So, I'm in the T, Th, Sat. cast. Come check it out! It's a lot of fun. A little crazy... but a lot of fun. And you will leave the theatre singing the songs... over... and over... and over...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
My Day
So yesterday was just a normal typical day.
It began by making my stage crew class make a rowboat. Well, finish a rowboat. A rowboat that doesn't look like a device of torture from the Middle Ages. Then it involved students edging a set with paint... then with me calling a former student (and amazing painter) to have him come help students make the edging look good.
I was then off to boil spaghetti for the school play. Up I went to the faculty room to boil water- and nearly burn the school down. I did not realize whoever had used the stove before me had made syrup- and it had spilled and collected under the burner. So I turned the entire faculty room into Texas BBQ joint- with the sweet, subtle taste of maple in the air. But the spaghetti was done and ready to be eaten cold by an actor in the play. Yum!
After using my body as a human fan to clear smoke (and miraculously not set off the fire alarm), I ran to get our head shot photographer situated. She was there to take pictures of students using them for college auditions. After situating her, I was off to Musical Theatre.
They had a test. Then I introduced their Spring musical, Rags. They seemed excited.
Then I pulled out my three kinds of stage blood- Scab, Thick and Runny. Time to give myself a vicious dog bite on the arm to demonstrate grossies and gories makeup unit for Theatre 3. So after applying putty on my arm, applying makeup (and all three bloods so they could see the difference) I was off to check on the photographer. She was good- and she said my dog bite looked great.
After eating my lunch (with my dog bite makeup arm extended in the air to dry) it was time for Theatre 3. In they came- as I was demonstrating putty application- the fire alarm goes off.
Outside we go- just happening to see our photographer standing outside with Santa Claus. A local guy plays Santa Claus at various functions around town and had come to get his head shot- and was in full costume as the fire alarm goes off.
After 10 minutes of standing in the snow, off we went to bloody ourselves in the theatre room. I took the best makeup designs- and, like the boy who cried wolf- put our acting skills to the test in the Main Office to make the secretaries panic. We got a vice principal really good (she put on gloves and everything to help a gruesome hand injury)- and she then proceeded to get a hall monitor really good with one of my other students with an awesome makeup foot injury. Most of the office now ignores me when I come in with an injury.
After wiping off my makeup, it was time for play practice (Scapino! Come see it. It should be funny in two weeks) where we practiced squishing ice cream on people's heads and hands to determine the correct consistency for the show.
Jackie drops the girls off with me so she can go to class at the U- then after play practice I record Suddenly Seymour on the piano for a student, grab the girls dinner at McDonalds and have my sister come and watch them while off I go to Chitty Chitty musical practice. I go to Hale, pretend to be a car owner (British), Turkey farmer (Cockney), Soldier and inventor (Vulgarian). Drive home very slowly in crazy fog- remember to eat dinner after practice (I thought the theatre was feeding us so I hadn't eaten anything since my lunch with a fake dog bite on my arm) and fall asleep.
It began by making my stage crew class make a rowboat. Well, finish a rowboat. A rowboat that doesn't look like a device of torture from the Middle Ages. Then it involved students edging a set with paint... then with me calling a former student (and amazing painter) to have him come help students make the edging look good.
I was then off to boil spaghetti for the school play. Up I went to the faculty room to boil water- and nearly burn the school down. I did not realize whoever had used the stove before me had made syrup- and it had spilled and collected under the burner. So I turned the entire faculty room into Texas BBQ joint- with the sweet, subtle taste of maple in the air. But the spaghetti was done and ready to be eaten cold by an actor in the play. Yum!
After using my body as a human fan to clear smoke (and miraculously not set off the fire alarm), I ran to get our head shot photographer situated. She was there to take pictures of students using them for college auditions. After situating her, I was off to Musical Theatre.
They had a test. Then I introduced their Spring musical, Rags. They seemed excited.
Then I pulled out my three kinds of stage blood- Scab, Thick and Runny. Time to give myself a vicious dog bite on the arm to demonstrate grossies and gories makeup unit for Theatre 3. So after applying putty on my arm, applying makeup (and all three bloods so they could see the difference) I was off to check on the photographer. She was good- and she said my dog bite looked great.
After eating my lunch (with my dog bite makeup arm extended in the air to dry) it was time for Theatre 3. In they came- as I was demonstrating putty application- the fire alarm goes off.
Outside we go- just happening to see our photographer standing outside with Santa Claus. A local guy plays Santa Claus at various functions around town and had come to get his head shot- and was in full costume as the fire alarm goes off.
After 10 minutes of standing in the snow, off we went to bloody ourselves in the theatre room. I took the best makeup designs- and, like the boy who cried wolf- put our acting skills to the test in the Main Office to make the secretaries panic. We got a vice principal really good (she put on gloves and everything to help a gruesome hand injury)- and she then proceeded to get a hall monitor really good with one of my other students with an awesome makeup foot injury. Most of the office now ignores me when I come in with an injury.
After wiping off my makeup, it was time for play practice (Scapino! Come see it. It should be funny in two weeks) where we practiced squishing ice cream on people's heads and hands to determine the correct consistency for the show.
Jackie drops the girls off with me so she can go to class at the U- then after play practice I record Suddenly Seymour on the piano for a student, grab the girls dinner at McDonalds and have my sister come and watch them while off I go to Chitty Chitty musical practice. I go to Hale, pretend to be a car owner (British), Turkey farmer (Cockney), Soldier and inventor (Vulgarian). Drive home very slowly in crazy fog- remember to eat dinner after practice (I thought the theatre was feeding us so I hadn't eaten anything since my lunch with a fake dog bite on my arm) and fall asleep.
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