Well, things are really working out for me.

Odd Couple went really well- I'm very sad that it's over.

The Cave Dwellers is a bit boring for me because I really don't have a part.

And now Tommy is coming up. As of now, I am assistant director and may be allowed to ALSO be in the ensemble, which is awesome. It's a long story as to why I was offered these positions (read my topic "I REALLY need people's opinions on this" for more details). I'm pretty excited, especially if I get to do both, and especially if there's a lot of dancing, because I've never been in a dancing show.

We did convince this theatre to change the spring show from Little Shop to ITW, which I am so happy about!

Last night was opening night of the ghost tour I've been involved with for four years. For the past three years, I've played Mary Gable, a maid, who had few lines and was mostly reaction. It was a small part, but the people in the house I was in (the "seance" house) were awesome. This year, the seance house was cut and so I moved on to a different role, that of Catherine. Catherine has about ten times the lines Mary does, in the form of a monologue. It's so sad and dramatic that I don't think I do it justitce, but last night I hear some, "Aw"s and "That's so sad"s, which made me happy.

What didn't make me so happy about last night was two things- 1)the wind and rain. At first it was really nice out and I had a nice little camp set up behind a gravestone and could read by my lantern light in between my times. Then the rain started... and when it rained, it POURED! Luckily, I had brought this huge black umbrella (black so I could still use it as a 1896 girl) and so I sat where I was and just pulled my skirts and the lantern under it. It was actually pretty cozy and I stayed relatively dry... until it started raining harder and the wind picked up. My umbrella was blown inside out and I found that the rain was not only coming down hard, it was freezing! I finally fixed my umbrella and spent ten minutes trying to keep my lantern lit. Nope- it blew out. So I gave my lantern to one of the helpers and delivered my monologue in a different place so no one would have to walk through the dark cemetary to get to me.  Unfortunately, the fact that the actors were standing there in soaked-to-the-skin period costumes without umbrellas or lanterns or ponchos was completely lost on the first two tours. They were so unbelievably rude. I tried to start my monologue three times, very loudly so they would stop talking, and this group of old ladies kept trying to find out when the trolley would come to pick them up. Finally, one girl who I wish I knew who she was, said, "Well, I'd like to hear your story." I don't know if she was a past tour member or a performer or just plain nice, but I was so grateful to her. I gave my monologue, with the audience interjected rude comments in the middle of it about how they wanted to go home and how much they hated the tour.

Okay. I KNOW they were wet. I know they were cold. I know their umbrellas were hard to control. But hello, I'm giving a speech here, and I have way less on than you do! We're doing this to entertain you, and we're not being paid. Don't make us question why we do this.

This behavior was noted in the first, second, and a little in the third tour. Finally, the last two tours were polite (they were the ones that remarked about how sad the story was because, hey, they were actually listening.) We actually do 7 or eight tours a night, but they combined a few because hey were small, and also because we desperately needed to warm up. I don't think I've ever been that cold in my life. We were all so wet that we couldn't get our costumes off, which was a little gross. 

We weren't the only ones affected by the rain- itwas my school's Homecoming night, as well. We've been having a winning season and we won by one point, but apparently they kept sending everyone inside and outside because of the lightening.

I hope tonight is better. Even if it rains, I'll be grateful to have a decent audience.