Dinner Theatre Opening Night

Acting in front of people is so freaking exciting. I cannot believe I did not realize this before. It is significantly different from our rehearsals, even when it's dress rehearsals. I'm just going to go over everything one by one. First of all, getting dressed before it started and staying in the drama room, waiting for it to start was significantly funner than usually sitting around the MPR while other people rehearse. The food smelled really good though, when we were behind the curtain making sure all of our props were in place. And then when the thing actually started, it was kind of awkward when some guy walked outside. I mean, we were all standing there in our costumes waiting to go in and he walks out and we had to hide or at least turn away and it was just weird. It was really cold outside. I am bitter that everyone either has a coat/jacket or long sleeves. EXCEPT FOR ME. What is this? But whatever, it's not even a big deal. Anyways, going in, I could not look at the people at all. I felt like I would forget my lines so I stared somewhere closer to the ceiling. I can't really remember details during the whole play anymore. It went relatively smoothly and the next thing I remember specifically was the intermission. I wasn't there for most of it because Natalie had to help me fix my make-up and hair so that it was less messed up but when I went out, I did not know how to interact with the audience at all. At least I was only out there for like half a minute. I learned something from today though, when the raffle is going on, Bailey and I should still stay inside because there is a long gap between the raffle and when we run in. It was really cold outside and boring. My favorite part is still when people talk to Joseph though, it's so funny. They need to practically lie on the floor or crouch really low because he's laying down behind the sofa. At one point during the second act, Joseph started eating a candy bar. Oh my gosh. It was so distracting, I don't even know. Everything else went okay after that, I think. Aldo's accent keeps disappearing and it only comes back when he needs to say "the body?" but I guess that's okay since Andi's fades out sometimes, too. The ending where the "producers" come out and talk to us is still awkward and weird and I hate it. But whatever. Curtain call was so funny. Melody's boyfriend is so freaking funny. When they stood up with the We Love Melody shirts, I almost fell over laughing. And after this, the only thing I remember is eating because the lasagna was really good and now I have a bunch of homework, I don't think I'm going to school tomorrow, I'm going to be up forever working. This kind of sucks.