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charliesmumThanks, everyone, for the comments on my previous post. I still don't know what I'm going to do. I need to figure out what I want - right now I'm afraid I'm going to make a decision just to get back on my family's good side, and that's not wise. Meanwhile, I am dreading the holidays.
I've not been very kind to the Husband. I try, but I'm in such a bad place right now, and I'm such a confrontation-avoider, instead of just telling him, I retreat and probably make everything worse. And he doesn't confront either, and he just retreats into these passive-aggressive things, so instead of him saying 'what's wrong' and me telling him, we just withdraw.
Anyway...I wanted to talk about something cheerful this post, so I will tell you about the play.
Both weekends went really well. The first night we had the usual teething pains, and half-way through the 2nd act a fuse blew! Fortunately we didn't loose all the lights, but we couldnt' fade in or out, and we lost our background music. The audience didn't notice, and that's the important thing. The drawback was the fusebox is in the basement of the legion hall, behind a locked gate, so we couldn't get to it.
That was as the biggest problem we had though. We had good audiences every night, and yesterday we were literally packed. We had to add chairs. People were even buying our 'swag' - coffee mugs, keychains, tee-shirts and magnets. So yay for money.
We Ariels had several songs to sing, and I had a short one that I sang myself, which let me tell you was terrifying, as I have never considered myself a singer, but I got compliments, so apparently I did okay.
There are many songs in this play. I kept saying we should do a soundtrack. One of the funnier songs was Caliban's - here's Shakespeare's lyrics:
No more dams I'll make for fish
Nor fetch in firing
At requiring;
Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish
'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
Has a new master: get a new man.
Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,
hey-day, freedom!
They adapted it to go with the tune 'Day-o' and dang if it didn't totally work. Got big applause every time.
We had to make Alonzo and Sebastian girls, the Queen and her sister instead of King and brother, and we made it a love triangle with Antonio being the seducer of both of them. It worked so well that the only conclusion one can draw from the original is OMG ANTONIO WAS TOTALLY GAY. :)
I'll post some photos later
I've not been very kind to the Husband. I try, but I'm in such a bad place right now, and I'm such a confrontation-avoider, instead of just telling him, I retreat and probably make everything worse. And he doesn't confront either, and he just retreats into these passive-aggressive things, so instead of him saying 'what's wrong' and me telling him, we just withdraw.
Anyway...I wanted to talk about something cheerful this post, so I will tell you about the play.
Both weekends went really well. The first night we had the usual teething pains, and half-way through the 2nd act a fuse blew! Fortunately we didn't loose all the lights, but we couldnt' fade in or out, and we lost our background music. The audience didn't notice, and that's the important thing. The drawback was the fusebox is in the basement of the legion hall, behind a locked gate, so we couldn't get to it.
That was as the biggest problem we had though. We had good audiences every night, and yesterday we were literally packed. We had to add chairs. People were even buying our 'swag' - coffee mugs, keychains, tee-shirts and magnets. So yay for money.
We Ariels had several songs to sing, and I had a short one that I sang myself, which let me tell you was terrifying, as I have never considered myself a singer, but I got compliments, so apparently I did okay.
There are many songs in this play. I kept saying we should do a soundtrack. One of the funnier songs was Caliban's - here's Shakespeare's lyrics:
No more dams I'll make for fish
Nor fetch in firing
At requiring;
Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish
'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
Has a new master: get a new man.
Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,
hey-day, freedom!
They adapted it to go with the tune 'Day-o' and dang if it didn't totally work. Got big applause every time.
We had to make Alonzo and Sebastian girls, the Queen and her sister instead of King and brother, and we made it a love triangle with Antonio being the seducer of both of them. It worked so well that the only conclusion one can draw from the original is OMG ANTONIO WAS TOTALLY GAY. :)
I'll post some photos later
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on 2007-11-05 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2007-11-05 07:30 pm (UTC)Yeah...Totally gay. :)
Makes you wonder if Shakespeare knew an Antonio (and by knew I mean, ahem, knew)or if the actor he put in the parts was gay.
Or both.
One of the best recent Doctor Who episodes was with Shakespeare and Shakespeare totally flirts with the Doctor and he mutters to himeself, "And 57 academists punch the air".