Brigadoon…There My Heart Forever Lies.

A rather morbid thought, don’t you think? Having your heart lying in a town for all eternity. Yuck.

But anyway, on a more serious note…

Brigadoon, Academy’s musical for the Spring of 2005, has reached it’s end. It was a fun ride, like Fiddler on the Roof was before it. I met some new people, I strengthened relationships I already had. I got some more acting, singing, and dancing experience. I lost all free time I would have had otherwise. I lost a lot of sleep. I got makeup slathered on me multiple times. I tried in vain to wash it off. I ate some good food. I had some funny conversations. I got yelled at. I got complimented. I got laughs. I got applause. I got the rush that only one thing can give.

And that is the stage.

And as always, the end is bittersweet. On one hand, I am relieved to have that over with…so I can actually do other things. But on the other, much larger hand, I am sad that this experience is over. There are mnay people who I will never work with again. I will miss them. I will miss the show.

And speaking of, you are likely wondering how the show went. Well, I wasn’t in the audience, so tough luck! However…I did have some well placed spies, AKA my family. They were there the 2nd and final nights. From what they said, I guess it went over quite well…except for some dance numbers that were too long and, dare I say boring…and Jack Salter’s inability to sing…poor Jack. But not really. He stole all the bloody solos from my mate Sam, who is a superior singer. I’m serious. One day when Sam was sick Jack went to the chorus teacher and said “Sam’s sick, can I have his solos?” and she gave them to him! GAH! O well, that’s her problem.

But anyway, I would say it was thought of very highly, and many of the seniors thought it was the best production Academy had yet done. (I disagree, but o well) So the audience enjoyed it, and we all enjoyed working on it. Good deal, I’d say.

There were lots of fun times to be had, but I doubt you would get any amusement out of me trying (and failing) to retell it all. So…just know that there were good times to be had! Oh, and after school on Monday we had the delicious task of striking the set. That was…fun…as always…heh. There was a cast party afterwards, though. That was fun. Hooray for fun! They were all listening to salsa music, and I had the sneaky idea of putting in Phantom of the Opera while nobody was looking. YOu should have seen their faces! Twas delightful. Of course…they then proceeded to take the disk out without asking, even though we had been putting up with the salsa for about 7 tracks without any interuption. They wouldn’t even let me get through one song! But while it WAS playing, I got up on a chair and lip synced to both Christine and The Phantom’s parts in the title song. Weee.

But I digress. A special thank you goes to Emily Pinto, for giving me the dog tags back in the Dinner Theater, and a thanks to Julie Heidt for giving them to me before that…I still don’t feel I deserved them. Also to Cassidy, the one who recieved my dog tags…and deserved them. Never before have I encountered such a cooperative dead man! (His character dies in the play, by the way, and we must carry around his dead body) He also helped me out a lot and made the overall experience all the more enjoyable. I would also of course like to thank Sam, Sam, Chris, Paul, Ryan, Ben, Alex, Pat, Amanda, Katie, Danielle, Shannon, Marissa, Leah, Rachel, Sylvia, etc. for just being the cool cats that they are, even though few, if any of them will ever see this.

And how can I forget Mr. T, The Tryz, Trister Myzbiak, whatever you may call him. He has been a superb director through good times and bad. (anyone who has been in an Academy play knows how frightening his yelling can be) I can’t thank him enough for giving me these experiences that I will never forget and for helping me improve myself as a performer. He’ll never read this either.

You know what, I’m just gonna give one big thank you to everyone who had anything to do with Brigadoon! : P

I love you all!

AND I would also like to give an EXTREME APOLOGY to my unforgetable friends Karla, Emmy, and Sky. I said some things very recently…and I regret having said them…or at least having said them in the way I did. Can you ever find it within yourselves to forgive little old me? *makes the sad puppy dog face* Pwease?? I wove you…

Well, hopefully that worked. If not, I’ll understand. Whether or not they love me, I love them. I was just temporarily a fool. A bloody fool indeed. But I shall put all that Drama drama aside for now…because up next is a comedy – The Foreigner! I’ll tell you more some time. So until I actually do save the world from bittersweet endings to beautiful experiences (and not knowing when to stick my foot in my mouth)…

The Universe Can Wait