This is where i am planning on posting everything i have to do with my life at Byrum hall and anything else where theatre is concerned. I may even deign to include movie stuff in here as well. Enjoy!

Today is the set strike for the opera, and since for all they know i am out of town, i'm not going. (insert evil laugh here) i am so sick of that show it is not even funny. it's an okay opera, don't get me wrong, just our production of it, overall, sucked. one of my best friends was a double cast lead, which means that she didn't play half the performances, so we were ragging on the other girl in her part. yeah, she is horrible at acting and just cannot take stimulous. she's the heiffer of the show, even in her fancy dress she walks and sits like a trucker, has no idea what such a delicate hand fan is for and keeps dropping her cues. it was horrible. we just sat around and laughed at most of it. the guys however were absolutely wonderful in their roles. and the antics during most of their songs just kept cracking me up. so that show is over and i really have to buckle down for my own costuming of a show, "The Man Who Came To Dinner." if i can get a picture of my friend in some of his wigs and costumes, i will post them, they are awesome! he looked like the sun king in one of his changes. really amazing.

oh yay, yesterday we performed our scene from "the rainmaker" in acting methods. it was a pretty good performance,as performances go. my partner, different guy this time, not the same one from the last project, fed me some new stimulous, or as we call it stimolus. sounds like some sort of nasty disease doesn't it? stimolus. anyway, he was sending me some new stuff that we hadn't worked with before that made the scene awesome!!!! i just wish he had given it to me before in practice so we could work with it and take the scene in a slightly different direction. oh well. maybe i've been single and closed off a little too long, his arms around my waist felt really nice. smacks self snap out of it! it was just a scene! i feel better now though. most of the male quotent of the class was shocked and amazed that i have a legs a waist and some clevage, as evidenced by the red dress i was wearing yesterday. it was rather amusing for me. might have to do that more often. ta for now!

i should not have taken an entire week off of costuming. that was just a bad idea, i now have only one week to pull together for the show cause first dress is next monday. gaaaaaa! runs around screaming while other students in the computer lab cringe under their desks i'm going to be living in byrum this week, wish me luck.

oh, the joys of being a costumer. i got to play "life sized ken dolls" last night. i had about half the men's costumes put together and i wanted to try them as i go along putting stuff together. it was really fun, and at times rather hilarious. my friend who is playing dr. bradley has wonderful body work, and combine that with my mad costuming skills and he looks like a dirty old man. it is rather funny because i know this guy is totally not like that. i thought i would die laughing because he kept chasing me around trying to tickle me in this old man costume, i'll post pictures with their permission once i have everyone done for the show. it is so awesome. almost everyone likes their costumes so far, except for one kid who keeps saying that he looks like a nerd, but i keep telling him what is nerdy now was cool then. remember that "the man who came to dinner" is set in 1939/1940 era. i just don't think he quite gets it. oh well, it will be fun once i get my part done, except for maintennace during rehearsals and the two weekends of performances. wheeeeeee i can't wait to borrow daddy's new digital camera!

oh the joys of costuming, really they are usually wonderful experiences. i'm not having very much fun right now though. to quote the play: "Sherridan Whiteside: The enemy is at my rear and nibbling." Our director has taken it upon herself to dissapprove of some of the costuming decisions i have made even though the dresses i have pulled match the drawings she approved earlier in the week. "it's not period" i keep hearing. i'm not stupid. i did my research at the library, i watched other versions to see what their costumers did, i even looked at old family photographs of what people in the same economic situation as the family wore at that time. not period? it has the look, and the basic shape. the fabric print looks similar to prints they had then, the cut of the dress is almost exactly like what my great grandmother wore and she was the wife of the chief chemist at the largest auto manufacturer in the state, so it is not like she was a poor farm wife at the time. just because the girl who is wearing it has been a "costume b*tch" there for a few years longer than i have and says "it isn't period" she says she doesn't want it. grrrrrrrrr. to top it all off she's cut back my budget to only $500, out of $700 possible, so i have to keep a good sized chunk of what i haven't spent set aside to be able to get the overwhelming majority of pieces dry-cleaned. ugh. not having a very good day. and it's one week till opening.

so anyway, this week is turning into a whole lot of fun. my butt is still here and un-chewed on, as of yet, and practices are going well. i love hanging out backstage with friends. especially when they are in character. this is the second show, no wait i think it may be the third, that i've been chased around backstage by an "old man." that's not what it sounds like, it's just my friend brandon, who is dr. bradley, in his stage makeup and costume. i have to say that i think i did a rather good job with that. callie, if you're reading this, i'm sorry i stepped on your toes a bit. i really didn't mean to, i just wanted to make your work load a little lighter. so sorry. anyway, this has been really fun. one of these days i'm going to ask dad how his camera works, either that or just kidnap it along with the instruction manual. something, so i can get pictures of all the wonderful people in the show on here.

aaaah, once again it is closing night of a really good show. so sad really. for a few people involved it will be their last show here, for others it is only their first, and for but a few it will be their only one. how sad that it should end thus. one of the convict/radiomen was hit in the jaw by a fastball today and it broke his jaw. so we have a fill in tonight, *sigh. it is almost done for. strike is tomorrow and there will no longer be this stress in my life, but i shall miss it. i shall also miss spending time hanging out in the costume shop with my friends. aaaaaah well, it was good while it lasted. i must go enjoy the last of it, for who knows if this fulfilment shall ever come again.