Flammis Acribus Adictis

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: How would you translate that?

Salieri: Consigned to flames of woe.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Do you believe it?

Salieri: What?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A fire which never dies, burning you forever?

Salieri: Oh yes.

Have you seen AMADEUS? Because you should.

But anyway, that is beside the point. There are many thigns to talk about in Maestro’s world, but rigth now, I will only touch upon a few. In fact, I may only touch on one. Who knows…I’m feeling lazy.

The Walkathon was Friday. Our hero went armed with a video camera and a scewed sense of humor. His mate Sam went armed with a gorilla mask and lots of energy. As you can imagine, a dreadful combination. Dreadfully funny, that is! They got 2 tapes worth of footage that day…footage of everyone else in the school being exploited as much as possible. And what was it all for? Why, KING TV of course. Yes, all for the love of good television. (Ha!…”good.”) So that was a fun day, as you may have imagined. Now Maestro and Sam simply need to edit it all…down to…10 minutes…eep.

But wait, Friday had more adventure in store for our Hero. AFTER the Walkathon the cast lists for the theatrical productions were posted. Maestro didn’t get his favorite part in Brigadoon, Jeff Douglas…but he didn’t expect to. Jeff is really the only character in the musical who Maestro likes…ha. But anyway, our Hero knew (being a junior whose only previous experience was Fiddler on the Roof last year) that he had no chance of getting a nice part like Jeff, and he was OK with that. Maestro’s mate Ryan DID get that part and so Maestro is very happy for him. He is a cool guy. Our Hero may not have gotten a big part, but he is happy that he will be in the Musical…there are some cool people he will be working with.

However, this year will not be quite the same as last year. Brigadoon is nowhere near as good as Fiddler on the Roof. It has two redeeming factors – Jeff Douglas and Scottish accents. The main characters are air heads who predictably fall in love at first sight and dance and sing and are heartbroken hours later when they have to leave each other. So you know what? It doesn’t even bother Maestro that much that the same people got the leads again – because the parts aren’t even that great! MWAHAHAHAHA! FOOLS!

Ahem. Another problem with Brigadoon is that there just aren’t enough decent parts for people. There were many nice parts in Fiddler, and so many people were very happy with them. Now there are many people upset about either not getting a part worth noting or not even getting cast at all. It didn’t help that a surplus of people tried out this year, after seeing how awesome Fiddler was. If more people try out…more people get turned down.

And I still haven’t told you what Maestro’s part is. He gets to play Frank the bartender who has one line and appears in one scene in the entire musical. At auditions the judges seemed impressed and said our Hero had even improved since last year. So, logically that would land me a SMALLER part then before…? O well, Maestro cares not. As long as he gets to take part! Plus, our Hero also got the part of The Detective in the dinner theatre production, so that is pretty groovy. Going by what is known of the story so far, that should be a pretty nice part. Maestro created a pretty nice voice for that audition…it made the judges laugh. So that paid off at least! This should be a fun year…

Not to mention there is another play at the end of the year…one which our Hero will most certainly try out for. Weeeee. So until I actually do save the world from drama department drama…

The Universe Can Wait

P.S. RIP Christopher Reeve 1952 – 2004

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