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Counting Down
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| Written by Starlet_Actress21 |
Well, my performance of Secret School is in almost a month. I'm pretty stressed out because I found out the day before my first rehearsal back that we were supposed to be off-book for the ENTIRE first act, which is about three times longer than the second act. Though I had all the scenes we blocked memorized, they weren't all in the first act and I didn't have a prayer of getting it all memorized. However, I typed myself up some sides and they're really helping. During my down time at rehearsal yesterday, I was working with them and I realised that I do actually have the entire first act memorized- I just need to work on wording to get it exactly right. This was a HUGE relief, because it means I don't have to completely freak out for the next rehearsal. It's weird, I never really have to work hard at memorizing my lines. For this, I'm stressing a little because I've been gone and it's a shorter time span and I have more lines than I've had for awhile... but I never really have to sit down and run lines with people. I will if someone else needs it, but I don't really have to work. I think it also helps that I normally read the script a million times, so it just comes.
As of yesterday, my after-show sickness has started. It caught me kind of by surprise because last year, it really wasn't too bad. But there's been something going around, and my sister gave it to me. I was exhausted after the Tommy shows, but I can't really take a breather. I attempted to yesterday- I felt awful the night before and in the morning I could barely keep my eyes open in school. So after my regular classes, I went home- I figured I'd rather miss a pointless day of CASA (we had some speakers come in tt were talking about maps [?!]) than not be able to get through rehearsal. I'm normally not allowed to do stuff like this (my parents say if you're too sick to go to school, you're too sick to do after school stuff), but I think my mom understood that a)I was probably more exhausted than I've ever been in my life and b)I couldn't miss any more SS rehearsals. I'm glad I rested up- I didn't sleep for fear of missing rehearsal, but I was able to take my time at things like eating and homework and try to get rid of my awful headache. And rehearsal was really intense- we blocked six scenes!- so I'm glad I decided to stay home.
My dance teacher is getting worried- I can't miss any more classes or I can't be in the recital. I have to talk to him, though, because I only need to miss one more- a performance- and last week, I thought it was cancelled; all my other activities, including a Tommy show, were cancelled due to the snow we had. It's only one more, and I think he'll be fine. He knows I'm not doing this on purpose and that I pick up dances pretty well. I'm going tonight, though, and I'm happy about that- I've especially missed ballet and jazz. |
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