I broke my streak!
May. 17th, 2009 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaSadface.
Alas. It's probably for the best, I don't know whether I'll be able to keep up this rate of posting once I start work tomorrow. Farm work, outside work, which means I'll probably be dead tired for the first week or so - and sore, too, no doubt.
I hung out with M and J and K and Q again yesterday; we hung around the library again, playing games some more, and then went to EBA's for dinner - K and I split a pizza for probably something like the fourth time, it's becoming our regular order. And then we went to the high school production of Beauty and the Beast.
It was very strange, in several ways. It was a high school play, but it was in the new, and therefore very unfamiliar, auditorium, and I barely knew anybody who was in the play, which isn't how it used to work when I went to plays. At least most of the teachers were the same - Ms. Mills was on the synthesizer, and Ms. Chambers on the piano, and Ms. Woods was conducting, as always. The kid playing Gaston, I knew because he used to be in UVMC chorus after school with me, along with his sister; the kid playing the Beast, I knew because he was one of J's little brothers. And man, was that bizarre - seeing a kid whom I've watched play video games and wander around his kitchen with no shirt on go on-stage dressed up as the Beast and sing songs with titles like "If I Can't Love Her". He's my best friend's little brother, he's not supposed to be getting all romantic.
The play was actually pretty good. I always find live musical theater a little bit embarrassing to watch, somehow, but I liked it pretty well. There were a few ... complications, though.
They didn't have a horse on stage, obviously, so Maurice pulled his invention along on a wheely cart by himself.
MAURICE: *sings*
WHEELY CART: *wheels*
ONE WHEEL OF WHEELY CART: *starts listing peculiarly*
ME: ... Is that meant to be happening?
ONE WHEEL OF WHEELY CART: *snaps off with a sudden crack*
WHEELY CART: *lurches out of Maurice's hands, crashes to the stage, and basically goes to pieces*
KID INSIDE OF WHEELY CART WHO WAS WORKING THE MECHANISMS THAT MADE IT DO NEAT THINGS EARLIER: ... y helo thar, audience!
ME: I guess that's a no.
To his great credit, Maurice just kept on singing, and the audience responded beautifully, giving him a great round of applause.
The other two problems were somewhat less dramatic. Gaston's wig came off at one point, but, like Maurice, he just kept singing, and found a decent moment to duck down and put it back on. And then there was a point at which the rose - a paper one, natch, and suspended from a line so that it could hover mysteriously as necessary - succumbed to the pull of gravity, and crashed to the stage, which meant that during the climactic transformation sequence, there was a very bright light shining on ... nothing.
However, the singing and acting were both pretty much uniformly excellent, and the costumes were fantastic. The "Be Our Guest" number, especially, was quite good - especially considering the limitations on space and props that they had to work with.
All in all, it was quite a lot of fun. Today was much less exciting; I ended up mainlining a lot of L&O:SVU, and now I'm kind of in love with Benson and Stabler, they are SO AWESOME. Or at least they were in today's arc of episodes. I was already kind of in love with Benson, and today had a couple really good partner-y eps, plus a Stabler-centric one that was kind of wrenching. It also doesn't hurt that Christopher Meloni is crazy awesome.
And now I should go to bed, so I can get to Cedar Circle bright and early tomorrow. Awesome. :D
Alas. It's probably for the best, I don't know whether I'll be able to keep up this rate of posting once I start work tomorrow. Farm work, outside work, which means I'll probably be dead tired for the first week or so - and sore, too, no doubt.
I hung out with M and J and K and Q again yesterday; we hung around the library again, playing games some more, and then went to EBA's for dinner - K and I split a pizza for probably something like the fourth time, it's becoming our regular order. And then we went to the high school production of Beauty and the Beast.
It was very strange, in several ways. It was a high school play, but it was in the new, and therefore very unfamiliar, auditorium, and I barely knew anybody who was in the play, which isn't how it used to work when I went to plays. At least most of the teachers were the same - Ms. Mills was on the synthesizer, and Ms. Chambers on the piano, and Ms. Woods was conducting, as always. The kid playing Gaston, I knew because he used to be in UVMC chorus after school with me, along with his sister; the kid playing the Beast, I knew because he was one of J's little brothers. And man, was that bizarre - seeing a kid whom I've watched play video games and wander around his kitchen with no shirt on go on-stage dressed up as the Beast and sing songs with titles like "If I Can't Love Her". He's my best friend's little brother, he's not supposed to be getting all romantic.
The play was actually pretty good. I always find live musical theater a little bit embarrassing to watch, somehow, but I liked it pretty well. There were a few ... complications, though.
They didn't have a horse on stage, obviously, so Maurice pulled his invention along on a wheely cart by himself.
MAURICE: *sings*
WHEELY CART: *wheels*
ONE WHEEL OF WHEELY CART: *starts listing peculiarly*
ME: ... Is that meant to be happening?
ONE WHEEL OF WHEELY CART: *snaps off with a sudden crack*
WHEELY CART: *lurches out of Maurice's hands, crashes to the stage, and basically goes to pieces*
KID INSIDE OF WHEELY CART WHO WAS WORKING THE MECHANISMS THAT MADE IT DO NEAT THINGS EARLIER: ... y helo thar, audience!
ME: I guess that's a no.
To his great credit, Maurice just kept on singing, and the audience responded beautifully, giving him a great round of applause.
The other two problems were somewhat less dramatic. Gaston's wig came off at one point, but, like Maurice, he just kept singing, and found a decent moment to duck down and put it back on. And then there was a point at which the rose - a paper one, natch, and suspended from a line so that it could hover mysteriously as necessary - succumbed to the pull of gravity, and crashed to the stage, which meant that during the climactic transformation sequence, there was a very bright light shining on ... nothing.
However, the singing and acting were both pretty much uniformly excellent, and the costumes were fantastic. The "Be Our Guest" number, especially, was quite good - especially considering the limitations on space and props that they had to work with.
All in all, it was quite a lot of fun. Today was much less exciting; I ended up mainlining a lot of L&O:SVU, and now I'm kind of in love with Benson and Stabler, they are SO AWESOME. Or at least they were in today's arc of episodes. I was already kind of in love with Benson, and today had a couple really good partner-y eps, plus a Stabler-centric one that was kind of wrenching. It also doesn't hurt that Christopher Meloni is crazy awesome.
And now I should go to bed, so I can get to Cedar Circle bright and early tomorrow. Awesome. :D
