Yeah, so I had to write a newspaper article on my experiences with the last play I was in. Well I did it the night before it was due, I stayed up until 1:30 AM and finished in the morning at 6:30 AM, but lucky I was going to Virginia that day, and I could sleep in the car. So I gave it to mr. farwell, everything was good, and they were going to start editing it that afternoon at the newspaper meeting. Well on monday, I was told that someone was editing it and they saved it so another person could edit it, and it wouldn't open again. I thought I had saved it on my computer but I came home, only to find out that I saved it less than 1/2 way through. So I was going to get the disc the next day to see if it would work on my computer, but mr. farwell had a sub that day, so I couldn't. So today, I finally got the disc on my way to study hall, and durning the period I went to the library to see if it would work. and guess what? IT DIDN'T WORK! so I was angry and stuff, just ask Sam, he was there. So I brought it home and decided to see if it'd work on my computer, figuring it wouldn't but, I did anyways. I opened the floppy folder and there was another file in it, one that wasn't there before. But it was faded, you know, like when you delete a file and it gets all gray and stuff? well anyways, I didn't think it'd work but I clicked on it anyways. and guess what? IT WORKED! yaaay! so then I saved it on the floppy in like 10 different formats, just in case. and I'm putting it on here so I'll have it in another place as well. woo. I'm so lucky. I wonder where that file came from. hmm.
any ways, here's my article, you can read it now, or read it when the newspaper comes out. whatever. it's just on here so I won't lose it again.
Memoirs of a Teenage Actress: What happens Behind the Closed Curtain
July 17, 2006
I got a call from a woman from ACT a few weeks ago about auditions for it’s up and coming murder mystery set to date on October, Friday the 13th. Ooh. Scary isn’t it? I called the woman back today to get all the little details. She told me that she thought I should play the naïve maid. Oh yeah, that’s exactly what I want to be it’s my life long yearning to play a naïve air-headed maid. Note the sarcasm. I suppose I’ll audition. It does sound like an interesting play, Tiptoe through the Tombstones. Maybe I’ll google it to get the inside info about it all.
July 18, 2006
I googled the play. It does sound quite insanely thrilling. Okay, I’m exaggerating just a bit. But it does sound like a good play. Although pictures of this naïve maid from productions with other theatres look like old ladies. I’m confused. She’s supposed to be eighteen years old. Oh whatever. Ah hah.
August 11, 2006
It’s audition night, and I’m a nervous wreck! Ha ha. Not really. Auditioning is one of the easiest parts of theatre, in my opinion. Especially if it’s with community theatre. Now if I was for some reason auditioning for a Broadway Musical or something, well…I’d probably end up peeing my pants, honestly. Haha. Well I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be auditioning for Broadway anytime soon. I guess I ought to go now, because I’ve got to go all the way to Afton for this.
August 22, 2006
It’s been a while since my last entry, and I’m sure the anxiety has been just KILLING you. No? Oh okay. Well I’m going to tell you anyway. Yes, I did get the part of the naïve maid, whose name, by the way, is Edna Honeywill. I know, I know, an extraordinary name. I’ve always wanted to be called Edna. Sorry, more sarcasm. Tonight is our first rehearsal, and I am awaiting anxiously to meet my co-actors. Although I do already know a few people from past productions. Tonight we’re just reading through Act I, tomorrow we’ll be reading through Act II.
August 23, 2006
The read through went well. Our cast looks pretty good. We’ve got some great actresses playing the sisters. They’re hilarious. The others are really cool as well. I think this production will turn out well. It’s going pretty good so far. We didn’t get through Act II Scene II yet, so I just ended up reading it myself. And guess what? I don’t die! Which makes me both happy, and angry at the same time, because if I don’t die, that means I’m going to have to wait backstage and listen for entrances. And I’ll actually have to go to every practice. Oy. It’s cool though. I mean; at least I don’t die.
August 30, 2006
Oh man! My lines have to be memorized for Act I, tonight! I just realized that last night! I’m definitely not ready yet. Ahh! This is not good. I’m very aggravated right now.
September 5, 2006
Phew. Okay. We ended up not having to know our lines. Thank goodness. Well I guess I would’ve been alright. I had most of them memorized, I just didn’t think about it, and worked myself into quite the frenzy. But I’m better now, and I think I’ll be okay. Haha. Well anyway, tonight we started blocking Act II. I need sleep, so I suppose I’m going to go to bed now. At least school hasn’t started yet. There are a few people that never come to practice. It’s really making people angry.
September 14, 2006
Larry? Where’d Larry go? Oh he’s gone. The director had to fire him because he never showed up for practices. Now we need a new Larry. And we’re only like 2 and a half weeks away from performance. Ohh goodness. I hope all this works out.
September 19, 2006
WE HAVE A NEW LARRY! Thank goodness! Lines have to be learned for Act II tomorrow, and I think I’m ready. Besides a few cues and a couple lines. But it’s all good. I think we all know our Act I lines pretty well. Except there are a select few that don’t. But two of them I have sympathy for, because one has never acted before, and for a first timer, he’s doing, extremely well, and he should be very proud. The other is our new Larry. He has not acted before either, and he just came in today. Note that it is only 2 weeks until the performance. The third one just does not try whatsoever, and they think it’s okay, just because they’re apparently friends with the director. Ohh that’s just great. Come on now, we can’t have all that nonsense. Hah.
September 30, 2006
So, we’re only 9 rehearsals away from performance, we’re not ready. I’m so tired right now and absolutely angry! I have to cry in like the whole last scene of the play and I can't! I know I can cry on command. I seriously can. But I just can't at play practice! Its making me so angry!!!! Ahh! AND to top it all off, I’m loosing my voice because I’m recovering from being sick, and I talked too much on the way home. Not like regular talking, it was more like yelling/talking. A "Whaaaat! There’s NOO way!!!" type talking. Hah, you probably have nooo idea what the heck I’m talking about. But anyways. I’m in desperate need of sleep. Good night.
October 5, 2006
Okay, so I had a pretty good night tonight. I have no school tomorrow, or Monday. But anyways, I had play practice tonight, obviously. And well we were doing all of Act II. That means we had to do Act II Scene II. My crying scene. I always dread doing that scene because I can never make myself cry there. I can fake cry, like I really can. But I just never can at practice. And tonight I cried! I was so happy! And now I’m all in this good mood and stuff its amazing! ahh! I'm in a good mood, because I cried. oy. hahah. Only 4 more rehearsals until the performance. And we are still not the least bit ready. We are soo NOT ready! I am not ready, and either is most of the cast. The director keeps on yelling at me. And I honestly don’t think she knows my real name. It’s always "EDNA! You’re doing it all wrong!" "EDNA, don’t forget to curtsy!" "EDNA! You’re late!" when I’m not really late, you just forget about my entrance, and when the other actors tell you that you missed my entrance you blame it on me! Maybe I’m wrong about this. I hope I am, and I hope you really do know that my name is not really Edna. Ohh well. What can I do? Oh and this one guy is all like "I’m amazing, and I’m the assistant director so you HAVE to listen to me!" Ahh! You’re NOT the director; you’re just some fifteen-year-old kid that obsesses over Broadway and show tunes. Why don’t you stop constantly listening to the Wicked soundtrack and stop pawing through all your Broadway’s Greatest Hits sheet music? I don’t care that you can play these songs on the keyboard! I don’t care that you want to go to college for musical theatre! And for gosh sakes! STOP TALKING ABOUT THE LION KING! It’s driving me crazy! I really don’t care how real the giraffes looked from the audience! Honestly! Don’t get me wrong, I love Broadway, and I love theatre in general. But I don’t obsess over it. I don’t listen to show tunes in all my spare time, and I memorize every tiny bit of information about Broadway actors. I admit that I am a theatre geek. Just look at the way I spell theatre. Call me crazy, but I actually like being normal once and a while.
October 9, 2006
Well there are only 3 days until the performance. And we are all going completely insane! I haven’t gotten the tray I’m supposed to use when I bring out coffee in Act II Scene I and Act II Scene II. At the moment I have to use this ridiculously flimsy IBM lunch tray to carryout china teacups and a big, heavy coffeepot. It’s terrible trying to get the things to not slide around, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve almost dropped it, letting the teacups fall to their death as they shatter into a million pieces on the terribly hard backstage floor. Those poor teacups have undergone a lot lately. Stupid IBM tray. And the assistant director really needs to stop attacking me with how I’m saying things wrong, because I’m not. And he’s really making me angry. After I said one of my lines, he stopped us and started criticizing me! He said that I sounded like Woody the Woodpecker! Which is so not true. There’s no way I even came close to sounding like that! I don’t think anyone could sound like that accidentally. My line was "Oh sir, it’s Vernon, he’s getting himself into a right state about missing his train, it’s a quarter to eight and he’ll never get to the station for half past!" I said it like I was aggravated with the character Vernon, and exhausted from his complaining. Now, there’s no way I could’ve sounded anything like Woody the Woodpecker. Ahh! I even asked a couple of the actors if I really did sound like that, and they said no. I think he was just trying to be a jerk. And to top it off, he called me Edna! He knows my name! We’ve been in how many plays together? Like a million? I think by now he can call me by my real name without mistake. I understand the director calling me Edna. But he has no excuse whatsoever!
October 10, 2006
2 days left until performance time. And a certain person still does not know their lines. She doesn’t really seem to try and works way too hard on her death scene. But I must say that it is quite amusing, she’s made it so dramatic, and so insanely psychotic that we all find it hilarious, and practically die laughing backstage. Hahaha. We always have lots of fun backstage. We’re always talking to each other laughing up a storm. And we usually miss our cues, because we never stop talking. There are some really funny people in this cast. It’s always soo much fun. That has to be the best part about theatre, making new friends, and having a good time. Even if there are people that you don’t know, or talk to when you first start out, by the end you can’t stop talking. It’s really cool. Ahah! AHHH! I need sleep so bad! Our practices have been running later and later! Last night we got out at 10:30PM. At least it’s not like how The King & I was last year. Sometimes we wouldn’t get out of there until 12AM. It’s terrible, but all part of the sacrifices you have to make to be in theatre. I also have a lot of homework, which I tried to get done over the weekend. Which is nearly impossible. My teachers probably wouldn’t understand though. They never really seem to realize that their class isn’t the only class in the school, so they give you a ton of homework, which you don’t understand anyways. And I’m sure most of them don’t understand the pressures of being in theatre. So I just don’t say anything, and try to get all my work done, even if it is a piece of crap. Maybe I’m wrong, and they do understand. Ehh, whatever. I’m still not saying anything.
October 12, 2006
Today is dress rehearsal. Everything went terribly last night. Everyone forgot lines and cues, including me. Hahah! We totally skipped over like 3 pages in Act II Scene I. which is really quite funny because our performance is tomorrow. Ohh boy. Haha. I think it’ll all go well. The one woman knows her lines a lot better now; she’s been working really hard on it. And she should be proud of herself. Oy. Tomorrow’s performance day. And I hope we’re ready.
October 13, 2006
Today is the performance and I think we’re going to be all right. Everyone has positive attitudes, and the director seems to have faith in us, that we’ll give an excellent show. So that’s all good. Well now I’ve got to go cake on the makeup, and pin up my hair with about 30 bobby pins. Ooo, fun.
October 15, 2006
Today was our last performance, and all went well. The audience loved all three of our showings and all that pressure and practice really paid off. We had a cast party last night at one of the actor’s houses, and one the night before at a pub. I didn’t go to that one. And now we’re having another one tonight at some country club around here. It’ll be cool. And there’s free food!!! YES! Haha. Everyone loves free food. Well I’ve got to go, and I’m glad it’s all over. Now I can focus more on my schoolwork and try to make up for all the bad homework’s I’ve done. Ahah. Although I’m glad to see this production go. I will always have a little emptiness inside of me where this play used to be. But it’ll be all right; I’m just moving on to another. And what might this next play be you ask? Meet Me in St. Louis, of course! I hope I’ll have as much fun and memories as I’ve had with this one. And I hope you all come to see the show!
-the end
ok, so I had a pretty good night tonight. I have no school tomorrow, or monday. but anyways, I had play practice tonight, obviously. and well we were doing all of Act 2. That means we had to do Act 2 Scene 2. my crying scene. I always dread doing that scene because I can never make myself cry there. I can fake cry, like I really can. but I just never can at practice. and tonight I cried! I was so happy! and now im all in this good mood and stuff its amazing! ahh! I'm in a good mood, because I cried. oy. lol.
So today has been so boring. All i've been doing is eating, doing homework, watching tv, and listening to music. And I went to church. sooo boring. I really need a better church, like one thats actually interesting, and youthful. well anyways, I was looking through all my music on my computer, and I found a ton of songs that I had no idea they were there. and I came across leaving on a jet plane by janis joplin, and now I can't stop listening to it. Its a really good song. I love it. lol.
