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Sunday, May 23, 2004
Don't You Dare Hold Back Whoa. Okay, so I got up at like 6:00 this morning (this morning being a SATURDAY) so that I could shower and braid my hair and stuff before I had to go to the city. I left the house at 7:50, lugging about five hundred billion pounds of costume. We drove for about 10 minutes and then all of sudden, completely out of nowhere I yelled, "Ohmigod I forgot my tights!". And it turns out I really did forget my tights. So we had to go back and get them. As soon as we reached the city, though, my stomach went berserk and it was all very bad. I felt like I was going to throw up (and I am aware that I say this a lot. Like every day, at least five times. And usually I don't mean that I will ACCTUALLY throw up but that my stomach hurts a lot a lot a lot and it's very uncomfortable. But this time, I was positive that there was going to be some definite upchucking. There wasn't.) - we stopped at a McDonalds and I went into the bathroom and just sort of chilled for awhile and my stomach calmed down a bit. Not totally, but it was a little better. The theatre turned out to be pretty nice, with lots of space to change and hang out backstage and stuff. The tech rehearsal was so much fun because we were all in our practise clothes, hanging out onstage stretching and helping each other stretch and talking and laughing and hugging each other and it was all very Centre Stage (if you have never seen that movie GOANDRENTITRIGHTNOWOKAY?) - I loved it. After that we had lunch and stuff and that was fun except I couldn't really get any food down on account of I was way too nervous to eat anything. The first show was a disaster. Quite possibly the worst of all preformances I have ever done in my time at Shyna. Or maybe ever. I managed to completely wipe out onstage and also forget a little bit of the end of a dance (luckily I was not the only one who did this..forget I mean, not wipe out. Sadly, I had the priviledge of being the only one who pulled that off.) Also, two girls lost their skirts (luckily they both had on slips and aprons, which remained intact.) and one girl ripped her skirt and one other girl had to run offstage because she kind of got caught in her skirt and..I'm not entirely sure exactly, but it resulted in lots of panic and tears from said girl. The second show turned out to be awesome. I was really freaking out and nervous and sick for like the whole hour after we came back from supper and before the show started. I was so stressed out - especially for the second half of the show because I was in every single dance that we did in that half which meant that I had to do an awful lot of reallyreallyreally quick changes which I was super worried about because What if I didn't change in time and they had to start without me, or they started WITH me only I was half-naked on account of not getting changed in time or I DID get changed in time only everything fell off onstage? Thankfully none of the above occurred. Changing entire cotsumes in a matter of....five minutes?...is really quite a feat, however. I had a lot of people helping me out..there were people pinning my skirts and putting on my headpieces and unbuckling my shoes and telling me to BREATHE AND DON'T HYPERVENTILATE BECAUSE WE DO NOT NEED YOU PASSING OUT. I am so greatful to all of them, though, because I never could have done it without them and they are all the bestest people in the world. But anyway, yes, the second show was great. Nobody fell over or tore costumes or lost costumes or forgot dances and it was wonderful and amazing and so much fun and I wasn't as panicked as I was the first time and halfway through my stomach just stopped hurting completely and....wow. I loved it so so so much. Feeling like I did after our second show made up for everything - the stomach aches and the stress and the nerves and the tired-out-of-breath-and-totally-gonna-die-except-I-can't-because-I've-got-to-start-dancing-RIGHT-NOW. None of that mattered. Everything that I have put myself through totally proved to be worth it. So worth it. Hailey spazzed at 12:14:00 a.m. ***
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