A day so good that I have to write…

…even though it’s the middle of the night and tomorrow is a long day and right now all I want to do is sleep.  I’m actually no longer in the hugely good mood I was in for most of the day, because when I went to Phoebe’s after the show tonight they decided to put big blue “x”s on my hands so the bar guy would know not to give me drinks (they wouldn’t just take my word for it that I don’t drink), and they won’t come off and it’s very distressing.  But anyway.  Prior to the blue “x”s, it was a really good day.

Ballet this morning was great.  We were in the large dance studio, because Ballet III was out of there because Dance Lab is over and we’re only continuing to have class because we have dance evals on Wednesday (there aren’t any sophomores in Ballet III, so they don’t have to worry about that).  At first I wasn’t too pleased about that, because it meant that Robbie probably wouldn’t stand with me at the barre, but he wound up next to me anyway and I was happy and it was a good class so yay.

My voice lesson went well, my piano lesson was the last one.  I met Ben at Hillel for lunch and we had a good talk, he agreed to come to my show and possibly to Kiss Me, Kate with me next week.  Playwriting was great fun and we were all sad it was the last class.  I went straight down the hill to the theatre to work with Adam J, and we cut even more from our scene, so now it really is short enough and we can take a little longer with the thoughts.  Danny watched us to give feedback, and that was what he said we needed to do, so we did it, and that’s good.  It was also nice to spend a little bit of time with Danny, I feel like we haven’t seen each other in forever.

After our rehearsal, we went upstairs to sign out a room to work tomorrow, and those sheets are on the board right next to the casting board.  As always, I glanced at the casting board just to see if there had been any updates to the Lend Me a Tenor list.  I had more or less given up on that show.  I mean, I knew he had to cast it eventually, but I didn’t really believe he ever would, and if he did, he wouldn’t cast me.

But he did!!!

That’s right!  Robbie cast me as the female lead in his play for next year!  After all that…all the craziness, the two callbacks, the waiting, the three weeks of waiting…he cast me!!!  It has been so long since the last time I looked at a cast list and saw my name where I hoped it would be.  I am so excited.  Terrified, but extremely excited.

Of course, it makes things more complicated between us as people.  But that’s the way it goes, I guess.  It does mean that just because ballet is about to end doesn’t mean he’ll never speak to me again.  It also gives me a good chance to get to know Paul…he’s playing my father.  Heeheehee I can’t believe this is actually happening.  After all that!  This is actually happening!

I wonder if I should even bother auditioning for Charlotte’s Web tomorrow…you never know, it might not conflict.  I’ll go ahead and do it, even though I haven’t prepared for this audition at all.  I can practice between the Young Actors’ show and the audition itself tomorrow morning.  Can you see how tired I am?  I have an audition tomorrow and I don’t care.

And then we had our opening night, which went very well and was very well-received.  We were all proud.  It was so much fun, such a good show, I’m so happy to be involved.  Yay!  After the show I got to talk to Ken Jennings, the man who was the original Tobias on Broadyway, and has also had big roles in Sideshow and Urinetown.  He’s here playing Mr. Doolittle in the Syracuse Stage production of My Fair Lady, so I’ve seen him around a lot and we always smile at each other and say hello, but I had never actually talked to him before.  Such a kind man.  He really likes our show, because he’s from Northern Ireland himself, so it has a lot of resonance for him (he actually used that word, resonance…it’s not just a Geri thing!).  I’m looking forward to seeing him around until I leave for home.

Anyway, given how tired I am, I should probably go take a shower and get to bed ASAP.  I have to be at the theatre at 10:30 tomorrow…no rest for the weary.

–Stephanie