Ah well Musical week has FINALLY ended. ( the musical was Okalahoma!) So now i am going back to having no life. Now i will give a brief rant about my week.
Monday: went to the audatroium after school...met Jake Sweeny whose incharge of sound. Learned how to work the wireless mics (which are a real pain). Got the mics on the cast members. Then watched Sweeny use the board for a couple of hours. GOt home at 8.
Tuesday: was fun cause i ACTUALLY got to use the board ( place where you turn the mics on and off)...until john showed up and i found out he was doing sound also. ( we don't get a long. I stuck a sharp pair of sissors in front of his face one time last semester after they were getting on my nerves when i was doing this project.) SO yes. we do not get along. AND since he and sweeny are friends..they were working on the board the rest of the time. Got home at 9.
Wednesday: Play previews. got out of all my classes. During most of the periods i was backstage with these headphones on talking to the lighting crew cause the sound crew are such bastards.(except for me of course). Now on play previews we do the most funniest things.
we found a plastic fish in the back and true in on stage in the REALLY serious scene. And then Carnes comes out and starts shooting the fish. Mrs.A (drama teacher) always gets on stage and starts asking random cast member questions. this is what happened:
Carnes: *Shooting fish*
Mrs. A: what---just what are you doing?
Carnes: Oklahoma fly -fish shooting.
Mrs. A: I see. so are they biting?
(Then the rest of the cast members pushed maria on stage )
Maria- PA! Theres a fish in my bed! *cries and walks out*
THAT was fricken hilarious. Maria is REALLY short, and everyone thinks she's like in 4th grade...and Carnes is HUGE. like....HUGE Football player so it all played out pretty well.
ANd they do this alll randomly.
The FUNNIEST one was in 7th hour when well Will Parker and Ali Hakim are like talking on stage. and then Dan comes out and goes:
Dan: now now lets fight this like gentlemen. *throws lightsabers to both of them*
Will: lets fight for Ado Annie.
ALi : *while fighting.* I don't even WANT HER!!!!
(Carnes come and breaks it up.)
then will jumped on ali. That was hilarious. I was spazing out backstage and becky's like "Are they saying something funny on the headsets??????"
Thursday: missed first 4 periods. for matinee show. The middle schoolers and the elemertary school were soo immature. like every kissing scene they started OOOing and all the noise is doubled on my headsets, so ...my ears were exploding. then the funniest thing happened...and i MISSED It. David Pica (or will parker) was carrying Ado Annie and he tripped and they BOTH FELL. ANd thats the time when Sweeny should have called me on the headsets and TOLD ME to fix Pica's mic....but DOES HE? noooo he just comes right over and does it himself. Later i asked mrs. A if i could go to the lighting booth cause i was just kind of sitting there for 2 hours. The only thing i DID with the mics was bring them from the cat walks (which was REALLY dangeorous) and then replace batteries, hand everyone thier mics. make sure thier secure...then collect the sweaty mics at the end. So i did all the dirty work..while Jake and John just sat there pressing button..
so that night i came..and inbetween scenes i'd go upstairs to the lighting booth hang out with RAndi and the rest of the lighting people (Who are soo much cooler than the sound people.) NEXT YEAR...i am converting to lighting. Yeah they taught me how to use the spot lights and stuff.
FRiday night: did the same thing except for i stayed upstairs and hung out with the light people...and randi let me spot.
Saturday night. did the same thing, except i spotted for nathan cause he wasn't there. and at the end when they had the encore...and they point up to the lighting booth, we dropped Ken (a plastic chicken which we re-named Jud cause the song "poor jud is daid". ) it was hilarious. No one really saw it except for the people on stage who had a hard time not laughing. IT was fun.
Okay yes i lied. i said it would be BRIEF. hahahaha i talk too much.
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