Saturday, December 6, 2003

Just because I know you all want to hear about it! O.O;;;

er... probably not, but... that's ok... I'll talk anyway... Dracula. Dracula, Dracula, Dracula. Actually, we re-named it, Mors Ex Umbrae. There's a problem with the name, I thought... it sounds too much like a rather lewd offer... >.<; but it's latin, it means Death from Shadows... Anyway! *swirls* Opening night went pretty well, I thought. *grins* There were no major mishaps, I didn't hurt anything or anyone... the ballroom dancing scene went quite well, as far as I was concerned. Thursday night, things were better. A couple of my friends came to see it on Thursday, and they had a few criticisms, but that was to be expected, as the play was student-written and student directed. I don't think they were unpleased, though. ^.^; the biggest complaint was that Dracula-person when he's calling out to Lucy-person, sounds almost exactly like the guy from I Love Lucy. ... seriously. Still, Thursday has been the best so far. The audience was great and they really got into things... they laughed at the right places, they had appropriately nervous laughter at appropriate places, they were even scared... they even GASPED when Dracula killed Gretchen at the end. Gods, it was awesome. My friends even shouted over to Gretchen-person after the performance that she was the best out of everyone. I have to agree, Ali is a really good actress, and she fits the role perfectly. Today's show, however... it wasn't bad, but I think the energy was kinda low. There were a few slip-ups here and there... a butler in the ballroom scene dropped his platter of drinks and spilled them all over, so everyone was walking through pools of "brandy" and "wine" (really just colored water). I actually forgot to get my sword for my scene as the executioner, which I noticed about halfway through. >.<; that was SO close to being an utter disaster. Fortunately, I managed to tell Gretchen-person (who kills me later on) to just strangle me instead of cutting my throat, and everything kind of smoothed itself over. No worries. I was pacing, though, before the show... I wasn't really nervous - the only thing that makes me really nervous is uncertainty - but I just couldn't stop walking around. I annoyed a couple of people, but there wasn't really anything I could do... Well... I'm going to go sleep now. I've been up past midnight every night this week because I've had so little time, I end up doing most of my homework after I get home and eat something... and taking off my stage make-up is impossible. I never wear make-up at all, so this whole putting-evil-sticky-stuff-on-my-face-and-then-washing-it-off-with-cold-evil-sticky-cream is kind of new to me... o.o; I cannot believe that there are people who willingly go through this every day. Well... off I go. *splatters away*

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