Dancing on your grave was awful though. I got Dan's cape thingy (he had to get a special one that's like a foot longer than everyone else's because he is so tall). At the beginning of the second verse, we kinda started singing and then no one knew it so we didn't even sing anything for a few stanzas. Also, everyone forgot to circle around the stage and taunt Scrooge--except for me. I started walking and got to about the center of the stage when I realized I couldn't go any further because everyone else was in the way because they had not gone. And my cape was dragging and getting caught on everything. To get back to my spot, I had to get my cape across a coffin. It was pretty difficult. So because everyone else screwed up, I was the one who looked like an idiot.