Lots of chatter last night ya'll
Laura--did the play do you in? I was expecting for you to be up at the crack of dawn to write the much anticipated report
You know it is the first thing I will be looking for when we get back to the house.
Has anyone heard from Laura this morning? I am assuming that she did not die at the play last night, but she could be in jail for beating up a director.
Logged on specifically to hear how it went. Do tell!!!
And another thanks to Ken for everything involved in producing hundreds of badges for just our cruise alone!!!
Finally, let's all think... WHERE WILL YOU BE TWO WEEKS FROM NOW?!?!?! It's a nice thought!
C.
Sorry I did not post sooner, but I truely did not know that A Midsummer Nights Dream was a mini series...We did not get home until almost midnight, from a play that was supposed to start at 8pm, and NO we did NOT go to Denny's for the post production munching. So I slept in and knew I HAD to pop on and post before I took a shower and headed off to night two of Ghetto Shakespear
We started about 1/2 an hour late, which in itself would not have been so bad, but then intermission ran long (30 min instead of 15) and we didn't actually finish the play until almost 11pm. Hopefully we will run a tighter ship tonight!
Most of the set was done 2 hours before we started. Well kind of, they put plants where people had been blocked to go and that caused some chaos on the stage later
Most of the kids did well, except for Helen. She was the arm flapper and once again she got airborne. In fact she actually flapped and slapped her thighs so often that it got kind of funny and people started laughing at her, especially when she would get near a microphone and it would echo through the auditorium. And then she started doing this hand gesture stuff, and in the back of my mind, I started hearing 'bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do, watcha goona do when they come for you' which I started humming under my breath in the balcony, and a couple of the girls heard it and we all started giggling and then she managed to swing her arm out and whack one of the mics...and that left every one in hysterics. So Helen was whacking mics and flashing gang signs...Ghetto Shakespear...Word...
Lysander did not flash us his tighty whities, but Demetrius could have. Fortunately he listened to aged costume mom, and wore bike shorts and saved everyone the humiliation. The actors were supposed to stash their props on the stage. Demetrius stashed his so well he couldn't find it with the new stage dressing. But bless his heart instead of fighting with a sword, he improvised by trying to fight Puck with his fists. Of course he still forgot his lines at the end, however, I told Miranda (my child) that if he forgot his lines to just say, play on, play on to the mechanicals doing the play for them. This worked out well, and kept things moving.
Things were going pretty well, until the pivital scene where the father, Thesius and Hypolita discover the sleeping lovers in the glen, and Thesius orders that the hunting horns be sounded to wake them....there is dead silence...nothing, the hiss of the microphones and then..............................................
the sound of.................
an ELEPHANT TRUMPETING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At this point, everyone lost it!!!! The kids on stage actually jumped because they were not expecting it!! They had the total deer in the head lights look.
Fortunately they got a chance to recover and compose while the audience quit laughing. After the show, everyone kept asking what was up with the elephant?
Then at the end when there was supposed to be the sound of 12 chimes, indicating it was midnight and time for the lovers to go to bed after the festivities, a **** crowed.
So all in all, it was not bad, far better than the dress rehearsal. Hopefully Helen will give up on her desire to fly off the stage. I am off to take a shower and go in and help with makeup again. You would be surprised at how many high school age boys do not know how to put on eyeliner.
More tomorrow....
We will be arriving from CA about 4:30pm. My family is going to just hang out at the hotel: have dinner and go for a swim. We are also meeting up with Laura at the pool after dinner. Feel free to join us! 
We haev a karate belt earning party at the dojo, extra make up classes plus regular ones in evrything the kids take and auditions for Sound of Music to keep us busy in the meantime. Thank goodness I haev ltos to keeo me busy or else I would go INSANE.
