Closing weekend

This weekend has been absolutely insane, busy and a gigantic rush of emotion. Our last three shows were this weekend and I've slept barely at all. So why I'm up at two fourty five in the morning writing a blog is beyond me. I should definitely be sleeping right now.

So we'll start with Friday night. We had a show, obviously. My best friend Meredith and our friend Scott came to see the show and then they both came out with the cast to Sonic afterwards. The service was horrible and it took forever for them to get my food to me, but it was all good. After Mere & Scott left and right before we were all going to leave, our waitress tripped on her skates and fell & her coworkers who were outside on a break start laughing loudly at her & she started crying and went back inside. So Ginny being the sweetheart that she is, took all of us up to the door to give the waitress hugs. She must have gotten ten or twelve hugs from the cast. Right after that Jake, Brien & I headed over to Becca's house. Every show we do, someone makes the Paper Plate Awards. They're just silly little awards for things that people have done through out the run of the show. (I'll type some of them in near the end of this blog.) So Becca, Lainey & I took control of them this year. Becca & Jake left a little earlier so it was up to me to lead Brien in his car behind me to Becca's house, even though I'd never been there before. Of course I passed one of the roads I was supposed to turn on because it was so dark & I couldn't see the street sign. So we had to turn around in a gas station. Later Brien told me he thought I was taking him there to kill him hahaha. And then when I finally get on the right road, I pass the house cause I didn't see the drive way and we had to turn around again. Haha. So Brien has NO faith in my directional skills whatsoever now. Finally we got to Becca's house & immediately hopped in the back of Lachlan's truck & headed off to Becca's shed down the road to grab some plates & then went back to the house. Eventually Lainey, Bradley, Bart, Danny & Michael came over. And SOMEhow we managed to fit all of those people (plus Becca's friend Anna who was already there) on Becca's bed. After a long massage/back scratching fest on the bed, Brien and Michael disappeared to work on choreography for a "secret" performance they were going to do at the cast talent show. Even though I knew all about it already (since I usually hang out in the guys dressing room more than in the girls), they'd act sketchy and like they weren't up to anything every time I walked in the room. Everyone except Jake, Lainey & I left around 3 in the morning. Becca & I finished all of the paper plates but then ended up staying awake until past 6:30 in the morning, even though I knew I had somewhere to be at 10 in the morning.

So Lainey and I get up at 9 & head off to the theatre to meet the rest of the girls in the show for a secret rehearsal. For the past week or so we'd been rehearsing for a top secret talent show performance. Last year, the girls had planned to do our own rendition of "Getcha Head in the Game" but never got around to doing it. So the girls this year ended up learning ALL of the choreography perfectly to perform at the saturday night talent show. We managed to keep it a secret too. Our producer was in on it and played Troy in the dance. Anyway, after our talent show rehearsal at the theatre all the girls went to lunch together. Then I headed back home, got ready for the show and went BACK to the theatre. We had another FANTASTIC show and then started getting ready for paper plates and the talent show.

Paper plate awards went awesome. Lainey and I were the two that got to present them since we made them. The theme this year was the "You Betta ______" since everyone was constantly using that phrase around the theatre. Some of the highlights:
BRIEN: "For making the downstairs dressing room one of the most popular hang out spots: YOU BETTA PECTORAL." (: Explanation: his hot bod. Duh. Hahaha
MATTHEW: "This is someone everyone wants, but can't have: YOU BETTA JAILBAIT." Explanation: he's adorable & fifteen. Haha
HERMON: "For everyone's favorite catch phrase: YOU BETTA 'STOP IT! YOU LYIN!'" Explanation: he said it ALL the time.
GARRISON: "YOU BETTA MHMMMM" Explanation: After Troy & Chad's fight every night on stage it would be completely silent & Garrison always goes "Mm!" or "Mhmmm!" on stage really loudly and made all of us break & start laughing.
JUDSON: "For cussing on stage during a show: YOU BETTA... $H!T."
LAINEY: "For seeing just how wet she could get Jake every night: YOU BETTA SOAK." Explanation: She was in charge of making it look like Jake had run through a sprinkler. So every night she'd soak the rag in more water than the night before.
BOBBY: "YOU BETTA NOT: talk, laugh, text, call, think, breathe, blink, enjoy this show." Explanation: Our stage manager who kept us in check by not letting us do ANYthing (:

After the paper plate awards, we had our talent show. The girls went first with our "Getcha Head in the Game" number. I don't think anyone saw it coming. Our choreographer from the year before was sitting in the audience and was CRACKING UP the entire time. & we got a standing ovation. At the end of the number we dropped the balls off the stage in "you got served" fashion & took off our shirts that we made to look like jerseys to reveal the backs of our wife beaters which when we lined up spelled out "NOW YOUR TURN" (: Yesssss. The rest of the show consisted of a very well put together cha cha number, a Michael Jackson a capella tribute, another MJ tribute (Thriller), two dances on pointe (one of which Corey participated in, complete with tutu and pointe shoes), a few tragic drag queen numbers, some comedic performances. But by far the best ( of course right behind the girls performance (; ) was the boys "surprise" group performance (even though I already knew all about it). Bakari wrote and produced and recorded this awesome track called "Crank That Bobby Craft" poking fun at all of the things he'd tell us not to do. Brien & Michael choreographed a dance to it and then all the guys performed it, complete with bandanas (Bobby's signature clothing item). Even though they'd only started putting it together at about 2 that morning, it was really well done. I was impressed & gave them a standing ovation. They deserved it. Afterwards we hung out until really really late at the theatre. I got in a little argument with a certain person I won't name, and got really upset about it. And then right after I talked to them, I went downstairs and the first person I saw was Bart, who will be moving back to Boston for school in a few weeks and I immediately burst into tears. Of course the person I'd had the argument with came downstairs and saw me and I'm sure they thought I was crying because of them. Which kinda was true since I was already upset about the convo I'd had with them. Anyway. Shortly after that I left the theatre & the person I'd had the argument with left around the same time. While I was waiting at the stop light, they pulled up next to me in the turn lane. & I could tell they were trying to catch my eye cause they kept inching their car up bit by bit. But I couldn't look at them because I was crying so hard because of everything. It was by far my worst car ride home ever. I could hardly see the road through the tears. But I got home and calmed down & got a good night of sleep.

FINALLY, Sunday. Closing "night" even though it was a matinee. Before I even got to the theatre I was crying because I was listening to the HSM3 soundtrack in the car and certain lyrics were KILLING me. Jake FINALLY burned me a CD of his band, Cherry Case. The show was the most amazing closing I could have ever asked for. Right after the first song every night I took a camera on stage. Brien and I stand together because him and Avery are supposed to be "flirting" with Lainey and I on stage. And almost every single night we took a picture together. Every single one I either cut off one of our faces or it was blurry or something else was wrong with it. But finally on closing night, we took the best picture we've ever taken together on stage. During "Everyday", the second to last song, there's a part where we're all in lines and we hold hands with the person standing next to us. Well the person next to me is Bradley, who's also my dance partner for majority of the show. & he also happens to be moving to NYC for college this year. So (as I predicted early on in the run of the show) as SOON as he grabbed my hand during that song I started crying. But I contained them for the most part through the rest of the song. As soon as the song ended I grabbed him in a big hug & started crying again. During the part right after that song and right before the next song, the ensemble is supposed to walk around and talk to each other while the leads are saying their lines at the front. There wasn't as much talking going on tonight and everyone was hugging EVERYONE, even if we hadn't been on that side of the stage during that part of the show at all for the entire run. Of course I cried for that whole 2 minutes but only a little bit, and i had my tears cleaned up by the time the last song started. But as soon as THAT song ended, I started tearing up again. And by the end of curtain call almost every person on stage was crying full out. Even some of the guys were crying.

Afterwards, we packed up all of our costumes. Ginny, Jake, Bakari, Michael, Raime, Brien and I went to Beezers for dinner. Meredith met us there and then we all headed over to Lainey's house for a pool party which was SO much fun. Right after that a bunch of us went to the Blue Lagoon again. Meredith drove me and Brien to meet everyone & then everyone else piled in the car to head to the Lagoon (since it's trespassing, we only wanted to take one car). When we got in the water was FREEZING. and of course there's only a few places at the bottom where there are rocks you can stand on, otherwise you can't touch the bottom. So we were all cuddling together to keep warm while still trying to balance on the rocks. And we were so cold that we got giddy and EVERYTHING was funny. So the laughing didn't help our balancing act at all. Eventually we got out and dried off & headed back to the car. Then Meredith headed out and Brien and I hitched a ride with Bradley to Raime's house where everyone started watching a movie. I got upset about something that Brien said (in addition to some other things I was already upset about) very early on in the night that was supposed to be a joke but I didn't hear it like that at all and got really upset. I hardly talked to anyone until they were all about to leave. I was going to ride back to the theatre with Brien & Becca to get my car and then bring it back to Raime's house so I could leave whenever I wanted to in the morning but OF COURSE I couldn't find my keys. & I called Bradley and Meredith to try to find them but Bradley didn't know where they were and Meredith's phone was off. So I started freaking out even more thinking I'd lost my keys. & I really wanted to talk to Brien about what had happened with him to make sure everything was okay but of course I didn't know how to say what I wanted to say (I suck with words, especially in situations like this when I get upset over little things. Which I promise doesn't usually happen this often. I guess just with the show closing I've been really emotional over the past few weeks.) & he'd already started walking to the car for Becca to take him back to his car. So Raime, knowing that something was up and that I wanted to talk to him called him over and then walked away so I could have a chance to talk to him. He of course told me (in a nice way) that I needed to calm down and stop freaking out so much. He stayed for at least a good five minutes with me to make sure I was okay and that I knew he wasn't upset with me. Finally I went to bed after they left. I got in touch with Meredith in the morning and found out my keys were in her car. So Raime took me to Meredith's work to get them & then all the way back to the theatre to get my car. So now I'm at home by myself. My parents left for Florida this morning (technically yesterday morning) so I've got the house to myself for the next few days. But almost every night one of my friends will be staying with me.

Anyway, one of these days I'll make a post entirely for pictures of this weekend. And now for some entertainment. Hopefully people that aren't friends with me on facebook can see these cause they're hilarious.
Getcha Head in the Game
Crank Dat Bobby Craft 1
Crank Dat Bobby Craft 2