Opening Night and Hell Week

Cherish here!

Well fillies and gentlecolts, yesterday was very hectic. We had two shows, a student showing and our senior citizens matinee. It was so much fun though! The students really enjoyed the show (they tried to eat Mikko when he started throwing candy) and they spend the whole day talking about how funny it was. Walking around on the high school campus between shows was weird, people I'd never seen recognized me and told me I did well and that the show was great. Good times were definitely had.
The senior matinee surprised me. I was positive that the seniors wouldn't enjoy the show. It's not classic broadway style, it's not the Wizard of Oz or something they are familiar with, and it's kind of crude in places. But they responded to it, we got a lot of applause during the run and when we met with them for dinner afterwards we got nothing but positive feedback. They're very sweet. A lot of them have been coming to see the shows for several years.
Anyway, today was opening night! We had an audience of only about thirty people. That was a bummer. People don't know what they're missing out on, because no one has heard of this show, but it's so funny! Oh well. It went well, those thirty people liked it. One of them was a Fifth Avenue judge. I hope she liked it. We do what we can with what we have. The Marysville school district is not much interested in its students, let alone the arts. Opening night went well. Did I mention that? I hit notes really well in my parts. There was only one part that was really iffy. It's sad that we finally start performing and that means that the show is coming to an end. I'm going to miss this show so much more than any other. It's sad and scary to think that this was my last opening night with MP drama. Who knows when I'll be in another show. I'm thinking about auditioning for the summer independent production of Urinetown at Village Theater's Kidstage. We'll see.
In an almost unrelated note, school is terrible. Well, school isn't terrible, but balancing school and this musical and getting everything in order to start my new job has been terrible. I'm behind in classes for sure. This week isn't called hell week for nothing. And I should be doing homework right now. Am I? No. I'm here, writing this for the four of you. Or maybe I should be sleeping. I'm very tired. And I need to rest my voice. And I have class in the morning. Oh goodness. Good night!

Cherish out!